Learn Kanji in 45 minutes - How to Read and Write Japanese

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Learning kanji can either be the most frustrating work of your life, or it can be a fascinating and fun journey! The key to making kanji an enjoyable experience is to learn the meaning and origin of the kanji radicals that build all kanji characters.

This video will introduce you to the most essential radicals that can be found in over 1,500 kanji characters! Just imagine how many doors in your learning process a mere 45 minutes can open for you!

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[souptime]

me: * has mastered hiragana and katakana *
kanji: you really thought you did something there

[hotepanthony]

Learning Japanese be like:
"This radical means dragon. And The kanji next to it means shoe. Together, they mean pancake."

[Daniel-zhsi]

Learning Japanese writing is like school:
Romaji: Your best friend. 
Hiragana: Your crush.
Katakana: The foreign student. 
Kanji: A fkn dragon with giant cannons attacking the school.

[tflyfoster]

10:34 Recap of everything so far

Kanji
• Kanji is the incorporation of Chinese characters into Japanese writing
• They are characters that represent an idea and contain meaning
• Radicals are the building blocks of Kanji
• Kanji can have multiple readings "On" and "Kun"
• The "On" reading mimics the original sound made in Chinese
• The "Kun" reading is a revised reading used to integrate the Japanese alphabet
• The only way to determine which reading to use is mainly VIA the context
• The "On" reading is usually used when multiple Kanji are grouped together in a compound word
• The "Kun" reading is usually used when it's a standalone Kanji

Radicals
• Each Kanji character has at least one of them
• Sometimes they can be a Kanji on its own
• Several Radicals put together can be another Kanji
• When placed together they can be in 4 different positions known as Left, Crown, Right, Foot



Common Kanji Radicals & Characters
• Person/Human 人 or 休
• Called にんべん written with 2 strokes
• This character is commonly found in the left position
• Less commonly found in the Crown position

"On" Readings are on the left and "Kun" on the right
• Alone its readings are ニソ and ひと
• Paired with Tree it's キユウ and やす meaning to rest 休
• Paired with Trunk it's タイ and かやだ meaning body 体
• Paired with Word it's シソ meaning Trust 信

[nevie]

Whoever made this language has good imagination, not gonna lie..

[neko_aple]

12:53 don't fool me. Human legs combined with eyes can only mean one thing: Mike from Monster Inc.

[cnnttdj]

I'm Japanese.
When you learn Kanji, I think the most important thing is imagination.
(I'm sorry if I'm unnatural English because I use a translator!)

❌ Person＋Tree＝rest

✔︎ Imagine the scenery of a person stands still beside a large tree in the primitive age. Calm time flows and he/she become sleepy and lie down.
=rest

[adr]

Me happily coming to learn kanji after finishing hiragana and katakana.... also me regretting the day i promised myself to learn Japanese 🥺 it will take me 1000 lives to learn Kanji! hats off to the people of Japan😭

[petermendez]

"Human + Word"
Me: "Oh I got it, it's language!"
"It's trust!"
Me: How the f-

[lapin]

I’d like to wish every person trying to learn kanji including myself the best of luck, I sincerely mean that..

[Wyrmixx]

*finally understands all hiragana and katakana and has the courage to learn more*



Kanji:
*I'm about to end this man's whole career*

[rayhuakai]

I am Japanese. When I was in elementary school, we had homework to write Kanji characters every day.
When typing on the keyboard, you may not know which kanji is the correct one to use.
But nowadays, if you use voice recognition, it will automatically display the correct kanji.
The trick is to speak in sentences.
This sentence was also entered using Japanese speech recognition, and was translated using DeepL.





こつは、文章で話すことです。

[eatsleepdie]

46 symbols (Hiragana) = learn in 1 hour
46 symbols (Katakana) = learn in 1 hour
over 2k symbols (Kanji) = learn in 45 minutes

[gp]

We learn kanji in elementary school for 6 years with a sponge brain, still sometimes we search the characters that we don't know or forget how to write or read. There is even a quiz show that guesses how to read kanji.

I want to say to all you guys who study japanese just keep it up, but I think it's best to learn step by step while having fun.

I want to talk to you guys in Japanese someday!

Greetings from Japan!!

[solidfox]

Me 3 minutes into the video: *internal screaming*
Me 15 minutes into the video: *external screaming*

[NissanSkylineVR]

For anyone learning Kanji right now or Chinese characters, its best to learn them through memory and making up a story. This video is really teaching you one thing, making a memory or a story behind each Kanji. When they claim Person and Tree is rest, its their way of memorizing the Kanji as rest. What I mean by that is, if that Kanji meant "to lean", you would have just remembered it as a person leaning on a tree. To Lean. Its all imaginative. That's the key take way here.

[richardcolwell]

“Take a look at these kanji characters. Can you guess what they mean?”

Nope. Not at all. Not even a little bit.

[Yomikade]

Me: so 見 is see, because of legs + eye, so 兄 would probably means talk, because legs + mouth, right?
Kanji: O L D E R B R O T H E R

[YNNEB-hzbe]

Hiragana=friend
Katakana=ok one
Kanji=the bully

[yasikins]

Finally an explanation for reading kanji! I always wondered how it worked. It always baffled me how Japanese people could read a kanji they’ve never or hardly seen and understand it’s meaning. The radical system makes so much sense! Yay no longer in the dark! Excited to learn Kanji now that I know how it works! 😄