You may think Japanese people have trouble reading Japanese all the time, but that's not necessarily true. In this video, I used kanji that were particularly tricky to read and some of those words aren't usually written in kanji. If you learn some patterns, reading kanji isn't always super difficult so if you are interested in learning Japanese, don't be discouraged. If kanji intimidate you, you can still start learning how to speak Japanese. In fact, I have some free Japanese lessons for you, so subscribe here bit.ly/39n5COH

@walterbrown8694

4 жыл бұрын

Stationed at NAS Atsugi (Kanagawa-Ken) in 1958-1959. Also worked under contract with the Marine Corps at Iwakuni MCAS (Yamaguchi-Ken ) in 1970-1971. My wife is Japanese. I am not at all fluent in Japanese - (Never had an "ear" for languages), but one of my earliest recollections about the written Japanese is that the Kanji usage is extremely context driven, and i think this is quite helpful to native Japanese when reading or writing . It does not surprise me to see some difficulty in response to "flash cards", versus recognition of the appropriate meaning/phonetic in a complete sentence.

@ugur4709

4 жыл бұрын

素晴らしいビデオです

@reinpinebook825

4 жыл бұрын

well, a relative told me that everyone is having a hard time reading kanji, even on newspapers.

@DahlemDorf

4 жыл бұрын

who is the first girl to be interviewed with brown hair at 0:24? she is like a movie star

@anangunggulbimantara742

4 жыл бұрын

Did you only put those who can't answer the question? These people proficiency in kanji is certainly below average in japanese society. I mean, you can't even read newspaper if you can't read those kanji. And office worker must at least know this much of kanji, did you not interview office worker you meet on the street? I mean how come you don't know 捗る unless you almost never read any literature, not even manga or light novel. I don't think this represents the average of japanese as you would call these people exceptionally ignorant.

if a lot of actual japanese people cant read kanji, how am i supposed to

@almostliterally593

7 жыл бұрын

amanda cbx give up. Forget Japan exists.

@orchidcolors

7 жыл бұрын

Kanji are just a lot to remember. It is entirely possible to learn them. If you don't use a word for a long time you might forget it. Kanji is like that. If you learn the parts of the kanji, the radicals, it is much easier to learn them. Also, it helps to learn the words and contexts that they're used in, instead of just learning readings.

@dathanlo

7 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind that most of the kanji in this video aren't really used, hence why people had difficulty reading them. They were hand picked for being obscure, basically

@AlphaCrucis

7 жыл бұрын

Hmm... Thank you Kurohei for the new word. :p

@DeathToJihad

7 жыл бұрын

Kurohei, Yeah, but with obscure English words they are almost always either archaic or technical terms used in a particular field. Like saudade, which is not only a loan word, but has a limited scope you would likely only use in literary studies.

5:37 "I like Harry Potter" 5:45 "I only know this in a sexual context" She has been reading Harry Potter fanfictions

@edwinjacobcaceres4723

4 жыл бұрын

*f u j o s h i*

@lXlDarKSuoLlXl

4 жыл бұрын

@Ermhs Parasoidis hey thats rude... i actually came to know chejov thanks to harry potter :v

@volgg

3 жыл бұрын

must be the "Drarry" fan fiction

@muhammadwildantara9210

3 жыл бұрын

PLEASEEE AHHAHAHAHAH

@masterexploder9668

3 жыл бұрын

A true woman of culture.

I'm worried for the girl who sees the words "pass away" only in a sexual context.

@TheGreatAtario

3 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort

@stalinsfangirl

3 жыл бұрын

M3

@d42

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatAtario yo wtf

@user-tg2wp2hd3b

3 жыл бұрын

why man she can think what she wants

@ovechkin100

3 жыл бұрын

theres more meaning to this. to die used to be referenced as climax, or orgasm. It has some deep esoteric meanings to it. Many, MANY years ago, as a man to orgasm and spread your seed, was in a way the death of your soul. the song "i just died in your arms tonight" was about orgasm.

That one girl: “iku” That sent me to the graveyard laughing

@Saiko0001

4 жыл бұрын

I still don't get why most of her answers have to be sexual in a sort, not complaining though :)

@bakaweeb4990

4 жыл бұрын

大鳥朝陽 ikr? Maybe she is a gyaru(bitch)? xD idk

@Saiko0001

4 жыл бұрын

@@bakaweeb4990 no problem from me. I like that boastful confidence

@slaiyfershin

4 жыл бұрын

@@bakaweeb4990 gyaru is not bitch. Gyarus can be bitches but not all bitches are gyaru.

@user-fi4bf6ms4d

3 жыл бұрын

She's funny

"is this music monster hunter?" I like that guy

@saimalishahid1406

4 жыл бұрын

Same, he was dope

@gothsurfist

4 жыл бұрын

i was like: wait, that music sounds familiar hahah

@mk-wi5zq

4 жыл бұрын

He kinda looks like Light from Death Note

@EizoKimura

4 жыл бұрын

At 8:33 too

@thebravegallade731

4 жыл бұрын

monster hunder is stupidly popular in japan

6:29 they are seriously besties Their reactions are Literally the same

@campkira

4 жыл бұрын

not really...

@schneeweizirr5524

3 жыл бұрын

@Poorvi Gupta y yes😗

@sunnyshinegacha8856

3 жыл бұрын

My friend and I had beans in our hands from science and did the oui’ oui’ movement while saying Quebec with beans in that hand with the same hand at the same time

@yesor3973

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was watching anime cute girls

@Bloooooooooopp

3 жыл бұрын

@@yesor3973 weeb

Those two: Se no My brain: Bakemonogatari renai circulation

@kunikuzuzhi

3 жыл бұрын

Demo sona ja dame

@stalinsfangirl

3 жыл бұрын

@@kunikuzuzhi Mo sona jahora

@stalinsfangirl

3 жыл бұрын

Kokorona sinkasu yo motto mottoooo

@user-qv6fg1zr6y

3 жыл бұрын

Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam.

@nitrix6538

3 жыл бұрын

せ〜の〜 でも そんな ちゃ だめ も そんな ちゃほら こころな しんかす よ もっと もっと〜 Basically the lyrics u guys said but in Hiragana

I liked seeing them trying to piece together the meaning of the kanji based on other words and the radicals present. It gives an interesting insight into how they understand and read the language from a native perspective. There isn’t really an equivalent in English that I can think of.

@catboyedgeworth2469

Жыл бұрын

^agree, its just etymology. english is full of latin root words representing concepts, same as any other language.

@shellderp

7 ай бұрын

​@@mildlyinterestingltsyeah but funnily enough in medicine most terms are from latin

Please make "Do japanese elders know kanji?"

@giovuolo123

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know, some random ones, mixing medium to difficult ones, I guess since there were no internet back then they must know way more kanjis than younger ones

@mmmmmmok5292

5 жыл бұрын

㊗㊙

@glia1972

5 жыл бұрын

Agree. I think elders can read perfectly. Young guys on this video are totally stupid I guess.

@junhaoma

5 жыл бұрын

easy for them..

@user_cv8wysmstt

5 жыл бұрын

Old Japanese people usually can read more kanji than us young people do

This just made me feel less pressure on learning much and much kanji

@tobirei482

5 жыл бұрын

You and me both

@auraxx7296

5 жыл бұрын

Do you still learning?

@jasminejoydicla7264

4 жыл бұрын

@@kron4x haha no XD I use English in learning Japanese instead of my native filipino actually so it's quite impossible

@kron4x

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasminejoydicla7264 i speak greek fluently and i can't speak english as good as i write but i still try my best, best of luck

@diaosibuku

4 жыл бұрын

Jasmine Dicla and Chinese is 100% 汉字

That "eeeehh?" japanese make when confused is so cute and andearing

@luanllluan

2 жыл бұрын

too cute!

@shotakonkin2047

2 жыл бұрын

もちろん、超可愛すぎる声

@soloriocesar8573

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually hee (へえ) and it basically means "Oh!" And idk why I find that super wholesome

@vikbys

2 жыл бұрын

@@soloriocesar8573 Oh right, I could only write it as I remember hearing it, wasn't sure how to spell it exactly. Cool!

@wotmlpgamingstephen9065

2 жыл бұрын

@@soloriocesar8573 いいえ?

As a Chinese native, I only know half of them😂 1、所谓 So-called (Same in Chinese ) 2、汎用?????????（99% Chinese people don't know this word, not at least for modern Chinese, totally no idea about this word) 3、贴付 Paste （Simplified Chinese 粘贴，贴付means pay for something in advance） 4、逝去 Passing away（same used in Chinese） 5、捗るProgress（Mainland Chinese use 进步，捗is not used as a Chinese character in modern history） I found it very interesting and fun to watch this video, I know there are a lot of differences between chinese characters and japanese Kanji, for example, 結構（けっこう）means enough in Japanese，but in chinese it means structure, actually I was floored about these two. So, Chinese and Japanese are both great culture, I all pay my respect to, glad you guys from the west are interested in them!!! have fun!!!

@SeraphicBlue

4 жыл бұрын

We Japanese also pay respect to Chinese culture. You know, Kanji (漢字) literally means Chinese letters. We study Kanbun (漢文), it means Chinese classics, at hight school for 3 years. 山川異域 風月同天, mates.

@nanjingcalling5341

4 жыл бұрын

Kappa Ross awesome bro!!! 山川异域，风月同天, well said

@GL-yt

4 жыл бұрын

In Chinese the second one should be 泛用 generic

@allenwjs

4 жыл бұрын

Malaysian chinese here, i can read the chinese characters too, agree both are great cultures and i love them!

@dracandros6050

4 жыл бұрын

是泛用，看偏旁就知道了。臺人亦用此字。

As a japanese major student struggling with kanji, this video really made me feel better haha.

@arman4404

6 жыл бұрын

A Maze In Japan what is the kanji?? Is this a kinda alphabet or something? Are u use different alphabet?

@lianac.m.rorimpandey8331

6 жыл бұрын

Arman Kanji is the chinese caracter that used by the japan people since thousand years ago. Most of the people struggle in reading kanji because there are too many of them, each of the caracters have different pronounciation and meanings, so I'm not surprise finding themselves can't read most of it.

@arman4404

6 жыл бұрын

liana rorimpandey Thanks for replying 😊 But why people still use them? It seems so hard. Just use a regular alphabet if you do it, at least you can pronounce the word and you just don't know the meaning and in this way you can find the meaning easier because you can find out the meaning from the similar words like that. It makes students feel free to do something more and useful.

@lianac.m.rorimpandey8331

6 жыл бұрын

Arman as I know, thousand years ago, Japan had no writing system, meanwhile the Chinese already have their own called Hanzi. So Japan decided to borrow Chinese characters in order to make their language a written form. Same as Japan, Korea was also using Chn characters but they finally create their own written form called Hangul, and they no longer using Hanzi. I also have the same thought as you. If they find it hard then why don't they just create or use the simple one like Hiragana and Katakana. And I'm also wondering why China, Taiwan, HK themselves stay with those thousands of complicated characters when they can just create a new simple written form. But maybe they just can't change it because it's part of their histories and cultures they got since thousands years ago so it just can't be removed easily.

@arman4404

6 жыл бұрын

liana rorimpandey Oh thanks for your information. Im totally agree with you. But they can keep this in their history,and their literature. That would be so tough to East Asian students to learn them and it takes so much of their time.

The girl with the long orange hair with the guy were so funny and cute I couldn’t stop laughing when they were on 😭😭💀💀

@LucaRocha2012

5 жыл бұрын

hi orbit

@cinnamoonnico

4 жыл бұрын

orbits 👀

@daveng7035

4 жыл бұрын

The girl is a joker

@arwahsapi

4 жыл бұрын

She's adorable I don't believe she's a native japanese

@jaredjohns777

4 жыл бұрын

@@arwahsapi Yeah, I got the same memo, if I had to guess Han Chinese and NW European, although that's still rather vague. Based on her accent and how she acted, she's probably Cascadian or Californian. (I live in Metro Seattle, alors you become relatively good at guessing these kinds of things.)

As someone just learning Japanese, this makes me feel a whole lot better.

@RZ1Chris

4 жыл бұрын

I learn Japanese but I'm confuse That I don't know how to read and write and Kanji :< I only know hiragana and katakana :

@PlantKamar

2 жыл бұрын

How you guys holding up?

@jzrb

Жыл бұрын

日本人で日本語を完全に理解してる人はいません

@laythftw9259

Жыл бұрын

​@Tickingtaco how are you holding up now? It's been a year

@SDT493

6 ай бұрын

how have you been? doing good? its been 3 years@@RZ1Chris

Yuta: are you confident? Girl in grey coat: of-course! *doesn’t get any of the kanji*

"Oh no now they know we're stupid" YOU GUYS I FOUND MY JAPANESE TWIN!!

@efhi

4 жыл бұрын

pls timestamp

@salemEscobar

4 жыл бұрын

@@efhi 2:45

@campkira

4 жыл бұрын

alot of them can not tell am i underpaid or overpaid.... the system just broken... unless it is something they used alot... they won't be able to read them...

Lmao when she says "Iku" and the guy goes off camera like "I don't know that person"

@ju3045

7 жыл бұрын

Lizzy Chan yeah, you're right. Maybe it's just their minds 😉

@s0nicfreak

7 жыл бұрын

Because of the kanji used. 逝く is usually used for iku as in orgasm 行く is usually used for iku as in go. So 逝去 read as iku you would know she meant the sexual use.

@ju3045

7 жыл бұрын

s0nicfreak Thanks for the precision! :D

@ChickenSundae

7 жыл бұрын

But, that's strange because 去 cannot be read as ku and yes I understand the initial thought when she saw the kanji 逝 was to read it as i

@s0nicfreak

7 жыл бұрын

@Sundae She was either joking, or just guessing based on the idea that these are rarely used readings (i.e. she figured it's possible it could be read that way and she just doesn't know). She does say afterwards that she knows 去 is kyo in this word.

After learning kanji for years, i just want to 死

@jaycee330

3 жыл бұрын

死ないで下さい. 大丈夫.

@user-to1ey3sv3w

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@geovanna_1310

3 жыл бұрын

I dont understand someone explain please

@user-to1ey3sv3w

3 жыл бұрын

@@geovanna_1310 死 is japanese for die/death so they said after learning kanji for years i just want to die

@geovanna_1310

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-to1ey3sv3w Ohh thank you!!! I started studying Japanese recently so I don't know many kanji😧

1:28 “it’s hanyou, stupid” He’s a king

@shaikhziad5250

3 жыл бұрын

otaku 100

@steveboel12

3 жыл бұрын

He's a retired modern Japanese teacher

@kaannagumanov1185

3 жыл бұрын

Sensei wants perfection

@dutchymcdutch2553

2 жыл бұрын

That was funny to me, I thought Japanese people were supposed to be super polite, but he just called her stupid:)

@user-dz6zx7xm6u

2 жыл бұрын

In Japan, "baka" is sometimes used as a familiar word. In English, it has a meaning close to “silly”

"oh no, they will know that we are stupid" 2:50 hahaha that's why I avoid public tests like this hahaha

@okldr

4 жыл бұрын

Thought this reaction is really kawaii desu ne

@paradoxicube52

4 жыл бұрын

@@okldr please make a デリート of your comment desu ne

@juny-dn5ud

4 жыл бұрын

@@paradoxicube52 XD yes

@SpencerLemay

4 жыл бұрын

@@paradoxicube52 Wouldn't it be デリトしなさい？　Delete isn't a noun, unless it is in japanese?

@VVayVVard

4 жыл бұрын

@@SpencerLemay 'Please デリート your comment desu ne' would be the most accurate way to put it in this context

Someone included this link in a forum about learning Kanji. Bless their heart, it's good to see that the thing I find most difficult about Kanji is true even for natives. I think it's interesting that Roman-character languages and Japanese have the opposite issues--in English, Spanish and French I can pronounce an unfamiliar written word with high accuracy, but not know what it means. In Japanese, it seems that you are more likely to know what a word means without being able to say it.

I really love the kanji “夢” (pronounced as “yume” and means “dream”)

@dionydonny

3 жыл бұрын

and my favorite one is 龜 which means turtle(traditional chinese). rotate it 90 degrees, it will be a picture of a cute turtle :D

@krain.8245

3 жыл бұрын

@@dionydonny haha

@theTHwa3tes11

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite one is 糞 It means shit.

@empyriium

3 жыл бұрын

@@theTHwa3tes11 たわごとのように見えます😂

@theTHwa3tes11

3 жыл бұрын

@@empyriium はい！すてきな漢字です。

As a Chinese speaker who doesn't speak Japanese, it's interesting to see how Japanese combine characters into combinations that are unique to Japanese but still comprehensible to Chinese speakers, but at the same time it is surprising that they have difficulty guessing the meaning of these words. Growing up I always thought that Japanese studied Kanji really painstakingly, people always told me Japanese students know 5000 characters or more. That would mean they know far more Chinese characters that the average Chinese speaker. It could be that because the people tested in the video have been out of school for a while, they have no need to memorize so many characters and so the difficult vocabulary slowly fades away to accommodate space for more practical knowledge. Edit: Some people have misunderstood my meaning and I would like to clear things up. It was growing up that I thought Japanese knew 5000 characters. I believed this because my teacher told me this as motivation. At the time I didn't know how many characters we are supposed to know, so it was easy to believe. If it had been true it would mean that Japanese know more Chinese characters than Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong people etc. However, because of comments below am clear now that average Japanese know somewhere over 2000 Kanji (there are various answers). In my own efforts to create software for foreigners to learn Chinese I conducted Chinese proficiency surveys in China and Taiwan. I found people China know on average 3300 characters while in Taiwan the average was about 3800. On the other hand professional Chinese language teachers in both countries knew about 5500 characters. The surveys in each country were only conducted for 20 people. It was not exactly scientific, but I tried my best to keep things consistent, I used the same test sheets for all participants but used simplified Chinese in China as many there don't understand traditional characters. I hope that clears things up. Thank you.

@ShadowriverUB

7 жыл бұрын

。嘿 there around 2100+ so called joyo kanji which is kanji leared in school, but there also some more that are rarely used or are outdated

@ricolet993

7 жыл бұрын

ain't comprehensible at all imo. After I learned japanese I found out how different many of the meanings were.

@AtOutoftheBlue

7 жыл бұрын

That's not even counting the made up kanji

@dafaqu694

7 жыл бұрын

from what I heard, japanese had learned 2000+ kanji, not that many

@falc410

7 жыл бұрын

What about Chinese? I should be somewhere around 200 Hanzi but I still can't read anything. So depressing. It is very interesting though that people know the meaning but were not able to read it, e.g. say the correct word. That would be impossible in other languages that uses normal letters.

The girl in the grey fur coat looks like a Japanese Jessica alba.

@RaikenXion

5 жыл бұрын

THATS EXACTLY WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE, also when the girls keep kind of putting their hand to cover their mouths, i wish i could just move their hand away and kiss them right on the lips.

@Plasma1iTV

5 жыл бұрын

Ohh yes exactly

@oskar-emilkruse4862

5 жыл бұрын

@@RaikenXion ew wtf

@RaikenXion

5 жыл бұрын

@@oskar-emilkruse4862 ??

@iaincowell9747

5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure she's of mixed parents.

The kanji in this video can be read by Japanese people in general. However, iwayuru is not used very often in daily life. The words "所謂" and "所詮" are indeed similar. There are many ways to read the same kanji, so it is interesting to learn new ones.

@samaraisnt

Жыл бұрын

yes people were judging her for reading the word wrong...that's not really fair! Everyone else read it wrong too :(

guy: “is this music monster hunter?” yuta: “...what do you think this character means”

I loved that couple that kept jokingly being confident about their kanji knowledge haha. Sound like they have fun together.

I noticed that the people your are interviewing looks more relaxed than in earlier videos. I don't know what you are doing, but you are doing great !

@garegos7184

7 жыл бұрын

GASTON!!! I didn't knew you were intrested in Japanese!

@goustune

7 жыл бұрын

Shh! I'm here incognito !

@garegos7184

7 жыл бұрын

Jack To late. How is working in the office with the others lately?

@goustune

7 жыл бұрын

Fantasio is pissing me off. He always wants me to work. But I found a way to sleep without him noticing.

@garegos7184

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome! But hey you should work at least a bit. Ur getting payed for that.

0:11 When the microphone covers the shirt, it spells the C word

@user-cc1yc6zx7r

3 жыл бұрын

Omg 😂😂😂 how did u notice that

@sznch

3 жыл бұрын

what ?

@stalinsfangirl

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@nitrix6538

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@frizzyeri7579

3 жыл бұрын

I can't understand the joke😂

Watching these make me feel a little more confident in my Japanese studies.

@OutcastYBJ

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah kanji has so many different symbols most Japanese can fluently use hiragana and katakana because it’s the basic writing method they use but kanji is important to know in Japan

6:50 "Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well."

@waterloupe1111

7 жыл бұрын

Well memed my friend

@toritori2299

7 жыл бұрын

amazing

@johndanielmontano4824

7 жыл бұрын

it was monster hunter music playing right? also one part with the 2 girls?

@PH00NB00N

7 жыл бұрын

John Daniel Montano I was thinking the same thing lol

@andrewshuji

7 жыл бұрын

Was gonna comment about Monster Hunter music too

I went to Japan having done business in China for three years. I can barely speak a lick of Chinese (due to my business taking place all over the country instead of in just one region) but picked up around 400-500 characters over the years, so I was constantly happy to see these same characters all over Japan. No idea how to read them in Japanese, but I sure knew the meanings!

@user-tv6qs4yg8t

2 жыл бұрын

чел харош

@travoltik

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-tv6qs4yg8t неплох

Honestly, it's endearing and a bit comforting to know that even a native speaker sometimes gets it wrong or can't read a certain character, because it allows me to not be so hard on myself when I don't remember or understand a kanji character.

@danielantony1882

Жыл бұрын

Well, if you want to be well educated than knowing more is definitely better.

@chefkatova

5 ай бұрын

​@@danielantony1882kanji is hard bro

@danielantony1882

5 ай бұрын

@@chefkatovaThat is true. And I'm not denying that. However, what differentiates a wolf from a sheep is the ability to consider struggle a part of the process that needs to be done.

Some of this people seems straight out of a sitcom. You got the tired teacher and his excited wife, the funny couple and the two friends who looks like sisters

@marcusaureliusregulus2833

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Leo-hr7yq

2 жыл бұрын

So cringe people, in short

@marcusaureliusregulus2833

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leo-hr7yq No. You are cringe.

@KILLCHRISU

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leo-hr7yq you don’t know what cringe means

@ADeeSHUPA

2 жыл бұрын

@@KILLCHRISU what cringe means

Is this music "monster hunter?" I thought the music was added by yuta ahahah that was cool

@ElMoppo1

7 жыл бұрын

It is!

@steliospasiardes678

7 жыл бұрын

I meant that I thought yuta added monster hunter's music instead of being played in the street :p

@ElMoppo1

7 жыл бұрын

Ah!

@claudedottin1312

7 жыл бұрын

Where

@dkosmari

7 жыл бұрын

Regardless, CAPCOM doing a copyright claim in 3... 2... 1...

I was hearing Monster Hunter music throughout the video but wasn't sure if that's what it actually was, thankfully the guy at 6:49 pointed it out xD

@justinm8454

5 жыл бұрын

Barron yes it’s the commercial

@unknowna8056

5 жыл бұрын

I saw the monster Hunter in the subtitles and I immediately recognize it

@ticktockbam

5 жыл бұрын

Monster Hunter

@denshahime

5 жыл бұрын

Barron Best comment literally

As a Chinese from Hong Kong and learnt to read and write in traditional Chinese I was able to navigate through Japan just by reading the signs in Kanji. It's worth learning as you can use it in places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore

@davfb8622

9 ай бұрын

Doesn’t Singapore use simplified? But yes learning Kanji is useful

@IR-xy3ij

6 ай бұрын

​@@davfb8622It doesn't matter if you learn simplified or traditional, if you know one then you can read the other

thank you so much for adding english subtitles, it was awesome to hear them speaking and be able to see and understand what they are saying!

THAT MONSTER HUNTER MUSIC!!!!

@claudedottin1312

7 жыл бұрын

MuffyLantis where

@badreddinekasmi8919

7 жыл бұрын

2:27 and other parts where these two show up

@badreddinekasmi8919

7 жыл бұрын

and at 6:50 too in fact the monster music can be hear all over the video lol (I'm kinda exagerating)

@MuffyLantis

7 жыл бұрын

it is all over the video hahaha

6:49 "Is this music Monster Hunter?" exactly my thoughts

@gothsurfist

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao, every chinese and Japanese plays monster hunter

@700azam

3 жыл бұрын

hoenstly i turned the music off in the game to enjoy the natural sounds , so even if i already spent over 1K hours .. but i am not famailir with any mhw music hehe -_-'

@NeujeuKonnen

3 жыл бұрын

@@700azam the music is not specifically from world, is actually the main theme of the franchise

Seeing this makes me more confident in learning kanji since it’s hard even for native speakers 😊

I love this video. All the people you interviewed were so charming and warm.

03:41 The way she said so "Shippu" so proudly ... just too cute for my ears. Im getting diabetes from that sweetness.

@maggyfrog

7 жыл бұрын

and it's adorable that she doesn't cover her mouth when she smiles

@SuperThischannel

7 жыл бұрын

She's just adorable. Period.

@rinokumura415

7 жыл бұрын

Spot on xD she's adorable

@jmanuelrm7804

7 жыл бұрын

She looks like Orihime (Bleach) xD

@TheYeller7

7 жыл бұрын

She looks like a halfie.

I hope the two university graaduates do well. :)

@Danuxsy

6 жыл бұрын

What about the rest of the world? u ass

@hamzadjamaa879

6 жыл бұрын

orchidcolors If anyone is interested in how to understandJapanese online the best info that ive ever had was by following the Japanese Magic Method (search google) definately the most useful info that I've followed.

@AimForMyHead81

6 жыл бұрын

hamza djamaa O

@centuryfiles9558

6 жыл бұрын

orchidcolors such a wholesome comment

@xiagm-kemasmfadlic150

3 жыл бұрын

@@Danuxsy the fuck🖕🖕

Much like a lot of others, this makes me feel much better about taking on new kanji. It also sort of reminds me of parallel problems with English-speaking people - a lot of words can be read with decent accuracy, but many people have no idea what the obscure ones mean. Whereas these Japanese people seem to know the words but not how to read them. It's so strange how different writing systems can create different errors in the reading and comprehension of their native speakers - very interesting!

Okay so I've unnecessarily memorized 捗る when studying, nice...

That one dude is the first time I've ever seen a Japanese person act sarcastic.

@quirijnv6793

7 жыл бұрын

The one with his girlfriend.

@aaronvlogs1323

7 жыл бұрын

which couple?

@aaronvlogs1323

7 жыл бұрын

why?

@sashimizi

6 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about the one who said his JLPT was 4 lol

@mario51man

6 жыл бұрын

Blessing Adan The guy didn't say JLPT level 4. He was talking about the Kanji Kentei test, a kanji test for native speakers

The girl in the grey coat with fur is adorable!!

@ElanainOak

7 жыл бұрын

The guy whit the "7" collar was very handsome.

@EnvyTraxus

7 жыл бұрын

also the 2 uni students both girl and guy were good looking

@GeminiFate

7 жыл бұрын

FUR IS MURDERRRRRRRR!!! OMG.....

@whuzzzup

7 жыл бұрын

She is really cute. Is she "fully" japanese? I think she has a western touch to her.

@peranmon

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah the i don't think the girl was ''fully'' japanese My aunt looks almost the same and i'm from Guatemala.

great video! it makes all of us struggling feel a little less dumb. to be fair to the participants though, a couple of these words (like いわゆる) are pretty common but i think are always written in kana.

What catches me the most is not the kanji reading game, but the 興味津々ていう感じ and briskness radiating from all the participants. Really joyful and cooperative interviewees. As an East Asian, I would feel a bit awful to interview strangers and ask them kind of hard questions cause I am afraid of embarrassing them. The young ladies and guys were just delightful in learning to dispel such doubts. Must be cool to make friends with them~

@ADeeSHUPA

2 жыл бұрын

興味津々ていう感じ

Hey Yuta can you make a video about Japanese hand signals vs American ones? Thanks.

@neisanland2503

7 жыл бұрын

theres another word to say about Hand signals. " Sign Language "

@teamyordle23

7 жыл бұрын

I think he means hand gestures like making an X with both arms.

@ThatJapaneseManYuta

7 жыл бұрын

I know someone who knows a bit of both.

@Cristian-Akuma

7 жыл бұрын

those were two words though

@Taz.K

7 жыл бұрын

I think if you have seen Naruto then you would have seen Japanese hand signs

even the Japanese have trouble.

@shellgecko

7 жыл бұрын

that's why actually there's around 10000+ kanji but japanese people use around 3000-5000 depending their activities work and other stuff the same happens with other languages nobody uses 100% percent

@drawesome0204

7 жыл бұрын

same in the english language, there are some words you dont normally use as well.

@JimmyJohanes

7 жыл бұрын

Thedopenessism in english you construct with only 26 characters a-z, even you can guess the word with sound but this one, thousands lol

@LittleImpaler

7 жыл бұрын

Abangnya Gerry Girianza People learning Japanese shouldn't feel bad when they have hard time reading kanji. LOL

@ariadnekonopidou6145

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I even have trouble remembering the hiragana chart

Actually I’m a high school student but can read most of them (I’m 16yrs old) it’s just that people who were doing the tests probably didn’t study Kanji seriously cause if you read books and watch TV, these words often comes up. It’s like how some people who speaks English can’t spell words correctly,,, it’s not everyone but particularly some who aren’t well educated or not spending time studying Kanji can’t read them properly. I’m kinda sad that many of the foreigners will think that “Japanese people can’t even understand their own language” even though those are the minority compared to the rest of us:(

@soupstoreclothing

3 жыл бұрын

you're japanese? i think these kanji are obscure on purpose, and i don't think anyone here thinks japanese people are stupid or that they don't know their own language. there is much more you have to learn in japanese than in english, and i'm sure everyone here can appreciate how difficult the language is. i think it's a lot of people learning japanese who are feeling solidarity with the people in this video because it makes them feel better that even native japanese speakers have trouble with kanji sometimes.

@SenthilKumar-hi4oc

3 жыл бұрын

@@soupstoreclothing yes hahah many English people are joking

@Beth-td6vj

3 жыл бұрын

The way Japanese kids study Kanji isn’t very good to begin with, and it’s easier to read kanji when you can see its context. Since there was no context and only memory, it was much harder

@paunescueugen2650

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone here in the comment section actually believe Japanese people are stupid at all. The thing is there are foreign people who just want some confirmation that learning kanji it's actually difficult, if even the japanese people can sometimes have a hard time with it. A significant number of people all over world, including me have a fascination with the Japanese culture, or with at least some parts of it, so there's no reason for you to be sad.

@tigrismendez2432

2 жыл бұрын

An apt comparison is like trying to get random Americans to read our SAT words. Most people in America don’t know the meaning of the words “Pellucid” or “Solipsistic” nevertheless how to spell them.

Hair goals, the one with blue sweater.

@qwertyca

6 жыл бұрын

I know, she's gorgeous!

@samschrager8038

6 жыл бұрын

qwertyca he’s a guy 😂

@qwertyca

6 жыл бұрын

Oh ha my bad, I was thinking of the chick at 5:46

As a native Mandarin speaker, and knowing very basic Japanese I managed to guess 貼付 and 逝去 correctly based on their respective Mandarin pronunciations - there was luck involved of course, but it would be really interesting if you have the opportunity to see if Chinese speakers can somehow guess Kanji pronunciations too :P as long as they're similar ofc - stuff like 所謂 and 捗る would be almost impossible

@oxothnk333

7 жыл бұрын

iwayuru is chinese. it pronounced suowei.

@leonluo

7 жыл бұрын

thats not really similar to suowei, and iwayuru is kunyomi not onyomi

@Supersonic

7 жыл бұрын

i had a friend that passed JLPT N2 with very little studying because she was Chinese lol

@samic

7 жыл бұрын

Jay Vern Lim Technically kanji's onyomi sounds more close to Cantonese and Hakka than Mandarin due to Japanese borrowing words and sound from Wu-speaking period. As a Cantonese speaker myself, there is a huge advantage because many of them are sound so familiar to me.

@RoyalDecapitation

7 жыл бұрын

Ah that's true, I speak Penang Hokkien (similar to the Xiamen variety) and understand basic Cantonese, so you do get the odd Japanese/Korean word that stands out. Makes it easier for learning that's for sure.

There once a Learning Japanese series of books/Monthly magazines called "NIHONGO JOURNAL", where KANJI had "crib-notes" written underneath for pronunciation, ...EVEN FOR SOME JAPANESE (people). I loved this series, but it was discontinued some-time ago and I haven't been able to find a modern equivalent. Even some Japanese (people) I knew loved this series; IT WAS GREAT!!! Why is it when some good, great and all-around beneficial to many has to be short-lived and/or discontinued???

Your channel is awesome man 👍 I already subscribed...I’m Brazilian and I speak Portuguese,but I a also speak English and Spanish and now I’m learning a Japanese cuz I will move to Japan on Abril of this year! Keep up the good Work 💪

9:12 He's definitely joking, I have friend who always overconfident and that's how he usually joke around.

@____spacecadet____

4 жыл бұрын

Bambang I was gonna say, I get the sense that that's his type of humor; exaggeratedly overconfident.

@So___

4 жыл бұрын

He’s ironically speaking about his ability cause level 4 test isn’t that hard😂(level 10 is the easiest and 1is the hardest) I passed it when I was in grade 5 and I think most people can get to level 2 by the end of high school

0:48 omg she is so pretty

@JollibeenosHasYourCoordinates

4 жыл бұрын

iku

@hairlesshcm2100

4 жыл бұрын

iku

@dualityofsoul3841

3 жыл бұрын

@@JollibeenosHasYourCoordinates im dying omg 😂😂

@rsuriyop

3 жыл бұрын

She really looks like she could be half of something else, like maybe Filipino.

@thelegenda8462

3 жыл бұрын

ye her nose is pointy, filipinos dont have pointy noses lmfao

Being a chinese, its really interesting watching this! The meaning of most of the words are so obvious for me! The "iku" part makes me laugh haha

Clever mic placement at beginning of video Yuta... very clever....

Hello Yuta, I always keep quiet in the comment sections, but I'd like to tell you I am a long time viewer, and I love all your videos. They always help me to refresh myself when I've been studying Japanese for a while and I can still study while having some fun. Thanks a lot for all the work you put into making these videos, I really appreciate it!

I appreciate that at the end of every video you give your opinion on the results.

this actually help me to get the will to continue learning japanese language after hiragana and katakana. i also found that in shonen jump(maybe not all) kanji written followed with hiragana to read em, so ill guess continue from that

Anyone watching in 2021 lockdown? I just appreciate that they had the time to answer all the questions, like took a moment and just had fun with it

Can you make this a regular series? It's so fun to watch!

@chipchopshop

7 жыл бұрын

yeeaaa, for chinese people too

This is really fun. Its mainly this aspect that drew me into learning japanese. I hope to watch this when I have learned more to maybe have a similar reaction and still get it wrong

one of my biggest fears is him approaching me on the streets asking me to do this because i can never remember

If I ever go to a japanese tatoo artist, they better have a university degree in khanji :D I always wondered when I watched japanese (or chinese?) characters in films, when they practice with a brush on huge papers. I never understood why writing words is such a high art until watching some of your videos.

漢字読みたいなら、自分の好きなジャンルの本を延々と読むのが一番 漢字そのものに興味が無くても、読んでいる文章を理解したいがために意味を調べるようになるから

@oi1476

4 жыл бұрын

歌詞にあるむずい単語を調べたりして覚えてく

kanji episodes are good，please make more！

That video was very inspiring :)

As a Chinese who is learning Japanese, I know the meanings of most of these words, but I often can't read them in Japanese excactlly. Dictionaries are useful when I am learning and using Japanese, especially understanding how to read Kanjis. In my opinion, Kanjis in Japan have many Jions（字音）and every Jions have its unique meaning so that foreigners, even Chinese, should spend more time on picking them up to master them. It's the same as learning Kanjis(Hanzi) in Chinese.

It's funny when, people expect other people to completely know every word in their language. And then tell another country how their language should work,. xD English got like several readings in a word too. address-address. fair-fair-fair. homographs, homonyms, homophones etc. etc. I mean, sea, see, too, two to, bow, bow, bow, bow, and bough. wtf. lol. and so many more. and english learners just learn it eventually through time and context clues. Kanji is like their context clues. makes it easier to their language.

@sevenproxies4255

7 жыл бұрын

I'm still extremely intimidated by kanji. But I heard of a neat trick in how to learn it faster. If you print out little nametags for stuff in your house (like the microwave, the tv, the couch, the dining table etc.) with the appropriate kanji and maybe some romaji underneath that tells you how to pronounce it, apparently the kanji will stick to memory faster. I think it's very smart, since it really helps giving you contextual clues to it all.

@yukude6224

6 жыл бұрын

Not exactly the same! Here is much more complicated, every kanji has at least two homographs ( Kun reading and On reading) the majority have multiple readings some more than 10 different sounds for the same kanji and you guess it through context or kanji juxtaposition or so..

@joseignaciohileradorna5122

6 жыл бұрын

In To me, spanish is an easy language to read and I find it amazingly strange that people can't read characters in their own language, I guarantee you that every spanish speaker could read any spanish word or letter no matter the context or meaning. Its simple we have 27 letters and few exceptions, the g can sound like the j sometimes and the c can sound like the s sometimes the h is silent except when paired with a c to form a *ch*ip *ch*air *ch*eque sound and tildes (áéíóú) mark a tonic syllable. That's it you can now read Spanish! Spanish words have no extra letters like English or French which have bloated words and you never know how to pronounce a new word until you hear it. Does it make a oo sound or a normal o sound? Is it said ee or eh? Ey or ah? None of that BS happens in Spanish each vocal has just one sound period.

@CzornyLisek

6 жыл бұрын

salvadoroars Well in polish and generally slavic languages. Words are generally pronounced how they are written. As each letter in alphabet and each multi letter thing(i forgot name for it) is pronounced each time the +/- same way(sometimes people just pronounce words in like softer and easier manner for ease of communication). Unless word is from another language but that's different story. So for example cześć is pronounced cześć([ʧ̑ɛɕʨ̑])(čeść) and spelled cz-e-ś-ć(č-e-ś-ć), letter by letter. There is phonetic alphabet for linguists but it's there ONLY to "catch" tiny details that doesn't change anything. Thus everybody always know how to pronounce word by reading it. Other thing is can they pronounce it as many word are tongue twisters. And other thing can they write it down just from hearing as there some bizarre grammatical rules(like ch = h is in practical terms same thing as it's pronounced in exactly the same way but sometimes You write ch sometimes h depending on placement and word etymology(history))

@Dia690

6 жыл бұрын

+Capitán Rastrero As to what I know until today, it's because kanji is not mere characters like alphabets. Japanese uses two sets of "alphabets" which is hiragana and katakana and contains "alphabets" in the form of syllables (except for the 'n' sound). Kanji is based on Chinese characters in which most words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives, have their own shapes, and then they proceed to incorporate more meanings by mixing multiple kanji characters and make the usage of kanji more meaning-based. For example, they used 学 to describe the word 'school' and 大 to describe the word 'big', when they mix it together you basically get 大学 which means university (or "big school" as literal readings). 大学 is read as daigaku which contains 4 syllables, da-i-ga-ku, hence the normal writing of it would be だいがく, with だ for da, い for i, が for ga, and く for ku.

I've been studying Japanese with the Memrise app (not a valid learning, but it has taught me how to read hiragana and will be moving on to katakana shortly). The basic Japanese level was full of hiragana, but when I moved up to Japanese 1 it started throwing in random kanji all over the place. Now, I know maybe 3 kanji characters in total (watashi, Ni and hon) and I feel like I've hit a road block. Studying them over and over again will cause them to stick in my memory (starting to remember the kanji for genki) but it is seriously daunting to have elaborate kanji characters thrown at you randomly without the app teaching you the kanji.

so many beautiful and charismatic people, this was one of the best videos yet

難読漢字とか出ると思ったら普通の常用漢字。 なんでみんな読めないのだろう 文章の中にあったら読めるかな？

@user-az8gi5od3n

Жыл бұрын

そもそもビジネス以外で会話で使ってない そういう難しい漢字使うと「日本語できますマウントとってる」と突っ込む一部のあたおか日本人がいるから口に出して言えない人もいる それになれてるんで、いざクイズ形式で出されると咄嗟に出ない 読書好きで書いてある文字でなら意味も理解してて読める、自分で書ける人もいる

Well... We don't know all the words of the English vocabulary. PS: I'm Brazilian, but the logic behind it is the same. I don't know all the Portuguese words.

@mewhenthemewhenstheme

5 жыл бұрын

Don't Brazilians speak Spanish though?

@FelipeOliveiratj

5 жыл бұрын

@@mewhenthemewhenstheme Nope! Brazilians speak Portuguese. We were colonized by Portugal, not by Spain like the rest of South America.

@mewhenthemewhenstheme

5 жыл бұрын

oh cool

@user-tv5lt6mk1y

5 жыл бұрын

@David A Paulo M That's because Portuguese is more complex than Spanish.

@msi4887

5 жыл бұрын

We dont know the words but we can read them..

6:45 It's definitely Monster Hunter, screw this interview, gotta go farm more Rath Gleams (or whatever the Japanese name is.) Did you record this in front of a CAPCOM store or something?

@senjied6106

7 жыл бұрын

dkosmari lmao same

@sawtun8672

7 жыл бұрын

the whole video was recorded with Monster Hunter theme playing in the background in the street.

@makisekurisu8594

6 жыл бұрын

dkosmari omg I remember my days back than scouting the monsters

That Gakusei Janai Desu made me feel proud my Duo Lingo courses have paid off enough for me to remember that one sentence. Cant wait for the day I have to use this sentence. 私はりんごです

your videos are great...made my day

「貼付」や「汎用」が読めなきゃマトモに仕事もできないだろうし、「所謂」や「捗る」すら読めないとなると、読書すら厳しいだろうに...

@AlexBossulica

5 жыл бұрын

まさに

@ieigufal8018

5 жыл бұрын

街に出歩いてるのはアホなんだよ

I'm half Japanese and I always felt upset because I suck at kanji (writing at least). My mom (who is Japanese) always told me that I don't have to worry because she doesn't know all of them and because of computers, we don't write them often so many people forget. However, I didn't really believe her until we moved to Japan and found many people asking each other about kanji 😂

@edwardvictorau

4 жыл бұрын

Not surprised, given some characters are not day to day words. Most could b circumvented by writing in hiragana.

@noemieyuriko5545

3 жыл бұрын

Omg I'm half and also get upset because I struggle with kanjis 😭✌🏻

It's a pretty fun experience watching this, because I'm a Chinese person learning Japanese, and it's amazing how you can know the meaning but not the pronunciation in Japanese. It's an awesome language that I will pursue!

6:30 that perfect sync.

If the japanese themselves can't spell kanjis then I'm screwed :v

@robertoalfonso4120

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Edward you’ll be able to understand what you need to speak, sometimes even make a debate, I recomend to start with nature 花 はな flower 山やまmountain 木 き tree 石 いし stone

@tylerliu2632

4 жыл бұрын

it is not supposed to be " spelled"

Although Japanese, kanji that Japanese people usually use are 2136 characters. I think kanji is very difficult even in Japanese. For example, the combination of hiragana and kanji may change the way you read it, or even the same word may change its meaning due to subtle differences in pronunciation. So when you're talking, you often get confused and misled.

As a Chinese speaker I could easily read almost all the kanji in the video, including 所, 谓, 逝, 去, 贴, 付. At the beginning, I just didn't get 汎, which is a variant of 泛 (pronounced fan4 in Mandarin), but I understood this point only when Juta revealed the meaning of the word 汎用 in Japanese. The only ideogram that I really didn't know was 捗, which is not common in modern Chinese.

@dakai.liu1992

3 жыл бұрын

About understanding the meaning (not the pronounciation) of those words by the knowledge of Chinese, 所谓 ("the so called") and 逝去 (to pass away) are actually common words in Chinese. At first glance, I could also guess the meaning of the word 贴付 "paste" by looking at the first character 贴 (which means "to paste" also in Chinese) though that is not a word used in Mandarin. By the way, after I saw the character 付 ("to pay") I got confused about its meaning, since that in Chinese there is the word "贴现 " used in finance that means "to discount" (a commercial bill or an invoice). At the end, I thought that the meaning of 贴付 was something like "to pay", since that 贴 in Mandarin has also the meaning "to cover" (an expense）in some case. In other words, in some case knowing Chinese can be tricky when reading Japanese, since that there are many "false friends" among these two languages.

Yuta made this video for us to feel better since he probably knows we all struggle with Kanji too.

This makes me feel better. As a non- native person trying to create fantasy Japanese-ish names using Kanji. I have no clue if the Kanji I wrote makes any sense or means what I want them to mean. Glad to see even Japanese people need to do a lot of guessing to read Kanji as well. Like, I wrote 明照/明照大神 which I want to vocalize as "Akaterasu/Akaterasu Ōmigami" as the fantasy version of a Sun Goddess. 明照 meaning "Shining Sun" as opposed to the real Japanese Sun Goddess whose named "Amaterasu" 天照 "Shining Heavens".

現代文の先生が捗るよめないってどういう事だよ

@dtdw2danielthedestructivew284

5 жыл бұрын

ろりくん なに ?

@levikeanu5156

5 жыл бұрын

ウェイrーえっ豚お金

@JosyTel_04

5 жыл бұрын

なに？

@user-kb6nw2vb7l

5 жыл бұрын

ろりくん ほんまそれなw

a question. If I'm learning japanese.... should I learn chinese first to have less difficulty with katakana? Cause I think *technically* it's the same in japanese as it is in chinese riiight?

@SwZap

4 жыл бұрын

Yes technically you can find all their roots from chinese, but if you want to learn katakana, just learn katakana.....I am chinese, but canot recognize most of katakana unless I really go to learn it (but I am always too lazy and never had a chance........when I receive anything in katakana, I usually need to paste them to google translate to read them out, and I may understand it when I hear it)

I've watched this video many times and every time I come back to this video, it never fails to have me laughing 😂

this is so relieving because I've been trying to learn japanese and was so ready to memorize every possible kanji for every word I'd learn. This makes me feel better about taking the kanji learning a little slower lol.

現代文の先生やってて逝去読めないのやばいでしょ笑笑

@minordu935

5 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth T 现代文。先生。。。。逝去言壳。。。。笑笑

@kelvinlee5084

5 жыл бұрын

@@minordu935 现代文（现代日语）。先生（老师）。。。。逝去读。。。。笑笑

@leonardusmartins

5 жыл бұрын

What?

@starlyghtdrifter66

5 жыл бұрын

首だよな

@theunchosenone5152

5 жыл бұрын

;-;

「捗る」とか「逝去」とか、、日常的に目にする漢字やろ。。読めないのやばすぎん？日本人として。

@user-az8gi5od3n

Жыл бұрын

日常的には目にはしますが、その前に会話で使わん業種も

@jzrb

Жыл бұрын

そもそも東京とかいうアホしかおらんとこでやってるからやろ

I'm learning hiragana and katakana right now, and when I was told about kanji I lost it. But seeing how I won't be alone with messing up or not knowing it well gives me a little more hope 😅

the moment is said “how you say paste in japanese” I lost it because he actually asked that question is in japanese. Kanji is a new world