Your Very First KANJI Lesson | Learn Japanese (First Grader Level) 

HAI! good video, great person!

I learned a lot of these from anki using a wanikani deck. Thanks for the vid.

@@adls04 off i started learn it and this is hard + 2000 more

@@WolfnWool You must Not Be English, That Video can't Teach UNDERSTANDING ! ! She just TALKS Talks talks

@@adls04 And YOU, You must Not Be English. THAT VIDEO CAN'T TEACH A BABY TO RETAIN JAPANESE WORDS from the things SEEN in common every day . She is a Nothing of a teacher.🤑

and the word lunatic/lunacy! you can't say moonatic/moonacy lmao, good analogy!

This helps alot

in romanian, "lune" is "luna"

That's interesting

​@@iceblu4713romanian is a latin language yes

this is pretty helpful, a way to remember kinyoubi could also be "its payday (money day) hahah.... though may not be for everyone but i think a lot of people get paid on fridays

Gonna try to use this. Days of the week are something that just absolutely REFUSES to stick to my brain regardless of how much I try to drill it in there.

This looks oddly specific

Thanks

One thing which i don't understand, is why you don't just use the kanji themselves, as in, 日曜日(にちようび) and 月曜日(げつようび), could be remembered Way, WAY more easily by just saying, "日曜日 is literally 「Sun-Week-Day」so it's basically Sunday" And, "月曜日 is literally 「Moon-Week-Day」so it's basically Monday(because monday is moon day)"

I am HIGHLY impressed by the entire sentence 😂 but yeah... how annoying are language “rules” 🙄😅

hahahaaa nice

english is that one language where any rule can be summarized in two lines of text, followed by two pages of exceptions

lol that's english in a nutshell...

That's also because the full rule is: I before E, except after C (like received), or when it sound like A (like neighbor). You will see this rule will eliminate most of the exceptions you mentioned.

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@@deepaniliyanarachchideepan1559what？？why？？？why are you sending this here what is that please explain.

😂😩 it destroys us all

So I knew about the kanji for fire cuz avatar and naruto, but yeah, I need to rewatch the video with a lot of pauses to remember what u've just thrown at me

been destroyed since i was little... good luck. my reasoning is in the comment section lol

@@reinascully i should have payed more attention when i was in korea learning the korean equivalent... i know all of the on yomi because it's not that far off from korean on yomi. but damn it, how to write and recognize them at a certain level... that's what's destroying me currently lol

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True! That's very useful

In Czech (and some other slavic languages) - just FYI Monday - from "day after sunday" Tuesday - from very old slavic word for second Wednesday - from word middle (of the week) Thursday from word fourth Friday - from word fifth Saturday - from word Sabbath Sunday - from "not to work"

Wow. That is SPOT ON!! Like 100% matched with my native language. Didn't even notice that before. Thanks a lot.

Genius.... I'm Italian and I never noticed this....

lol between sailor moon, naruto, avatar etc I got this down without even noticingh.

Raquel plz... Don't mind but you are soooo cute 🥰☺️

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heyy monique! :) I'm still a beginner in Japanese as well but a lil tip when writing foreign names such as reina its written using katakana rather than hiragana, since hiragana is only used for words exclusive to Japanese language, if the word was "burrowed" on the other hand like コーヒー(coffee), u use katakana! so you should say レイナ先生instead. hope that was helpful❤️ please don't hesitate to ask me about anything if it's unclear.

Shahd abozeid isn’t Reina a Japanese name though?

quick question, why is it that everywhere I look the hiragana for "ri" is written differently

kip I think it just has to do with how people write. Just like in English some people write ‘a’ like that and some people write the other way

@@sleepyhead261 I haven't heard of it as a japanese name before! but even if it is and you still don't know the proper kanji for it that she uses (when a japanese child is born example it's a boy named Genki, there is more than one kanji for that, and the parents choose one for their kid at their birth, if you're not a japanese native you can still do that by choosing your personal kanji that corresponds with the pronunciation of your name in Japanese) so if you don't the Kanji that reina sensei uses for herself you should just use katakana!! and if her name is originally Japanese then sure use hiragana, katakana is used for foreign names in general.

Omg i totally agree! I speak both Mandarin and Cantonese though, which I think helps a lot since I noticed a lot of the Chinese derived Japanese pronunciations of kanji are actually closer to Cantonese than Mandarin, which I found really interesting

I guess, I'm pretty lucky for being forced into Chinese as a kid- although i didn't do too great, but it made japanese much easier

I've been studying Japanese on my own for the past decade and I still have the same problem. You'll never really outgrow it, you just train yourself to resist better after enough practice. The worst moments are when I'm supposed to read something in kunyomi, especially when there's okurigana following the kanji, and my brain throws out the Mandarin pronunciation like it's gonna help. That's when I turn my brain off and on again, and just refer back to jisho.org.

@@haliesung980 Yep. As a matter of fact, onyomi is based on its ancestral form go-on (呉音), which was borrowed from southern Middle Chinese during the Three Kingdoms Period. Nowadays, you only see go-on being used with ancient Buddhist scriptures or texts in a museum, and the ancient Wu language is basically defunct in China. Thankfully, certain Min and Canton dialects these days still preserve some aspects from it. You can even hear a bit of similarities between Japanese onyomi and (Fujian) Taiwanese too. I've disgraced my ancestors with my lack of Taiwanese, though, so I can't give any examples. :(

at least you can read it and understand lol i'm stuck with on yomi but not the writing part. korea has a very similar on yomi system. but we don't need to know how to write them like japan. we can take classes for it if we want to, but that's a big "if". i might have gone to some of them if i didn't leave korea when i was 9. but sadly here in georgia, they don't teach it. unless you are trying to learn mandarin and not japanese, which i wasn't at the time. probably should have lol

凄いですネ。

😌💛

@@reinascully That did make my day! 😊

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What do you mean?

@@ammaranuar2544 According to this, it's just an urban legend (都市伝説): happymail.co.jp/happylife/characteristic/beautiful-moon/#:~:text=%E3%80%8C%E6%9C%88%E3%81%8C%E7%B6%BA%E9%BA%97%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%AD%E3%80%8D%E3%81%8C%E3%80%8C%E6%84%9B%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99,%E3%81%A8%E6%8C%87%E6%91%98%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E3%81%9D%E3%81%86%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%80%82

It's not really just an urban legend though, every Japanese person knows what you mean by 月がきれいですね

@@ishankohlii i see. Thanks for clarifying it for me.

Horen LastTeacher 2.0 the very famous author Natsume Soseki was also an English teacher and when he was asked what I love you meant he said it meant 月がきれい because the phrase I love you holds so many complex and strong emotions that you can’t encapsulate the full meaning of

Thank you! This comment made my day!

@@reinascully My pleasure! :))

Oh yeah, I totally agree "千四百八十" is surely great, fast, and easy I don't understand why people just write 1489, so weird. *Kanji makes Japanese Much harder, scarier, and primitive, as well as hiragana and katakana*, using good alphabets (Yeah not alphabets where your "letters" are actually syllables, seriously was it that hard to make an "h", "r", "t"... letter? Oh no, why combine H+A, H+E+H+I when we can actually make a whole new symbol that represents HA, another for HE, and another HI? At least make them resemble in the slightest to the vowels? No no no we don't do that here). Oh yeah, alphabets are bad ideas, they don't work because a lot of our words actually are written the same (This problem is reduced with Romaji) and/or have the same pronunciation (Well welcome to the rest of the world where that actually happens and yet nobody learns a huge number of complicated drawings and everybody understands everybody without problems) instead of an alphabet implemented with some creative ideas so it can cover all words let's just use a writing system even our own natives will have trouble with because it's so cryptic, old and complex that half the words and concepts don't make any sense oh and guess what finding a new word (Kanji in this case)? Well, good luck having no idea of how is it pronounced nor the actual meaning. Oh but wait there's more, not enough with learning archaic writings that hold a whole mystery on their own? Oh no problem, you've got the stroke order! Yeah, you can't just remember how the things are, You need to remember in which order they are made! This is why *Japanese is THE worst language, in writing terms*. In being the worst language in general Chinese takes the number 1 spot.

While you write down "あの人は日本人です" I just prefer to write "Ano hito wa nihonjindesu"

@@AlbertoRamirez-cw6dy That's not the language then (: you prefer using Latin alphabet because your own Language use it ! Then i will write English words in arabic alphabet sincz it's my language Yeah no one writes numbers in kanji nor in hiragana but that was an example for people learning the language Yeah the kanji is old and difficult but that's the beauty of the language ! What you are saying is that they should just stick to one alphabet but that will not make the Japanese language any different from other languages and cultures It's writing system has such a unique beauty to it as it combines different alphabets to create sentences I have no problem reading the kanji if i know the word which is pretty much the same with english ! If i know the word Thought but i don't know the word though i would probably prounounce the *oug* sound wrong I don't think it's that hard of a language but people *especially native English speakers* think every different language is bad ! I had to learn a new writing system at the age of 7 *arabic and french are totally different but it wasn't the end of the world* then when i got used to the french letters i had to learn a new language that uses the same letters but pronounces them differently at the age of 11 *English was very hard for me* and then learn a little bit of a language spoken only in the west of my country and has a totally different alphabet (: this is what most Algerian children *i think it's the whole Africa* has to go through so i'm pretty much used to languages being hard, annoying and not making sense (: but languages are something i really like and respect as a cultural aspect of each country so kanji is very beautiful and artistic

@@rimaaouadi590 "Yeah the kanji is old and difficult but that's the beauty of the language !" That was enough, there's no use in talking more.

@@rimaaouadi590 "especially native English speakers think every different language is bad" yeah because English is just too easy and practical, you can learn it in 1-2 years to be decent-near native level or 6 months and you'll be able to survive without a problem, that's how languages should be, aiming to be easy and something everyone can learn, like you and me, we both speak different languages, but English let us communicate without problems because it's so easy, not like our languages that are hard as hell, yours in writing and mine in pronunciation, conjugation, and orthography (I speak Spanish)

Wow thank you!!!

So just give up, dont learn japanese if you are scared of kanjis, it makes you look pathetic

@@franctokyo5981 Can I help you?

難しそうだよ！頑張ってね

If you have access to them I highly suggest the Dr. Mimi Hiragana and Katakana apps out the really helped with reading by making simple pictures out of the characters to help you put them to memory.

Kelly Rowe thanks for the recommendation! I’ll definitely check it out

Learning to recognie radicals like that helps sooooo much.

Following up: I feel like there is some symbolism to each of the days.

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That’s exactly it!!!

That means a lot!! Thank youuuu!!!

@@reinascully ofc! I've been waiting for more language content from u, the way you explain stuff really sticks in my head!

there are amazing conjunctions in some word from countries in different sides of the world but strange things happens tu in Mexican - you tu in other European language also you like fifteen thousand kilometres away languages...same spelling, same meaning

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