From the UK here. I came to Japan 6 years ago and Japanese From Zero gave me the ability to enjoy my first year and improve my Japanese quickly. It only teaches you the stuff that you need unlike other programs. If you learn 1-5 you will be able to say anything. maybe not like a native at first but any idea or opinion you can get accross. also when japanese people reiterate something in Japanese they usually use the vocab in JFZ. Anyway it helped me to no end so it's number one in my mind. and I had tried almost all popular programs before that. Now its time to take N2 and Im sure George's videos will help me again. BTW George thanks for the live house and Antonios Inoki Izakaya it was awesome!
Luke JapanWalker - Wow. I barely remember that. Until you said it, the entire memory was in deep storage. I am trying hard to remember what you even look like. But I remember the joke I invented there about Mango juice....
Learn Japanese From Zero! Yeah that I haven't forgotten either lol. Pretty sure I have a photo I'll try to dig out. You were very good to us and even introduced us to Exist Trace. I was the one who couldnt play the guitar and showed you that weird English cafe. Sorry sbout that lol. Anyway looks like you've been busy and Ive got a lot of vids to catch up on.
Very nice story, now I'm curious to know if you got the N2 (I hope so). I'm a beginner, I've started 1 month ago, no problem about Hiragana and Katakana (I've learned them in 5 days) but kanji are more complicated. Watching this video can help my English too (I'm Italian living in Germany). Are you still living in Japan? Still enjoying it?
I am happy I just learn words straight instead of the whole learning readings and stuff, I learn words as I come across them and use them in real life situations. I can never get the readings wrong because I am not treating them as individual kanji but like actual vocabulary already formed
I'm from Guernsey, just finishing book one but am really interested in getting a head start on Kanji. Thank God this series is going to be as great as the JFZ series. Big fan of JFZ and George's teaching style. I'm 65 so things take a while to stick but, as they say, slowly slowly cathchee Kanji.
Hi there!! I am from Spain, although living in the UK right now. I have been following all your other series JFZ (in which I am already in book 3) and now I am just starting the kanji study. I practice kendo and one of my biggest dreams is to go to Japan to be able to train with the best sensei over there. So, that is why I want to learn japanese and...really man, your content is fantastic. I find it well structured and easy to follow step by step. And also, I personally find you a very nice teacher, with the right amount of fun comments and serious study. Absolutely love this course. Thank you very much!!!
ポーランド出身です 今日はKanji From Zero!をやっと買いました！ I just did the first two chapters and it's great to actually know all the readings and the stroke order of the Kanji. It's way better than just being able to recognize them or just type them with the IME editor. I'm really enjoying the book so far, thank you George!
14:25 i'm from Syria my first language is Arabic and my second is English, and your videos are useful because they help me become better at English, and also learn Japanese, thanks :)
from california here but wife is french-american and our girl learns japanese for fun on top of english-french and spanish (for school). great job george !
From France here! I wanted to thank you for all the great videos you are making/you made! I think you're the best japanese teacher i've ever seen! Everything is so clearly explained and learning japanese becomes very amusing with you (I mean I really laugh !). Never boring !!... Thank you so much!! :)
コネキタクト！- USA, but reading at school in the UK, a Japanese friend taught me hiragana and katakana two years ago, and when he left I couldn't continue, I had too much work and no help (your videos didn't exist!) But now I can! And I'm hoping to visit my Korean friend in Japan for 2020, and maybe even study architecture for a term there later (thank God for your program!)
from rhode island here. my girlfriend wants to teach japanese in america, so i started learning alongside her as a way to make her feel more confident in her learning. in a month ive learned all hiragana and katakana, and im just starting to learn kanji for fun☆
Just started studying Japanese very recently. I have my Hiragana down and I just about have my Katakana, but I decided to jump in and get my feet wet with Kanji right away because everywhere I read said "start it and start it ASAP". So far it's been very intimidating and frustrating, mainly because I was trying to memorize all the separate readings for each one... which along with the strokes and actually meaning was overloading me and nothing was sticking. Following your video and learning through words instead seems much easier and more practical, so thanks for the tips. I'm still a long way from being anywhere near coherent (let alone fluent) but I'll stick with it!
アメリカ人です。オルガンが出身です。hopefully that says I'm American and from Oregon. I am self teaching myself Japanese. So I limited in what I can verify its proper Japanese, but I've been really appreciating your videos even if I haven't bought the books yet.
Seems correct on amerikagindesu but idk about the second one. I don't know the states in japanese but to me that says you live in the organ (like body organ or the instrument lol) it might be correct it might not but either way i like it
Wow, so glad Mandarin is my native language, so I don't have to go through this nuance of learning kanji...I can totally imagine how confusing this is for most of you. Well in some cases, differentiating the pronunciation in Japanese and Chinese becomes the problem for me tho :)
Strangely, I learned the first new thing about the Hiragana in like 10 years. I'd kinda picked up on the types of strokes informally, but never learned what it was called or how it was described in Japanese. Very interesting.
Chester Harris from dallas texas and i am here :) im on chapter 8 and i consitently find myself going back to chapter 1 and rereading everything trying to comprehend what im learning so theres alot of going back for me right now. i may have to put in alot of extra effort to comprehend what i learned to keep moving forward :) glad to know im doing well to be this far. I also completed book 2 of japanese from zero and plan to get book 3 and 4 and keep going. I started book 1 about a year ago. i hope in this next year i have book 3 and 4 down and have this first kanji book completed with complete comprehension
I've started my Japanese learning journey with you George, almost 4 years ago. And I'm from Belgium. The only thing I regret is my nickname that I use everywhere, it's read as Obi-Arne (comes from Obi-wan), when you catch me on your livestreams :)
Hey George-san, I've mastered "ALL" hiragana and katakana (but I still practice them so I don't forget and to solidify them for life) and I know, speak and "understand" some japanese SO FAR...and still learning. Knowing those two scripts helps learning kanji a lot easier and because of that i can read the hell out of kanji with the help of "furigana". As I got better, reading hiragana and katakana became waaaaaaay easier to read versus romaji...is haaaaate romaji now it messes me up! ありがとうございます, George-さん!
I was so glad to find the Kanji From Zero I ordered was the second edition lol. Watashi wa Niu Yoruku ni imasu. Watashi no ie ni Niu Yoruku ni arimasu. Onegai! Takusan kudasaiii! I'm know Japa knees ;)
Its amazing to learn japanese in an american way as a chinese speaking people kanji is something i thought i need no effort on，but today i hve a freash idea of learning it through your video，thankyou very much teachers who teach japanese in chinese usually tend to focus less on this topic given the condition we already knowing Kanji well enough as a chinese speaking people。
イスラエル出身です。 Thanks for the video i will practice my kanji but i hope you are still alive to make more George :) Just for fun i wrote "kanji japan news" in google and found out an article where the prime minister of japan made a mistake reading some kanji.
a finnish person here, i started looking into the basics of japanese around last christmas my end goal is to be able to write a good book in japanese (gotta dream big)
アメリカ人です。(kentucky I don't know how to say that in japanese haha). I just started your JFZ 1 book but I know all of the hiragana and 90% of the katakana so thought I'd start on kanji from zero as well
A little late, but I'm just starting with japanese. I'm a spaniard, and this is my 6th language (Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, and now Japanese). It's harder than all my previous ones by far, but with such a good せんせい I'm sure I'll make it through to the end :p
俺はモンタナとアラスカ出身です。漢字勉強が大好きでござる。楽しいと思います。I even use kanji in words that are not normally writen in kanji. It's not that hard. I lear the meaning, then stand alone words then words that use the kanji.
My man George!, I came across your channel a week ago and.. Jesus Christ!!!!, You, Yes YOU ARE THE MOST AMAZING TEACHER I'VE FOUND ON RU-vid. I've been studying Japanese for about 4 months. I studied kanji with RTK 1 (just the writing, not meanings since i find it easier to look for a pattern rather than coming out with stories and, to me, kanji only represents sounds, not meanings). Anyways, i came across your channel and i was like, who is this guy and why is he so da*n friendly, then i started to watch each AND every video in your channel and I started to like you (even though you're annoying at times................ joking, you're the best), most of the words i knew and the rules I learned were reinforced thanks to you. I learned a lot of things which, without your help i would've gotten wrong and and that would've become a bad habit (and Jesus, bad habits are hard to get rid of), like counters for things, or the first 10 days of the month (tsuitachi, futsuka, mikka etc etc), and I seriously find it hard to believe that your channel isn't as known as it should be (seriously, today's people) anyways, I just want to say THANK YOU!!!!!!! (YES I'M YELLING). And I hope your prediction (the one about when and where you'll die) doesn't become truth. Best regards from Mexico.
Btw, you should remind people to like your videos, Say something like "If this video was helpful, give it a -dis- LIKE (or thumbs up xD) or something" because you videos have so many people watching them and they might like them but people often forget to hit "like". And that cause your videos are so long and interesting that people just want to watch the next video and forget to hit like.
Thank you for making videos which help me a lot to gain more knowledge of kanji. I'm from Vietnam :D In Vietnamese, we also have the words whose radicals are from the Chinese characters. Those words were transformed into our "Hán Việt" words, which are written by the Vietnamese alphabet but only a small part of those words are using frequently. I think "Hán Việt" words are a little similar to on'yomi of kanji while our "Nôm" words are similar to kun'yomi. However, because we're using the Vietnamese alphabet, we don't have things like kanji though we also have many couples of "Hán Việt" and "Nôm" words which have nearly identical meanings.
Cool, I'm a total beginner and after becoming familiar with the kanji 一 and 人 I was wondering why 一人 read as ひとり. This is exactly what I'm afraid of with Kanji, all these exceptions.
I am from Greece and I try to learn Japanese because I want to make the number of languages I know increase. I know Turkish bcs I am Muslim, I am Greek so I know Greek and my 3 language is English. I know some Russian, some French and now I started learning Japanese. I won't start learning Kanji yet bcs I haven't learnt カタカナ yet. After Katakana I will start learning Kanji. It is tough and frustrating though. What is the best technique to learn Kanji ?
Thank you for this! learning kanji online recreationally it was very confusing to see a kanji with like one hirigana next to it. Because you get the thought that kanji is a symbol for a word rather then a letter. So seeing a word with a syllable next to it was really awkward
Massachusetts出身でしたけど、漢字は自分にめっちゃくちゃ面白かったです。ジョージ先生は漢字が好きですか？漢字ついて何が好きなのパートですか？I am on lesson 13 now 😊 でも、このシリーズは見てなかったです。今からこのビデオシリーズ始めてるを見ています。😁 そして、日本語で話してが難しいです。日本人は何もどれ近くにないですけど。I use hello talk though. But I think being in Japan would get me to not be afraid to speak it. ^^;
A useful on-line link: www.japandict.com/radicals Quick lookup listing radicals and letting you look up combinations of radicals. Maybe helpful if you are in a bind. (An earlier similar web-site was discontinued, but this one is better than the first. Unlike the first web-site, after you select one or more radicals, this site greys-out the remaining radicals that are no longer applicable. On the discontinued web-site you would spend a lot of time trying to find the correct radicals and in the end there would be 0 kanji left in the list of possibilities.)
Thank you so much for producing these videos. I do subscribe and have purchased all your books. I did want to point out what I think is a minor error; I noticed "one thing" spelled as and pronounced "hitatsu". Shouldn't it be ""hitotsu"?
Women can be described as handsome. It's mainly used for attractive women who have traditionally "male" features (such as a strong nose and jaw). It's like calling a man "beautiful" as opposed to handsome. Men who are described as beautiful typically have features that are stereotypically feminine (such as full lips and large eyes). Cary Grant, for example, was very handsome, but I wouldn't call him beautiful. It's all about the nuance
Was Kanji From Zero already released? When not I would buy the first version of it but are already the typos and other little mistakes fixed in the sold exemplars of version 1? Edit: I saw on amazon version 1 comments that you replied to someone that the 2nd version is out (5 months ago) but were to find it? Can you give me a link?
From Norway! I'm at video 26 in the regular series, and have done some studying on my own (know all hiragana and katakana). Am i going too fast by watching this? Im going back to Tokyo in a month and i feel i need some basic kanji knowledge.
Can you recommend any good physical Kanji dictionaries for learners? I already use Jisho.org and Kanji Tree and those are great. But I'd love a real book to use.
I'll buy this book. I refuse to use a cell phone translator app again! Hiragana & Katakana have their place, but if you want to read any sign, form, public notice etc...you need kanji. The way most Japanese language resources tend to give you a standalone English meaning (fire, water, person etc, which is next to useless on its own once you're on your own ACTUALLY IN JAPAN!) and/or the On & Kun meanings without contextual sentence help, is useless really and requires colossal amounts of memory skill. This looks just the job!
