How to Start Teaching Yourself Japanese (or any language!) 

i watch it everyday too ! :D

aww that's so great! thank you so much!!

@@MissHanake Your so adorable 😆💕 Tysm for reply 😊💜

im indian too!

Link?

thank you for watching!! it is fun switching between languages but i do still get my brain in a muddle sometimes! 🤣

@@MissHanake Same. Some of my coworkers only speak Spanish and sometimes I'll accidentally respond to them in Japanese instead.

sounds like you’re doing great!! those are all really good resources :D

@@MissHanake thank you, i've been watching your videos for quite a while so i really admire you and love your content!

yaaaay i'm glad this video found you!! :D

ありがとうございます！まだまだです🙇‍♀️

@@MissHanake Y not using kanji??

@@Snow-tk9zv ありがとうございます！まだまだです has no kanji equivalent.

@@celestemackaill9501 Ohh...okay!!

Sam Mackaill Not to get too tEchniCaL but you could write it in kanji: 有難うございます。

I've been studying for 2 years and I only know about 250 words 😵

@@cigarts331 have you tried learning kanji? Its a pain in the neck

@@harpie9022 I kr, I can read maybe 10 kanji, but can write only 5

it's just the first little hurdle to push through! it will all feel so much easier once you can read hiragana :)

@@MissHanake Thank you! Yeah, I definitely agree :D

@@calmdownmydaughter2831 For Korean grammar, I recommend you to have a base. For example, I'm a spanish native speaker, so I'm trying to apply some techniques used in school like having a textbook (in my case, English). In your case, I recommend you the yonsei Korean, I've been studying from there and is very useful.

@@valentinalatorre9381 Thank you! Yeah, I've been studying grammar with a mixture of 'Talk To Me in Korean' and 'How To Study Korean'. I have heard a lot of good things about the Yonsei textbooks so I'll give them a go :) Thank you for the tips and good luck in learning Korean! ^^

so pretty different wdym

@Stark They might mean that she sounds "quite different".

i'm glad you've been enjoying studying japanese! i hope you can get back to your lessons soon. :) thanks for such a sweet comment!

観てくれてありがとうございます😊😊 お互い言語の勉強、頑張りましょう！

that's great, i'm so glad to hear it!!! 😄

@@MissHanake Thanks! :D

it was like 8 years ago so yeah!! 🤣

@@MissHanake how old were you then?

@@gf-cm6rc 15 hahah i'm 23 now

@@MissHanake I started learning and i am 13 now. i know hiragana and katakana and i have picked up a few words and my entire phone is in japanese and i buy stuff with japanese letters on it and i read stuff in japanese and i have a japanese keyboard!! i hope i get fluent

@@ojumalakidstvandmore7157 What the best Japanese-speaking RU-vidrs do is they make videos of themselves speaking Japanese when they are 13, and then ten years later they look back at those videos and review them. :)

thank you so much!! ありがとうございます！

that's really great, i'm so glad!! :) keep it up!

お役に立てれば幸いです🤗

よかったです！！頑張ってください🤗

それはよかったです！！🥰

頑張ってください！🥰

よかったです！！がんばります🤗

that's great!! :) keep it up!

こちらこそ、いつも観てくださって、ありがとうございます！🤗

ooo yes I love that app!

よかったです！！見てくれてありがとうございます🤗

ありがとうございます🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ 去年、日常メイクについての動画を投稿しましたが、その動画でスキンケアの話を少しだけしますのでよかったら観てみてください！🤗

ありがとうございます！！

すごいですね！！私は英語と日本語にしか自信がないです・・ ドイツ語、フランス語、韓国語は勉強したことありますが、簡単な会話しかできません😅

thank you so much!!! ❤️

you can do it!!! i hope the video is helpful ❤️

hey there's a new study buddy group on discord lmk if you would like to join :)

@@user-ms2yr4gd5u I would like to join.

What's the group called?

thank you so much!!! :)

That's great, I hope your studies go well! :)

@@MissHanake Thanks !

yessss I loved rilakkuma and kaoru! i watched it once with english subs and then again with japanese subs!

初めて日本語を見たときは、とても気持ち悪かったです(言い方悪くてすみません)。平仮名と片仮名は形が似ていますが、漢字は形が全然違うので、私には2種類の文字が混ざっているように見えました。 中国の文字とタイの文字が交互に書かれているような感覚と言いますか… 音読の練習をしていても、文中で漢字と平仮名が切り替わる度に、少し詰まって読んでいました。

@@user-sj3on9ii4l 日本語うま過ぎです、どうやって勉強しましたか？私は英語を話せるようになりたいので参考にしたいです

@@zn5974 母親が日本人なので、会話は小さい頃から出来ていました。日本語の読み書きは中学生になってから始めましたが、元から話せる事もあって、そこまで苦労はしませんでした。 ですので、参考にならないと思います。ごめんなさい…笑

i’m so glad! i hope you stay safe too :) thanks for a kind comment❤️

Miku まで Same same

どういたしまして！

thank you!! :) you can do it!

ありがとうございます！！勉強頑張ってください🤗

hmm i think i can understand your feeling. however, i think a huge part of speaking in a foreign language is putting your whole self and your thoughts into its context? like when i am speaking japanese, i'm not necessarily just translating all my usual english thoughts into japanese, it's like i have a separate section of my brain for when i'm speaking in japanese, that knows it can only express things using the words that i have in that chunk of my brain? and so maybe the japanese-speaking version of me isn't quite as eloquent or expressive as when i speak in english, but i do find i can express what i want to express in a sincere/genuine way. japanese people manage to communicate with the people around them, so so can you, if you learn enough to have the tools to express your thoughts & can manage to arrange your thoughts into a way that can fit through the japanese language...i guess? does that make sense? this is not scientific at all, it's just how i think about it. & i'm not saying you have to be a different person or have different thoughts, i just feel like the thoughts have to come out of your primal basic thought bit of your brain and through your language bit of your brain in a different way 😅 i hope that helped?

he adapted ajatt but yes, mass input is the best way to learn a language

I think you should use mnemonics :D

i've been uploading lots of japanese videos!! but more will come soon!

Perfume大好きです！！そのタオル、２０１２年のロンドンのライブで買いました！

that’s a good tip! its hard to improve consistently across all four skills, especially when self teaching. all are important & require a little bit of love and attention but it’s easy to get overwhelmed when you’re first starting!

that's so great!! it took me maybe a year or so until I was able to hold a proper conversation. :) keep it up! your mom will be so impressed, i'm so glad she's supporting you!

Hey just checking in as a fellow 12-year-old Japanese learner. Are you still learning?

I am Japanese. I often use "Jaa, Mata." I have not said "Sayonara" for a long time.

Sayonara means good bye for ever.

thanks so much for watching, keep up your studies!! :D

この本棚はほとんど、お母さんのボブ・ディランについての本です笑笑

MissHanake I’m studying English. I want to improve my English as you speak Japanese well. I’m often studying English with your movies. Watching many foreign movies is very important, right? From Japan! 頑張ってくださいね！

そうですね！！例えば、「は」と「ふ」の音はもちろん似ていますが、ひらがなを習得しないと、「ha」と「fu」として考えてしまうので発音が異なっちゃいます・・

@@MissHanake ありがとうございます。 かつて英語の先生から「カタカナで英語の発音を覚えるな」と言われたことを思い出しました。カタカナで覚えるとどうしてもカタカナの発音になるから、という、まさにハナさんと同じ理由です。 とはいえ、僕自身はいまだにカタカナで英語を考えているので、これは直さなければなりません（＾＾； 良いビデオ、そして丁寧な返事を、ありがとうございました。

ありがとうございます！！

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nope, just start with hiragana! :)

よかったです！🤗

I'm a beginner Japanese-learner too, and in order to learn kanji I'm using the Heisig method, you can download for free the complete pdf of the book "Remembering the Kanji", it's available on the internet. I learned 100 kanji in one week. I've been studying Japanese for one month. If you want to invest some money on your learning process, Wanikani is good too, but I'm not using it anymore since it costs too much. Those are the best resources that I found. Happy learning!

Master of Entropy I tried to find the RtK book pdf but I can only find partial versions. I don’t know what that method is but I’ll definitely look into it! Thank you!

@@paisley5820 here's the link for the pdf: www.lukeranieri.com/japanese/files/Heisig-RememberingTheKanji_vol1.pdf That's the one I'm using, if I remember correctly; But you are right, there are many incomplete versions of the book out there, it took a while to find the right one, whole, pdf. If you need any other help, feel free to contact me. Japanese certainly is a difficult, but fascinating language. Bye

@@paisley5820 go on the Mass immersion approach website and download their RRTK deck. I did all of RTK in 3 months and really regret because linking kanji to english keywords doesnt work well at all for writing. You can finish the RRTK deck in 2 months pretty easy and you can just learn the rest through reading immersion.

そろそろです！ありがとうございます😊😊

いつも観てくれてありがとうございます🙇‍♀️

hahaha thank you!!

直してくれてありがとうございます！！🥰