Can Native Japanese Actually Write Japanese kanji? 

Not going to lie, I'm not even trying to learn to write kanji. As long as I can read and type it, that's good enough for me because I don't live in Japan. Japanese kids have their entire childhood to learn to write them in school and I don't have that kind of time.

日本人なのに漢字を書けなくて すみませんでした 😂😂😂 本当にいいビデオ!

This was a really fun video! I'm still very much studying my Japanese and kanji is always something I'm stuck on, I can read a fair amount but still need lots of practice, I have recently been writing a lot of kanji I study just for muscle memory purposes it is definitely fun but still super hard.

This was a fun formatted video, you and your friends seem to be enjoying yourself, also I really appreciate your putting in both English and Japanese subtitles for everyone, it was very, very helpful. I have only just started to learn as I am moving to Japan next year to study at University and while learning the language up to level 2 is a part of the course, I really don't want to arrive with absolutely no knowledge. Things are a little bit more difficult for me as this is the first thing I have properly tried to learn in about a decade (the last thing being Swedish, which is significantly easier as in lot of ways it's quite similar to English). But yes I am very determined to do my best, I am already terrified about it as I am getting pretty close to forty years old so not only will I be in a foreign country and quite out of my depth, I am quite likely to be the oldest person in the program and my fear is not being able to make any friends either amongst my fellow students or the Japanese people. I am sorry for putting up such a long comment, I will end by saying thank you for your videos, they are very helpful and accessible, which for someone in my position is absolutely perfect. Wishing you all the best and thank you for everything!

What a nice and funny video... Arigatou gozaimasu!!!!

ありがとうございます。すこし安心した。

In a time where our phones and computers can predict what we are trying to write it is understandable for the Japanese to just recognize the kanji enough for them to read, and not worry about how to write them on paper.

Reading? - Check! Speaking? - Check! Writing? - well . . . . . . . 🙂 Enjoy the rest of your trip with your friends!

Thanks for the fun video! This is one of the reasons I gave up on writing and focused on just learning to read them. Maybe one day I'll come back to it. 読めるのに書き方がどうしても浮かばないのは不思議ですよね。I played along and only got the 者 of 忍者 lol. Good luck on your studies everyone!

Rose in Chinese is 玫瑰 (薔薇, ancient Chinese usage) and Greetings 恭賀(挨拶 usage can be dated back to 唐朝, Tang Dynasty 618-907CE, super interesting!

the subtitles are so helful! ty

modern day people use phone as their memory.. and kanji require our graphical memory than the sound memory of spelling in kana or english. so it may easier to forget the shape of kanji even.

That last bit was funny and worth it!

You should collab with Japanese Ammo with Misa!

To watch this video was a lot of fun! So I subscribed - learning this awful difficult language (Japanese) should always be fun, otherwise one will never succeed! 👍💪💪💪頑張って!!!

I feel so bad. Ive been studying japanese in my free time and i still got just one of them right. 漢字は面白くて難しいだと思う。this was a great video. It made me realise that i have to study some more

haha, I knew mochi :D I liked how everyone who got dragon used the more complicated one, it does look like more fun to write. Kanji , is really like art, and some of the reason to learn Japanese. Yes it's borrowed from China but it's no longer Chinese and some get simplified. Symbolic technology like power emojis

This video was actually very funny. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💖💖💖💖

I love you, people! Japan is really awesome!

Awesome video, thank you for sharing!

The radical on the left of 肘（ひじ）is not 月, it's actually ⾁. The radicals do look very similar though. ⺼(肉) & 月. 月 radical is present in other characters, such as 服, 朌, 朋, etc.

I asked my Japanese teacher to write kanji for rose and she said sure.. got it right. She even broke it down for me and that's when I switched off and nodded.

今回の動画本当に楽しかったです。みんなと一緒にチャレンジして、漢字を書きながら、たっぷり汗を流しました。

You're all super cute and funny. Loved the vid. I think you'd be fun to take out eating and drinking ❤

What a beautiful bunch of beautiful japanese flowers!!!

This video was so interesting. My parents-in-law said don't worry not everyone can read or speak Japanese properly.hahaha Same in US, not everyone can speak or read English properly as well. Been here Saga since May '96 and still having trouble reading kanji. Dont have much chances to learn especially working in a military base where everyone there speaks English. Hello from Saga, Japan 🗾 🇯🇵 🤗🤧

Thank So Much For the Content I Can Learn New kanji And Revise My Kanji that Have Known..Wow The Rose in Japanese is Bara and The Kanji is Very Difficult For Me..As Malay the Word Bara Remind Mind Me of Flame Thing like "Bara Api" which some kind of Powerful Fire...Keep it Up Mochi Sensei..

Hey Mochi Sensei! That was so much fun! You girls are so bubbly! However, as your ichi ban student I have to report a correction! Ayumi got the kanji for Hat wrong. Look at the right-hand radical. She has missed the correct number of strokes. Therefore, she must perform a forfeit. Perhaps she can sing a song for us?! 😈

this is something that has always interested me!!!

Loved this video along with the Japanese and English subtitles, please do more of them if you can!

This was fun. 2 out of 5 is still impressive to me!😁

Yeah I met people in Japan born in the 90s that know less kanji than I do. I studied the radicals, memorized the kana. Never was too serious about it just practice some calligraphy while drinking tea or coffee. .

こんにちは。面白い動画をありがとう。 正直に言うと、私も2000もの漢字を学ばないといけないと思い込んで必死に勉強していた人です。笑い。Ankiを使って一時的に1800近くは丸暗記はしていたんですが、全然使いこなせなくてどうしたものかと思ってました。 そんな頃にある日本人と知り合って思いっきり笑い飛ばされたんです。「日本人でもそんなに漢字知ってる人いないよ。これもこれもこれも使わないよ！笑」と。僕はちょっとショックを受けたのと同時に、肩の力が抜けていくのを感じましたね。 その人が言うには日本人でも小学生の漢字も読めない人はそこらじゅうにいるし、書くとなると知能労働者でも小学生の漢字すら書けない人がざらにいると言いました。その人のことは信用していましたが、その発言については正直最初はそんな訳がないと思っていました。笑い。だけどそれは間違いだったんです。こういう日本人の動画を見るにつれて、「そうかも？」と思うようになりました。笑い。

Great video! That makes me feel a little better that even native Japanese people can write in kanji. haha!

Love this ❤

such a nice video

that was fun to watch.

This was entertaining to watch 😂

I love your energy. Subscribed

動画最高に面白かった！最初の「忍者」爆笑しちゃった！！😂😂😂😂

lmao very cute and entertaining great idea. everyone is so pretty too with their dresses and makeup

Informative, interesting, and easy on the eyes.

In my path to learning Japanese, I did not get past hiragana and katakana! 😭 When I see Kanji, I always remind myself not to jump to conclusions, because I would be interpreting Kanji using contemporary informal (non-classical) Chinese, which has pronunciation based on dialect of the Hebei province (Beijing is in Hebei). AFAIK, the Kanji used in Japanese was introduced into Japan during the Tang dynasty (7th to 10th century) and there are two ways to pronounce each Kanji character. Some of the Kanji characters have a similar pronunciation found in the Fujian dialect (of which Taiwan’s dialect is based off). I was surprised that rose is 薔薇 in Kanji. To me, that is a totally different flower. To a Chinese speaker, rose is 玫瑰. Very interesting! 忍者 = a person who does the action of 忍, 忍 means suffer to me. The Kanji for greetings is totally unexpected for me. I was thinking 問候語. Dragon 龍, same as modern day Chinese. Elbow 肘, same. Mochi 餅 = generic name for cake, flour based outer shell with something inside. Thank you for this fun filled video! 🌹😃

You make very good videos Mochi Sensei❣️ My time in Japan predictive wasn’t really on mobile devices, really only had dictionaries. But did use a Kanji Typewriter though... that was an experience with an interesting devuce‼️

I'm early in my hiragana learning, aspiring to katakana after that, then kanji. The moral of this video is that kanji is tough for everyone, even native speakers. Thank you for highlighting that, intentionally or not. Seeing how much fun the four of you had on camera reminded me of the home videos I shot with my friends, or my sister and cousins, when I was a teenager. The game show aspect was also enjoyable, as a fan of the genre.

About bonus word: ぼうし I think the first girl drawing in correct. Look at parts:　目

This is so hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 I really enjoyed this vide.

This shows why handwriting is still important. I have noticed that me learning hirigana is slow because I am just looking at them. I learned English by writing, counting and naming colours when I was little. The only word that I could read was my name when I went to school, but learning the alphabet beforehand helped.

XD "We thought we were Japanese..."🤣🤣😋

Know more Kanji , more LOVE ❤

Konapi is THE best. 😂😂😂❤️ So goofy and cute 😂❤️

My motivation to finish RTK skyrocketed after I watched this video and managed to beat a couple of japanese people in kanji writing lol

Now, I feel a lot better about all the times I get stuck on one character. Of course, I only know about 300.

楽しかった動画だ！次回[憂鬱]の漢字を書こうとしてください。見たい(笑)

Tl;dr I’m trying to learn Japanese, but it is hard. Why did Mochi Sensei use あやしくなって(ayashikunatte) at 3:04 instead of あやしくて(ayashikute) or あやしくなくて(ayashikunakute)? I will keep trying to learn. Full comment: Recently, I’ve been trying to more seriously learn Japanese. One of the common challenges I face, is that it’s hard to understand translations, seemingly because of the disconnect between ‘Japanese literary meaning’ -> ‘Japanese meaning in context or normal use’ -> ‘literal English translation of the Japanese normal (I.e. non-literal) meaning’ -> ‘normal English expression’. Somewhere along the way of this I often seem to get lost.? (3:04) “Things aren’t looking well...” Alright, sounds like a simple sentence, maybe I can learn a few things from analysing it? ちょっと(chotto): Can mean several things, but seems be an adverb in this case meaning ‘a little’. (Alright, makes sense so far) 雲行き(kumoyuki): 雲 means ‘cloud’. 行 means ‘going’, and is pronounced ゆ/yu in this case (my first time seeing that pronunciation). So seemingly 雲行き is a noun that literally means ‘cloud going’ (Literary meaning). But in normal Japanese, that supposedly means more and more like ‘how the clouds are going’, ‘how the weather is going’, ‘what the situation is like’ (normal Japanese meaning). Then that gets translated to ‘the situation’ in English (English translation). And finally that gets turned into ‘things’ (normal and simple English expression). (. . . Okay, that was a lot. And although I feel like I got to the bottom of this specific word. There often seem to be many cases where I can’t seem to reach the end like this... And going the opposite way from “things” to “雲行き” seems even more difficult! Looking up “things” I would wonder if 物事(monogoto) meaning ‘things, everything’ would work? Or just 物(mono) which can mean many different things including ‘thing’? Or maybe 事物(jibutsu) meaning ‘thing, affair’? And while these may (or may not?) work as alternative ways. I can’t fully tell? And I just have to commit and hope for the best? And I also feel like I’m missing out on nuance and stuff?) (But wait.. If ちょっと is an adverb, a word that generally doesn’t modify nouns. Then why is ちょっと next to a noun like 雲行き? And why is it the first and foremost thing in the sentence, even before the subject? Is ちょっと not actually and adverb meaning ‘a little’ in this case or what?) が(ga): grammatical particle (usually) marking the subject of the sentence. (Alright. Makes sense.) あやしくなってきました: Um.. I’m not sure? The “きました” part at the end sounds like the past masu conjugation of 来る(kuru) which can mean ‘to come’. But it can also be an auxiliary verb among other things. Which I think is what it is in this case? Is this the verb that ちょっと is being an adverb for? I think so? Even though they’re on opposite ends of the sentence.. This leaves “あやしくなって”. 怪しい/あやしい(ayashii) can mean a bunch of things including ‘suspicious, questionable, ominous, etc.’ And if 来る is used as an auxiliary verb, the *verb* it modifies needs to be in its te-form. But あやしい isn’t a verb, it’s an adjective? And there are no other verbs in this sentence? Hmm.. Maybe there’s a conjugation for あやしい that will make sense? [looks up] So あやしい has both a positive and a negative te-form conjugations. あやしくて(ayashikute) and あやしくなくて(ayashikunakute) respectively. But Mochi Sensei used “あやしくなって”(ayashikunatte)? Is this a form that turn an adjective like あやしい into a verb-form that the auxiliary verb 来る can latch onto? Or is this a dialectal or informal way to conjugate? Either of which I can’t seem to look up? What am I misunderstanding here, I’m not sure? I feel like I didn’t get fully to the bottom of this sentence. But my understanding of it becomes: ‘The situation is becoming a little questionable/ominous.’ Which to me seems pretty close in meaning of how Mochi Sensei translated it (“things aren’t looking well...”). But I feel like I am either missing some nuance, looking to hard into it, being too stiff in my translation, or have gotten lost somewhere? In other words, I feel uncertain and slightly confused. And that is generally how translating Japanese makes me feel. When I first learned English (my second language) that would happen too. But never to the extent of severity and regularity that it does with learning Japanese! I will try my best to keep at it, though. “難しいよ。”(Muzukashii yo.) “It’s difficult!”

That was fun! Similarly, you could test whether Japanese people know the kanji of words usually written in katakana, like カラス, ハマる, or パンダ XD

先生、一緒に頑張ろう！😊😂

I find Japanese harder to write than draw! :D

I've studied 3 years in basic Chinese. I think I could familiarize some of the characters and meanings in Kanji

4:13 'everyone worng' xD I think you all got kinda grammar-PORBLEMS xD but still cute btw

This was so good XD

That was hilarious! Great video & lovely friends 💕🌷 (note: this is a tulip, not a rose, no shade 😜 😁) (I wouldn't have known the kanji for rose myself and I actually realized that I didn't know the word for rose in Japanese at all, I do know it in Korean tho which is funny since I've been learning Japanese way longer 😅)

竜は西洋のドラゴン、大きな翼があり4本足で立ち羽ばたいて飛ぶ、北欧神話に出てくるファフニールやファンタジーゲームに登場するバハムートとか 龍は中国のドラゴン、ヘビのような長い体で雲をつかんで飛ぶ、ドラゴンボールのシェンロンやワンピースのカイドウ、干支の辰ですね

hahaha. i asked my japanese friend to write DIFFICULT in Nihongo, and he couldn't do it.

餅先生達、ありがとうございました！楽しかったんですよね！確かに、漢字はとっても難しいですけど便利だと思います！私も漢字を読む事が出来ますけどあまり書き方が出来ません。😂 Technology has truly spoiled us with knowing how to write.

Japonca Öğreneceğim Kültürüne hayranım☀️🤍📄✍️ ✨😊Selamlar Sevgiler

It is not a common kanji, but still it's literally in your name hahaha 皆さんお疲れさまでした、ビデオでありがとうございました！

I only know the Last one but had the right Part in mind ... So half a Million Points for me 😅

Now that I have seen the kanji for rose I would never write it either. Yes, that looks to be very difficult.

楽しかったです😅

Very good, now I'm not really sure but I think a Chinese woman wouldn't have much difficulty in this test, since the Kanji is part of her writing.

漢字を教えてくれた有り難いです

Only the lady on the left got hat right. There should be two lines in the second box, the other two ladies only had one.

薔薇は回の部分を口と間違えて、餅は書けませんでした笑 ちなみに挨拶は扌（手編）にム矢くくくタ（むやくくくた）で覚えてます

very nice Konapi

What does “してます” mean? I suspect it is a masu form of する? But I don’t understand why the て/te is in the middle of it? Also, is it even supposed to be pronounced? Couldn’t hear whether Mochi says it or not at 3:40?

btw, "ninja" is such a popular kanji in America (shirts, logos, etc.) that I was able to remember how to write it. I laughed that an actual japanese native got that one wrong......funny.

I only knew 忍者 and 龍 (also 竜), so 2/5 score 😭 For the bonus point: I just knew "shi" is 子, but couldn't figure out 帽 (bou)

Stumbled on this randomly on my feed. As a Malaysian, I watched because I was curious. In my head, It was like “Can a Malaysian write in Malay?”. Can’t all Japanese write in kanji?

Best like and have a fun

I'm curious if the JLPT levels would require writing kanji

😅LoL. it's fun to watch btw

今からサントリニにいますか？楽しんでください

こなぴは英語をがんばります🔤

Japanese kanji is quite different form Chinese kanji but 99% we can recognize what is it

謝って大丈夫ですが面白いですね。😁

This was 3rd-Level-Saiyajin-Cute!!! Thanks! hahahahah! ^_^

I feel better about myself 😂 arigato gozaimasu

😯バラの漢字... 難しい〜... [りんご]と[ぶどう]も難しいだと思います！林檎・葡萄😬

日本人:あらあら、中国人の漢字本当に怖い 中國人：你好嗎？ Carlos: No pare la fiesta. Italiani: MARIO AND LUIGI AND DONKEYKONG TOO.

😊😊😊

Let's see..... 忍者　ninja 肘　hiji 挨拶　aisatsu 龍　　　ryu 薔薇　bara Yay, I can use autocorrect as well as Japanese！ Well..... after watching the video, anyway. But I did remember them！

Ninja! Naruto?😂 Lol, the only ninja we know🙌

Why was the middle one blurred out?

みんなパリピに見える件🥰

Is there an alphabet for the language? I don't know japanese except for counting to ten

Good တော်လိုက်တာ

I love you all! What nice girls!!

Ayumi is sweet 😊 love her 😅

Sorry !----a big failure re lighting and camera work . The kanji were unreadable in any case-----these boards are not camera-friendly at all. You will need more thought given to lighting/camera. Sorry !