If I had a nickel for each time I've heard him say that over my lifespan... I don't even remember when I first watched his channel. It's been too long. Hearing his catchphrase has been like a routine.

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Handwriting Chinese characters helped me understand the overall structure and logic of vocabulary when I just started learning Mandarin :)

They don't write them because of Kanji like this beauty 鬱 29 strokes also if you try to write this then we will feel like what this kanji means.

Learning kanji for Japanese sounds like learning the knight and bishop checkmate for chess. People say it's important but ... Eh Lol.

For everyone wondering what 鬱 means -- according to Google translate : depression.

Hey! I seen you on Duolingo

That... is a good point. Huh.

Huh xD

I imagine, it's probably much more difficult with 2136 jōyō kanji (that are almost like tiny QR codes) which carry their own individual meaning. 😋

Thank you for this! It really clicked with me!

I agree to some extent. But languages are mostly spoken, while writing is a byproduct to communicate, so the fact that by hearing the word in Japanese, you can’t really know how it’s written, except for some loose rules. While in English you can sorta guess how to write a word because of its pronunciation or viceversa. In Japanese you need to remember them, you can’t just try and guess. And that’s true even though English has a sorta shit spelling and pronunciation system. There would be even a more drastic difference in for example Italian, which is written basically as how it’s said. Kanji are simply harder, they’re only more convenient once you’ve learned them. Is that a pro or a con, I can’t decide neither can anyone really, it’s simply a cultural difference. You spend more time learning kanji but in return it’s easier to read texts. But as a byproduct it’s really fucking slow to type in Japanese, at least in keyboard.

He uses romaji which exactly the opposite of the topic of this video.

Yea. Exactly with how he alternates between educational and horni videos

@@southcoastinventors6583 because most of the viewers probably can't read kana and are not even studying japanese, just watching his videos because they are entertaining

What anime is it?

@@user-oq8ur8eq6e Asobi Asobase

I love it so much. I watched it with my cousins.

I loved how crass it was. Fucking brilliant show.

IIRC it was Trash Taste that also recommended Human Japanese.

same, but i can’t read japanese.

Perhaps also get a book in your desired-to-learn language that teaches people your native-language. It may show you things like sentence structure and if concepts and words are translated directly into the other language or rather into the equivalent word or expression in the other-lang (and sometimes also alternative options and the circumstances in which they're appropriate by comparing the foreign lang speaker's options to your native-lang ones it's teaching). . Idk if that made sense, but basically, like how a common greeting maybe doesn't actually mean "hello good day" when directly translated (perhaps it actually means "well met at dawn-time") but serves the same purpose. But only in the morning. And if a teaching tool translates it as "hello good day" without noting the usage context, well, stuff like that can throw you off when learning on your own. And you end up saying stuff like "well met at dawn-time" in the evening and people think you're strange. . Tools teaching your native language to speakers of your desired-to-learn language are sometimes better at including that helpful usage context info for the desired-lang than ones aiming to teach you the desired-lang directly.

romaji never helps it hinder you ability to read hiragana.

@@southcoastinventors6583 I’ll ignore it then

I would like to know that too. I only know that on university level, you are supposed to spot the new kanji on your own, check the meaning and learn to write it by heart by yourself. Being able to do that makes you appear more professional and at least at my university all tests and most essays too were still handwritten 10 years ago.

In middle or high school, most teachers don’t teach how to write each Kanji in every class like in elementary school. I’m a Japanese high school student and I use a workbook that my teacher distributed to study Kanji. We normally have a small Kanji test every week so we use it and study Kanji on our own.

@@user-tl1ef1xm5c Thank you. By the way, do you have Facebook account or else?

@@user-tl1ef1xm5c do you have the name of the workbook? Or was it made by your school

same! i want to learn to read japanese!

I agree. Mathematics requires a lot of problem solving skills and memorisation; it can become very complicated especially advanced mathematics like calculus and statistics. Whereas Kanji is just memorisation, repetition, and practise.

very important, otherwise it looks wrong, and could cause other problems.

I would argue stroke order isn't really that important when printing, and it can even be arbitrary between Japanese and Chinese (see the stroke order difference for 王), but your stroke order may have an effect on how your handwriting appears in cursive/faster writing, as in how certain strokes get connected to others when writing quickly. If your stroke order isn't conventional, your cursive may appear odd to others. Stroke order has a much more noticeable effect on calligraphy, as direction, pace, weight, and the order in which you move the brush can change the appearance of the words. (For what it's worth, in Chinese, both 願 and 感 start on the horizontal.)

I'd say: don't bother with stroke order too much. You'll be writing 99% of stuff on a computer anyways.

Even if two parts look the same, they are different if their origins are considered different, and often, their stroke orders are different. For example, 厂 as in 原 and 厂-like part as in 感 are different. That's because 感 consists of 咸 and 心, and 咸 consists of 口 and 戌, and 戌 consists of 一 and 戉, and 戉 is the symbol that represents "ax". On the other hand, 厂 is the symbol that represents "cliff". Strictly speaking, however, there are often more than one theories regarding origin, so there is not always a unique correct order.

Especially if you're writing them quickly and not giving them too much care, wrong stroke order can make some appear completely off, also you go from left to right and top to bottom

Nosonzotsushijidzu- Didn't even have to think about it. It's easy if you just learn it. They have bigger differences than E, F and P, or O and Q, or L and I, or U and V, or X and Y, or N and M, or W and M, or Z and N, etc.

It's really simple once you get used to it, never really mistaken them ever since reading Japanese on a daily basis.

I can tell the difference

​@@hundvd_7 Well, duh! Anything is easy after you learn it.

hey i started around a year ago and there’s plenty of books on amazon to get you started. it’s a lot of fun 😊

A lot of video games (especially old ones) are in hiragana or have hiragana options

I don’t recommend hiragana only books, they are actually harder to understand. It would be better to get some books with basic kanji that has furigana. @halaplayz yt.

@@genbunin5376 I second this honestly

@@itsyaboi1245 Yes, I’m intermediate in Japanese and I’ve tried to read hiragana only books. It’s a pain in the ass to be quite honest. Yes, kanji is difficult but they are much more beneficial in my opinion. At least with kanji you can at least get the gist of what a sentence is conveying. But if it’s only hiragana it’s near impossible to do that. Especially if you’re not a native speaker. 😅

You have to learn bouth of them in order to properly understand japanese

You should learn vocab. I don't recommend to learn the readings of kanji separately because you don't know when to use which reading then and there are so many exceptions. For example, you read this 心地 as ここち but the readings of the first kanji are こころ and しん and the readings of the second kanji are ち and じ.

@@JohnTyran It's been a year now, so I know that now. Anyways, thanks.

As an adult you don't need someone telling you what to do. If you want to learn another language sit your ass down and do it.

Here are two channels that will get you to N3 ToKini Andy and Game Gengo just keep watching the videos.

@@southcoastinventors6583 i watch tokini andy and studied for 2 years 😐😐

@@PCs454 In those two years what is your average time studying and how much native content do you listen too also you need to be actively start speaking after about 4-5 months when you can roughly read/hear 1000 words. Let me know maybe I can give you another suggestion.

@@southcoastinventors6583 i study for 1-2 hours. i watch grammar video and try make sentences. but i forget verbs/ adjectives the next morning 😭 but some i remember. i learned isogashii from だんだん早くなる 🥲

the slopes are different.

kanji add needed clarity with the written word because Japanese has far fewer phonemes than European languages and so consequently many more homophones. There was a suggestion by the Americans when Japan was occupied by them at the end of the second world war to replace kanji with romaji to improve literacy. The plan was quickly discarded when it was observed that Japan had higher literacy rates than the U.S.

They already tried that in the early 20th century. Homophones. & synonyms. They have loads of words that sound the same but have different meanings, and words that have the same meaning but sound different. Currently words that have the same meaning are often written with the same kanji with disambiguation ending. - like 1st (first) vs 1 (won). Change it to phonetic and all those words look different & a lot words that have totally different meaning now look the same. So it's a bigger project than you think with much more far reaching consequences either in script design or word choice or understanding. Anyway considering the west adopted emoji - a Japanese design - fairly recently I don't think we can really say the west had everything perfect 🤣 🙊

There are too many words with the exact same pronunciation. The Kanji/Hanzi provides clearer context. Trust me, if you really know Mandarin well, writing sentences with pinyin only makes no fucking sense.