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Something to consider yall, you almost certainly came here after the hiragana video. Compare the view count for this vs. that one. You have proven that you are more able and willing to do this than millions of people who couldn't or wouldn't keep going. Keep going
@@dangantutorialtv7667 arent you supposed to study grammar and and some vocab before diving into kanji? tho i guess there is no point in saying this now lol. so how is it going?
@@Orcomi Hey man, no you're totally right on that. When I started watching the Kanji video from 101 Pod I realized without basic vocabulary knowledge it was kinda pointless so I switched to learning vocabulary and then the formation of adjectives and verbs (grammar in general). It's been going pretty good and on the way I learned Kanji as well. Now I'm more into speaking Japanese with other people and stabilising my pronunciation. If you're interested in speaking practices I highly recommend using the apps Hello Talk or Hilokal. Those two has been helping me a lot. Anyways since you're here tell me how your studies has been going in Japanese.
I agree. What's worse is that there's like 4 variations of that fucker in katakana so it's fucking hard to learn. Each variation having such minor differences it hurts
@@trigger1377 Here's a tip! For hiragana し the stroke goes up at the end, right? So does the katakana シ for the last stroke. The hiragana つ the stroke goes down. The katakana ツ also goes down for the last stroke. This should make it a bit easier. ソ and ン just takes practice. You use ン a lot in katakana words so you will remember quickly when writing a lot in katakana. Good luck studying!
Not sure if the way I explain it would help anyone else but I like to think シ has marks laying on top of each other like sheets (shi tsu) so n (so n) is all that's left. シツ ソン Also while it's subtle here a lot of fonts make the two marks either true vertical or true horizontal so they're easier to discern. Otherwise just pay close attention to whether the flat sides of the marks point to the top or bottom of the cradling stroke.
@jacob8311 as I knew, names are written in katakana (if you don't know the kanji). I searched after reading your comment but I got the same answer from reddit and other places... names use katakana even if they're japanese
@@salty6902 I say minna no nihongo is the move, I got the grammar and translation notes book and it's soo good, I'm planning on getting vol 1 and 2 soon but it's good to learn structured vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure and then learn Kanji in context, relative to the subject you're studying during the lesson, but studying Kanji completely by itself through an independent Kanji book definitely is a must that we'll have to get to🤚🏻😭but I'm definitely not looking forward to it ❤️
@@shahdabozeid2521 ohhh okay i see, i'll study minnano nihongo then. Maybe learn kanji characters 10 a day will do right? I mean i will expand my vocab and grammar.
you can probably delay kanji, its not really as important as the other two, you can still get books and stuff to polish up your hiragana/katakana first.
I am starting a journey today where I will learn Japanese for 2 hours every day till i complete the N5 level it took me 2 full months with irregularity and inconsistency to complete Hiragana so I am writing this comment because if anyone likes this comment I will remember to learn Japanese everyday
Idk about y’all but this girl really helped me a lot in learning Hiragana and Katakana. Not just the way she teaches but just seeing her smile and enthusiasm in teaching the basics really made the difference. Thank you!
Guys, don't go straight form hiragana and katakana to kanji. After those learn vocab in hiragana and katakana then choose a number. For example, learn 50 words then convert those words and learn the kanji for them. Then take those kanji for those words and learn the words they appear in. Rinse and repeat.
Comments session is so encouraging, everyone working so hard to memorize the characters, I am half way through Katakana but slowly forgetting characters now
The mnemonics does help! After learning the hiragana, I made a table on my notebook. In one column there is the hiragana, on the second column I write the mnemonics that Risa made on the video. If I want to know how to write the katakana sa, for example, I look it up for the hiragana sa, which I recognize, and I see that the mnemonic is "saddle". It helps me visualize the katakana easier that way, without showing me the charater (it is a little bit harder but makes the learning faster)
So heres my status... Grammar: 2% Sentence structure: 8% Hiragana: 90% Katakana: 80% Kanji: 0% Vocabulary: 2% Fluent speech: 0% I still have a long way to go :/
Wow. Just wow. I'm only like 5 minutes in this hour long video and I'm already thoroughly engaged and learning these faster than in duolingo. You're absolutely amazing. It's a shame I'm at work and on a 15 minute break and can't stick around for the whole thing because I'd absolutely use you as a guide for learning the second Japanese alphabet. And I might go watch the hiragana video too, if there is one, to see if theres any other easier ways to remember things that I didn't think of.
I use this videos to learn the symbols and then just practice in duolingo, I learned hiragana completely in 3 days that way and I don't even waste lots of time, this was time I use for scrolling insta xD
oh wait katakana isn't even close to enough, you need kanji, oh you've covered some of the basic kanji's? Haha now you've got to learn the grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, have fun! :D
When you're learning a language like Spanish or German, you already know the writing system (more or less), thousands of cognates, most of the grammar structures, and can easily make sense of the cultural quirks. And those languages still take many hundreds of hours to learn. With Japanese, you have none of those advantages going in. It is among the most foreign of foreign languages for English speakers. Most of us will never reach anything approaching fluency because we will have become discouraged long before that point (if we were ever really putting in the hours in the first place). Good luck to us all -- we're going to need it.
Guy Withaname ill do my best,i mean this was a discouraging speech you got,but it also would prove that im fine to continue and if i dont lose my will ill do it.. also i have my own reasons to learn it so yeah. Kambare omaera..!
my hiragana before learning katakana: つ : ah, it's tsu. を : wo. easy- my hiragana after learning katakana: つ : *wait is it ko? no it's- uh.. fu? eh no- it looks like tsunami, so tsu?* **sigh** *huh still easy-* を : ... *uhh.. did i even learn this? no right- that's definetly kanji haha~*
I’m happy to say I have mastered all of hiragana and katakana! Thanks to this channel and especially Risa😭✨ I memorise it so easy because of the pictures, related to looking like the letter characters. I think without that I would struggle! It’s funny how I can read hiragana and katakana, yet majority of it I don’t understand yet. Time to learn words now🌸✨
@@chelle7344 I- actually have no idea- I would love to help I just have other things on my mind rn so I lowkey forgot a bunch of what I learned haha..- that’s neurodivergency for ya lol
I learned hiragana with this channel and I tried to use a different method to learn katakana but I swear I cant remember unless I use Risa's method of comparing a kana to a chicken or a telephone pole or a totem pole. That helps me remember so much.
This was really the Fastest, Easiest and principally the most fun way to learn the katakana alphabet. I though that it would be easy, but is sooo many diagrams! But no worries! Risa-san made this easy for us! Arigatoo, Risa-Sensei! Grettings from Brasil!!
Risa Sensei seriously is the best teacher, her tone, and attention to pronunciation is what I loved best about the Hiragana and Katakana courses. Thank you for believing in us! 💖 Onto the next journey in learning Japanese! ありがとう😭
Thank you Risa!! I personally learnt to write both alphabets before I came here and these videos make me feel like I'm putting the finals stones of what I learnt, it's really helpful, ありがとうございます、りさせんせい！
I will never forget these videos! I have now finished the hiragana and katakana videos and I still cannot believe these are completely free for everyone to use!
Learn ALL katakana un 1 hour? True, but what about memorizing them all? well, it took me 3 days, while studying like an obsessed degenerate to finally recall all 46 kanas from memory. Good luck everyone!
I have memorized hiragana. It’s been a week and i have no problem remembering them. Both writing and pronouncing them. Now on to katakana 😆 who’s with me
I'm Brazilian but I'm also fluent in English. That's why I'm able to understand this video. And I must say your videos are the best that I've found on CZcams teaching Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. They have helped me a lot and I feel more confident to improve my Japanese studies. Thank you so much!
E aí, como está seu progresso depois de 1 ano? Comecei agora, aprendi hiragana rapidinho com esse vídeo e vou começar katakana, e aí quando aprender os dois poderei partir pra aprender a língua.
Timestamps of all of the columns: 2:01 - Vowels 8:06 - K Column 13:45 - S Column 20:38 - T Column 28:22 - N Column 32:32 - H Column 39:48 - M Column 44:16 - R Column 48:37 - Y Column & More diagraphs 53:12 - W Column & N
52:45 lmao, she had the biggest smile on her face when she said, "only three left to go!" She be like, "I finally get to go home after recording this shit all day."
Thank you so much to Risa sensei, now I can read Japanese a little bit. I mastered hiragana and katakana solely from this channel. The tricks that they give to memorise and differentiate similar looking characters is great 😊☺️😁😄💗💖
I'm still amazed by how the automatic subtitles feature has improved, not to be offensive or anything but it literally has every word right even when spoken with Japanese accent
Risa said this was the most fun way to learn kana. At first I was skeptical, but she was right indeed! Great lectures, I learned a lot! I mastered hiragana in just 3 days and I am on my mission to master katakana now!
the one I started to remember easily whist in Japan was 'RA'. it was part of the word 'Ramen' on many restaurants and I began to think of it as a ramen bowl with a chop stick above it :D
I used to learn Chinese, then Kanji, and this confused me: カ and 力 タ and 夕 (it's a same when i write it) ム and 厶 オ and 才 エ and 工 ニ and 二 ロ and 口 イ and 亻 ネ and 礻 ー and 一 (choōnpu and ichi) ミ and 彡 (this were inverted but still confused me)
I learned to fully memorize Hiragana in 10 hours, now i finished the same with Katakana in another 6 and a half hours of pure learning time! Such a helpful video, thank you :)
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is kosu = direction?
@@nazrin2253 it's the stop in uh - oh, the "-" part is the glottal stop
the use of small tsu and choonpu is same so how to know that when to use which? by the way your video is really very helpful
@@autumn99312 I'm 9 months late but tsu and choonpu is used only in their respective alphabets
@@minxy3600 Thanks for helping me . Please tell me what are there respective alphabets?
Who else finished almost/fully memorizing hiragana and is here to start katakana! Proud of us all
daisy juarez I'm done with hirigana so next is katakana!
boku wa!!
daisy juarez watashi mo ( me too )
I don't know why Katakana feels so much more difficult than Hiragana!
daisy juarez yeaaghg :D Hiragana club
When we all master Japanese in the future we will never forget Risa sensei okay????
Yesssssss
Of course 😊
HAI ii desu ne
Ofc😭😭😭
you meant sensei kana kona right
facts: Risa-san is the kinder version of duolingo bird
@Warm Wind I can confirm
Fro mo sama
@Warm Wind Probably, but Duolingo is still an easy way to getting into learning.
Bruh
True
Something to consider yall, you almost certainly came here after the hiragana video. Compare the view count for this vs. that one. You have proven that you are more able and willing to do this than millions of people who couldn't or wouldn't keep going. Keep going
Thanks man👍
This was literally what I saw too and I'm grateful I haven't give up. Now starting with Kanji. See yall there
@@dangantutorialtv7667 Hi, how's it going? W/ Kanji.
@@dangantutorialtv7667 arent you supposed to study grammar and and some vocab before diving into kanji? tho i guess there is no point in saying this now lol. so how is it going?
@@Orcomi Hey man, no you're totally right on that. When I started watching the Kanji video from 101 Pod I realized without basic vocabulary knowledge it was kinda pointless so I switched to learning vocabulary and then the formation of adjectives and verbs (grammar in general). It's been going pretty good and on the way I learned Kanji as well. Now I'm more into speaking Japanese with other people and stabilising my pronunciation. If you're interested in speaking practices I highly recommend using the apps Hello Talk or Hilokal. Those two has been helping me a lot.
Anyways since you're here tell me how your studies has been going in Japanese.
Me: having a hard time NOT confusing hiragana and katakana
へ: I'm gonna save this man's whole career
HE ro
@@johnythepvpgod1470 ha
@@johnythepvpgod1470 noice
Hahahahahhahaha....very good comment
Johny The Pvp God Ore o tataeru koe ya kassai nante hoshiku wa nai sa HERO! Dakara hitoshirezu aku to tatakau
Me who conquered kana: "finally, I've completed my studies."
Japanese writing: "there is another"
damn bro you mastering peoples brothers 👀
@@benflood1077 almost forgot this. Now that you said that, I think it would have been better if I used "conquered" instead XD
@@Saiko0001 😂
And then kanji slaps up your face
@@mahlong431 It bodyslams you tbh
After finishing Katakana:
*Kanji is waving at you
Kanji: NOW I GET A HIT AT YOU! *devil face appears 😈*
Princess Penny26 kanji is going to 食 you alive.
That was me flexing the only kanji I know btw
アニメKaikyou! Yamero!!!!🥺😭😭
New Challenger Approaching! Hiragana
I'm scared...
Me: *Learns katakana*
Kanji: I've been waiting for you, mortal.
The easiest way to learn kanji is to learn the numbers and going up from there :)
Anyone else just finished Hiragana on lockdown?
Edit: Well done all of you! Keep on going, you can do this!
right here m8
Me! :)
I am almost done on katakana
Hahaha right here. Done with the two just getting a hard time reading
I finished before, but lockdown gives me so much more time fo this!
Me after learning the entire hiragana and then Katakana: Oi, Brain are you going to remember this?
Brain: *の*
Stolennnn
I saw this comment on Song for learning japanese xD
Not wrong
im so proud that i got thattt ahaha
いいえ
Sorry, but there is no way I can think of シ as anything but a smiley
I agree. What's worse is that there's like 4 variations of that fucker in katakana so it's fucking hard to learn. Each variation having such minor differences it hurts
@@trigger1377 Here's a tip! For hiragana し the stroke goes up at the end, right? So does the katakana シ for the last stroke. The hiragana つ the stroke goes down. The katakana ツ also goes down for the last stroke. This should make it a bit easier. ソ and ン just takes practice. You use ン a lot in katakana words so you will remember quickly when writing a lot in katakana. Good luck studying!
@@aidannguyen7386 thanks!
Same here. Least i imagine it to be ice cream ?
Not sure if the way I explain it would help anyone else but I like to think シ has marks laying on top of each other like sheets (shi tsu) so n (so n) is all that's left.
シツ ソン
Also while it's subtle here a lot of fonts make the two marks either true vertical or true horizontal so they're easier to discern. Otherwise just pay close attention to whether the flat sides of the marks point to the top or bottom of the cradling stroke.
リサせんせい、ありがとうございます。i passed my hira and kana exams because of you!
OMG I REALLY READ THAT AND UNDERSTOOD
ts hard bro ngl, im on starter lvl btw
@@ItzKamythedevilme too :3
It should be りさnot リサ since japanese names is written i hiragana. But nice work (:
@jacob8311 as I knew, names are written in katakana (if you don't know the kanji). I searched after reading your comment but I got the same answer from reddit and other places... names use katakana even if they're japanese
Quiz Time:
5:44 : Vowel-Column
11:00 : K-Column
17:40 : S-Column
25:40 : T-Column
30:04 : N-Column
36:53 : H-Column
41:39 : M-Column
45:50 : R-Column
50:45 : Y-Column
55:20 : W-Column + ン
Learning:
0:12 : Introduction
2:01 : Vowel-Column
8:05 : K-Column
13:45 : S-Column
20:36 : T-Column
28:22 : N-Column
32:31 : H-Column
39:47 : M-Column
44:15 : R-Column
48:36 : Y-Column
53:09 : W-Column + ン
Hope this helps
ありがとうございます(≧▽≦)
man you need to be upvoted
why are you so low!
For people who are lazy
Hi guys after learning hiragana and katakana, next is kanji? Or minnano nihongo? I dont have any clue so pls help meeeee
me:yes finally! I mastered all hiragana and katakana and now I can read everything in ja-
kanji: *allow me to introduce myself*
literally me lol, but people say it's worth doing it in the long run
This is me right now and i'm out of patience
After learning hiragana and katakana, next is kanji or minnano nihongo?
@@salty6902 I say minna no nihongo is the move, I got the grammar and translation notes book and it's soo good, I'm planning on getting vol 1 and 2 soon but it's good to learn structured vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure and then learn Kanji in context, relative to the subject you're studying during the lesson, but studying Kanji completely by itself through an independent Kanji book definitely is a must that we'll have to get to🤚🏻😭but I'm definitely not looking forward to it ❤️
@@shahdabozeid2521 ohhh okay i see, i'll study minnano nihongo then. Maybe learn kanji characters 10 a day will do right? I mean i will expand my vocab and grammar.
That feeling when you finished hiragana and katakana lessons xD
but then you need to study Kanji too
you can probably delay kanji, its not really as important as the other two, you can still get books and stuff to polish up your hiragana/katakana first.
Insta death
I need kanji for JLPT test...
God help me :"
Ashley AMV I hear it’s best to do it in conjunction with vocabulary
@@nyanard what is jlpt test
I am starting a journey today where I will learn Japanese for 2 hours every day till i complete the N5 level it took me 2 full months with irregularity and inconsistency to complete Hiragana so I am writing this comment because if anyone likes this comment I will remember to learn Japanese everyday
time to learn brother man
You can do it ❤
@@ozedits9590 I actually completed my Hiragana and Katakana lessons and now I have begin with The kanji wish me luck🤞
@@InterviewRwanda thanks man I finally completed this lesson starting with kanji soon
@@Barnstormer777 That was fast dang
* 2:02
K 8:06
S 13:45
T 20:36
N 28:22
H 32:32
M 39:48
R 44:16
Y 48:37
W,n 53:12
God-send
Arigato!
HOLY MAN
ありがとう!
thanks
Idk about y’all but this girl really helped me a lot in learning Hiragana and Katakana. Not just the way she teaches but just seeing her smile and enthusiasm in teaching the basics really made the difference. Thank you!
Sem I thought I was the only one!!!
This girl? Her name is Risa, and she's an adult woman/female, not a girl.
@@chiaraippoliti *facepalm
@@chiaraippoliti chill out. you could of worded that more nicely.
Can u say why we use katakana when hiragana letters are there and pronounciation are same? I dont quite understand that...
"let's review what you've learnt!"
オ - ah okay easy, o
ぞ - **brain freeze**
Hahahahaha I died there too
Same lol
ぞ "Zo"
Caught me off guard
@@basakakkurt1679 same lol
*Learning* =
____(Vowel)____
2:01 : a - ア
2:18 : i - イ
2:33 : u - ウ / 2:48 : v (b) - ヴ
3:04 : e -エ
3:19 : o - オ
5:23 : review!
____(K, G)____
8:07 : ka, ga - カ、ガ
8:46 : ki, gi - キ 、ギ
9:19 : ku, gu - ク、グ
9:48 : ke, ge - ケ、ゲ
10:17 : ko, go - コ、ゴ
10:45 : review
____(S, Z)____
13:46 : sa, za - サ、ザ
14:34 : shi, ji - シ、ジ
15:49 : su, zu - ス、ズ
16:14 : se, ze - セ、ぜ
16:48 : so, zo - ソ、ゾ
17:18 : review
____(T, D)____
20:37 : ta, da - タ、ダ
21:09 : chi, ji - チ、ヂ
22:10 : tsu, zu - ツ、ヅ
23:31 : te, de - テ、デ
24:20 : to, do - ト、ド
25:07 : review
____(N)____
28:23 : na - ナ
28:40 : ni - ニ
29:00 : nu - ヌ
29:13 : ne - ネ
29:28 : no - ノ
29:47 : review
____(H, B, P)____
32:32 : ha, ba, pa - ハ、バ、パ
33:16 : hi, bi, pi - ヒ、ビ、ピ
22:53 : fu, bu, pu - フ、ブ、プ
35:07 : he, be, pe - へ、べ、ぺ
35:43 : ho, bo, po - ホ、ボ、ポ
36:20 : review
____(M)____
39:49 : m - マ
40:04 : mi - ミ
40:19 : mu - ム
40:45 : me - メ
41:00 : mo - モ
41:22 : review
____(R)____
44:17 : ra - ラ
44:33 : ri - リ
44:49 : ru - ル
54:05 : re - レ
45:19 : ro - ロ
45:34 : review
____(Y)____
48:37 : ya - ヤ
48:56 : yu - ユ
49:11 : yo - ヨ
50:27 : review
____(W, nn)____
53:12 : wa - ワ
53:39 : wo - ヲ (o)
54:00 : nn - ン
55:04 : review
*Extra information* =
3:40 : Long vowels sounds
4:09 : Digraphs in katakana
49:27 : More Digraphs
54:36 : Pronouncing the katakana ン
*Quiz time!* =
5:51 : Vowel-Column
11:07 : K-Column
17:45 : S-Column
25:40 : T-Column
30:03 : N-Column
36:52 : H-Column
41:38 : M-Column
45:50 : R-Column
50:45 : Y-Column
55:20 : W-Column & nn
*REVIEW* : 57:42
THANK YOU! THANK YOU BROTHER 😣😣
アリガトウゴザイマシタ
doing god's work
I'll give u a standing ovation for writing this entire thing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤯
Nice one brother ☺️
"Mastered" is a bit much but thank you
have u mastered it? or did u quit? its been a year or so
Its been 3 any updates
Guys, don't go straight form hiragana and katakana to kanji. After those learn vocab in hiragana and katakana then choose a number. For example, learn 50 words then convert those words and learn the kanji for them. Then take those kanji for those words and learn the words they appear in. Rinse and repeat.
Grolog-NordKiller
Actually We Need To Learn Sentence Particles First So We Can Construct Our Own Sentences In Japanese
Awesome Nya) true.
Grolog-NordKiller I like this way
Grolog-NordKiller thank you for your advice I just have finished memorising hiraganas and katakanas
welp I'm a Chinese speaker so going straight to katakana is fine for me since I know the meaning lol, just need to learn how to pronunciate ut
Me: Finally master hiragana and katakana.
Me see’s kanji: 👁 👁
💧👃💧
👄
Best of all. Assuming you have been learning kanji this entire time I suppose you do know a alot but still best of luck learning the whole lot of them
@@gapedandamazed6988 yeah ,Japanese is pretty tough. From my estimates it takes about 2-3 years of everyday learning to be atleast somewhat fluent
@@diogenesofsinope5358 my cousin has been learning for like 3 months and he’s already really good at hiragana and katakana
Just use dictionary bro
@@user-kp9of7re9q one does not simply use a dictionary when looking up kanji
みんなさんこんにちは！！
ぼくはエンゾです。私はフィリピン人です。日本語勉強してます！
ありがとうリサさん！！
Arigato
I just got to know that there is no みんなさん it's みなさん
"You've learn all the 46 hiragana characters from the previous lesson"
I'm not so sure, Risa...
I'm not so sure...
Did you master them yet?
its been 4 months, the man is probably learning kanji
@@cubingnub5530 probably. Seems like he’s learning python now
@@glorbnorgaborg37yearsago10 lmao
I recommend mastering or atleast memorize all hiragana before you dive into katakana cause your brain might be confused if you do it concurrently
"I'll give you a word, and give to time to say them!"
Me: **goes through all my notes to find the correct answer**
Why can i relate to this on a personal level 😂
Mood
Danni Blue fym mood
@@l2m773 It be like that.
Me always the same
To remember "ミ" we can learn it like "ME" Where the strokes of "E" represent "ミ".
I hope it helps :)
Yes thank you😃
@@merha.as_ np ;)
clever!! never think of that before
@@khanhphmm thanks 😊
Thank you!
Comments session is so encouraging, everyone working so hard to memorize the characters, I am half way through Katakana but slowly forgetting characters now
Write them and also take quizzes from youtube videos at regular intervals or from tofugu quiz website:)
The mnemonics does help! After learning the hiragana, I made a table on my notebook. In one column there is the hiragana, on the second column I write the mnemonics that Risa made on the video. If I want to know how to write the katakana sa, for example, I look it up for the hiragana sa, which I recognize, and I see that the mnemonic is "saddle". It helps me visualize the katakana easier that way, without showing me the charater (it is a little bit harder but makes the learning faster)
Ok i learnt both Hiragana and Katakana, I'm moving to Japan now
That's how it works right
いいえ、残念ながらまだ漢字はありません
@@TheKCyrstal i only understood いいえ lmao
Sophie Barker Uhm no, its over 100.000 but most of them are not commonly used, so learning 5k should be enough to read most stuff
@@greyishboy ah Lol!
Still have the kanji
53:25
-Katakana ク and ワ looks similar, doesn't it?
ウ:Am I a joke to you?
ク and タ: ...
I don't want to scare you guys but...
フワクウヌマスタケラテナ
@@guscfer157 japanese katakana in a nutshell
*makes 2 katakana characters*
"There, all done!"
by the way, i forgot ヲ
So heres my status...
Grammar: 2%
Sentence structure: 8%
Hiragana: 90%
Katakana: 80%
Kanji: 0%
Vocabulary: 2%
Fluent speech: 0%
I still have a long way to go :/
Don't worry! We are on the same road.
S Maleka
あなたはすばらしい😊
@@pianotakemoto73 Thank God someone said something different from ありがとう。or すごい
How long did it take to memorise it all?
iva 6年間位です。
Wow. Just wow. I'm only like 5 minutes in this hour long video and I'm already thoroughly engaged and learning these faster than in duolingo. You're absolutely amazing. It's a shame I'm at work and on a 15 minute break and can't stick around for the whole thing because I'd absolutely use you as a guide for learning the second Japanese alphabet. And I might go watch the hiragana video too, if there is one, to see if theres any other easier ways to remember things that I didn't think of.
Anything is faster than Duolingo tbh
in my case, i use both duolingo and Risaれんれい 's videos. i learn incrediblt fast that way
There is a hiragana video
@@rosesinmyhead did you mean RIsa 先生（せんせい）？
I use this videos to learn the symbols and then just practice in duolingo, I learned hiragana completely in 3 days that way and I don't even waste lots of time, this was time I use for scrolling insta xD
I find Katakana harder to learn than Hiragana
ye
いいえ
Agreed idk why tho
For me writing hiragana is hard because of the loops and curves in katakana much easier because its just like lines
はい！
Just when I finished Hiragana!
ありがとうございます,りさせんせい ~♡
cazadorcazado08 What's does that last word mean? :o
Bloo Melon Arigatou gozaimasu, Risa sensei. Sensei means teacher.
Tiluen_ Ah ok I see it now. arigatou gozaimasu :D
shouldn't sensai be " せんさい " maybe?
Kingshuk Paul キングスク No. せんせい(先生) is teacher.
I am so amazing i finished hiragana i can read japanese.....oh wait.......
oh wait katakana isn't even close to enough, you need kanji, oh you've covered some of the basic kanji's? Haha now you've got to learn the grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, have fun! :D
Mythical nice thing about Japanese though is that it’s all just memorization for the most part and it’s laid out for you
When you're learning a language like Spanish or German, you already know the writing system (more or less), thousands of cognates, most of the grammar structures, and can easily make sense of the cultural quirks. And those languages still take many hundreds of hours to learn. With Japanese, you have none of those advantages going in. It is among the most foreign of foreign languages for English speakers. Most of us will never reach anything approaching fluency because we will have become discouraged long before that point (if we were ever really putting in the hours in the first place). Good luck to us all -- we're going to need it.
@Guy Withaname
nice speech
but i think anime will encourage then to learn japanese cuz well
*weaboos*
Guy Withaname ill do my best,i mean this was a discouraging speech you got,but it also would prove that im fine to continue and if i dont lose my will ill do it.. also i have my own reasons to learn it so yeah. Kambare omaera..!
I seriously cannot stop seeing ツand シ as smiley faces it cannot be just me
same here)
my hiragana before learning katakana:
つ : ah, it's tsu.
を : wo. easy-
my hiragana after learning katakana:
つ : *wait is it ko? no it's- uh.. fu? eh no- it looks like tsunami, so tsu?*
**sigh** *huh still easy-*
を : ... *uhh.. did i even learn this? no right- that's definetly kanji haha~*
😂😂😂
Saaaame. Hahah
Same...hahah
True same here
the good ol' "If IDK what it is, its most likely kanji"
No one:
Me: Learning Japanese at 2 in the night because I don't know what to do with my life
I mean, you're doing something productive! Learning a new language is an amazing experience that never ends...
@@awesomemilkshake6612 Thanks!
@@MP-cv6if are you learning japanese through English but English isn't your first language?
@@sarahkraus8247 wait how do you know
@@MP-cv6if magic. You said 2 in the night which sounds weird, so I figured you weren't a native. 2/3 of English speakers aren't natives so
3:33 オ The way she presented it, I will never forget this character!
Ikr😂😂😂
I’m happy to say I have mastered all of hiragana and katakana!
Thanks to this channel and especially Risa😭✨
I memorise it so easy because of the pictures, related to looking like the letter characters.
I think without that I would struggle!
It’s funny how I can read hiragana and katakana, yet majority of it I don’t understand yet.
Time to learn words now🌸✨
**is proud I finally mastered Hiragana in 3 days**
**looks down**
Learn ALL Katakana in 1 hour!
";-; oh ya... forgot about that one"
I’m proud of you! I’m just now learning katakana after a month of hiragana- I hope you’re doing good
With 3 days of practice and memorization, I can read them easily but when I try to write them my mind forgets it.
@@kingseekerbackup3085 same hahaha
@@probnotking Quick question, 6:21 why is this part spelled “yae” isn’t it supposed to be “ie” as in no because there’s an I and then an e?
@@chelle7344 I- actually have no idea- I would love to help I just have other things on my mind rn so I lowkey forgot a bunch of what I learned haha..- that’s neurodivergency for ya lol
Me learning hiragana: that’s easy!
Me learning katakana: that’s easy!
*kanji waving at me*
me: *nervous sweating*
hey uh can you help me learn hiragana
@@b6nez367 I used anki for hiragana and kana pro website for practice, worked for me
also tofugu learn hiragana, i didn't really use the mnuemonics, just the practice sheets at the end of every set.
@@b6nez367 Watch the hiragana video worked for me
Same
"You've now mastered..." No... No I haven't...
Fun fact : this channel is 14 years old
I also found it today i am amazed 😳
now all i need is kanji and expand my vocabulary
don't forget to learn the grammar
Grammar ,sentence structure etc.
I learned hiragana with this channel and I tried to use a different method to learn katakana but I swear I cant remember unless I use Risa's method of comparing a kana to a chicken or a telephone pole or a totem pole. That helps me remember so much.
This was really the Fastest, Easiest and principally the most fun way to learn the katakana alphabet.
I though that it would be easy, but is sooo many diagrams!
But no worries! Risa-san made this easy for us!
Arigatoo, Risa-Sensei!
Grettings from Brasil!!
Diógenes Gomes isso aeee, ありかとう!
ガ
Your thank you = ありがとう, りさ-せんせい
MAISKOLBEN
@@leehiro4840 da hast du recht, Maiskolben ist richtig :)
Risa Sensei seriously is the best teacher, her tone, and attention to pronunciation is what I loved best about the Hiragana and Katakana courses. Thank you for believing in us! 💖 Onto the next journey in learning Japanese! ありがとう😭
Ok Gionanaso
Congratulation Only 2.6M made it to this video out of 9.6M😂😂
we here baby!!
their loss. heehee
Yeah. I have to watch this video many times to learn katakana
Congrats!! Everyone 😂😂
HAHAHHAHA
"ok now we will learn the column with K"
me: that is all I needed ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
XD
@@SATANFUCKSMYSOUL I was so disappointed when I learned that this symbol just meant "GO". I always though it was the Kanji for "menacing".
@@lajungleqc7487 That must suck the only kanji i know is 'sun' XD So theres that
ゴ = Go
:v More lile Go away
Gogogogo
"ok, let's wrap up this lesson by recapping what you've learned."
Wait, what have I learned?
Good jov. Yokudekimashita
Wait what’s the alphabet for ho again
Wappy its ホ
:)
I’m done with Hiragana last week, ready for Katakana !! ❤️
same here, just started katakana today after learning hiragana characters last week
3:33 when she said OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i really felt that
anyways, katakana is difficult
I've always wondered what the smiley face meant xD, it wasn't in hiragana so I was excited for this.
Same because some person use it in between their name as a symbol of their team lol
Ah.Yes.I became interested in learning Japanese after seeing the smiley face.
me to hiragana: yeah sure pretty easy
me to kanji: sure i can study it later
me to katakana: *what the heck?*
its easy, study 2 columns each day
@@yazed123321 my brain can only handle one a day
@@njr-hp9qr try taking a break between them, and study them early in the day so you can practice writing them late before sleep
@@yazed123321 i learnt them all in a day and, dunno how, i can remember them.
@@stellacavazzoni
I would advise taking your time to learn stuff :)
Thank you Risa!! I personally learnt to write both alphabets before I came here and these videos make me feel like I'm putting the finals stones of what I learnt, it's really helpful, ありがとうございます、りさせんせい！
Hiragana and katakana: achieved
Kanji: I am gonna end this man's whole carrer
So have you memorized kanji now?
The video: “ヌ”
Me: it looks like a noose
Risa: “Try to think of it as a noose.”
Me: *holy fucking shit*
OMG IT DOES LOOK LIKE A NOSE WITH A HAIR XDDDDD
The noose one is too funny though hahaha!
I screamed no when she said that
I easily memorized hiragana but katakana OMG!!!
Sameeee
idk but i find katakana easier lol
Alexis Sky no, youre LAZY
@@musicfan6669 hahaha! Ive already finished my katana so we are now in vocabulary ☺☺☺
Alexis Sky good for you, im studying grammar, words, kanji in the same time and im finishing katakana😊
I will never forget these videos! I have now finished the hiragana and katakana videos and I still cannot believe these are completely free for everyone to use!
Me : Okay, Today I Finished My Studies
Dad : What Did You Remembered By Watching This Video?
Me : シ
Dad : ...
dad! ive memorized this emoticon and it has a japanese letter in it! dad! im so smart! its this
\_(シ)_/
dad : i did not raise you like this
@@aloha_lax Lol
Kamiyama Kazuma heyyy can i get a shoutout on ur vids i subscribed
Kamiyama Kazuma its 130 subs now on
@holyshit69 doubt it lol
Risa is the teacher that every student in class likes!
ソース it means SAUCE. or sometimes SOURCE. I'm dead.
T5March why?
CHETAN AGARWAL issa meme my boi
lmao so this is where it comes from
So... how do you say a sauce's source ?
Bon Soir ソースのソース
I feel more and more guilty after every lesson listening to her congratulate me for mastering the characters
1:00:50 *are we really just going to ignore that*
So weird hhh
Exceed in dreaming, Let’s go! の
I read this comment and carried on watching for 10 minutes until it came to this time.. and then I laughed for 2 straight minutes. Killed me
ah but then i saw 1:01:10 and hngggggggg....
It's an easter egg for legends
Quiz time
A: 5:51
K: 11:07
S: 17:46
T: 25:40
N: 30:04
H: 36:53
M: 41:38
Y: 50:45
R: 45:50
W and n/m/ng: 55:21
M: 41:38
;)
Learn ALL katakana un 1 hour? True, but what about memorizing them all? well, it took me 3 days, while studying like an obsessed degenerate to finally recall all 46 kanas from memory.
Good luck everyone!
Now try 2136 common used kanji, lol! Good luck!
Adalberto J. 3 days of 6 hours each.. so a total of 18 hours total to memorize all?
it depends on you, thankfully it only took me the span of this video :) just try to remember the images she provides, it really helps!
damn i've just finished the hiragana
it only took me one day of studying to learn hiragana
Quiz Time:
5:44 : Vowel-Column
11:00 : K-Column
17:40 : S-Column
25:40 : T-Column
30:04 : N-Column
36:53 : H-Column
41:39 : M-Column
45:50 : R-Column
50:45 : Y-Column
55:20 : W-Column + ン
Learning:
0:12 : Introduction
2:01 : Vowel-Column
8:05 : K-Column
13:45 : S-Column
20:36 : T-Column
28:22 : N-Column
32:31 : H-Column
39:47 : M-Column
44:15 : R-Column
48:36 : Y-Column
53:09 : W-Column + ン
シ means "shmile"
ミ What sound makes cat when he scratches everything? MEow
i love this channel so much i learnt all the hiragana and have learnt almost all katakana ありがとう
rtrenn hows it now?
Now I can read Hiragana AND Katakana! Arigatou gozaimasu Risa sensei💜🌷🌹😙
I have memorized hiragana. It’s been a week and i have no problem remembering them. Both writing and pronouncing them. Now on to katakana 😆 who’s with me
I'm Brazilian but I'm also fluent in English. That's why I'm able to understand this video. And I must say your videos are the best that I've found on CZcams teaching Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. They have helped me a lot and I feel more confident to improve my Japanese studies. Thank you so much!
Caraca mais um mano, eu falo espanhol tbm além de português e inglês
E aí, como está seu progresso depois de 1 ano? Comecei agora, aprendi hiragana rapidinho com esse vídeo e vou começar katakana, e aí quando aprender os dois poderei partir pra aprender a língua.
@@astropgneae como tá seu progresso depois de 2 meses?
Too much information! My brain has been deep fried xD
I feel like you are a JoJo fan?
@@Historyboi-vn7gd yare yare daze
@@johnythepvpgod1470 YES YES YES YES
Timestamps of all of the columns:
2:01 - Vowels
8:06 - K Column
13:45 - S Column
20:38 - T Column
28:22 - N Column
32:32 - H Column
39:48 - M Column
44:16 - R Column
48:37 - Y Column & More diagraphs
53:12 - W Column & N
What can I say exept Arigato
Arigatou gozaimasu
ありがと
Anyone who's learning the Katakana right now? Let's do our best!😭❤
meeeee😭😭😭
its harder than hiragana pleaseeee😭💀
@@minimalimakata They're both the same for me 😭 haha, they are easy for me. Kanji is really the problem 😭🌝
@@aesmidnight9882 HAHAHAHA IKR
28:32 That is a surprisingly perfect pronunciation of "Knife"
52:45 lmao, she had the biggest smile on her face when she said, "only three left to go!"
She be like, "I finally get to go home after recording this shit all day."
when you finish learning hiragana and katakana and at the end you're like "wtf is risa-sensei doing"
What you mean?
@@FuatKarakahya Kanji
Thank you so much to Risa sensei, now I can read Japanese a little bit. I mastered hiragana and katakana solely from this channel. The tricks that they give to memorise and differentiate similar looking characters is great 😊☺️😁😄💗💖
im so proud of you bois, who made it so far :D im kinda proud of myself
I'm still amazed by how the automatic subtitles feature has improved, not to be offensive or anything but it literally has every word right even when spoken with Japanese accent
yeah me too..I couldn't understand a word she said in the beginning of the video and tried to activate thes subs and it helped me a lot
Users can edit them.
"カカオ means Cacao" sounded so exactly alike I couldn't help but laugh
Caleb83 cacao from gochuumon lmao
Thank you so much I've been wanting to learn Japanese for a long time but didn't know where or how to start!:)
Looking at the characters and pretending they are something actually helps. Thx Risa !!!!!
Risa: learn kanji!
Me: の
That’s basically just learning the alphabet then just not learning any of the words so what’s the point
@@Chabascus it's overwhelming ngl
😂
ノ
or いいえ is also no
りさちゃn、your jokes are so funny. It’s part of how i learn japanese. Thank you beautiful lady!
ダリル you can use ん for n sounds
りさちゃん*
may i ask..what character in the first character? __ sachyan
@@starlightmitsurugi8419Hiragana Ri
@@lansea68 Thank you for your comment..🥰
Risa said this was the most fun way to learn kana. At first I was skeptical, but she was right indeed! Great lectures, I learned a lot! I mastered hiragana in just 3 days and I am on my mission to master katakana now!
the one I started to remember easily whist in Japan was 'RA'. it was part of the word 'Ramen' on many restaurants and I began to think of it as a ramen bowl with a chop stick above it :D
I like that "OOooo!" opera sound effect オオオ
I used to learn Chinese, then Kanji, and this confused me:
カ and 力
タ and 夕 (it's a same when i write it)
ム and 厶
オ and 才
エ and 工
ニ and 二
ロ and 口
イ and 亻
ネ and 礻
ー and 一 (choōnpu and ichi)
ミ and 彡 (this were inverted but still confused me)
Kanji is basically just borrowed chinese but little diffirent. And some letters of hiragana and katakana are like mianzi
@@user-kx5es4kr4x Not borrowed, they used Chinese characters in Japanese...
A great way to remember “i” is thinking of a Y when it’s a vowel; when y is a vowel like in “sky” it has the i sound. Hope this helped 😊
them- hiragana is nothing alike with katakana except a few
them 10 mins later-memorize hiragana to help you memorize.
the teacher is so cute that it gives me motivation to learn more :)
Risa: "Try to think of ヌ as a noose."
Me in 2020: 😶
for me:
5:51 : Vowel-Column
11:07 : K-Column
17:45 : S-Column
25:40 : T-Column
30:03 : N-Column
36:52 : H-Column
41:38 : M-Column
45:50 : R-Column
50:45 : Y-Column
55:20 : W-Column & nn
57:42 : REVIEW
the shi reminds me of a smiling face, i know i'm not the only one
Thats where this guy comes from ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When I read "Smiling face" That reminds me THE SMILING TITAN FROM AOT
That's a tsu tho (well it's true they're similar)
shi reminds me of two things...Belphegor's laugh from khr and the face...then tsuna...is ..tsunayoshi jfddjkagdNOPENOPENppemfkenope
i heard japanese people cant see the face :0
The way she say opera singer!
I learned to fully memorize Hiragana in 10 hours, now i finished the same with Katakana in another 6 and a half hours of pure learning time! Such a helpful video, thank you :)