Yuta please make a video about the keigo of Itsuki Nakano from the quintessential quintuplets. Also what do you think of r/ItsUesugi ? Merry Christmas happy new year and happy holidays!

Very similar to elders in US, when my 90 year old grandma writes us letters it's very hard to read I have to guess alot of it because it's cursive (which i learned to read and write in school) but super abstract

vertical (top to bottom) is 縦書き (tategaki) and horizontal (left to right) is 横書き (yokogaki)

It's a rather particular script that I saw once in a video about Japanese culture and nowhere else. My Japanese is well beyond beginner level but when I run into this specialized calligraphy I'm helpless.

My now deceased grampa from my father family used to write in cursive (I do too) but his calligraphy was so nice that it seemed that was written from the fathers of the nation from the Independence era...

@@tabby7189 I have just barely past N5 and this is beautiful and unreadable at the same time for me too... ¯\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯

This is mostly an extension of how Japanese is traditionally wrote with a brush which is used in the same way.

@@lvlupproductions2480 Thank you for that additional context. Makes a ton of sense considering Japan's extremely high literacy rate throughout history (In the West it was unfortunately far lower).

​@@djackson4605 Through history? Since the addition of a national school system for everyone that's true, but before it was pretty much just scribes, merchants, and nobles who could read and write. For a long time it was only men as well since most women were not taught to read or write. The old system of Kanji only writing was very difficult to learn for those without access to expensive education.

I think that's mostly from writing on a whiteboard, you dont want your hand to smudge the letters plus you're writing way bigger so you don't need super fine motor control

its because theyre writing on a whiteboard... im japanese and i would hold the tip of the pen when writing on paper

Boo to all people being highly similar. We're different for a reason

@@tabby7189 Rocco only asks for basic human decency: polite, sweet, calm, gentle and skilled at what they do. Too much to ask for you think?

@@angrygopnik2317 "Polite, sweet, calm, gentle, and skilled" That's not just basic human decency; most of that is a profile of a personality type both academic and clinical psychology calls agreeable. Factually, agreeableness is found to rise gradually as we age so Rocco will to some degree "by force of nature" get what he desires. But equally factual is that not all people are highly agreeable - comedians for example are often to be lower in agreeableness because otherwise they wouldn't be comedians. Going up on stage, taking all the attention to yourself (instead of sharing, which is more characteristic of agreeableness), and then mocking people or groups is not really any of Rocco's descriptors except for requiring skill so as not to be a straight up asshole. Being fierce and sufficiently aggressive in advocating against injustices in the world, especially those perpetrated by powerful politicians and businessmen (whether men or women) also requires a certain degree of disagreeable. I would like everyone to be skilled, but no I don't just want everyone else to be nice and soft. The West is losing its sense of what assertiveness is for, especially masculine assertiveness, and already it is rotting for this foolishness. Do you think it is for nothing that titles like "The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck" are selling in large numbers? Meanwhile Japan, its own ambivalences about masculinity aside (ambivalences not difficult to understand, I will add), has continued to honour both agreeableness and disagreeableness and thus avoids a number of the same problems on the rise in the West. So I repeat, Rocco's description isn't just basic human decency, which is why I advocate for welcoming an elderly population that doesn't fit his description.

@@tabby7189 I would be (genuinely) interested to hear about Japan honoring disagreeableness, I've always heard the opposite.

@@tabby7189 are u ok?

Very lovely handwriting from her.

Now I wonder as a foreigner. When and why did it change

really, just people getting used to digital stuff. it's still the standard format in books and stuff ​@@jesusdavis2941

@@jesusdavis2941 Actually this is not a traditional way. It's still often used and anyone can read and write.

Isn't that a famous quote by Socrates?

@@justarandomgerman8853 It's a phrase for an anime series called Monogatari, specifically on the 1st episode of bakemonogatari

Yuta really likes to reference this in his channel

@@kinjoko Wow, that's amazing. You really are thorough. May I ask about the anime?

@@name3583 wdym by "may I ask about the anime"?

And 3 : 30 from monogatari series ( hanekawa tsubasa )

It would be easier if you study the Chinese first because half of the words in Japanese come from it, even though they are adapted to Japanese pronunciation. And, accordingly, a half of the written language is the same hieroglyphs. The issue is, however, the languages themselves are infinitely far away from each other, so it is a major complication.

@Stranger Happened I guess I'm doing it backwards haha, I plan on learning mandarin once I pass the JLPT2

yeah it's really easier to memorize when writing

@@StrangerHappened I definitely had a MAJOR advantage being fluent in Chinese because I got to N2 in 1 year and N1 in the next. I can attest to how many orders of magnitude it is easier to study Japanese with Chinese experience. The other way around... seems like torture to me 🤣 In Chinese both vernacular and classical forms of words and phrases are used in the modern language, while the Japanese kanji spellings preserve only the classical terms loaned from Middle Chinese. It's very easy to tell what 彼女 means in Japanese with no context with only Chinese experience but I pray for those who try to decipher what 她 means with only Japanese experience. And 其 vs 那...

@@LittleWhole Well, no wonder, since the Japanese learn only half as many hieroglyphs. The language loaned half of its common words from China. The other half they do not need and do not know. That said, even the Chinese now have "Simplified Chinese" and "adapted" versions of their classics -- be it Confucius or Journey to the West, among others. Just too many, too complex hieroglyphs. But they are beautiful, it is a pleasure just took look at non-simplified writing.

They've had several decades to switch over by now so I doubt they will all abandon the tradition now

vertical writing is common for letters and stuff and she said she writes a lot of them

I realized after typing this that your comment is about the frequency of people who handwrite often while mine does not, nontheless I think it can be a nice addition to the conversation so here it is: As for being the same in most countries it ends up being much harder with a logographic system auch as the CJK languages in the case of kanji we've all heard the whole "THERE'S 50,000+ KANJI IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN" spiel before and while this is true there are radicals that pretty much every kanji has. There are 214 radicals (according to thought.co) and even completely fluent people generally don't know all of them so we'll go with an 80% knowledge rate for an average literateracy fluent person. This makes 172 radicals for the kanji characters, up next is hiragana and katakana characters (obviously exclusive to JP). There are 71 different hiragana multiply that by 2 for all kana characters 142... jk we obviously shouldn't include the characters that have dakuten and handakuten it's actually 46 each so 92 charcters combine that with the 172 radicals and you get 214 writing based things needed to be remembered (sorry don't know the technical name for this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I'd wager the higher this number is for a language the harder it is to learn to handwrite the language. I was gonna do the same type of calculations (not written down here) for English (since it's the current world's lingua franca) and Korean (to finish the CJK thing I mentioned earlier) hit a snag on English since couldn't find a list or table on the extra symbols fluent people know such as & % # best I could find was a list of common grawlix/obscenicon characters, and frankly I'm too tired to do the rest so I might come back to it after I wake up but likely not.

@@lvlupproductions2480 Interesting stuff! And yeah, the sheer volume of kanji definitely makes Japanese seem daunting but like you said, the fact that they all utilize radicals does make it a bit easier once you start getting into the rhythm of learning them, and it helps with guessing the meaning of kanji you don't know. But then in terms of writing kanji by hand, that's a whole separate beast from just learning meanings and readings as you have to remember stroke order and... Well, I guess it's no surprise that even most native speakers don't really remember everything, lol.

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I don't know how I didn't get the reference xD at least I got the Monogatari reference.

Haha 🤣

Ikr Japanese writing is difficult than speaking Japanese

@@vance4532 it's くずし字. 変体仮名 is not a way to write, it's the name we give the kana that aren't in use today.

When I took Japanese classes in college, our teacher was a Japanese woman who emphasized that all characters (kana and kanji) should take up about the same amount of space when writing. Similar to how they look when typed. She taught the textbook way that Yuta talks so much against, and I can understand why he does so. I was today years old when I learned that most regular Japanese people, when given a white board, do not make all the kana match the size of the kanji they write and vice versa.

It's just called "vertical writing" I think, it's the more traditional way to write Japanese (and Chinese). Vertical writing is still very much in use today, notably in letters, newspapers, novels...

縦書き (たてがき、tategaki) is what they call vertical writing, and can be translated as literally that 横書き (よこがき、yokogaki) is horizontal writing.

@@matheuss886 ty for explaining, cheers .

Easy or complicated math

老人は手紙などでよく使いますが、若い世代はほとんど使う事はありません。平仮名は読めますけど、草書で書かれた漢字はほぼ分かりません。

No, Japanese is read left to right or top to bottom, but book pages are turned from left to right, opposite like in the west.

Depends if you're writing vertically or horizontally. When vertically, it's right to left. When horizontally, it's left to right. Before world war 2, even horizontal writing was generally written right to left. Today horizontal writing is only left to right.

Yes.

for reading and such

they probably forget it cause they dont use it often. Ive probably learned lots of words in school that ive forgotten because I dont use them often.

日本人は漢字をあまり書かないですが、漢字をたくさん読みます。 もし学校で漢字を習わなかったら、漢字を読めないでしょう。

@@sin-YA あ、ありがとうございます

@@sin-YA You're awesome. I hope you can teach us Japanese language like Yuta.

evidence suggests mask wearing in japan might not be related to coronavirus specifically

have fun with that 🙄

why does it paint them in a bad light and who gives a shit?

Japan had always been wearing masks. What's bad about that? Thinking that wearing masks put them in a bad light - well, that's another matter ✌️ ✌️ ✌️