Please make more! This was so entertaining and fun to learn!

@gtiming7490

7 жыл бұрын

+Kirzuo I have spent months researching into teaching yourself to talk Japanese and found a fantastic website at Fergs magic blueprint (google it if you're interested)

This is crazy I just saw this video once and I was able to remember some of the katakana you taught. I was watching a Japanese music video and it had katakana and I was able to read most of it. Afterwards I noticed the video had tell English translation in the into box and I was surprised that I was right for the parts I could read. Please do more.

@MikiGo88

8 жыл бұрын

info*

@eatyourkimchi

8 жыл бұрын

+Miki Go88 (女恣) WHOOOAOAAAAAAAAA amazing!!!! I'm so happy to hear that!!!! I'm still new and crappy at it, but I'm so happy something was able to help out!!

@sofie2354

7 жыл бұрын

Simon and Martina Please make more of these! The way you did it is soooo helpful! It really helped me remember because I just finished hiragana but, am having a really tough time with katakana. Pretty please, make more in the future : )

I love it when you do Lu jokes. They will NEVER get old

where is the next one !? that was so helpful 🙂

I'm trying to learn Japanese, and I find it's easier to learn by teaching something, so here's my first video on what I know so far!

@Bunnio666

8 жыл бұрын

I've been in Japanese class for 4 weeks -*- I cantttttttt

@iBeFloe

8 жыл бұрын

+kuttiedemonina I promise you that it's hard now, but you'll look back at that beginner class & wonder why you ever struggled haha I'm at the 2000 level & looking back, I think I overstressed myself over the simple things. If I had just calmed down, it would've been way better haha

@raverkidloki

8 жыл бұрын

I love this idea! if you helped me learn some Japanese I'd feel more comfortable if I ever visited there someday.

@Bunnio666

8 жыл бұрын

+iBeFloe every single class I have panic attacks because I'm not good enough u.u I can't remember as much so I just go in a corner and cry

@naokyuuketsuki064

8 жыл бұрын

+Simon and Martina the "ア" in katakana is pronounces just as "A" without the H same goes with "イ", "エ","オ" is like a more dry sound like if you where shouting to someone you don't shout aaaaaaah! you shout aaaaaaa just straight dry sound to practice you can convert english words to katakana but remember words converted from english to katakana are converted though pronunciation not of how are they originally written

I had crawled out of my new Taemin solo binge marathon for the moment and then the Key reference got me right back down that rabbit hole. I'M IN A SENSITIVE PLACE RIGHT NOW.

@andre-cmyk

8 жыл бұрын

du-rip-pu du-rop-pu?

@NegativePressure

8 жыл бұрын

+The Something Show It's ok, you can make it through this rough time. We're here for you! 😄 P.s. #TeamJacketForLIfe 😉

@TheSomethingShow

8 жыл бұрын

+André Domingues now write it in Katakana!

@TheSomethingShow

8 жыл бұрын

+Saint Mikhael OMG GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR TEAM JACKET. :'D

@NegativePressure

8 жыл бұрын

The Something Show Hahaha. We will bring you to our side one day! 😎

I'm always eating when watching Simon and Martina 😅

@AmandaFilipowicz

8 жыл бұрын

+Silver Panda Me too!!!

this is... effectively educating me. love it. LOL

that "happy face" in the centre is a "small tsu", what it does is to emphasise the consonant after it. for example in your espresso, it doubles the "s".

@NYARAWRRAWR

8 жыл бұрын

this Martina ^^^^^

@QueenJaneway

8 жыл бұрын

And dont forget that the double consonant takes as long time to say as the first one, so really emphasize it, very important!

@jungzy5

8 жыл бұрын

オーペン　ザー　ハピー oo pen zaa hapii オーペン　ザー　ハッピー oo pen zaa happii

Also, a small ツ in a Japanese word like　エスプレッソ is like... a hesitant marker. You dont pronounce it. Its basically a breath marker to create a short break in a word. Like the word *hot* or ホット. When you pronounce hot theres a bit of a short break between the o and the t.

The ッ just makes the consonant after it repeat itself/double (so カカ would be "kaka" but カッカ would be "kakka") It makes the sound harder like the double consonants in Korean (ㅃㅉㄸㄲㅆ). Also ケーキ! The best ケ word!

@tinnyverse

8 жыл бұрын

This is a great explanation! It made me chuckle because kakka is poop in Finnish. :p

@kaerrot

5 жыл бұрын

After watching a 6 minute video by Martina, I was able to read your word suggestion for “keh”. 🤣 great word! And thanks Martina!

Wow why is there so much hate. Martina is just trying to teach what she has learned for fun. I love this video! Please do more Martina!

The little "ツ" or "つ”（Tsu) adds an extra consonant and is placed before the character with the constant that is to be used. For example: school がっこう (Gakko/学校) Espresso エスプレッソ(esupuresso)

@pillowblotrawa4222

8 жыл бұрын

+Lily I normally just take it to mean that there is a very brief, immensely tiny pause before the character that follows it.

@lilth98

8 жыл бұрын

Pillow Blotrawa The way my teacher taught me was that there is an extra consonant but I guess there is also a slight pause like this: Gak-kou

@andre-cmyk

8 жыл бұрын

+Lily I was going to comment that but you said it so much clearer. I'm envying your knowledge. -Someone who read Hiragana and a bit of Katakana only.

@lilth98

8 жыл бұрын

André Domingues Well I've been studying Japanese for three years now so that kind of helps ^^;

@pillowblotrawa4222

8 жыл бұрын

+Lily Woah, any tips on grammar? The particles just look like the most stressful thing..

I'm in love with the ココ

In both hiragana and katakana the smiley face and the not-so-smiley-face-looking smaller letters are used to both double the consonant that comes after it. The "small tsu" (literally how they call it, btw, it's adorable - "chiisai tsu" っ／ッ) is used in cases such as "エスプレッソ" as you mentioned, Martina, to make the "sso" sound at the end by using the, in that case, katakana small tsu "ッ" to double the "s" sound of the "so" letter after it. SInce Japanese's letters are mostly syllabic, as you may have noticed, except the vowels, there are pretty much no other individual letters, ESPECIALLY consonants (besides "n"), so this comes in very handy when you need to double consonants in such foreign words and even Japanese words themselves. You will learn more in the future about how the small tsu interracts with other letters and what other jobs it does besides the one I described, in Japanese words and it will be SO interesting and fun, I assure you, but for now that'll do. ;D

The ツ is tsu. the small one ッ , extends the following consonant, for example カ = ka but ッカ would be kka, so basically you just hold the k sound slightly longer

@annecharles6827

8 жыл бұрын

thanks !

@xXinaXxprincessxX

8 жыл бұрын

+Detrimont Isn't it more of a pause you do between the sound before the doubled consonant and the doubled consonant itself?

@chloegantzel

8 жыл бұрын

+inaichigo yeah i think in consonants it is more of a pause, and in vowels its an extension of the sound. so the doubled ka sound, would be like you reach the k and say the first part of the pronunciation, and then pause, and then pronounce the hard k sound and rest of the word

@sarahe.4738

8 жыл бұрын

+inaichigo No, that would be the ー symbol-thingy.

@DeiDeisStalker

8 жыл бұрын

+Sarah E. that symbol for the sound before it instead of after. so if you had the katakana for 'ka' and then that line after it, it makes it 'kaa'. so you would hold the vowel out longer. the little 'tsu' is for the consonant that follows after the 'tsu', so basically the main comment is correct.

Martina and Simon! I love your channel! I discovered it two years ago when I was researching korea before my first trip to korea and have been hooked since! I speak Japanese pretty fluently and learned it in college. I have some tips to share with you to help you memorize!!! 1) The little happy face or "chisai tsu* shows a double consonant sound. 2) Studying sucks, put it to every day use! I know you have a love of stickers! Take advantage of that love! Put little sticky notes on EVERYTHING with the name of it in japanese! It could be its actual name in japanese or the katakana way of saying it! For example BREAD! Stick a sticky note on the wrapper of your loaf of bread and have it say either パン (pan which is japanese for bread) or ブレッド bread! THIS WORKS WONDERS! Not only are you learning the katakana or hiragana but also learning vocabulary at the same time! I myself had a hard time with Katakana and an easy time with hiragana so i did this with katakana and it works wonders!!! 3) Watch children tv programing and read children books! This too is a big help as they are designed to help young children learn to read. Go to your nearest kinokuniya or book off book store and get reading! 4) Also for learning vocabulary many words are used in the way that english would be, there their and they're, they all sound the same however the meaning is different and the writing is different. In japanese you could have kumo for spider or for cloud, the only way to know the different is just like english, the context its used in or if you are reading it the way its spelled (or kanji used) so to remember all the different meaning of one word i make little poems. like the kumo (spider) came down from the kumo (cloud) on the kumori (cloudy) day! I am a figure skater for team usa and travel a lot, and so learning japanese in a college was hard because i missed a lot, but i have succeeded in learning and using it! If i can think of more helpful tips I'm going to send them your way...somewhat literally, ill be in japan next month for 2 weeks so i can literally send my tips your way! Good luck and I hope my tips were helpful!

@fenfen8612

8 жыл бұрын

+Sean Rabbitt I second the use of children's TV programming and books! I used this method to help in my Spanish classes, and it helped me a ton. :) Thank-you for the other wonderful tips; the sticky note/stickers one is ingenious!

@SeanRabbittChannel

8 жыл бұрын

+Fen Leanonberger Its extremely useful isn't it? I discovered this a while ago so I would sit in the japanese book store (we are lucky to have a handful in california) and read the children books. I am glad you think my post it note trick is great! Its so useful and its so easy! As you get more advanced you can put little sentences for an item on the note. Example on the cabinet, after learning and mastering the word cabinet, put a new note that says "open the cabinet" and or close the cabinet (maybe put on the inside? haha) that way now you are learning the sentence and action for that word WHILE actually using it!

SO MUCH HAPPY WAS JUST OPENED

@raverkidloki

8 жыл бұрын

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@raverkidloki

8 жыл бұрын

+Dick Butt oh really? and how am I creepy?

Surround yourself in it! Listen to Jpop! Also the small "tsu" (smiley face) is to stop suddenly. It is written in romaji with a double vowel. まって or マッテ = Matte (Chotto matte, senpai!!!!) Word with ケ: ケーキ (Cake!)

I love that you always refer to Lu. xD

Martina, I totally forgot you actually learned how to teach a language! I was wondering why this is so entertaining and helpful at the same time. I never planned on learning japanese but seems like I am into it now! Good luck to everyone, we'll go through this together :D

Those are some really cool techniques! I'm not currently trying to learn Japanese, but if I ever see those out somewhere someday I can impress people into thinking I'm so fluent :P

Additionally (I thought this might be interesting background info), but both Hiragana and Katakana started out as shorthand forms for Kanji. Hiragana was developed by women during the Heian Period (8th to 12th centuries), as women didn't receive direct tutoring in Classical Chinese so they had to self-study, and all the Hiragana represent the key lines within a Kanji whilst half-arsing all the minute details by using one big swoop of a calligraphy brush instead. Katakana on the other hand was developed by male court officials, monks etc. and instead of half-arsing the little details, they just lifted one small section of a Kanji and used that on its own. Ultimately, both sets of Kana were originally meant for annotation or backchat/gossip/private memos and to ease communication for people who weren't trained to read Chinese characters (a real mission! A guy called Motoori Norinaga in the 18th century became the first person to translate the Kojiki into modern Japanese, a collection of myths which is the oldest extant Japanese literary work, which was written entirely in Classical Chinese characters without any Hiragana or Katakana and it only took him 35 years :-P ).

So...where was this for Korean? I know you guys are moving on and you've moved to a new country, but I would've LOVED to hear how you guys learned what Korean you did learn.

@PETBOY

7 жыл бұрын

They lived more than five years in Korea, but can't speak Korean Not at all. Not attention Korea.

@johnsmith2875

7 жыл бұрын

+GOGO that is not true they can speak basic Korean and have a video about how proficient they were at it.

@PETBOY

7 жыл бұрын

John Smith Really? I have naver seen they are in Korean. And basic Korean? ex - "how much?" "hi" - It's not basic. Simple greetings. English is the world language. They know how to living in Korea to use only English. It shows well.

@whitneyfluttershyelizabeth

7 жыл бұрын

John Smith I mean, even their website used to say (I stopped following them for a litany of reasons, so idk about what it says now) that they could've put more time into learning Korean or they could've learned to do better videos. They chose better videos. I'm just saying, as someone learning Korean, it is kind of hard to find materials to help you learn. I would've liked to have seen them do something like this with Korean instead of the umpteen million videos about their European vacations towards the end of their time in Korea. I just feel like they've abandoned their fan base yet again (got rid of kpop music mondays, asked fans for money to buy a studio they've now abandoned, stopped making as many videos to open up a coffee shop that was their "life dream" that they've now abandoned, move to a new country and IMMEDIATELY start learning that language when they couldn't be bothered in 5 years to learn Korean) I just feel like they've gone out of their way to distance a lot of people from them.

@johnsmith2875

7 жыл бұрын

GOGO They could hold up conversation when they went out shopping. Again, they talked about it in a TLDR, don't be sassy.

My tip is not for katakana but to be better at japanese. You should listen to japanese songs but you need to have the lyrics. Try to find the romaji + hiragana/katana/kanji coming with it. It will help you with reading japanese and if you can also find the eng subs, you will eventually start easily remembering japanese words

OH! OH! You guys, while I was browsing the Steam store the other day I saw this game about learning Hiragana! It's an indie game called Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle. It's an RPG style game where you are slowly introduced to Japanese words. As you embark on your journey you learn new words and there are battles incorporated where you have defeat hiragana characters! I haven't played it yet, but I thought it was an awesome concept to help people learn a new language. :)

@darkmerrygoround

8 жыл бұрын

+Imagineim nice nice, hope they do this for other languages too! thanks for the heads up! :D

The little smiley face is called a "sokuon" and it represents a slight pause between two sounds in either hiragana or katakana. One of the reasons this is done is to attempt to re-create the sounds that are made in English/other languages. For words that are Japanese in nature that do have the "sokuon", the "sokuon" functions as a way to distinguish between words (however, kanji is what really differentiates words). Also, Japanese is comprised of syllables rather than single letters, so the "sokuon", oftentimes, will represent a sound from outside the Japanese language. For example: Batman is written as バットマン. In Japanese, the single letter "T" is not part of the "alphabet"; therefore, they add the "sokuon" to help with pronunciation. I hope this helps!

The small smiley face (tsu) is similar to when you have a double hangul character thing! So like Duk --> Dduk or Geko --> Gek/ko (its easier to think of it like adding an additional consonant to the previous syllable) Also, be sure to draw the horizontal lines first normally when writing symbols in Japanese! :'D

i love Martina's crazy mind and the thing she uses to remember things i do things the same way

If you're learning any language, I'd recommend writing it down. It helps you recognize the letters better.

@teddygrande5564

8 жыл бұрын

+eatcarpet Thank you ^^

Hi Martina, Simon - I've a BA in Japanese and I've some quick tips: - Writing/reading: learn the stroke order well. It'll help you figure out kanji easier, it'll help make sense of odd fonts and ultimately help you study radicals to guess kanji's meanings without even knowing how to pronounce them. The right stroke order will also help you get a readable handwriting- I've noticed Japanese people are very keen on stroke orders and sometimes even misread words when the line is started at the wrong end. - Speaking: stick post its on every item in your house with the Japanese word and whenever you use the item, try to make a sentence with the word in it. This was a great game for me and my housemate back in college. - Listening: to me this was the easiest part since I listened to a lot of J-pop/rock. I used to look up the lyrics with translation while listening. The only problem I've had with using anime/films/music is that these tend to include accents or words not really commonly used. Katakana can be tricky. It has rules, and sometimes those don't apply. And sometimes it's not an English word that's meant, but a French or Dutch word that's commonly used- also keep your eye out for Japanese uses of English that aren't actually correct; like how 'Hi-touch' is used instead of 'high five' - the Japanese people I corrected usually were surprised, thinking they were using the correct English phrase. Good luck!~

Using pictures to remember the characters is a really great idea! I think you'll learn fast that way

i'm sure other's have answered this but the small ツ (tsu) is like a way of emphasizing a sound. like in エスプレッソ it's emphasizing the last "s" sound. so instead of "esupureso" it's "esupureSSo"

@mollyisperfect

8 жыл бұрын

+Dori C not to mention it adds, like, a small space (?) in the word. it wouldn't just be esupresso it would be like esupure-sso i hope that makes sense...

@AudoricArt

8 жыл бұрын

Molly Anne i heard that mentioned too. it's what's called a glottal stop. it's like the space in "uh-oh" My Japanese teacher didn't say anything about it, but that kind of glottal stop is such a foreign concept for English speakers she might have just left it out of the lessons for simplicity's sake. :\

Try the software Anki, especially since you are busy with KZread and everything, because it basically force you to remember stuff by calculating for you how often you need to study something not to forget it. It has been a lifesaver for me ! Loved your cute drawings haha ! The "happy face" in the center of espresso エスプレッソ is a small tsu ッ and it's put there to make the next consonant sound stronger (I'm not sure if I'm explaining well ^^')

the　ツ in エスプレッソ is the katakana "tsu" but when its shrunken to 1/4 size that means that it represents a pause sound, so there should be a small pause in between the レ and ソ

I grew up realizing that the best teacher is the student. I hope that some of this will sink in and I may need to watch more than once. So, good on you. Subscribed.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS MARTINA !!! I've been wanting to learn Japanese for a few months now but I never knew where to start so THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME MY FIRST LESSON !!!! I look forward to the later lessons :)

@Japomania

8 жыл бұрын

Heeey :D If you want to learn japanese you can check my channel if you want :D I teach organized lessons for beginners.

@1762stargirl

8 жыл бұрын

Japomania Thank you (: I'll check it out (:

The "little" happy face is a signal to kind of put a skip in your voice. It is the little version of "tsu" or ツ。ッ is the little version. They look identical except for size. You would put the little ッ In places like コップ (cup), pronounce it like koh-(insert minor air space)-pu.

@leodiebel

8 жыл бұрын

+Joshua It's called a glottal stop :) It appears in some British English accents (Like cockney - when they say 'bottle')

Omg please make more! This was amazing and so helpful! I appreciate you making connections and giving little hints and tips to remember it easier. Would love to see what you've learned since this video was posted!

They're all such simple short vowels & words, but at the same time it's all so much to absorb. I need to re-watch this video 10+times, pause & practice each one before I'm able to retain, remember & use and say each one correctly. I have a huge interest in Japan, just as much as Korea, so I'm going to re-watch as many times as needed until I learn. Thank you for a excellent lesson Martina 😊

a good and useful KE usage is CAKE! written ke-ki ケーキ! short cake ショートケーキ, lemon cake レモンケーキ, ALL THE CAKE and that sailor moon was cool don't put yourself down!

Doesn't the little happy face double consonant sounds?

@aphorg7008

8 жыл бұрын

+rubenpseudogreek You are correct!

@SafiraAdani

8 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@letsgoasuka

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it kinda drags the sound when saying the word. Like "dozo/douzo" is pronounced "doo-zo". Okay I'm terrible at explaining xD

@leonora1749

8 жыл бұрын

+rubenpseudogreek Yes. ツ is katana for the sound "tsu" but when you need a double consonant sound, you can use that same sign but a smaller one -> 　ッ before the consonant. つ is the hiragana eqvivalent and the smaller "tsu" does the same thing ->　っ Example; きて　－　きって kite - kitte So; エスプレッソ (e-su-pu-re-sso) basically the ッ dubbelmarks the consonant on ソ (so) so the sound is more.. direct..?

@DevilFlamingo

8 жыл бұрын

+Leonora Selin i should have read the comments before i posted lol i used kitte and kite as an example too by accident . yeah my teacher used it in the example too and she explained it as a little pause and used clapping to explain it to us ki "clap" te.

Happy face in the middle is a small tsu (つ) (ツ) you treat it like a pause or an inflection of pitch essentially breaking a word into two beats. think Yatta! (やった) (ヤッタ) And how it sounds in anime. that's basically the pattern u follow. In writing you can think of its existence as an indicator for a double consonant. Since Japanese characters are usually a, i, u, e, o, by it self or behind a constant (Ka, ki, ku, ke, ko) there is no character that is just a consonant (besides n (ん) (ン)) so tsu is used to indicate that. So for example u have Nippon (にっぽん) (ニッポン) or ippon (いっぽん) (イッポン).

Hi Martina! I'm currently learning Japanese in college. What my Japanese teacher stresses is stroke order. She says you write them top to bottom, left to right. Also the book that we are using is Genki. I personally love it as it gives you a dialogue in each lesson along with new vocabulary and grammar that is used in each following chapter. It also has kanji for the lesson in the back and there is also a workbook for the book. :)

I've found that stroke order is pretty important as it helps me to get the shapes correct. I recently brought a brush pen (a fibre brush that is fed with ink like a pen) and it's awesome for getting the brush strokes looking like they do in the tutorials. Still pretty hard though :)

@alinacorreia92

8 жыл бұрын

+RC Master Totally agree, and when you start on kanji it gets pretty confusing if you ignore the order and direction of the strokes.

I'm already bilingual, but I really want to be fluent in a few more languages, and Japanese is one of my top 3 dream languages to know (right after French and either German or Italian). I'll be watching these!

@brigomez2895

8 жыл бұрын

+SimplyMayaB me too! I use the app memrise to help me out too

My number one suggestion for learning Japanese is journaling. There is a website called Lang-8 where you can write journals in the language you are learning, and then native speakers will read and correct your journal. I recommend using kanji when you're typing, even if you can't read it (but be sure to use a translator or dictionary to make sure you're using the right ones). The more you use kanji, the more you'll start to recognize the words and you will quickly begin to be able to read them, even out of the context of your journal. It doesn't matter what you write about. I used to just write about my day when I was doing it. It was the number one thing that allowed me to become conversational more quickly compared to my classmates.

LOVE how you reference real life in the katakana symbols...just wish it were slower...my southern brain just can't process that fast...but...thank goodness i can rewind and listen over and over...you are a GREAT teacher!!! :D

OMG!!!! You're going to do more lessons!!? THAT IS AWESOME!! This video is AMAZING! I'm trying to learn Japanese myself, but I've been having difficulty especially with reading it. This made it a bit easier! Thank you! (Arigatou Gozaimasu!)

in espresso the "smiley face" or tsu should be smaller then others...so you'll get the sso sound ....small tsu makes double sound of the following character. same goes with hiragana. also pay attention on the lines in the smiley faces. it's different sound depending on which side you'll draw it. up - down or down - up. and another word with ke ...cake or keeki XD

@danicatempleton6745

8 жыл бұрын

+Izabela M I usually find it a lot more helpful for the difference between ツ and シ to not think of the stroke direction, but the starting point of the strokes. All the beginnings of strokes in ツ go accross the top, horizontal, whereas in シ they go down the left side, vertical. Kind of difficult to explain in text, but when I write them this way, they're always distinguishable from eachother.

Can y'all please bring this series back? I'd love more! :)

I could cry of happiness for your SHINee references. You nailed them! I laughed my ass off xD

@wyllaya2245

8 жыл бұрын

+Joana Rodrigues (Rebel Angel) Shawol for life !!

It will make it easier in the long run to use different letters for the i and e. ア a (pronounced "ah" like the a in father)　イ i (pronounced like the "ee" in peep)　ウ u (pronounced like the "oo" in shoot)　エ e (pronounced "eh" like in the e in keg)　オ o (pronounced "oh") But I recommend that after you learn 平仮名　（ひらがな/hiragana) and 片仮名　（カタカナ/katakana), never use ローマ字　(ローマじ/romaji -"English" letters) again unless it is necessary to do so. This is a tip I learned fairly early in my studies.

@LovelyAngel.

7 жыл бұрын

hikaru1412 It's funny to see how English speakers have difficulties with Japanese nouns :P They somehow happen to be the same as in my native language despite being European which makes the learning for beginners a lot easier :P

For your エ katakana the top stroke should be slightly smaller than the bottom one when you are writing it!

The most important step in learning a language is loving it and you've already got that SimonandMartina!! Love you guys!

I've been learning Japanese from home for a few months now one and off but lately I've been avoiding it because I've been so discouraged. You guys have actually inspired me to get back to it and give it my best and having a chance to experience the culture through you is so helpful for me! Thank you!

"onew where is my chicken?" Cant stop laughing.

Martina, will you be doing any of these in the future? This is a really fun way to memorize, and your a great teacher!

One of the most useful mnemonics I ever heard for memorizing the order of the Japanese syllabaries-both hiragana and katakana-is this: Ah, kana signs, take note how many you read well. Both hiragana and katakana are arranged in sets of 5 with each set having an initial consonant and each character in a set has that consonant + one of the vowels. A, I, U, E, O; KA, KI, KU, KE, KO; SA, SHI, SU, SE, SO; TA, CHI, TSU, TE, TO… Get it? Ah, kana signs, take… = A > K > S > T.

っ or ッ are blank mora, so basically it's a blank space in a word where you say nothing for the length of a syllable. In romaji it's often spelled as a double consonant, so for example バッグ would be baggu.

I can't believe that you referenced Lu xD

@sarahe.4738

8 жыл бұрын

YEAS

@itspowers9107

8 жыл бұрын

They have referenced it like five times in their videos since the songs was released lol

@Rika1232

8 жыл бұрын

+3123music When do they not reference Lu lol

@eatyourkimchi

8 жыл бұрын

+Alyssa Stewart So true.

@sk.5

8 жыл бұрын

+Simon and Martina hahahahahahah Martians got that good good

I am so excited to see this! I recently started trying to learn Japanese for the fun of it, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm using a couple of apps I found, one for language and one for flash cards. I've also got a notebook with my scribbly attempts at hiragana and katakana, as well as translations and hints/tips. It's hard, but it's so fun! I find its also good for distraction, since I deal with chronic pain too. Anything I can find to put my mind somewhere else is helpful.. I imagine you understand that all too well! Thanks for sharing!

@myworldisfake

8 жыл бұрын

What apps do you recommend?

@TwistedRainbowSock

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexis I just started learning (like last week) and I've been using the app memrise. It starts with hiragana

@LaynieFingers

8 жыл бұрын

Alexis Like TwistedRainbowSock​, I've been using Memrise for Japanese. It gets you up and running with basic conversational Japanese quickly. For flash cards, I'm using AnkiApp. It has free downloadable card sets that have both the hiragana and katakana as well as the audio for pronunciation. Very useful, and free! Memrise is mostly free, although a couple of the options are subscription only. I haven't needed to subscribe, although I think those options would be useful if they fit into your budget.

I am *so* glad yall are starting this channel for learning Japanese, because It's different for me when I can follow along as someone else is learning. It gives me an itinerary, so Thank You!

I'm excited about this series!

That happy face in "expresso" makes a double consonent. so its esupuressu or エスプレッス Also notice that the (ッ) is slightly smaller when used in this way. Same goes for when you use it in hiragana (っ) I took 2 semesters of Japanese in college so I know bit. This is actually a good refresher. I was always bad with my katakana XD

For Ke I thought of U-Kiss KEVIN! His name in Japanese is spelled out like this ケビン

For the "ケ" you can use "ケーキ" (Cake) ! Katakana are more difficult to remember than hiragana since I dont use them as much as hiragana. And kanjis ... well lets say it will be a longggg road ... Lonngggg lonnngggg one ! (I have no memory at all lol) For now I think I can recognize 200 app. がんばって!!

You guys should show how much your Japanese has improved over the months :D Love you guys!

I can help you with that little smiley face!~ So as you used the example espresso エスプレッソ The little ッ is kinda used to make the sound after it a little longer in a way, like not drastic almost you can barely tell, but it does make a difference. ALSO when you spell a word in romaji and it has that little smiley face, you would double the letter after it. For example: エスプレッソ = espresso エスプレソ = espreso So yeah, by kind of doubling the letter after it it makes the sound a little more elongated. Almost like the ー In hiragana the little smiley face would be っ which the same rules apply, but also with っ I've seen it's also added at the end of things like sound effects(and sometimes the katakana version, but I mostly see the hiragana one), It's supposed to be kinda like an abrupt stop. Here's an example: はっ Usually I see that in manga like if someone was running and they're panting. OMG I HOPE I EXPLAINED RIGHT AND IT MAKES SENSE I'M SUCH A TERRIBLE EXPLAINER

@hannahyap2475

8 жыл бұрын

+butter toast Perhaps I could add to this. The small ッ (tsu) basically gives the word a double consonant. So for example, Pocky's romaji is Pokki. ポッキー And you would pronounce it as Pok-Ki. So you should also pronounce the consonant at the end of the first character. I often think of it as creating a staccato effect on the word.

@Aarmastusful

8 жыл бұрын

+Hannah Yap Something I haven't been able to figure out: How do you make the smaller versions of つ and ツ? I can't seem to figure out how to do it on mobile ( iPhone ) or on my laptop.

@ichigomiruku8737

8 жыл бұрын

To add on to that, you make the letter before the ッ jump while you're saying it. You can like type in エスプレッソ in google translate and make it speak, you'll know what I mean when you hear it.

@MagicApple03

8 жыл бұрын

+Jaden Daywalt Are you using a Japanese keyboard? If so the key should have the tenten on it.

@hannahyap2475

8 жыл бұрын

Jaden Daywalt You just have to type out the double consonant romaji. It will automatically input it. So just type pokki with the two k's, and it'll appear.

Hi Martina!! the app memrise might help you with learning Japanese too. I'm using it to learn both Japanese and Korean Can't wait to see more videos

@robertotr12

8 жыл бұрын

+bri gomez couldn´t agree more, I love memrise, I learnt a lot of japanese vocabulary and kanji on this page. You can find vocabulary courses for the most popular japanese language textbooks, "minna no nihongo" is the one I use.

Download Anki, and find a katakana deck. It is a flashcard program that automatically gives you a set amount of cards every day for review, remembers how well you did on each card, and sets the spacing accordingly. If you use it daily, you will maximize your memory capacity, without wasting any time or energy

So looking forward to learning with you! The way you explain things sound so fun haha. Love it.

omg i always got ウ、フ　and ヲ　mixed up, the unicorn comparison IS MY LIFE SAVER .

@garrymoore-eroomyrrag

8 жыл бұрын

+TheWipal same oh my gosh the unicorn horn is going to help me distinguish between 'u' and 'fu'!!

@OnniBuchtProductions

8 жыл бұрын

+TheWipal I write in Japanese every day, but I've almost never used katakana wo ヲ, haha.

@garrymoore-eroomyrrag

8 жыл бұрын

OnniBuchtProductions i am in a Japanese level 2 class currently and i have yet to use that katakana as well. it's so uncommon, it seems.

@TheWipal

8 жыл бұрын

whoops i meant wa katakana but o well

@OnniBuchtProductions

8 жыл бұрын

+fairy garry One thing I wonder about is, why did the Japanese remove wi ヰ and we ゑ from their alphabet? I suppose it's because you can make those sound with うぃ and うぇ

When you write "eh" the top line should be shorter than the bottom one and the ツ makes its so its "sso" with a double S.

I JUST FOUND THIS CHANNEL AND JUST STARTED SCREAMING. IM BINGING TONIGHT. MORE CONTENNTNTTTTNTNNTNTNTNNTNNTNTNNTNTNTNT

I found that learning hiragana was the easiest for me even though I know katakana shouldn't be hard if I know hiragana. These are great ways to remember what the characters stand for! I love it, and it definitely helps~ ありがとう

I wish you good luck! Once you learn the first couple sets of Katakana, the rest feels like a breeze! C: (Hiragana will be easier because you'll be used to memorizing characters by then :D)

@cecilebousselat8192

8 жыл бұрын

+LPScreepychimp il learnt hiragana first, and i still think its way easier than hiragana xD

@LPScreepychimp

8 жыл бұрын

I didn't mean that Hiragana was easier, I just meant that since she is learning Katakana first learning the second Kana will be easier :) Just like it was easier to you :) (I learned Hiragana first, too.)

I feel bad for English speakers... For French speakers, the Japanese sound is pretty much the same as the alphabet in French, so we don't need to transform the イin "E", but can leave it as "I", just like the romanization. Everything sound stays as it is.

@Cyrzai

8 жыл бұрын

Totally. And doing the "r" sounds are easier to do for us. *looks at weeaboos*

@pillowblotrawa4222

8 жыл бұрын

+Qamarina Najwa Spanish has got some of those advantages too. I feel like my knowledge of Spanish makes me roll my tongue too much for the "R" sounds though.

@Badzeep

8 жыл бұрын

+uareri27 Same with Dutch! ...or at least for me it is. ._.

@Amy-on2wy

8 жыл бұрын

+uareri27 OMG thats so true

@julis2005

8 жыл бұрын

+uareri27 True, my mother tongue is spanish and it was fairly easy to learn the alphabet because of that very reason, now that i see how native english speakers have to transform some words to relate the phonemes i can tell it can be kinda tricky :P

Can't wait for the next one!

This was actually SUPER helpful and the object relations you added to the katakana were so creative and easy to remember! Thank you so much!!

Martina, your teaching skills are fantastic elastic! No wonder you were a teacher. :3 Looking forward to more lessons friend!! O_O you should teach us Japanese using kpop. :O

When you wrote ケン (ke-n) at 5:30, it looked like ケソ (ke-so). So be careful when it comes to ン (n) and ソ (so). These two characters are tricky along with シ (shi) and ツ (tsu). Katakana is such a troll writing system...

This series is so great I can't wait for more. You are such a good teacher the examples helped me a lot!

Words can't describe how helpful this is. I'm terrible at remembering foreign alphabets but I 100% remembered all of that without even trying !! THANKYOU SO MUCH MARTINA

アイス also means ice cream in japanese

I think that Japanese is way harder than Korean... lol

@EozOrange

8 жыл бұрын

The writing definitely is a step-up from Korean XD You can't help but appreciate Hangul as a result!

@sarahe.4738

8 жыл бұрын

+milksomecows Amen

@billy_tv

8 жыл бұрын

+Movy1011 I think Korean is way harder :P .. ya Hangul is easy and in hour you can learn it but the pronunciation is so hard for me that I cannot remember the words :(

@Thekpopgeek2

8 жыл бұрын

Billy P for me it is the opposite like i find Korean words easier to pronounce than Japanese ones and harder to remember like I know a few Japanese words like thank you , hello ect but but for me its just harder lol .

@Thekpopgeek2

8 жыл бұрын

***** yeah totally agree with you Chinese is I think one of the hardest Asian languages to learn Chinese and Thai

GREART idea Martina, I love you for this series, I mean it !!!

I'm a new subscriber, but I just wanted to say I love you guys! You guys make a great team, thanks for the awesome videos

I wish you did this with korean

@PETBOY

7 жыл бұрын

Although they had lived for more than five years in South Korea. They are not interest in Korea. They can't speak Korean. It not purity created the youtube channel.

@Rabbittine

7 жыл бұрын

actually, they can speak korean...

@TamaoMizuki

7 жыл бұрын

+GOGO who said they can't speak korean? i'm pretty sure they can speak pretty well.

Not to be rude but the strokes of most of the characters is wrong. It's usually from top to bottom; left then right. This helps avoid mixing it up with other characters ^-^

thank you Martina !! can't wait for lesson 2

I learned Hiragana when I was 13 and found that just writing it out throughout the day repeatedly helped me remember it. Now in my mid 20's I really need to focus on Katakana, I like your tips and tricks for each symbol!

Martina, your stroke order is wrong for ン, so it looks like ソ. 頑張って下さい！

@sarahe.4738

8 жыл бұрын

IKR and ka too, I think

KETCHUP and KETTLE 🙋 they start with "ke" 👍🏻😌 u're welcome...

@xoAngelicc

8 жыл бұрын

+Berenice R. Or CAKE - kee-ki :D

@berenice5893

8 жыл бұрын

But i don't know Japanese :( so, I only thought of english words...also, Kentucky. Kentucky fried chicken xD

You need to do more videos like this! It was so helpful to learn and remember, the pictures you transformed the letters into were perfect for memorizing :)

yay I'm glad you're starting from the beginning, I can finally learn. And you are very entertaining !

Still waiting for part 2

;-; I wish there was more

Thanks Martina!!It does help with the lil drawings!! Keep them coming!! Much Love From Los Angeles, Cali...😘

I really enjoy the way you are teaching! I've taken foreign classes before, and making connections (whether with words, pictures, or both) to the words/symbols can really help with memorization. I'll definitely be using these as a reference. Thank you!