Japanese Wife DESTROYS ALL of My Hiragana【So YOU can improve】 

I used to worry about making my characters perfect until I started to see things written by native Japanese.

Lessons with an actual Japanese native with full subtitles in both English and Japanese is incredible! Keep it up!

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Hiragana lesson and listening practice in one video? Let's goooo

I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and had no idea how necessary this video was for me. Way better than those videos that draw each kana one after another. This is how you fix mistakes

As a native Japanese, now I can confirm that he can write Hiragana way better than me

Its easy to remember the stroke order for や when you realized that its a simplified cursive version of 也 (not a 常用 but is a component of characters like 地 and 池)

You just gotta remember this is all originally written for Paint Brushes. So imagine you pen as a paint brush and it helps

My い describes my personality very angular and rebellious and angry

54:00 Yuki must have a super artistic mind if she was able to immediately see a guy bowling in that ふ haha

I think the different ways how each of you hold/grip the pen really makes a difference as well. A very insightful and interesting video overall. Thank you both!

21:30 ehh wait minute! Horizontal line on け is actually going in downward direction.. mine was like Andy's one going in upward direction.. Thanks Yuki for this! It makes sense it to be downward as it'd make circle properly.. got it got it! Thanks!

ゴジラゆきが怖いですね！ EDIT: WOW that tip about か where the second and third strokes look like ハ is really great. I instantly got much better at writing it!

W😲W Yuki is an awesome help🤩 I learnt from comments also. I hope she helps more often🌟 Thank you both😊

This is brilliant. So helpful.

this has helped so much. Thanks!

So helpful, especially about the linking strokes ideas... also helps to understand reading native scribble hiragana which can be hard. I would love a Katakana one!

This really helped. Would love to see more videos like this. Arigato ❤

Love your videos!!! The course has been helping out a lot, I’ve been enjoying it so much 😊😊

aw i love when yuki joins, this was a fun video :3

Always nice to see Yuki in a video!

This was really useful to practice writing along with. Thank you.🙏

Ahh, while doing the Genki workbook practices, I've just been winging how the hiragana, katakana, and kanji are supposed to look based on computer fonts. This video will be quite helpful to me going forward, thank ya!

it's always a good day when tokini sensei uploads

This was extremely helpful! I'm always getting marks off for stroke order! ありがとうございます!

Started to learn Japanese this weekend. This will be helpful, thanks.

Learned to write in hiragana thanks to this video, very helpful!!

Thank you so much for this video Andy San and thank you to your wife, Yuki San! With this, I have a specific reference to my daily hiragana practice(I was having trouble between choosing textbook/font or calligraphy-esque and why some characters are shaped the way they do)! Looking forward to your katakana video next!

THIS IS SO USEFUL

I think this is one of the most helpful video for writing! But then again there are so many different types of writing!

This is a great idea. Very illustrated. 👍 ---- 💙

This is awesome!! I'm currently studying Japanese and this was fun to watch, I really struggled writing あ when I was learning how to write it, lol.

Nice video idea! It was really fun

Thanks a lot this was really helpful ! Looking forward to a Katakana version of this video ! Also, in addition, i'd love to see Yuki's "speedy" "unfocused" "regular" handwriting style !

Great Video and great tips as well! My handwriting improved :D

ooh might write along with you guys as well. katakana would be nice as well for next video

I wish you guys were my teachers here at university.. so helpful!!

Basically you have to keep in mind the way the stroke moves to understand how they connect The い has that little curve in the bottom because you can go up and connect to the top of the next portion of it, similarly the き has a style were the bottom curve disconnects, this disconnection in some styles happen because they imitate how with a brush its easy to naturally disconnect. Regardless of style the important is to remember the stoke order and keep in mind that the order is not random, it's there because you need to move to the next part in a certain way, the stroke order is there to enforce the flow which helps your calligraphy and keep people from making things too weird.

the cuts and sharper angles are pretty smart. it gives you more control. rounder strokes tend to get exaggerated and throws off the balance.. its perfect!!!

This was a really interesting! I am currently at language school and the first set of teachers with き、さ、ち were very big on making sure the loops were not connected. the next semester, I got marked wrong on all of those for not connecting them. So it is interesting to see this process and Yuki's criticism and tips!

So foreigners write the characters like a font while natives are taught to write in calligraphic style

Pretty awesome 😅 I will have follow along with my own

I really enjoyed this video, I learnt a lot and it was nice to listen to Yukie speak and to pick out words I knew. I also learnt I am rubbish at fu, but great at ya. Please do the same with Katakana, as I am sure it will be just as great.

former art major here. i have terrible english handwriting, but i LOVED learning hiragana/katakana and practiced it like crazy. it was too late for english for me but decided to try to make my kana at least legible. All i ever wanted was my japanese teacher to praise my writing :D:D

I've always had trouble with the curvy ones, this actually helped a lot, thanks! Also, i've been making the same mistake with も, despite having the stroke order right there on the back of the Anki card xD

nice tips, but I'm probably gonna keep doing some of the of them my way, cause I've grown to like how I do them

that was so useful and practical, thank you so much T-T can you please do with katakana too ?

すごい

Oh thank you! I really want to improve my handwriting. Also hoping you would do kanji handwriting exercise at some point because my kanji looks very childish and disproportionate some characters look like multiple characters when I write it because of how disconnected and disproportionate they are 😭

I think the characters I mess up the most are か、そ、ひ、ふ and ら. Definetely improved after the video, at least they look less like a computer font 😁. And now I feel confident that my い and り can be told apart!

You two seem to have lovely chemistry.

This was so helpful! Please do katakana next! 😄

毛筆を習ってるとゆきさんの言ってることがよくわかる。小学生が使ってる四マスのノートを使って欲しくなる😂

I usually have problems with the katakana bcz it has the smiling face things and the differences is unnoticeable

Imagine if her elementary school teacher just randomly sees this video and posts a comment "Jiiiiiii" XD I wouldn't be able to sleep after that.

Now that you practiced letter by letter, I would like to see you writing in context, like some phrases, and having her to point out what would go better in the whole harmonization

An awesome video! I have one question, not really related to the topic of the vid, but once I saw Yuki, I thought that I might try to ask - some weeks ago a small group of jurists just finished a new translation of the Civial Code of Japan with commentaries on the most important articles. Incorporated into the comments are some decisions of the Supreme Court of Japan, I had a decision from 1935. I do my main japanese legal research in constitutional law of the Meiji era. All that lead-up for that question: How hard is it for japanese natives to read such documents (a decision from 1935 or even the Meiji-Constitution)? I studied Japanese at university next to law and I found it quite hard to read those texts.

I noticed myself that the correct stroke order for hiragana も you start with the vertical line. But for the katakana モ you start with the horizontal one.

Finding out that I've also been using the wrong stroke order for も destroyed me lol

I dont have time for the 1.5h video but very interesting

When are you doing this with Kanji? I'd love to see the differences between how Chinese and Japanese write Chinese characters as a student of Mandarin

Amazing to see how Yuki could improve upon every single one where I thought Andy did a good job. Another vote for doing katakana too.

you have to cover katakana now :) fun video, want more like this :)

amazing video, please do also katakana

you should do the opposite where you critique her English characters

Your wife is like a school teacher.😂 I'm Japanese who have not written jumping the left stick of "い" for about 20 years.😅

Yuki is such a good teacher, I like her positivity and encouragement. Listening to her talk is helping with my listening while also learning how to write my hiragana better.

His hiraganas are better than mine whereas I am a Japanese age of 42 who was educated in Japan.

I first noticed something was up when I saw も on a chart I blindly found that was written in the way Andy first wrote it, and then I looked at another sheet that had done it the other way. Yuki's example made more sense of that. TBF, I didn't even get started looking at writing them until late, as I was more forcused on retention of the characters and their pronunciations more. But I also knew that they derived from kanji and later took notes on kanji stroke order, that when I revisited the charts, I started to question things. My own handwriting isn't great, but my strokes in Japanese looks more cursive-like at this point, so i don't think that would be particularly terrible. I do try to make it legible. So I would try to keep in mind with the emphasis on the curvature, direction and position. I just gotta practice it a bit more. That being said, the pointers here are good ones to look out for. I'm just more used to typing though.

My writing is bad but all I want is to read... Might be fun to write cursive at her and see how she does. Literally zero videos on RU-vid about that.

28:42🔖 Commenting to bookmark for myself

ふ was really hard for me to learn how to write until i started thinking of it as a 3 in the middle of a short ハ (i do the middle part in one stroke, for purely stylistic reasons)

8:29 kinda looks like a り. Either it’s just my ukiyo-e ‘font’ brain, or other folks see it too.

It's interesting watching this and she's correcting things.. but then the subtitles do the exact things she's dissing XD I think the font versions get you by at least

Many different あ are ok as long as the lower part looks like a normal め

Are you planning on reviewing Tobira 2? You said on your last tobira video that you would make a review and see if they closed the gap that’s usually the problem in Genki.

I think one person speaking in English and the other in Japanese is helping me a lot with comprehensible input because I know the context for what’s being said

I actually pride myself in having a font handwriting actually it kinda makes sense that my handwriting looks like a font because all the Japanese I ever see is a font lol

i thought i knew hiragana.

That thumbnail is wild frfr

It's vertical writing, great tip

If we have questions regarding the Japanese where can we ask, andy?

28:53 i KNEW those two had smth in common

In the US when I see hand writing from young women, the text is very bubbly, evenly spaced, "cute" even. Is that the same was what Yuki is describing, but for hiragana?

Now do roman one. Maybe print and cursive.

「お」とか「か」とか「ら」とか「む」などの「ヽ」の部分に関して。 動画ではアンディさんはピュッと線を払うようにして書いていますが、この点の部分はしっかり筆/ペン/鉛筆を最後まで紙に付けてゆっくり移動させて書くものです。日本人はそのように書いています。他の動画でも別の外国人の方(特に西洋人)が平仮名を書く時この部分をピュッと書いていて気になりました。ゆきさんも同意するかと思います。

The Japanese language has a lot of unique internal logic about how its characters are proportioned. I didnt think about it until i saw Andy's first "a" and then noticed the 3rd stroke being too large and off-center

^That "o" she wrote seemed like a bit much. its something i've pretty much only seen exaggerated like that in calligraphy, but the angles of that triangle are much too sharp. when you see it being done in calligraphy, there is clearer change from convex to concave curve forming the triangular shape, but with a mechanical pencil or a marker, that just looks so odd.

「う」 で本気出したの面白いᴡ

Great! Please do dakuten and handakuten too.

One thing I noticed is that your Japanese handwriting is much more rounded and more curved while Yuki write straight with sharp corners

Katakana please!!!

書道の経験が出ますね

What is the cause of the systematic differences between computer fonts and normal handwriting, especially in cases like さ/き? like, obviously *someone* wrote them that way, whoever designed the font. Was it a regional dialect, a style that just later fell out of favor, or just one person's strange handwriting that ended up being the template for the first computer fonts and everyone else copied?

フォントと手書きで違うの結構あるよね 英語でもaとかgとか違ったりするし

10:45 gd reference

What does Yuki's hiragana look like when she is writing fast and not trying to make it look perfect?

I draw も the same as you andy ahahah. Yuki's version is way easier though

めっちゃくかわいいひらがなですよ www

I didn't realize I'd been writing kana wrong until I got a kanken game for the DS and it didn't recognize a lot of my handwriting lol