The Easiest Way To Learn Hiragana

hello I'm myself from Japanese amo konnichiwa it means hello in Japanese they we are going to learn the Japanese character is called hiragana what Isis rule was hiragana all the handwriting in this video is mine and my method of learning hiragana is more unique than the traditional one I'm going to teach basic vocabulary along the way using the characters as you learn by the way all the stroke orders in this video are correct but you really don't have to worry about orders I think Latin letters also have stroke orders as a guide but nobody cares how you write as long as the characters look correct and I want you to actually write on the paper while you watch so this hiragana is just one three writing systems in Japanese there are also systems called katakana and Kartik here is the example katakana call he meaning coffee the Japanese word for coffee sounds quite similar to the word in English right it's because the word call he is aboard from English there are lots of words like this and we need to write these foreign originated words in characters called katakana I'm assuming that you're not Japanese so your name should be written in katakana T and there is also kanji there are lots of kanji that we take from Chinese but also our own country a lot of students ask me when two years hiragana and when two years cutting the answer is not really simple you need to use kanji when the world is meant to be in cutting yeah and then it's not really an answer at all but so was with Bieber tabbouleh in Canton for examples a little clones are returning hunting but some laws are written fully in Quiroga the phrase is like hello thankee and particles are written hiragana but a lot of adjectives are written with a mix of kanji and hiragana so you just need to learn counting one learning or Camry but for beginners not just for a new spot Japanese children start off writing all in hiragana because that's all you now you'll eventually need to learn kanji but for now it's very important to get the basics of hiragana and one more thing before starting the hiragana hiragana consists of five bowls and combinations made with consonants for example car key could it has their own character remember there is no hiragana for just a consonant like K or M or B unlike English okay so let's get started this is no this one should be easy to remember just think of a stop sign it kind of looks like one with the line cutting diagonally throughout all the circle and stop being slow this note is used as a possessive particle meaning that a huge a horizontal and RB M means s B for example with a nonmetal which means mrs. cap it's basically the same thing as Australia saying English our next hiragana character is Matt Matt has the meaning of eyes yes Japanese has plenty of words that consist of just one letter and you don't have to stretch your imagination too much to see that the character itself looks like a line we have moved from no to man because man is the most similar character signal this makes for an easy transition and logical progression once you've mastered the easy stroke of writing not it isn't too much of a leap to learn how to write Matt you just start by drawing a small descending stroke on the left then you write the character not coming through the stroke voila easy peasy japanesey next we are going to progress from math to MIT can you see that it looks very similar to math the only difference is that this character ends with a fancy little loop some people like your own characters loops these are the type of people who love calligraphy other people however this pile of writing a real nuisance and that's one way to remember this character it's like man but it's nuisance because you have to have a little loop then the next character we are going to learn is up in order to draw this character we just have to add what looks like a bendy cross going through a stroke similar to know if we combine our and man we create the world a mess which means brain but you change the information like a man it means candy you want the way to remember the dual meaning of a man or a man just think of your favorite can be raining down from the sky what the mrs. Tony Stark goes from our it is an easy progression suitable to our writing these characters next to each other making the different sounds as you write them in order to see the difference between them once you've nailed the difference between these two characters we can combine them victory in award owl is the Japanese word for blue as a noun so it means blue in color for more we are going to progress to sit be careful Japanese su sounds very soft it's not to bite so often at the end of the world you cannot really hear the boos out and it just sounds like this as you can see from the drawing we just need to get rid of a little piece of all and then grab the bottom of the character and the stretching down words using the hiragana we have learned so far we can acquire some basic capillary force it means to push for Su Su man means recommendation to get our next character we are going to do some more stretching oh it is hiragana flexible we take the bottom of Si and stretch it horizontally do the writing order to get them we must also remember to add another little bit of teasing reckoner just like the one we took from Paul we can place the characters suit and move together in order to get sooner which means too late so our next hiragana is cool from this we can get the world cocoa which means here from cup we are going to jump to eat we also get the common Lord E which means good if we combine core and E we get the world quake which means car or bar fuzzy pulling on you look at the drawing you can see an easy way to remember both of these characters and the world a character called makes the pond and closure while but are the fish inside it from it we can move quite easily to the next character B we can also pick up a new world visa means girl compact the most difficult English will acknowledge a police person to say is squirrel it usually comes out sounding something like square they get who with the Japanese or sound it's not quite like the are sound we have in English it's actually somewhere between our English our sound L sound and detail the best way to master is to listen to recordings and try your best to replicate the sound yourself be be the Big Blue Men also be careful not to confuse be as E as taken look similar you do get the to confuse you might end up saying a suit or chair when you meet busy or squirrel ok let's compare cool e and be they look similar to try not to get copies next we are going to use the character we learned local and other vertical line to the left orbit in order to three the character this character is me this is the particle T or e or art it also means the number two we also get a new world econ econ this means one it is an honor to be able which Japanese people are very important the next character is our this character is particularly easy to remember because its formation actually looks like the sounds representation in the Roman alphabet tada easy we also get a new world tie eco which means drums especially Japanese drums the next character is how we use in the world it should be pronounced huh however when it is used as a particle it is pronounced one and this one particle is called topic marker which is used to indicate what the topic is in sentence so you can translate as a sport or speaking of the world ha means this OTS ha ha is a formal way of saying other sounds like love sound ha ha but it is a home award and high is the formal way of saying yes the next character we have is young you remember ha ha this one is easy Queeny TV is removed the vertical line on the left and stuff on flat part of the horizontal line this character kind of looks like a month on a full ride on side of the road image and hitchhikers taking his thermal and yelling yo if you right we get he was with this character here which means to get drunk or to feel sitting in a vehicle got sickness and Ohio which is the implement lady say good morning if you want to say good morning for money you'd have filled up cause I must again and say ohayo-gozaimasu and IO which means the Sun notice that why o ye your is pronounced like you're not Yahoo when the all sound is next to the use have it is pronounced like Paul hello Paul sound you're the next character is now 2 Sigma Z a boomerang came and knock the small on your way and you get none we have a very important e which means what now if the police person says something but you could not catch what he or she said you can say honey honey or you can say n and as our builder the transition from part to the next character all we need to do is to add an extra horizontal line above the first one also see we didn't have on the carrier this creates the character on the next character that we wanted is another very easy one the character is now we can create some column and import words on which means big Leon needs Japan this is a good length to remember these characters by looking at and seeing the image of a man who has just been launching this belong you can imagine the sound he makes as he gets punched wolf if you get rid of the little bit that looks like the guy's head we end up with our new character this character is - this line is easy to remember because the character itself actually kind of looks like a tsunami wave if we combine the answer we get picture which means tissue and depression and which is the whole version of yes hi is Bolin is equal mix up if we add a cross to the top of two we get T t means blood TT is a formal word for father from cheek we can move to run but remember that the Japanese our sound is not exactly the same as the English or sound to get to that from T all we have to do is knock the vertical line of object so that it is now hovering up mount these two characters together form the world Tirra which is a kind of furtive glance ah we can let it go this character looks a bit like a three we can remember the sound and appearance of this character by remembering the popular children's song row row row your boat gently down the stream just like the character looks like a three we think row three times in order to remember how it is pronounced from tall we easily get next character good we can remember this character because it looks like a ruined version of the character before we just need to take stock and bring them a little by curling the end of the cap to get through the next character we can just take the top of the order and turn our arms III could we can now create the world top good which means six and pewter which means to come okay so here is the role do good again our next character is made by adding dismal lines to either side overall we now have her which is pronounced like a combination of food and who again is was this thing do this sound and the tempting dear appear yourself as it is not coming in English but we can make some new words namely or her dog which means bath oh good which means cloth Purdy which means old as in all things so you can only use it about objects not people and hood which means to shake to dump someone and to fall from the sky so for example you can say I'm a girl who do do you remember i man it means rain or candy right so I'm a guy who de means it rains or it will rain boy you Kega hooda it snows or you could even say Mito boyega Jota have you seen the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs so meet the water Garuda describes what happens in the movie our next character is cat do you remember the character ha can't just looks like it without the loop so without the loop it's pretty straight right and get also can mean hair so just remember it's like a straight hair we also have new words cat T which means stingy like time you see a stingy Japanese person you can say catchy or maybe not and ki which means cellphone kata is actually an abbreviation from can't I'd em wha then work by the way means phone ki means to carry to get by Del Y is like portable phone so it's a cell phone in English you can just say do you have a phone but in Japanese we usually say do you have cat eye so it's really a common word cat eye and often this is written in katakana although it's not a foreign word but because it's an abbreviation we usually write in topic honor but you could write gilligan as well so do remember when there was all sound and GU sound or next to each other we pronounced like or this time a sound and a sound are next to each other and we pronounce like a the long air sound next up we have the character ma you remember how to write all this character is an easy one to develop you just need to get rid of the vertical line on the left and move the top horizontal line that was a bit it kind of looks like the mast of a ship don't you think with this character we can get the word man which means tense elder you might think that's a number you don't often say but when you're building yet on the daily basis you will need to say and we use this month as a suffix so you'd have to say eg man you want to say 10,000 as a number et means one so eg mom and et man is about 90 bucks or 80 bucks or someone like that you can't remember this meaning by easily machining a rich man holding $10,000 pull our next character we just need to take the character and drop the top portion out to the left a little bit we also need the other little lie on top this produces a and and n means drawing painting or picture but not as in fourths and my means before or in front you will also use this as a girl so here wanna say a year ago we say Eugene mi because it's in a means y yeah the next character we will look at is sir do you remember how we write T let's take a look at the word GSA which means small this is a tricky one because it is easy to confuse a and T in fact when I was a child I used to write my name eg instead of Missa because I am too looked exactly the same to me it is best to practice writing them both together making the different sounds as you write each one just to make sure that you can differentiate the from sir all we have to do is to add another horizontal line and is the first one in order to get the next character the next character is Gigi it actually looks quite a lot like a key alright it means three we also get the word saghini which means beforehand if you say o saghini or psyche need also it means after year so you can be a gentleman in Japan remember qu for our next character we are going to bend good a little in order to form shit-shit means the number four and this fun fact a lot of hotels in Japan will not have the number four in the left because it is about like beauty also meaning that from sheet we are going to add some horizontal lines in order to make more and more is used as the particle meaning alter or as well so if you say miss Alma they miss Mesa ulcer or Mesa T we also get the word cumin which means cloud and spider and washee-washee which is how you say hello when you answer the phone pour our next character we are going to take she and Ben its tail down was just a little bit so that it lies flat on the ground then we are going to add a horizontal line and then another small vertical line that curls round at the bottom towards the left this next character is set set set means height we also get the new world cursor which means a bad habit and cursor which means stinks in the colloquial lovely way by the way the - at the end of couse air is just a way of showing that the vowel sound perceiving it is to be made longer it is normally used only in katakana or in colloquial writing the next character is me this character is a particularly fun one to draw Mimi means yes Peter means to watch to see or to deck Oh Misha means shop or store we could just say mrs. Tilman shop postal but I think the products or makes your speech sound more polite it's called honorifics prefix use it if you wish to speak with honor young samurai you can also now write my name meesa meesa so you want to write a letter to me now you can practice it our next character is da da this is another simple one do you remember to just add a little line to it in order to make thought this character kind of looks like a toe actually it looks like a tool that has unfortunately got a nail or splinter stuck in it ouch looks painful tor is also years and between nouns remember you can only use this talk between nouns and they can also end with human with someone so USA with Mesa you can say Masato we can make that word Toshi which means an age with another intonation like Toshi it means a big city like New York Tokyo London next up manipulating tall a little bit we can arrive at the next character this character is tat tat and that means hand in fact it's actually written on your hand for you to remember have a look at your right hand and you will see a crease in your panda is shaped just like that terrific now if you have what looks like a backwards facing cook on the top of that we get our next character this character is so-so and the crease you just look that also looks like so so so we also get the new words we get subtle which means outside and so which means that's right so in English if somebody is correct or here when they just say that's right you just say yeah or yes but in Japanese we say so it's also a lot do you mean that's right that's right that's right so we don't really use the word high or and Timmy yeah yes in that way for our next character all we need to turn is mental a little bit we need to get rid of the splinter that is stuck in better thank goodness and then we can turn the character to the left a little bit and pull each size down now we have he he hit means fire all day we also get a common world by combined heat and tall to make hit Oh which means personal people our next character looks a bit like what would happen if Jay Antle had a baby in xxx sound as all but when Japanese people write role magic they write it as war but it's never pronounced like walk it's always Oh or as a particle or indicates the direct object of a verb this character kind of looks like a man who has just stepped over the side of a cliff imagine him screaming Oh as he falls over the side from all we can move to eat you there are two ways to write you I personally prefer the second one because it's easier for me we can get the word or you which means hot water that's right we have different words for just cold water and hot water so cold water we say music but hot water boiled water we say or you just remember oh you will be in hot water if you forget you next we have yeah yeah it kind of looks like a mom running out some more with his right arm outstretched perhaps he's a rugby player and he's about to tackle someone imagine him screaming yeah as he does it at least that's what they say in kendo classes yeah and that means arrow from yeah we can get cut if people yeah and tilt it to the side and straighten the part I scrolled cut means mesquita and part of this character looks like a little bit like a pesky mosquito look at those creepy legs as it flies about it can also be used as a particle meaning or we get a few new words D we can make color color which means to buy and Yakka which means cattle our next character is hair hair but as a particle it should be pronounced as and remember the word particle it's usually pronounced as ha in word but as a particle it's pronounced as well right this is the same if you use this air as a particle it means - like towards but it's a very formal way to safety so we not only use the particle me too me too somewhere we also get a new world with hey yeah which means room imaging someone who always greets everyone by saying hey yeah when they walk into room okay we almost done don't worry our next character is what what what means circle so for example if you say you be well it means a ring cuz you be means a finger you can remember this character because just like car looks like mosquito what looks like a wasp we also get the word while cada which means to understand how are you doing do you understand everything so far look at it from what we can live to net-net we can move to destructor just by curling the end of what a little bit that even looks a bit like a fisherman casting his net out in the hopes of catching some dinner that means root but here's your net at the end of a sentence it means isn't it so if you say kawaii net amis it's cute isn't it or it's cute and sugary we also get the word nadir which means to sleep to make a wall next word we will take one and then stead of curving it round at the end like we did to get net we are going to flick out to the right and give the character a little tail this character is that that rate means example okay we are almost 85% done in fact you won't have to learn any more new letters and we can create new sounds with the existing hiragana by adding some marks take a look at this for example this is car but here at the mark it becomes got we now have a new word Kaka which means painter this mark is formally called dark curtain but most Japanese people normally call it 10/10 which literally mean dot you can that these tending to any K as the H sounds K would be gah giggle giggle sound s would be dodgy disease or sound T would be dodgey the dead o sound hate should be bubble booble sound next if you are the 10 10 - key we get D G and the new world is Ginkel which means bunk next this is cool right maybe you can guess what the sound coup and the 10/10 would make it's good good the new orders or you're good which means to swim next this is care so if you add 10 then it becomes get get and we have this new world genki genki which means energetic or healthy or doing well in Japanese we don't ask how are you we ask Genki which is really means I do well or I healthy so if your Japanese friend asks you get ki you can say mmm Genki yeah I'm good so not to start we don't use the word e which means good you'd have to use this word Genki to describe that you are doing well next this is cool so with 10/10 it makes a sound go go do you remember how we say Japan it's new home right and if we add this goal it becomes Japanese language nihongo this core is used as a suffix for languages so here wanna say French language we say Huan Zhu go next this is Sam so with 10/10 it makes sound that and now we have this common world turn them down then which literally means chain and it means like it's a shame but you use it like too bad so if you invite someone to the party and the person can't come then you'd say done then next we have C so you can guess what the sound 10/10 make D G and now we have another common world chicken chicken which means time next this is sue so we have the another common word cheesy which means mark be careful if you say cheesy it means cheese but this is cheesy but next do you remember this set with the 10/10 it makes the sound that day so set becomes set and our new what it is then but then but we actually haven't done this blues sound this is from the character who be coming but then means everything next this is so so so the 10/10 makes the sound so so and now I knew all these two so which means elephant and statue next we have tah tah do you remember this time it was easy to remember right because it looks like the Latin alphabet P so with ten ten it makes the sound that that and then when you would is karada karada which means body next this is G G and R is 10/10 it makes the sound gg do you remember the other G sheet with 10/10 they have the exact same pronunciation the bottom line is that there are many words that use this G Plus 10 10 so you can use the other G most of the time when you hear the G sound the rule is that we use this G Plus 10 10 when the world was made by two different wars with kun yummy or Japanese reading so our new world hamaji which means nosebleed is made of two words hana which means nose and cheek which means blood hamaji we also use this G Plus 10 10 when the G follows the sound Chi for example there is a ward t Gmail which means to shrink because of the T G is written with G Plus 10 10 I'm not expecting you to memorize all that so just relax and stick the G Plus 10 10 most of the time next we have to becoming do so this is the same story as G normally we use the other two plus ten 10 an example of a word that uses this 2 is Sudoku which means to last or to continue because of to the do sound has to be written with 2 plus 10 10 next this is Teddy remember it's written on your right hand and with 10 10 10 becomes dead then our new world is Tegrity Tegrity so this good is from cool right cool with 10 10 it's good to take gucci which means exit next this is tall and if we add 10 10 we get the sound top top our new adays Toco Toco which means we're next this is ha with 10 10 it is Papa we get our favorite word Parker which means stupid or idiot he watch lots of anime you probably heard of this word bakka now you know how to write it next this is he do you remember it means fire all day but with 10 then it becomes B B and our new bodies could be which means neck but in slang term it can mean to get fired next this is who you remember it is not exactly fu sound rather it is hu sound and with 10 then it becomes the our new world is a sober which means to hang out or to play as in the kids play in the park next this is hair or air if it's used as article T and with 10/10 it becomes bad bet our new world is carbon carbon which means wall next this is o and with 10/10 its bow but our new word is boshy which means hot or cap ok we are done with 10/10 now now let's take a look at the small yeah you yo these babies are used in combination with characters that have consonants ending in a sound namely C G knee he me and B let's have a look at this chick with small yeah it makes the sound cha cha and we have the New World Kisha which means company so she plus small yeah make the sound cha if we combine she and the small you it makes the sound should shoot so I knew all this shimmy shimmy which means hobby next sheet with small you'll make the sound shop shop do you know how to say soy sauce we say show you show you next cheat with small yeah maybe you can guess the sound it's chat chat so when you what is oh ja or cha which means t normally when Japanese people say o cha over first it green tea although it can mean black tea next cheap with small you make the sound choo-choo - sounds very cute to us and choo is the sound of kissing and also is the sound of mice so our favorite character Pikachu his name comes from this to sound because he is an electric Klaus we get the new world Chewbacca which means China most countries sound like English world like Italy be it area but China and Korea we say chew coca and can coca next G+ module is chop-chop here watch anime you've probably heard of the old crock pot which means a little bit if you say chop them up there it means way a bit wait a sec and this chopped Oh doesn't just me a little bit but it's often used as um sorry but Japanese people don't like to say now because it's too direct so we instead often say shuttle to let the listener figure out that it's a no next need plus Mallya is yeah yeah you must know the cat young cat and yeah is how we say now again you watch a lot of anime you've probably have heard girls going yeah yeah do me now now next me plus small you is new new it's using the ward jr. which means milk do new next leap last module is no no there is no common water uses no next we have he plus small yeah it makes a sound cap cap we can create a new world chakku which means 100 you remember mum means 10,000 now chakku me and hundred next heat plus mommy you makes a sound here here again there is no common law that uses here but hue hue is the sound of wind next heat plus ammonia is here here and the new world is here which means port oldest next we have me plus ya which makes the sound yeah yeah again there is no common world that uses Mia and it's the same for me plus more yo-yo sound this is mu mu again I can't think of any words other than mu which is the name of the Pokemon and this is meal meal next we have 3 plus Malia it's yeah yeah you say raku it means abbreviation so MacDonnell's we usually call it maka maka so it is raku abbreviation next big plus small you is do do our new word is real which means dragon we also use English word Oregon I think Asian dragons and European dragons look kind of different and when we see the Asian do King dragon we say do but when we say european-looking dragon we say nautical next we have 3 plus module it makes the sound real real deal and it's a bit difficult to pronounce but yo yo yo again Japanese our sound is closer to the sound D so if you can't pronounce the O you can just say do your job which is like the y ou deal it sounds pretty much the same to me yo and your and our new word is really which means cooking or cuisine so he say Nihon DOD it means Japanese cuisine Japanese food and he say eat re re re it means Italian food Japanese people love small cute stuff and yeah you your aunt in a sauce there is another baby character small - this signifies a glottal stop or small pause from closing day away at the back of the throat when you see this mark it is telling you to leave a small gap between the characters on lighter side of it less confusing way to think of what this represents is to see it as kind of a double consonant sound so for example this map and small to n 10 makes the sound map that not that without the small - you sound like my dad but then so can you see the difference without - but that with small - my dad you have to put a pause in between not that not that it means wait as a request another example is a guy okay it means once one time so here I say one more time you can say more okay more okay another example is ya da ya da which means yeah I chose this because now we have finished a lot I will show you how to write konnichiwa hello and thank you in hiragana this is konnichiwa konnichiwa and thank you is arigato arigato that's tall and good at the end but because of all you sound we pronounced like long o sound so arigato arigato thank you so much for watching till the end I'll be honest with you it took a lot of effort and time I would appreciate if you give me a thumbs up make sure you subscribe to improve your Japanese see you later man

Channel: Japanese Ammo with Misa

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Length: 43min 28sec (2608 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 26 2016