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How Japanese People Type in Japanese
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@walterclementsjr.5947
5 жыл бұрын
did you just reply to your 3 year-old video?
@scorchday8119
5 жыл бұрын
First to like this comment 👍
@user-iz7kf8jx5h
5 жыл бұрын
Nice timing
@monadolifesaver5613
5 жыл бұрын
I remember finding this video years ago.
@jeffreyrusselljr7713
5 жыл бұрын
I'm getting pretty good at speaking Japonese, but reading and writing are a different story. I'm having great difficulty memorizing kanji any advice?
With three different forms of writing I thought a Japanese keyboard would look like an old church organ with 3 rows of keys and 6 foot pedals to operate it...
@mal35m
5 жыл бұрын
@Mojo Neko I thought the same thing.
@dishant8126
5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@Ythiro
5 жыл бұрын
I don't get why katakana even exists, at that point why didn't they apply the western alphabet into their language? creating a new set of characters just for foreign language that butchers the foreign language anyway? miruku = milk... it's english i might get it but if it's italian or spanish?
@dark_knight109
5 жыл бұрын
@@Ythiro Katakana isn't *just* for foreign language. It's also used for: -Onomatopoeias and "atmosphere" words -Situations where legibility is important (many road markings are in katakana, because kanji and hiragana would be too difficult to make out, especially at speed). -Attracting attention attention (katakana is common in ads and some business names, as it tends to draw the eye) -Denoting "unusual" speech (in written works, people with unusual speaking patterns - like robots or very young children - sometimes have their speech spelled out in katakana to emphasize the "non-smooth" nature of their speech; the English equivalent would be SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS). It does seem superfluous at first but, honestly, once you get used to it it's actually pretty useful.
@zachariasprice3762
5 жыл бұрын
@@theramendutchman a playing card is called 'carta' in Portuguese. A letter (like from a person to another) is also 'carta'. A credit card or a postal card is called 'cartão' (cartão de crédito and cartão postal, respectively).
When I was like 11 years old I thought Japanese people had a keyboard with thousands of characters on it.
@wolfmarine5955
4 жыл бұрын
I think we all did😬
@LeoMkII
4 жыл бұрын
that one chapter from the Simpson has to do with it
@bof3ryu
4 жыл бұрын
There's a keyboard like that. in this video he's just showing how he types Japanese using US keyboard
@sneakysnens6720
4 жыл бұрын
Before the Video i still thought it
@unknownlittlelady
4 жыл бұрын
I still do, I just refuse to believe that they type with an ENGLISH keyboard.
When i first learn japanese : "hiragana and katakana are actually pretty easy, i think i will master japanese writing in a month" Kanji : "の"
@zenitsu6379
3 жыл бұрын
oh god this will soon be a warning for me-
@user-rg9vk8gp9h
3 жыл бұрын
@@zenitsu6379 ganbatte lol 😆✊
@jonnydavis3857
3 жыл бұрын
All you have to remember is katakana and hiragana tho.you don’t need to memorize so many kanjis
@user-rg9vk8gp9h
3 жыл бұрын
@@jonnydavis3857 thankyou, you made me feel better by this 🙌
@KairoPires
3 жыл бұрын
Yametekudastop with this めめ >:(
Fun fact: At 1:27 It says “Cute girl falls in love, confesses, gets rejected, gives up” Wtf-
@gemstonegynoid7475
3 жыл бұрын
rip
@toucanxi178
3 жыл бұрын
I dont think that's very fun
@takatamiyagawa5688
3 жыл бұрын
Now that you pointed it out, I can see "kawaii onnanoko", but can't read the rest.
@oliviarts8778
3 жыл бұрын
i feal personally atacked
@Albescara
3 жыл бұрын
@@gabeowser9881 akirameru
Japanese person: *makes a typo* "I have decided that I want to die"
@sk8_bort
4 жыл бұрын
*seppuku intensifies*
@UtkuErenBodur
4 жыл бұрын
let's get this to 666
@eyon7630
4 жыл бұрын
@@sk8_bort sudoku*
@guilden4170
4 жыл бұрын
@@eyon7630 ...sudoku?
@IMCYT
4 жыл бұрын
*Proceeds to Seppuku*
"Sometimes you make a mistake because you are only human. Then you have to start again" I´m so inspired
@smoothman8007
7 жыл бұрын
-genjo
@cactussenpai9625
7 жыл бұрын
that's what i thought Freaking Genji "You are only human"
@pikasfed
7 жыл бұрын
Radovan Wolf Funniest part, "uou are only human" language is made to make humans communicate
@keeshayip8420
7 жыл бұрын
Kat MADA MADA
@fozze9456
7 жыл бұрын
ahahahha i just read this the fkn same time he said it hahaha :)))
OMG I've never been so thankful to have a Latin alphabet.
@megaxind16
3 жыл бұрын
Me too, english is not a my native, but mine is Latin Alphabet same as english, so it won't be that hard for me to typing
@sgirix65
3 жыл бұрын
@@megaxind16 same, every keyboard in my country uses US keymap even though English is not even an official language in my country lol
@megaxind16
3 жыл бұрын
@@sgirix65 are Southeast Asian?
@sgirix65
3 жыл бұрын
@@megaxind16 yes i'm southeast asian
@megaxind16
3 жыл бұрын
@@sgirix65 indo?
This is why Japanese work so long hours...
@marshals.
3 жыл бұрын
I was here at 11 likes and 1 comment
@RamizGShaikh
3 жыл бұрын
I was here at 44 likes and 2 comments
@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat
3 жыл бұрын
:0
@Livius_42
3 жыл бұрын
草
@user-ys6fi1jf6n
3 жыл бұрын
笑った笑
Here’s one story that I want to introduce , one day, there was a person who was texting to a friend like this 私の顔どう思う? (How do you think about my face?) the friend texted back へいき だよ (It‘s not a problem) And then converted the letters to Kanji and sended back The texting was written like this 兵器だよ (It’s a weapon) Conclusion, converting miss can be a BIG PROBLEM
@MEUAR
4 жыл бұрын
Well hey, being told my face is a weapon would make me feel pretty fucking badass tbh.
@lieutenantashe6673
4 жыл бұрын
@@MEUAR Haha, yeah B)
4 жыл бұрын
Wait so "it's not a problem" and "it's a weapon" sounds the same?
@nil8392
4 жыл бұрын
F40 Yeah, many things in Japanese sound the same
@fgv3357
4 жыл бұрын
you can still understand what he was trying to say through context.
Imaging having an argument on the Internet 😩 that's why Japanese people are so polite! Haha
@craurd
4 жыл бұрын
Lol I just realized
@OutlawKING111
4 жыл бұрын
Lmao they don't wanna waste time.
@purpledefaultpfp6233
4 жыл бұрын
Murica'
@Rhoadie1
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine being in a war and trying to report anything quickly.... Or requisition supplies quickly. History doesn't seem so weird now right? Riiiiight?
@user-ks9db9bq7l
4 жыл бұрын
Oh boy. Typing in polite in Japanese is as excruciating as speaking it as it is overflowing with wordiness.
As valuable as preserving language is, I think Korea knew what it was doing when it said "enough of this pictogram nonsense" and invented the world's most logical phonetic writing system
@prezentoappr1171
Жыл бұрын
more homophones good for you maybe if its danish vowels with some big consonant inventory would yield ithkuil, tho as much as people try to meme ithkuil looks too much, it prolly degrade/innovate fast enough to be basic if it ever is spoken natively thx xiomanyc also the piraha thing is great too.
@283leis
7 ай бұрын
i mean the korean writing system was literally designed to be as easy as possible
I was literally just thinking, "I wonder how Japanese people type in Kanji". I decided that I'd google it later, but never did. Then this video popped up on my suggested page. Magic!
@wwoods66
3 жыл бұрын
Google knows where you live. Also what you think, what you want, etc.
@haraldschurr1035
3 жыл бұрын
Google is prone to this kind of magic. That happens to me quite often.
@Akkhinus
2 жыл бұрын
Google knows you better than you know yourself.
@samizayed1126
2 жыл бұрын
People joke about this, but it's actually true that Google does listen to you na dtry to pick out certain words or phrases to tailor those ads 🤑
@oiseau_libre
Жыл бұрын
@@samizayed1126 He was THINKING that, not saying! Also, Yuta was wrong: computer CAN read your mind. It just gives you wrong suggestions out of spite, hehe.
"I have a keyboard i have an apple" Me: *don't you dare*
@TFOCyborg
4 жыл бұрын
Uh! Apple Keyboard!
@linustechtips4833
4 жыл бұрын
I don’t get it
@TFOCyborg
4 жыл бұрын
@@linustechtips4833 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dahqpLeJpqiYo7A.html Thank me later
@linustechtips4833
4 жыл бұрын
TFO Cyborg oh! Haha thanks lad
@emilioteran7867
4 жыл бұрын
jeeezz that really was a ride back... i'll admit i immediately went to watch it
how to type in japanese step 1 : open google translate
@montoya6064
4 жыл бұрын
Yes but no
@xVxStriderxVx
4 жыл бұрын
Seems legit.
@imgay7317
4 жыл бұрын
Thats what i do
@alinastanescu4430
4 жыл бұрын
まあはい、しかし実際にははい (Well yes, but actually yes)
@alinastanescu4430
4 жыл бұрын
@@imgay7317 同じ(same)
"0:26 we have 3 types of script: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji" Me: oh god, i already have headache You made me realize i gotta say thanks to the romans for this efficent yet simple way of writing.
@llVIU
3 жыл бұрын
russians and their cyrillic: we don't do that around here
@ulti-mantis
3 жыл бұрын
But if you think about it, the "Latin" alphabet used by most European languages contains 4 scripts: upper and lower case for hand and print. It's comparable to Hiragana and Katakana in total character count.
@Christobanistan
3 жыл бұрын
@@ulti-mantis Total character count is irrelevant, it's the effort required to get them out. And upper vs lowercase versions of the same character is really not relevant since it doesn't affect which word you're typing at all and is not even necessary.
@a2falcone
3 жыл бұрын
@@ulti-mantis So we have to learn four times as many characters but only for one system (104 in the standard English alphabet). It's still only one alphabet with 104 characters, though they're really only 26 graphemes, since the duplicates represent the same sound and are thus easier to learn. Plus, many of them look pretty much the same in all scripts, so it's no effort to learn them (think of T, M, W, U, etc). Learning that is way easier than learning one sillabary with 48 completely different characters (katakana), another sillabary with 46 completely different characters (hiragana) and a logographic system with literally thousands of characters.
@technoguyx
3 жыл бұрын
The real hard thing is adjusting that writing system to whichever language you want to write -- often that relies in a ton of conventions that must be learnt at some point, or simply intuition in most cases. In English there's a lot of different sounds associated to the same combinations of letters and that usually makes it hard for foreigners to learn it at first.
I came here thinking, "typing in Japanese can't be this hard. I'm going to find how actual Japanese do it". Then I learn I've been doing it the "normal" way this whole time. What a pain.
@oiseau_libre
Жыл бұрын
jajaja (laughing in Spanish)
English typers - 50 words per minute Japanese typers - 3 words per hour
@Mr.Nichan
4 жыл бұрын
I was just recently in a comment thread where people were arguing with walls of Chinese text. Now I'm wondering how long it took them to type those. (It might be faster than Japanese though.)
@kuma-kun9777
4 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.Nichan honestly as a chinese. It is faster typing chinese than typing in Japanese because as the video mentioned, japanese has like 3 forms and the same word can have alot of different meanings. While Chinese characters usually have only a couple to no different meanings for each word and it only has one form, thus typing in chinese is way faster than in japanese. But all in all, it really depends on how fast the person is typing -.-
@AAce_e
4 жыл бұрын
3 letters per hour*
@Mr.Nichan
4 жыл бұрын
@@AAce_e Well, 3 characters per hour.
@user-dm3iz7yu1i
4 жыл бұрын
Actually it’s not really hard as he says, because typing a long word always will be shorter in japanese than english, plus we use a lot of little expressions you probably know like ドキドキ (dokidoki) and theses are extremely fast to type.
Me: * doesn't even speak or understand Japanese * Also me: * watches a video on how to type in Japanese*
@mkdelta188
4 жыл бұрын
TASE mood
@FreePalestine2024__0
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@F_sniprs
4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@anotherhumanbeing9171
4 жыл бұрын
Same here
@belivr475
4 жыл бұрын
when i saw how they type in anime i was a bit interested bcs it looked unusual. then when i saw this vid i thought "hmmmm interesting maybe after this vid ill understand everything". well, no bcs idk japanese at all. so, yeah. the same situation as u guys
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me now why the Japanese work 18 hour days and still prefer fax machines.
@user-xc2zz7kr8o
3 жыл бұрын
This also explains why they prefer physical papers rather than digital ones.
I've heard that despite being a technologically advance culture that a large amount of business is still done on paper. If writing on a computer in Japanese is this complex /difficult I think I understand why they'd want to do documents by hand. It avoids errors.
@funete5515
Жыл бұрын
Not for those reasons, but because of their aversion to change.
@user-ry3qc5js3j
26 күн бұрын
Computerized input is not difficult for Japanese. And using paper in business does not mean writing by hand, but printing the computer-typed text on paper.
them: so, is Japanese easy? me: *の*
@TheOrbPonderer-7
4 жыл бұрын
I think I'll stick to learning how to speak/understand it for now. Google translate does a good job texting.
@leilachu
4 жыл бұрын
はい
@user-qk1hf8cx4c
4 жыл бұрын
ノ
@user-qk1hf8cx4c
4 жыл бұрын
ChamiiKun omg she looks so cute in that picture 😂😂 she’s my best girl I cried at the end of goodbye despair
@ange8295
4 жыл бұрын
いいえ、ばか。 That’s what you should say to them (^ν^)
I'm Japanese. Typing Japanese is time consuming. I hate it.
@user-gc8me5mk8b
4 жыл бұрын
俺もいまだに慣れない。間違って隣のキーボード押してイライラする毎日..
@thisguysgaming7246
4 жыл бұрын
But Japanese writing system looks cool
@user-dm3iz7yu1i
4 жыл бұрын
えええ、ほんと?
@Neonto
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder there must be a better way to do this...
@skkadoot9533
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-gc8me5mk8b おかげでグーグル翻訳者
Myth: Japanese people want to finish work, go home, and watch cat videos on KZread. Rality: they are suspended in a typing loop.
I am from Hong Kong and typing in Chinese is literally typing every word in kanji so which makes typing is Chinese is way more slower than Japanese
@avocados1707
3 жыл бұрын
im still confused 😭✋
@mycobacteriem2540
3 жыл бұрын
i saw something once on how pinyin is used to type in chinese and found it cool if not time consuming. the only keyboards I have any experience with are the US English one and the Spanish\Catalan keyboard which are both very similar variants with just a few extra characters and easier access to accent marks.
@electricalman481
2 жыл бұрын
I hear that in Taiwan they use this alphabet called “Bopomofo” to build their Chinese characters instead of the Latin alphabet. It looked easier until I realized that it’s a tonal language and they’d probably use accent marks😅
Manga authors time consumption chart: 20% Drawing 10% Manga layout 70% Typing
@Stxuchii
3 жыл бұрын
That's 190, did you mean to go up to 200 or 100?-
@default632
3 жыл бұрын
@@Stxuchii 20 + 10 + 70 is only 100 though
@Stxuchii
3 жыл бұрын
@@default632 oh sorry my brain decided to thing It was different numbers.
@nauka7565
3 жыл бұрын
@@Stxuchii wait, how?
@Stxuchii
3 жыл бұрын
@@nauka7565 my brain thinking it was different or??
And native English speakers complain about spelling inconsistencies...
@gustavorobalo5485
5 жыл бұрын
Blame the Romans for that. They spread the Latin alphabet created to be used in other languages.
@alessiobenvenuto5159
5 жыл бұрын
@@gustavorobalo5485 Isn't Romans' fault, if anglo-saxon didn't get THE GREATNESS of the Holy Roman Empire!
@BlackSalamander439
5 жыл бұрын
Gus R Most European countries added new letters or modified the existing ones from Latin alphabet to fit their language though. It’s just English that never did this for some reason. My language alone has óżźśąęńłć added to the alphabet.
@zachariasprice3762
5 жыл бұрын
@@BlackSalamander439 Portuguese has á ã â à ó ô õ é ê and used to have ü (brazilian portuguese at least)
@filipelimartins
5 жыл бұрын
@@alessiobenvenuto5159 the holy Roman empire wasn't Roman at all, it was German.
Arabic language is easy to write for me as an arabic but the problem is that arabic writing starts from right to left thats the opposite to English and other languages that use Latin alphabets. So the video games companies have to make a special things so the words can be settled from right to left . But some video games don’t even have this thing so you can’t write in arabic . Or either provide it but letters aren’t connected “ in arabic writing you have to connect the letters unlike the Latin alphabet “ so instead of this word العراق its like ا ل ع ر ا ق second problem is that when the letters are connected the game arrange the words from left to write so instead of this انا من العراق it be العراق من اناits most of the time not a serious problem you can still understand or you write in opposition so the words when arranged it becomes in the perfect arrangement but its still very painful thing
@AstroAnalysis
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds hard to deal with 😭 The example with games arranging the words from left to right looks mirrored...? So in English it would be from "goblins eat meat", to "meat eat goblins"? Is that right?
@tahaemad5809
2 жыл бұрын
@@AstroAnalysis yeah it will look like “meat eat goblins “
@samizayed1126
2 жыл бұрын
@@AstroAnalysis More often than not, letters are arranged from left to right, and they don't connect when that happens, so: الولد الصغير يأكل المثلجات gets messed up as: ت ا ج ل ث م ل ا ل ك أ ي ر ي غ ص ل ا د ل و ل ا As you can imagine this is almost unreadable
@AstroAnalysis
2 жыл бұрын
@@samizayed1126 What an absolute headache that must be 😭 I would think that newer/more modern games should have it display correctly, but... would you say it's common for games to have that sort of cut-up translation?
@aliemadi4993
2 жыл бұрын
Same as Persian, Persian is wrote on arabic script too
It amazes me that Japanese and Chinese people now think of their native languages at their most basic, fundamental level by using the Latin alphabet. And this hugely significant change is just accepted without anyone questioning it.
@samizayed1126
2 жыл бұрын
I beg for all languages to be typed using a Latin keyboard. So much uniformity! Even languages that are relatively easy to type, like Arabic, should be written or at least arranged like the Latin QWERTY.
@Sogeking995
2 жыл бұрын
It’s a little sad, but also practical
@xtdycxtfuv9353
2 жыл бұрын
It can’t be helped, Latin alphabet is just built different.
@danielantony1882
2 жыл бұрын
@@xtdycxtfuv9353 Nah, it's just the easiest to use.
@osasunaitor
Жыл бұрын
I also thought about this. If people in Japan need a basic knowledge of the Latin alphabet to be able to write their own Japanese language, does it ever cross their minds to just use Latin altogether and make things simpler?? Just to be clear, I don't want them to change their writing system, it would be a big cultural loss to remove such a significant and ancient script. But it would definitely make things easier for them
Me : French is pretty hard to type sometimes Japanese : No Me : ok
@CT7056
3 жыл бұрын
How is french hard to type
@kenmakozume4253
3 жыл бұрын
It’s basically English letters lmao
@ly9
3 жыл бұрын
@@kenmakozume4253 was talking about grammar
@kenmakozume4253
3 жыл бұрын
@@ly9 oh yeah because of all the tenses it has that makes sense
@kittyg8140
3 жыл бұрын
@@CT7056 you have to know how to add the multiple accents if you don't have a French keyboard, if you have a French or bilingual keyboard it is a snap. If you don't have one just type "how to add French accents" there are a ton of sites that will give you the info depending on your OS and version you use.
i have a keyboard. i have an applllllle. seriously though. thanks for making this video. i was wondering how typing in Japanese worked and bam you made a video on it.
@beyondgods9590
7 жыл бұрын
iChazAshley moms spaghetti
@keanu3260
7 жыл бұрын
hey I've seen this on a prank vid the guy says "I have pen, I have apple, applepen." Is this some meme or some internet joke?
@dcasey714
7 жыл бұрын
Keanu nond Wha- Where were you throughout the later half of 2016?
@WANDERER0070
7 жыл бұрын
Keanu nond look up Piko Taro PPAP
@PongoXBongo
7 жыл бұрын
Just ask Alexa to "play PPAP", she'll hook you up. ;)
So, the solution to a informal conversation is simple, very simple: Send Audio fellas
No one has really mentioned Spanish. Spanish from Mexico is especially easy because it is basically spelled the way it sounds with a couple extra letters that have special pronunciation (namely ñ). You just have to learn the pronunciation of the alphabet in Spanish and you can start reading right away. And when writing, even if you miss some accent marks, the idea still gets across because small errors don't completely change the meaning of a word.
If I was japanese I'd send handwritten letters instead of e-mails. Also imagine what writing a digital thesis must be like. Big OOF
@dorferino
4 жыл бұрын
scanning it and correcting it with OCR is probably faster
@davr1
4 жыл бұрын
Bruh imagine grades being based on character count
@atomstarfireproductions8695
4 жыл бұрын
There’s writing touchpads that you can use
@amerain1729
4 жыл бұрын
Writing is much harder, I think Writing characters with 15+ strokes can be a nightmare
@hsar5
4 жыл бұрын
Did you assuming my paper?
Resuming, has a cuban, it´s a pain in the ass write in japanese, imagine writing in japanese in a nokia with 3 letters buttoms
@Charmdragon4
5 жыл бұрын
You would have got more likes if you spelled buttons correctly
@sesamtoast9431
5 жыл бұрын
watch mirai nikki these guys are doing it XD
@AndTecks
5 жыл бұрын
@@Charmdragon4 You would get more buttons if you were more likeable.
@cherrybansx7398
5 жыл бұрын
i heard they prefer flip phones in japan cus its easier to type i didnt realize how stupid that was. obviously it would be even harder
@The.Flash22
5 жыл бұрын
😂
You don’t have to go from hiragana to kanji the back to hiragana, just press the Enter key after typing hiragana, and it stays as hiragana, and just press the F7 key to put it straight into katakana!
@ta4music459
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that works for me too, on my non-Windows PC. I find it very easy to input Japanese. No major slowdown. My wife is super fast though. She says that she's actually in the minority using this input method.. I was surprised to hear that. If that's a generation thing I don't know.
French is hard to type cause if you misspell a word it can have a totally different meaning 😭 “Nous sommes dans la mer” -> we’re in the sea “Nous sommes dans la mère” -> we’re in the mother Well
@KnockKnockOpenTheDoorItsMe
3 жыл бұрын
"We're in the mother" holy shit =))
@charliep7973
3 жыл бұрын
same with every language tho. maybe a bit more common in french
@mel4340
3 жыл бұрын
bro every language has this tho. Like in portuguese "A gente gosta muito de comer pão, mas nossa comida favorita mesmo é carne" -> We like a lot to eat bread, but our favorite meal is meat. "Agente gosta muito de comer pão, mais nossa comida favorita mesmo é carne" -> Agents like a lot to eat bread, more our favorite meal is meat.
@claraaneedssleep
3 жыл бұрын
@@mel4340 it was supposed to be a joke 😭
@mel4340
3 жыл бұрын
@@claraaneedssleep oh '-'. That's a weird joke
thank you Romans for spreading the latin alphabet !! this would be too way to complicated for me.
@mafia2boy33
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah... We nordics would have the runes... HAd been cool tho Are you from Mexico?
@akumajack1813
7 жыл бұрын
Nihil est.
@cuauhtemocsanchez8139
7 жыл бұрын
i am mexican, but live in europe
@metal87power
7 жыл бұрын
Well, there would be no Latin alphabet if not for Fenicians and Greeks.
@YiannisThiakos
7 жыл бұрын
well thanx for the forgoter phoenicians that make the alphabete. then the greeks that converting it to phonetic alphabete, then the romans for further developing it. :D
1:37 “Please comment if you understand the meaning of this sentence.”
@Martha_Inerror
4 жыл бұрын
XD
@yoshi_drinks_tea
4 жыл бұрын
Antonio Vivaldi Go Bach to your country and Vivaldi respect though.
@carlosnava1471
4 жыл бұрын
Congratulations, you won the internet. Your prize will arrive in 3 days
@yoshi_drinks_tea
4 жыл бұрын
carlos nava Oh golly, how fun.
@afonsocesar1667
4 жыл бұрын
"Meu pastel é mais barato"
Yo hablo Español y creo que lo más complicado de escribir en mi idioma es poner los acentos correctos en las vocales, pues "como" y "cómo" son dos palabras distintas y se puede dar una mala interpretación si no se usa el acento (cosa que casi nadie hace porque hasta cierto punto es redundante), también está el tema de la "h muda", en Inglés la h sí tiene un sonido característico, pero en Español se usa más que nada por tradición. Por último está el tema de las palabras con "qu", para un extrangero puede ser raro darse cuenta de que la "u" no suena, justo como la h. Todas las lenguas tienen sus particularidades y es divertido cuando te das cuenta de ellas :B
Yuta - I understand your dilemma, I am English and as you have realised in our language there is no single rule, the same word can sound different or mean different things depending on the context it is used in. The benefit of English however is how flexible it and you can often use the wrong words in a sentence and everyone will still understand what you mean, recently a man I work with asked "is you bourted that?" while pointing at something I owned, so I answered "yes, I bourted that" telling him that it was mine.
Video: How Japanese people type in Japanese 2.8million people: mmm *omoshiroi*
@gappyhigakshikata
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@faaiza5410
4 жыл бұрын
I dont know what omoshiroi means but I have a feeling it means interesting
@aidoruru1214
4 жыл бұрын
@@faaiza5410 you're right
@LadyMoncho_Cyborg
4 жыл бұрын
おもしろい indeed
@oceanman6375
4 жыл бұрын
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING KARS REFERENCE
so thats basically why Japanese people working 14 hours a day, everyday in their life. *another one's victims of evil qwerty.*
@JuanMorales-bv7qr
5 жыл бұрын
dvorac master race
@AniFan121
5 жыл бұрын
but I have *qwertz* not *qwerty*
@flavioionasc4947
5 жыл бұрын
@@AniFan121 Are you from Germany? I think you had this keyboard because of that, but i'm not sure.
@AniFan121
5 жыл бұрын
@@flavioionasc4947 yes I am
英語苦手だけど、簡単な文で話してくれて分かりやすい!日本語を教えている動画なのに、英語の勉強になります笑
Usually when something is awkward or over-complex, some person figures out a simplification that is functional and faster. And then when other people see it, they too adopt the simplification. So my question is: Is written Japanese gradually _changing/evolving,_ because people find (and spread) simpler & faster ways of writing (on computer) - ways that still express their meaning? (I mean, something similar has certainly happened with English texting. But maybe in Japanese it happens even in non-abbreviated writing....)
I like my letters even more than ever now........
2:27 is "why the Japanese use kanji" in 5 seconds
@dylan2478
5 жыл бұрын
Tell that to kanji club
@azcenajordan3851
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you captain
@divxxx
5 жыл бұрын
How can they understand each other orally though?
@michaelsantos4814
5 жыл бұрын
PoIsOnDiVx they transmit the kanji telepathically to the person they’re speaking to. You gain this power during N4
@TariqNavabiGaming
5 жыл бұрын
PoIsOnDiVx different syllable stress and context U can’t show syllable stress in writing It would be like rápidly vs rapídly RApidly ve rapIdly Just my 2 cents
This is fascinating! I know nothing about Japanese, but I'm a software developer and I'm looking into applying to a company whose client-facing website is in Japanese. So I started looking up things to learn about Japanese. I'd love your Japanese course!
In Febuary1974 I married a woman I met in Korea in October 1971. I started learning the Korean alphabet when I was stationed on Okinawa (Army enlisted) in 1973 and took trips to Korea to process the marriage paperwork. (I did not want to lean much Japanese to keep the languages from getting confused!) I took buses often in Korea, needing to read and understand the place I was headed, like the American Embassy and other government offices. In my opinion, Korean is an easy language to learn but in the 18 months I was on Okinawa, I only recognized the sound of one Japanese symbol! The laying down backward 'e' "の" (sounded out as 'no')! I'm still married and have learned much more Korean and am glad the written Korean language has 24 symbols to learn an is so much like English with it's 26 symbols! Thank you Yuta for your very good explanation of the three Japanese writing and speaking forms!
I majored in Japanese in college and this is the same typing method I used 5 years ago. At the time I believed that Japanese people used a keyboard with hiragana on the keys so when I moved there to teach English, I was shocked to learn that they typed the same way that I did. There are Japanese keyboards as well, but they're not all that different from the US qwerty ones. They have hiragana in addition to letters, but most people I met would ignore the hiragana characters. The T key has a か(ka) on it and the K has a の(no) so it's actually really confusing.
@janihyvarinen73
3 жыл бұрын
I have been to Japan twice, and last time I actually bought this kind of hiragana keyboard, thinking it would be useful. Not that expensive, btw, maybe ¥1,300 or something (?). The problem really is in learning another layout on top of the familiar qwerty. And since here in Finland we use a Scandinavian variant of the qwerty (with åäö + different positioning for a lot of special characters), I would be lost with those special characters since the hiragana keyboard follows the US setup for special characters. So in the end, it was a quaint souvenir but not that useful. On my iPad, I originally felt it would be better to learn to use a hiragana chart based input method but again the familiarity of qwerty trumps the savings in clicks that the hiragana chart would offer. It is simply so much faster just to type in rōmaji, see that converted into hiragana, and finally select the right kanji. Sounds complex though. (Btw, I am not yet proficient in Japanese so I don’t type a lot. But I am learning, slowly...)
@codywinter4818
3 жыл бұрын
I thought about buying some of the keys with hiragana on them for my keyboard but I realized its totally unnecessary and would just be a decoration because I already memorized the layout after using it a bit. After some practice its pretty natural to me now.
@JavierPwns
3 жыл бұрын
Damn what a waste of a college degree
@amoatlas
2 жыл бұрын
@@JavierPwns why is it a waste😭
@zeckma
2 жыл бұрын
I'm on a mobile device, so having the 3x4 flick mode on saves a lot of time in my opinion but takes time to learn. I wish Japanese keyboards had that method as well, but at this point, the qwerty method is simply better.
Basic summary of this video: How do you type in Japanese Yuta? Yuta: With difficulty
When I had a project with an international student who just arrived from China, it blew her mind that I could type what I was saying in real time.
Japanese writer: I'm speed American Computers: *Jackson Storm meme intensifies*
Never knew typing would be harder than math
@DankDudeee
3 жыл бұрын
imagine doing math with that
@clydexmation4583
3 жыл бұрын
@@DankDudeee Pain
@JC-eq9dq
3 жыл бұрын
It's hard to translate like... when you type the word: you(in japanese) it will be: yo(in english) so you need to type: kimi(in japanese) to get the right translation: you(in english)
@maitreyajambhulkar
3 жыл бұрын
Same here bro. I am native Hindi speaker. When I try to type Hindi from keyboard then it is as equal as doing Math
@marcoponzio1644
3 жыл бұрын
well, you're used to english spelling, but it's a complete mess; italian (as well as lots of other languages) is A LOT easier to write. you don't know how much time foregneirs spend to learn english spelling!
I don't know why this is on my recommendations.... Subbed.
@user-oc8ev4ze8g
6 жыл бұрын
"i don't know"
@aragogire
6 жыл бұрын
Dubbed
@alterego7645
6 жыл бұрын
+Aragog 👍
@DinoDays703
5 жыл бұрын
@@aragogire XD
@cesarramos7642
5 жыл бұрын
Same
I speak Polish and we use the same alphabet except some letters are *enchanced* with the power of the alt key... we have ą ę ó ś ł ż ź ć ń ... wait two z's? oh yeah, ż is by pressing z + alt and ź is by pressing x and alt
person who made japanese language: leta make this very very complicated
@ballsxan
3 жыл бұрын
@@jellyfishi_ You can't be serious.
@phambinhan17
Жыл бұрын
@@jellyfishi_ nope. In fact, Japanese after world war is much simpler than before
Thought they just had a Japanese keyboard 💀💀💀💀💀
@MidnightBlue105
5 жыл бұрын
yeah, keyboards with 10,000 buttons
@user-vo4jk8qf6r
5 жыл бұрын
@@MidnightBlue105 they actually have one archive.google.com/drumsetkeyboard/
@L0V3F1ST
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-vo4jk8qf6r Holy sh-
@tunehalo1497
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-vo4jk8qf6r I want one 0-0
@nekozombie
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-vo4jk8qf6r back when Google had a sense of humor
This video blew my mind. It's so complicated! I'm just glad that I don't have to go to that much effort in English.
@razmuzen1090
7 жыл бұрын
in english.*
@graceobrienx8522
7 жыл бұрын
Disparu If you were Japanese and wanted to learn English, you probably would find it complicated because of tense and homophones. You find English easy because you grew up learning it.
@andrewnewman5945
7 жыл бұрын
Let alone a script like Russian. Man, some of those letters that make different sounds in English always through me off.
@spideylover2000
7 жыл бұрын
Irregular verbs being common makes it easier because it's basically drilled into your head. That, and they're remnants of how Old English formed the past tense by changing the vowel (irregular verbs), or the more common system of adding a "d", or "ed" to the end. The irregulars survived because people used them so much, or verbs could've been made irregular because they sound so weird with the system currently in use. I find English to be one of the easier European languages verb wise since it has so few conjugations, and many irregulars end with a "t", "d" and sometimes "k" in the present tense.
@ZetOpal
7 жыл бұрын
Rafael; English used to be incredibly complicated, but over time it simplified. I think of it as a merchants language, many European countries teach English as a mandatory second language (as in they have to learn English). I've come across several exchange students that express differing opinions about English, some had a difficult time, others found it very easy to learn. With Japanese, I think it could do with some simplification, but simplification may mean altering a deeply rooted language which is not easy. English evolved naturally into the language it is today, forcefully altering a language is not very easy, ask the Chinese, they've created Simplified Chinese, however many of the Chinese people continue to speak some other form of Chinese. With English however, once you understand or speak it, you can speak to just about everyone who speaks it since accents don't alter the meaning behind the words, another benefit is that a large portion of the developed world speaks English. If I recall the top 5 languages that they suggest to learn are English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin (Chinese basically), and I think Indian (someone will correct me).
I have been learning Japanese for 3 months now. I wanted to start typing. I could not figure out how Japanese people were doing this. Type, erase, type some more, erase some more, scream, try again. Success!. Then I watched the video and saw I was basically doing what you were saying happens. There was nothing wrong with my typing. There was nothing wrong with my keyboard. This is just Japanese life.
@Cyliem
6 ай бұрын
Have you used Google's IME?, I'm in my two months journey learning japanese albeit I already had an advantage because I was watching anime since I was a kid so some of the vocabularies are already familiar with me. But it clicked for me in just a few hours (I had to learn to type because of a language learning app that I use required me to type Japanese). I recommend using Google's IME, I heard it's what most Japanese people use too. When you select a word (convert from hiragana to kanji or katakana) it's ranked by most to least used according to google's own data and statistics based on what people type so you don't have to press tab a lot and go to the bottom.
I often get frustrated while trying to choose which kanji should I use because it's not my first l mother tongue. But at least Turkish (my own lang) has many similarities. For example Turkish writes just like romaji, so you use Roman alphabet and read as you write. But I wish our relationships between two countries be better and better. There are really few people who can teach Japanese from Turkish even though its really simple that way. So, do you know Japanese? Hiragana: はい Katagana: ハイ Romaji: hai Kanji: いいえ
2:02 - 2:10 WOAH...You just pronounced my name.
@y__h
7 жыл бұрын
Akasha? In english it means aether. Nice name.
@Akki420ish
7 жыл бұрын
+Dave Null- Thanks. Btw it also means "Sky" in Hindi.
@y__h
7 жыл бұрын
Aakash Sahu I learned a new thing. Thanks man!
@Akki420ish
7 жыл бұрын
Dave Null You're welcome! :)
@IcyPenguinNinja
7 жыл бұрын
LMAOO
When you are writing in english with swedish autocorrect on and the whole sentence looks like shit
@adamdobrocky6269
7 жыл бұрын
I am from slovakia so i know your pain.
@Gytiss93
7 жыл бұрын
When you write in lithuanian but dont have autocorrect for lithuanian so you whole essay is underlined. its so fucking painful to watch. you get used to it tho
@isame0085
7 жыл бұрын
True
@misa-cu9xt
7 жыл бұрын
Nils Ekström oo Swedish
@oliversommer8165
7 жыл бұрын
the same with danish :)
I remember trying to teach myself Japanese for about 2 years in high school, after I tried to learn Kanji I just gave up haha. I still remember enough to get around but Kanji is absolute bonkers.
I prefer to type each word individually to ensure my writing is correct before continuing the phrase/sentence.
can someone count how many times he moved his eyebrows up and down
@enricosanchez894
7 жыл бұрын
Billionaire Barbaros 173.
@kenjikunio4487
7 жыл бұрын
Billionaire Barbaros you made the video funny asf 😂😂
@namsukeichinose
7 жыл бұрын
Billionaire Barbaros Ikr yet it had to my reccomended
@KeilanaSingh
7 жыл бұрын
Ethan got competition
You mean there's another thing I can use besides Microsoft IME?? I'm gonna go download google's right now. Microsoft IME is the worrrssttt Edit: oh my god this is so much faster. Thank you
@ThatJapaneseManYuta
7 жыл бұрын
Knowledge is power.
@larana1192
7 жыл бұрын
Charon Caori Google Nihongo Nyuuryoku(Google Japanese IME) is very good
@ImJustJaime
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I never knew Google made one. It's worlds better than Microsoft's!
@HanabiraKage
7 жыл бұрын
違いがありますか?もうインストールしたんですが…
@Charonchan
7 жыл бұрын
まだあんまり使ってないんですが入力はMSより早いと思います。得にMSのショートカットキーは遅かったです。全然反応がない時もありましたし。すごく不便でした。グーグル入力はほんの一瞬で言語が変えます。本当に前よりいいと思いますよ!
this is the video that made me start learning japanese 4 years ago :D
@Sariine436
3 жыл бұрын
てぃしsてぇヴぃでおてゃtまでめわんあぎヴぇうpぇあrにんgじゃぱねせ
@acaaca6512
3 жыл бұрын
did you manage it?
I love how his eyebrow moves up and down every word he speaks
Wtf how are they even able to communicate
@screamtoasigh9984
5 жыл бұрын
After watching the nativlang Japanese videos on why it's so frustrating and seeing yuta ask Japanese to write common words in kanji, I don't understand how Japanese people have gotten as far as they have and haven't cut out the dead weight or revamp it somehow. Or at least add spaces to the words..it's frustrating for me to even think about. (It really seems like a joke, nothing against Japanese people, but the language/s ...it makes no sense to me to have so many and take so long... They can't even look at it and how it's supposed to be pronounced all the time... Even just consonants... (I'm learning Hebrew and the idea that I know after a year all the words in Hebrew that he asked them to write and I can read something without knowing what it means (if the vowels are added in, usually they're not, but I could still give you the consonants and guess the root word), but they usually can't do either of those things with their native language...
@screamtoasigh9984
5 жыл бұрын
@Juan D. M. dude I'm Jewish. 🤣 get back to me when Japan matches Israel's Nobel prizes.... Or inventions...
@bogdanbogdanoff5164
5 жыл бұрын
@@screamtoasigh9984 Lol what? Israel has 8 nobel prizes excluding peace. Japan has 26 in the same period. Also mean IQ is 95 to 105 in Japan
@screamtoasigh9984
5 жыл бұрын
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 sorry, I should have said Jewish. But feel free to do it by population between the two countries Japan has 10x the population... IQ is crap, Mongolia has a higher iq than most of the world, so does China. But so dumb they like communism. And let their kids gets bad eyesight even though just having them sit outside would fix it.
@bogdanbogdanoff5164
5 жыл бұрын
@@screamtoasigh9984 You're not just disgustingly racist personally, but your people also exploited excellent european education systems for centuries before most of you moved away, shame on you
How to type in japanese -Change your pc language to japanese.
@captainkencel1557
5 жыл бұрын
The Flower In The Garden しがお
@kharift
5 жыл бұрын
はいー
@pain_yahikoyt8945
5 жыл бұрын
おはよう
@iscnnn9071
5 жыл бұрын
しずぁにしってください。
@yukira7983
5 жыл бұрын
こんにちは 。 。 。
I met a Japanese exchange student & she taught me some very basics of both Japanese & Chinese, at least well enough to write my own name. Now, as for the alphabet, I thought it was going to be easy to just trade an English letter for a Asian letter, WRONG! It's much more complicated than just that, but I did understand the gist of how it works :)
Thank you for letting me know, i was wondering about that for a long time! All my respect to japanese people who put so much effort to type!
God, having a conversation online in japanese must be time consuming Now i can only imagine japanase playing dota, lol, and raging on the chat...everything might get writen wrong.
@jackmcslay
7 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken they just type everything in hiragana/katakana in chats
@hanniffydinn6019
7 жыл бұрын
Francisco Mello actually no, they know English, the rest of the educated world is multilingual.
@Yuujen
7 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure about in games like Dota, but based on how they talk on twitch, lots of them still use kanji even in that environment.
@chiquinholoco
7 жыл бұрын
@hannify i didn't understand what you mean, but having a conversation IN JAPANESE and having to switch among 3 kinds of alphabet must be time consuming COMPARED to our alphabet
@chiquinholoco
7 жыл бұрын
@jack that is the point.
2:28 *Shows just Hiragana* Me:That aint so bad. 2:31 *Shows Kanji* Me: What dafuck.
@yannycandelario7606
7 жыл бұрын
FiveADay Kanji I know the use for what Kanji and Hirigana is, I was just trying to make a little joke. :)
@baqikenny
7 жыл бұрын
how are you doing now :/
@hickey1292
7 жыл бұрын
I feel like I've been the opposite of the concensus since I started learning Japanese. I love kanji. When you start getting into it you develop systems for recognising them based on their components, and a lot of the time there is a beautiful logic in how the kanji is formed, and what it means. Of course, there are also a bunch of exceptions that are prunounced differently for no reason, but they're fun too. :D
@MrValgard
7 жыл бұрын
when u mistaken authentication with oral tradition ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@FunSize4Audibles
7 жыл бұрын
I can recognize some hiragana on sight, but ask my to write it and I'll just be scratching my head.
I'm so glad my language uses this type of writing I'm using now, so much easier and practical LOL
I’m from Denmark and here, we have the three letters Æ, Ø and Å. Other than that, the typing is pretty similar to English.
Everyone in the comments: flexing about their language skills Me being the dumb ass I am: so they don't have japanese keyboard?
@harkharring2572
4 жыл бұрын
Alejandra Candelaria I think they do have a Japanese keyboard, but they have both a Latin alphabet and also a Japanese alphabet. Tho I’m not quite certain.
@sinom
4 жыл бұрын
@@harkharring2572 They do. there are multiple modes on a japanese keyboard. Normal latin mode, latin mode where it gets converted into kana/kanji, and a mode with which you can write kana directly. The last two have a bunch of sub modes for writing hiragana, katakana, half-width characters etc. (depends on the specific keyboard model a bit. Some only have some of these modes, some have even more)
@hey-fv2gg
4 жыл бұрын
If you go to tech stories most laptops do have the Japanese keyboard: it is like our regular keyboard, but with the hiragana characters as well and a few other minors changes. If you want a standard English keyboard without the Japanese letter you will have to ask for it
@gwusan
4 жыл бұрын
Algunos si, otros no.
@default632
3 жыл бұрын
@@hey-fv2gg wrong. With windows you get the normal standard version. And go to "languages" setting and install japanese. Boom japanese keyboard. It's not physically different.
I'm from Poland and to be honest it's very easy to type in Polish, you just press alt and a letter that you want to change, for example alt+a gives ą, or alt+x gives ź, which is weird, but that's because alt+z gives ż. As I said, pretty easy
@Ayasa.
4 жыл бұрын
In my country our keyboards contain special letters like "ş" "ö" "ü" and "ğ"
@freybjorn4635
4 жыл бұрын
й, ё; ь, ъ Приветствую человека с котиком на аватарке, который в то же время кебаб!
@mechanical756
4 жыл бұрын
@@freybjorn4635 ыеы, ага)
@fenrirr22
4 жыл бұрын
And its pretty easy because you mostly use w,xz,r,y as an alphabet only :) (don't take too seriously the joke :D )
@tiramisu6799
4 жыл бұрын
In my country we type ㅇ ㅜ ㅌ ㅠ in every last sentence. Its a bit hard but you could get used to it
I think the method described in the video is less difficult than typing Traditional Chinese. ( I don't type in simplified one ,so idk how to type simplified Chinese ) First of all, in Taiwan ,we use a thing called "注音" (Zhuyin) to type Chinese words ,so it's really difficult to type Chinese without a specific kind of keyboard which has Zhuyin on it. Furthermore, Chinese does have some word having exact same pronunciation ,but different meaning ,such as : 城市( city ) , 程式 ( program ), 成事 ( achieve something ) , 乘勢( idk how to say it in English ). Those 4 words all have same pronunciation. May be you think those are the problems mentioned in the vid , but "every" Chinese characters have their own meanings. So sometimes you mistype a single character , people might misunderstand or even get offended. Especially, you're arguing with someone in the YT comment sections. they will think you're dumb just because you can't even type words properly. there's more. when we type a sentence, we need to select each characters for correct one ,if the auto selecting system randomly give you the wrong one. the last one is forgetting to change back to Chinese keyboard. For example : if I wanna text my friend that "I'm gonna go out and buy breakfast" ,the sentence will look like this " ji3ul4uv0 fm4a93yl3h0 "
Bangla has two scripts- Shorborno (11) Basically vowels if separate from banjonborno such as- O-অ A-আ I-ই Banjonborno (39) Basically Consonants which are always pronounced in the O way such as- KO-ক KHO-খ GO-গ There is another type which is not considered as separate scripts but very important which is- Kar Basically used to connect shorborno and banjonborno such as- KO + A - ক + আ = কা there is a line from আ used in ক to make it কা Bangla alphabets fits in virtual keyboard but in physical keyboard It is quite hard again easy because there is different ways to type it such as- -Like you type type japanese If you press 'A' You get あ So If you type 'A' you get the Bangla 'A' (আ) -But in some keyboard it's mapped in different English keys in a pattern
why the fuck was this in my recommended?
@robhans5
7 жыл бұрын
You watched some animeted stuff. Shelter maybe 3 months ago? :P
@maximiliansus2629
7 жыл бұрын
ItzNoOneMLG i have the same question
@Z0MGH4X
7 жыл бұрын
ItzNoOneMLG KZread, that's why.
@sodiboo
7 жыл бұрын
robhans5 i no watch animae (i du bed gremir pn propose}
@Czesnek
7 жыл бұрын
Because this is how the youtube is working now. They are recommending completly unrelated videos.
When you are dyslexic, any language is hard to type.
@mal35m
5 жыл бұрын
@CultOfWrongly Ouch! I felt that one. It is true of course. I feel doomed to read and type at 1/4 the speed of everyone else for my whole life.
@haterodiadordeplantao.680
4 жыл бұрын
when you have no arms, any language is difficult to type, too..
@jia_lat_limlol7980
4 жыл бұрын
When you type so fast you always use the wrong alphabet, any language is hard to type
@CHO-zq2os
4 жыл бұрын
My mother language is written in the exact way that we read it (one letter -> one sound). *Laughs in Romanian*
@leflipmo
4 жыл бұрын
@@CHO-zq2os I'm Finnish, so I feel you ;)
Hi, I just discovered this video. Italian, my language, is not too hard to type on italian keyboard, but there are some minor problems due to a bad initial design of the italian keyboard: all uppercase accented wowels are missing. They are rarely used because you don't usually write uppercase sentences. With one exception: uppercase È is the only accented wowel used at the beginning of a sentence. So you have to use ALT+0200 to type it on windows, shift+alt+e on Mac, or improperly write as E followed by an aphostrophe.
As a Japanese person, I disagree. Japanese typing isn't harder or more complicated than Latin-based typing, it's just different. I actually find typing in Japanese useful because I can search for symbols, special characters, and even emojis with the conversion tool. The only thing English has that I wish Japanese had too is spellcheck/autocorrect. Japanese (and probably Chinese) _typewriting_ was a beast because you couldn't print the thousands of characters using 26 keys. But on modern devices, it's really not a problem. Yes, Japanese has many homophones and you have to choose the right characters. But in most cases, the one you're looking for is one of the top options. And with practice, you get a sense of where is a good place to convert the phrase to give you the characters you want. The example he gave around 2:30 is one of the more extreme cases; not every word (*word, not syllable) has dozens of possible kanji. And you often get suggestions before you've even finished typing the phrase (kinda like how Gmail will sometimes complete sentences for you, but you get ~3 options instead of 1). Yes, it's sometimes annoying when you make a typo and the conversion doesn't work and you have to restart. But you don't need to restart _every time_ you make a mistake; you _can_ press backspace or go back and edit later, just like in English. Typing names or words with unusual readings can be annoying, yes. But most computers and mobile keyboards have dictionary tools where you can add custom words and their readings. I've actually heard of people using this to their advantage by adding template phrases in the dictionary so that they can get it up just with one or two characters. I understand the complaint he made about shortcut keys not working when the keyboard is in Japanese because I've done it many times too, but you really can't expect the computer to read your mind. Just switch to English and you're good (plus, I'm sure this isn't unique to the Japanese keyboard). TLDR; Japanese typing is not slower or harder or somehow inherently worse than typing in English or other Latin-based languages. They are different and there are good things about both. And they work with their respective languages. This really feels like a case of internalised Japanese inferiority and trying to say what Japanese learners want to hear. It sucks that so many people are taking this as fact.
This is why the Japanese are smart. They are exposed to learning crazy difficult stuff since children.
@Gryphonzwing
6 жыл бұрын
Awang Budiman and lots of fish.
@amdoick
5 жыл бұрын
And others aren't smart too?
@CastleVaniak
5 жыл бұрын
Yes and they have a iodine rich diet. Iodine is important for IQ
@EdgarTheOgre
5 жыл бұрын
Japanese are not smarter than regular people and IQ is an obsolete concept.
@inendlesspain4724
5 жыл бұрын
@@qantaz2496 I'm not too informed about it, but now they say there are different types of intelligence. For example, it's not the same being a genius mathematician than a genius painter, as they both are specialized in completely different fields and would probably have a hard time doing the same things the other can do. Of course, it's a lot more complex than that, with a lot of other concepts being taken into account like social skills, musical sensibility, language skills, etc. They say IQ is an obsolete concept now because it tries to sum up a person's entire set of skills into just a number, which in reality doesn't say much about a person.
fuck me I can't even write in English
@iae8793
7 жыл бұрын
I write in 'MURICAN
@orangie84
7 жыл бұрын
So that's a combination of Mexican and Puerto Rican then ha ha ha lol
@wispy9859
7 жыл бұрын
how did you type then? fishy
@OskarAB13
7 жыл бұрын
he typed it, he dont knw to write
@ihaveautism2557
7 жыл бұрын
I DONT SPEAK LONDON
Although I've studied Japanese for some time, I'm still fascinated by "we" and "wi" in Hiragana.
This video pretty much sums up, why I stopped learning Japanese 18 years ago, after learning on the second page of the text book that counting pencils uses different numerals than counting erasers, just because... I'm from Germany and seeing German written without Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and the infamous Eszett (ß) feels weird. I mean; the Swiss do fine without the letter »ß« for about a 100 years, now, but still... Ä, Ö, and Ü are short forms of Ae, Oe and Ue; the trema (the dots) developed from writing the e over the vowel (in ancient German writing); originally the dots looked more like »"«. ß is a ligature of ſs or ſz, representing a double-s (ss). ß is officially a lower case letter only (please don't use »B« as substitute for »ß«, write »ss«; it's fine); but for several usage a upper case letter »ẞ« was created recently. Except for names, the usage is based on the stress put on the vowel directly before the ſs since the orthography-reform of 1996 (except for Switzerland; as said, the don't use it anymore).
@electricalman481
2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s the same with a lot of languages that uses an Alphabet script I presume. It’s either add extra letters or have the system English has where instead of using accent marks we just spell things differently.
You can write in 3 forms of Japanese, AND speak English. It's amazing that you haven't lost your mind. Quite impressive.
@AllTheNamesIPickedWereTaken
7 жыл бұрын
lionsareus hiragana and katakana are pretty easy it's the kanji that's complicated
@333DOT.
6 жыл бұрын
plenty of people can
@PuNiao
6 жыл бұрын
I find Kanji easier since I am chinese, it's the hiragana and katakana that boggles me D:
@jakeaivilo3821
6 жыл бұрын
Riih Rion since?
@Ghorda9
6 жыл бұрын
hiragana is mostly used for prefix and suffix particles.
in portuguese(Brazil) we use accents. obviously it's not difficult, it just takes time in phrases like "você não quer ir à farmácia?", "você fará uma bênção no sótão." or "o cérebro é um órgão."
歯が遺体 the teeth are corpse (dead body) 行方不明の痛い the missing of pain two sentence above have 1 word that are homonyms, itai. itai have 2 meaning, pain and corpse, so sometimes u have to carefully change the word on the keyboard, i did write the sentence above wrong on purpose so u can see that typing in japanese need high of concentration🤣🤣🤣🤣
My first Japanese typing: シt Edit: ふck Edit 2: づまss
@user-ju2cg1he3i
3 жыл бұрын
Does it say 'sh*t' ?
@altacc1807
3 жыл бұрын
s h i t
@pzyxn2745
3 жыл бұрын
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@kurbverobel2112
3 жыл бұрын
@@pzyxn2745 xDDD
@sage-yb3cj
3 жыл бұрын
nice
God, I don't speak Japanese, but I know a bit about japanese structure, and I always thought how it worked in a keyboard, and it is actually harder than I thought it was...
Well, I'm Czech and we use Latin alphabet (luckily), but it's one of the harder languages and for some reason has 42 letters, 41 of which are actually separate leters (because "ch" is technically a letter too). So even though we use a pretty standard QWERTZ keyboard, all number keys and many other keys have some special character like ř, ů or ý under shift and some aren't there at all, using a separate ˇ or ´ sign written before letters like ó or ň, which don't have their own key for they're the lesser used ones.
2:29 I thought to start learning Japanese, but it knocked out not only a desire, but also a tears from my eyes.
me: needs to learn Finnish also me: Ooo, free Japanese lessons! 🤦♀️
@rainjacketdot54
4 жыл бұрын
Onnea suomen opiskeluun
@vexanval
4 жыл бұрын
japanesepod101.com
@rwall514
3 жыл бұрын
Japanese, Finnish - same diff.
@Dante20321
3 жыл бұрын
Relatable
@supersazz
3 жыл бұрын
Suomi perkele!
writing manually all japanese characters is very romantic and artistic... But Holy shit typing it is goddamn horrible
@PETBOY
5 жыл бұрын
Japanese characters do not exist. katakana is an from ancient Korean silla(At that time, monks used abbreviation Chinese characters. call me hangul 신라구결. You can find it in Google Images. silla is the closest region to Japan.), hiragana is brought from China cursive script. This is similar to the Russian Cyrillic alphabet history coming from Greece.
@Bayo106
5 жыл бұрын
@@PETBOY interesting. Everything has a history though
@VV_PaVria
5 жыл бұрын
@@PETBOY But calling them "Japanese characters" is still valid, since it is used to write the language. More often than not, it's just like how you would write English using the "English alphabet", not the "Latin alphabet".
@testname4464
5 жыл бұрын
@@PETBOY By that logic, there is no such thing as English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, it's all just Latin.
@superkamiguru6856
5 жыл бұрын
@@testname4464French, Spanish and Italian are considered Latin, if you look at ancient Latin versus Spain, France and Italy (modern), then you'd see that a lot of it is the same, or VERY close, while English is West Germanic along with German and Dutch. Inside of these language groups though, the languages are slightly-very different though. (With English being the furthest from the Germanic languages, honestly deserving of its own sub category within Germanic). VieViaPaVira made a better argument, but yours is still valid.
I speak spanish as well as english, and, while the accent's over certain letters aren't super important, Sometimes they're still needed to determine the meaning of words. (ex. tomo = I take, tomó = he or she took). I use an autohotkey script to use my right shift+the letter to put an accent over it. I never really even used the right shift at all, so it's a good solution for me.
Damn I literally just put stickers on my keyboard to learn the kana layout. Isn't it faster to use that input method instead of typing romaji? For most syllables you just need to press one key instead of two (except for things like zu, de, pi which require an additional key to add the marks) I love the flick kana keyboard on my phone, it's super intuitive and requires you to press a lot fewer buttons