「ナタリアの勉強 」

Do u have any more learning japanese blogs that you recommend ?

Thank you so much! ^.^

Here is a (not complete by any means) list of blogs that I look at regularly:

@warau-okami | chokopan | @aubergine-study | @uni-venture | @studyjapanesewithme | @goodplan-ipromise | @fricativefoxfriend | @onigiriforears | @narz-sensei | @amistudyblr | @benkyoutobentou | @mars-langblr | @onigiriwithambitions | @orenjisupeesu | @zatsugaku

国 「くに」 Countries:

アイスランド : Iceland

アイルランド : Ireland

アゼルバイジャン : Azerbaijan

アフガニスタン : Afghanistan

アブハジア : Republic of Abkhazia

アメリカ : United States of America

アラブ首長国連邦（しゅちょうこくれんぽう）: United Arab Emirates

アルジェリア : Algeria

アルゼンチン : Argentina

アルバニア : Albania

アルメニア : Armenia

アンゴラ : Angola

アンティグア・バーブーダ : Antigua and Barbuda

アンドラ : Andorra

イエメン : Yemen

イギリス : United Kingdom

イスラエル : Israel

イタリア : Italy

イラク : Iraq

イラン : Islamic Repubic of Iran

インド : India

インドネシア : Indonesia

ウガンダ : Uganda

ウクライナ : Ukraine

ウズベキスタン : Uzbekistan

ウルグアイ : Uruguay

エクアドル : Ecuador

エジプト : Egypt

エストニア : Estonia

エチオピア : Ethiopia

エリトリア : Eritrea

エルサルバドル : El Salvador

沿（そい）ドニエストル : Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR)

オーストラリア : Australia

オーストリア : Austria

オマーン : Oman

オランダ : the Netherlands

ガーナ : Ghana

カーボベルデ : Cape Verde

ガイアナ : Guyana

カザフスタン : Kazakhstan

カタール : Qatar

カナダ : Canada

ガボン : Gabon

カメルーン : Cameroon

韓国（かんこく）: Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ガンビア : Gambia

カンボジア : Cambodia

北（きた）キプロス : Northern Cyprus

北朝鮮（きたちょうせん）: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

ギニア : Guinea

ギニアビサウ : Guinea-Bissau

キプロス : Cyprus

キューバ : Cuba

ギリシャ : Greece

キリバス : Kiribati

キルギス : Kyrgyzstan

グアテマラ : Guatemala

クウェート : Kuwait

クック諸島（しょとう） : Cook Islands

グレナダ : Grenada

クロアチア : Croatia

ケニア : Kenya

コートジボワール : Côte d'lvoire

コスタリカ : Costa Rica

コソボ : Kosovo

コモロ : Comoros

コロンビア : Colombia

コンゴ共和国 （きょうわこく）: Congo

コンゴ民主共和国（みんしゅきょうわこく） : Democratic Republic of the Congo

サウジアラビア : Saudi Arabia

サモア : Samoa

サントメ・プリンシペ : Sao Tome and Principe

ザンビア : Zambia

サンマリノ : San Marino

シエラレオネ : Sierra Leone

ジブチ : Djibouti

ジャマイカ : Jamaica

ジョージア : Georgia

シリア : Syrian Arab Republic

シンガポール : Singapore

ジンバブエ : Zimbabwe

スイス : Switzerland

スウェーデン : Sweden

スーダン : Sudan

スペイン : Spain

スリナム : Suriname

スリランカ : Sri Lanka

スロバキア : Slovakia

スロベニア : Slovenia

スワジランド : Swaiziland

セーシェル : Seychelles

赤道（せきどう）ギニア : Equatorial Guinea

セネガル : Senegal

セルビア : Serbia

セントクリストファー・ネイビス : Saint Kitts and Nevis

セントビンセントおよびグレナディーン諸島（しょとう）: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

セントルシア : Saint Lucia

ソマリア : Somalia

ソマリランド : Republic of Somaliland

ソロモン諸島（しょとう）: Solomon Islands

タイ : Thailand

台湾（たいわん）: Taiwan

タジキスタン : Tajikistan

タンザニア : United Republic of Tanzania

チェコ : Czechia/Czech Republic

チャド : Chad

中央（ちゅうおう）アフリカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Central African Republic

中国（ちゅうごく）: China

チュニジア : Tunisia

チリ : Chile

ツバル : Tuvalu

デンマーク : Denmark

ドイツ : Germany

トーゴ : Togo

ドミニカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Dominican Republic

ドミニカ国（こく）: Dominica

トリニダード・トバゴ : Trinidad and Tobago

トルクメニスタン : Turkmenistan

トルコ : Turkey

トンガ : Tonga

ナイジェリア : Nigeria

ナウル : Nauru

ナゴルノ・カラバフ : Nagorno Karabakh/ Republic of Artsakh

ナミビア : Namibia

ニウエ : Niue

ニカラグア : Nicaragua

ニジェール : Niger

西（にし）サハラ : Western Sahara

日本（にほん）: Japan

ニュージーランド : New Zealand

ネパール : Nepal

ノルウェー : Norway

バーレーン : Bahrain

ハイチ : Haiti

パキスタン : Pakistan

バチカン : Vatican City State

パナマ : Panama

バヌアツ : Vanuatu

バハマ : Bahamas

パプアニューギニア : Papua New Guinea

パラオ : Palau

パラグアイ : Paraguay

バルバドス : Barbados

パレスチナ : Occupied Palestinian Territory

ハンガリー : Hungary

バングラデシュ : Bangladesh

東（ひがし）ティモール : Timor-Leste

フィジー : Fiji

フィリピン : Philippines

フィンランド : Finland

ブータン : Bhutan

ブラジル : Brazil

フランス : France

ブルガリア : Bulgaria

ブルキナファソ : Burkina Faso

ブルネイ : Brunei Darussalam

ブルンジ : Burundi

ベトナム : Vietnam

ベナン : Benin

ベネズエラ : Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

ベラルーシ : Belarus

ベリーズ : Belize

ペルー : Peru

ベルギー :Belgium

ポーランド : Poland

ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ : Bosnia and Herzegovina

ボツワナ : Botswana

ボリビア : Plurinational State of Bolivia

ポルトガル : Portugal

ホンジュラス : Honduras

マケドニア旧（きゅう）ユーゴスラビア共和国 （きょうわこく）: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

マーシャル諸島 （しょとう）: Marshall Islands

マダガスカル : Madagascar

マラウイ : Malawi

マリ : Mali

マルタ : Malta

マレーシア : Malaysia

ミクロネシア連邦（れんぽ） : Federated States of Micronesia

南（みなみ）アフリカ : South Africa

南（みなみ）オセチア : South Ossetia

南（みなみ）スーダン : South Sudan

ミャンマー : Myanmar

メキシコ : Mexico

モーリシャス : Mauritius

モーリタニア : Mauritania

モザンビーク : Mozambique

モナコ : Monaco

モルディブ : Maldives

モルドバ : Republic of Maldova

モロッコ : Morocco

モンゴル : Mongolia

モンテネグロ : Montenegro

ヨルダン : Jordan

ラオス : Lao People's Democratic Republic/Laos

ラトビア : Latvia

リトアニア : Lithuania

リビア : Libya

リヒテンシュタイン : Liechtenstein

リベリア : Liberia

ルーマニア : Romania

ルクセンブルク : Luxembourg

ルワンダ : Rwanda

レソト : Lesotho

レバノン : Lebanon

“I’m happy for you”👉🇯🇵

✅ 良かったね！{ yokattane }

This can also mean “That’s great!” “Good for you!” Or “I’m happy to hear that!”

It’s a very useful phrase😊

Or you can also say↓

✅ ほんとに良かったね！{ hontoni yokattane }

　 ほんとに means “very” or “so”

If you want to sound polite, please say

☑️ 良かったですね { yokattadesune }

I hope this is useful for you!!✨

have a wonderful day!

Layla

Bite size Japanese

Kanji, the much dreaded and often viewed as the hardest part of learning to read Japanese due to the sheer amount of them, is where many students stop their studies and give up. And this is no wonder as there are well over 50 000 of them. However, not all of them are in use and most Japanese natives know from 2 000 to 5 000 of them depending on their educational background. Around 2 000 is the average for a regular adult, 3 000 is a university educated, while a well-read person with a technical expertise knows 5 000.

While this also appears to be a huge amount of work, we must keep in mind that what you are learning are words and like with any language, was it your native or a foreign, you never learn vocabulary as one chunk, nay, you learn it in pieces over the course of many many years.

By dividing the kanji into smaller groups, learning them becomes more manageable as long as you remember to bring in what you learned previously into your newer lessons.

The Grade 1 kanji are the first 80 kanji that a child would learn, varying from numbers (on the right) to nature and colour related words along with some for body parts.

By dividing this into one lesson, each taking 1-2 hours, you should have up to 80 lessons in total. Though if you are impatient, you could try to group them based on theme to create more compact lessons and adjust the time accordingly. However, keep in mind that unless you have something to use the skill on, you will end up loosing your knowledge fast. And thus it'd be good to have simple books to read in this language, like old fairytales, if you wish to simultaneously be able to hear the said words, it'd be good idea to purchase a sound book along with the physical copy so you may read along to the voice and familiarise yourself with how the language sounds like to ensure that you have easier time learning the tonal shifts in the spoken Japanese so you won't mistake rain (a-me (⬆️-⬇️)) to candy (a-me (⬇️-⬆️)).

[Think of it as being surprised to see that it's raining versus asking your friend if they want sweets, you use different intonation for them in English.]

With each Grade Level, the amount of Kanji in it grows, and thus you'll need to plan your studies with more care. And while it may end up looking more and more overwhelming, there are things you can do to help you on the journey like purchasing Kanji Flashcards or making your own, there are also plenty ready to download and print ones available.

For a successful study journey however, your own notes will be the most crucial ones to carry you to victory over this seemingly overwhelming journey. Make sure that you write and rewrite your study notes in a way that you'll enjoy looking at them, onto paper that you like, in a way that you can read it later! Get those cute notebooks you desire! Fill them up with knowledge! If you make studying this language into a passion, you will go far!

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Hi anon, thanks for your question! I'm sorry for the late reply; I was away from Tumblr and Japanese studies for some time.

I use WaniKani to learn kanji, and I've talked about what I think of it in previous posts (here and here).

Exposure is key

Other than WaniKani, exposure has also been key for me. Typing words out over and over again in my diary entries helps me remember which kanji are the correct ones from the IME predictive text list (Windows has a Japanese keyboard you can install called IME, provided by Microsoft). With this writing experience, I can see kanji in others’ diary entries or posts and recognize them.

See a new word

Look it up on jisho.org (an online dictionary)

Learn what it means and how to pronounce it

If there’s a kanji in it, look it up

Identify the reading that’s in the word I looked up

Write down the word and the reading

This process allows me to associate the reading for the kanji with the new word I learned.

For example, the verb 書きます

jisho.org says this is the ～ます form (i.e. the polite form) of the verb 書く

書く means “to write” (the most common definition)

There’s a kanji in this word: 書

書 in 書く is pronounced か, which is one of its kun-yomi (kun reading, which originates from Japan - check out Tofugu’s kanji series of articles; it’s really informative and helpful!)

書く = to write (かく; godan verb, which Genki calls a u-verb)

Here’s a screenshot from jisho.org:

Kanji can have multiple readings

① On-yomi are readings that originate from China.

② Kun-yomi are readings that originate from Japan.

The reason why it’s important to know kanji readings is because a single kanji can have more than one reading, and you won’t know which one is correct in vocabulary words you’ve never seen before. The more kanji you learn in the context of vocabulary words, the more you’ll pick up on which readings should be used in new, unfamiliar vocabulary words.

Kanji don't exist in a vacuum

Because kanji is found in vocabulary words, you might have some trouble remembering words out of context (i.e. sentences, which need grammar in order to be created).

By learning kanji readings in the context of vocabulary words, you:

Have something to associate with the kanji reading - this aids in memory.

Can learn vocabulary and kanji that matter to you - so you don’t waste time trying to memorize long lists of words you’ll never use.

Expose yourself gradually to kanji that have multiple readings - so you don’t get overwhelmed.

Here's another example: the kanji 中.

Looking up this kanji in jisho.org shows that it has two readings:

① なか is listed as a kun-yomi (i.e. a pronunciation that originated from Japan). For example, 中 in this sentence is pronounced なか in the word 中 (なか), which is a noun meaning “inside”:

本はカバンの中です。(The book is inside the bag.)

② ちゅう is listed as an on-yomi (i.e. a pronunciation that originated from China). For example, 中 in this sentence is pronounced ちゅう in the word 中国 (ちゅうごく) which means “China”:

彼は中国に行きます。(He is going to China.)

中 in this second sentence isn’t pronounced なか, so if that’s the only pronunciation you memorize or learn with the kanji 中, then you won’t know how to read the word  中国人. Memorizing 中 as ちゅう or なか doesn’t tell you much about how it is used in vocabulary words. By learning vocabulary, you’ll have something concrete to associate with a particular kanji. This makes it easier for you to remember, instead of trying to memorize stroke order or what the kanji looks like.

Here's a third example: 図書館 (としょかん).

This word means “library.” It's composed of three kanji, and each kanji has a specific pronunciation:

図 = と (one of the on-yomi readings for this kanji)

書 = しょ (the only on-yomi reading for this kanji)

館 =  かん (the only on-yomi reading for this kanji)

These kanji mean:

図書 = books

館 = house, hall, building; used as a suffix or a standalone noun

So 図書館 can be literally translated as “book building.”

Using Context to Predict Readings

Whether a kanji in a certain word is pronounced using the on-yomi reading or the kun-yomi reading depends on the context of the sentence or word it is in.

For example, the kanji 心 has two readings: しん or こころ

心配 = しんぱい; n., worry, concern, anxiety

心得る = こころえる; v., to understand, to be aware of, to regard as

心理学 = しんりがく; n., psychology

心 =  こころ; n., mind, heart, spirit​*

心 = しん; n., heart, mind*

* Note: 心 (こころ) and 心 (しん) are also vocabulary words on their own. These are single kanji vocabulary words.

As you can see, each of the above words has a different reading for 心. If you see 心配 in a sentence, you’ll need to learn to read it as しんぱい not こころぱい. The only way to do this is repeated exposure and patience.

Here’s a sentence with 心配 in it:

メアリーさんは試験を心配しています。 Mary is worried about the exam.

If you look up the word 試験 (しけん), you’ll learn that it means “exam.” So in this sentence, Mary is doing some verb to or about an exam. The verb 心配しています is conjugated in the ている form, indicating a continuing action. What could the verb be? One possibility is worrying. That’s 心配する (しんぱいする), which comes from the noun 心配 (しんぱい, worry) and just has する (to do) attached to it. So しんぱいする means “to do worry” or just “to worry.”

Using Jisho.org to Look Up Words

Most words in Japanese are written using kanji only or a mix of kanji and hiragana. I don’t yet know how to look up words by radical (kanji component) yet, so I rely on the online dictionary at jisho.org to look up new words. I type in hiragana and search that way. Jisho will usually be able to give you the word you’re looking for, with kanji (and furigana above each kanji character).

For example, the verb つくる (which has a kanji character, 作):

I typed in つくる in the search bar, hit Enter, and the first thing that came up was the verb I was looking for: 作る.

Another thing to try using is a Japanese keyboard. I have one installed on my phone (you can add languages in the keyboard settings if you have a smart phone) as well as my computer (the IME keyboard, which I mentioned earlier). Both keyboards give kanji recommendations, which can be helpful if you have an idea of what kanji are in the word.

As you can see in the screenshot below, the first recommendation is 作る, which turns out to be the right word I was looking for. Using the IME keyboard, just press Enter and the hiragana you type will be automatically converted into kanji. You can also just click on the recommended word. Then, copy/paste it into the search bar on Jisho to see what it means.

Be aware though that the first recommended word in a keyboard's list might not be the correct one (which is why repeated exposure to the right kanji will help you differentiate between similar-sounding words). A good example of this is 洗濯 versus 選択. Both of these words are pronounced as せんたく but only one of them means "laundry." As such, always check what words you're using to make sure they're the ones you actually mean! Jisho.org is a great dictionary to use for this.

Further Reading

Here are links to some kanji-related articles on Tofugu that I found really helpful:

The History of Kanji

On’Yomi and Kun’Yomi in Kanji: What’s the Difference?

Learn Kanji with Radicals and Mnemonics: The Definitive Guide

How to Find the Kanji Radical

How to Look Up and Read Kanji You Don’t Know

For more resources and information on kanji, check out the #kanji tag on my blog as well as:

These posts:

https://japanesetranslated.tumblr.com/post/161866274410/

https://chokopan.tumblr.com/post/187312734039/

https://chokopan.tumblr.com/post/650479596548046848/

https://chokopan.tumblr.com/post/651113807515664385/

https://chokopan.tumblr.com/post/651283446512091136/

These websites:

https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/lessons/kanji_lessons.cfm

http://guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/kanji

https://www.kamesame.com/

http://guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/kanji

I hope this helps! 漢字は難しですが、できるよ！！(´っ･ω･)っ