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Everyday Kanji (Kanji on the Street)
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(15 ratings)
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Everyday Kanji (Kanji on the Street)

Learn from Real Japanese! ~ Kanji on the Street ~
Created byKazue Kaneko
Last updated 9/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • One Kanji a lesson. Learn its Meaning, Reading, Writing and Usage (in a sentence & signboards)
  • Learn Kanji stroke order in animation! Easy to follow
  • How to read Japanese signboards that actually exist in Japan.
  • Understand Japanese major signboards. It would be very useful when you actually visit Japan or living in Japan.

Course content

11 sections • 101 lectures • 1h 47m total length

  • Day1 出 exit0:38

    Everyday Kanji ~Learn from Real Japanese~

    Hello! Minasan Konnichiwa! My name is Kazue, I'm the instructor of this Everyday Kanji course. I created this course because in Japan, there are still so many signboards only written in Japanese, and I thought many of them are very important. For traffic signboards, it's crucial for you to understand them to avoid any traffic accidents. For shop and restaurant signboards, you might get a discount or receive any sort of benefits if you understand them.

    This Everyday Kanji  course introduces one Kanji a video. Introducing the meaning of the Kanji, reading (for both On-yomi and Kun-yomi) and stroke order of a Kanji in animation. In addition, example sentences of the Kanji and photos of real Japanese signboard, Kanban on the street are shown. All lessons are easy to follow as it's short and with light pop background music. :) 

    Occasionally there are review and summary sessions of the previous lessons so that you can enhance your memory and prepare for the day you will visit Japan. All lessons are practical as the signboards introduced in each lessons are actually used in real Japanese.

    After finishing this course (100 Kanji), you'll understand many of Japanese signboards on the street!  After taking this course and visiting Japan would be more interesting than not preparing at all. It's like solving puzzles! You'll understand the meaning of signboards that you might run across on the street in Japan!

    Excited? See  you in the lessons! :) 

  • Day2 口 mouth0:38

    Explore the kanji 口 (mouth) in everyday kanji on the street, day 2, including writing order and street usage, with examples for exit and way out.

  • Day3 入 enter0:53
  • Day4 店 shop0:43

    practice kanji on the street every day and learn that the kanji 店 means shop; read and recognize it when you see it.

  • Day5 酒 liquor0:44

    Explore the kanji 酒, meaning liquor, and its everyday use for alcohol drinks on the street. Explain how context signals its Japanese usage.

  • Day6 屋 shop1:05
  • Day7 金 money0:52
  • Day8 両 both0:59
  • Day9 替 exchange0:58
  • Day10 車 car1:00

Requirements

  • Basic Japanese. Especially Japanese scripts, Hiragana and Katakana.

Description

Everyday Kanji introduces 1 Kanji a video. Introducing the meaning of the Kanji, reading (for both On-yomi and Kun-yomi) and stroke order of a Kanji in animation. In addition, example sentences of the Kanji and real Japanese signboard, Kanban on the street are shown. Therefore this course is easy to follow and quite practical as well.

Occasionally there are review and summary of the lessons so that you can enhance your memory and prepare for the day you're visiting Japan. All lessons are practical as it's really used in real Japanese.


What is Kanji?

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system. They are used alongside the Japanese syllabic scripts: hiragana and katakana.

Kanji (漢字), one of the three scripts used in the Japanese language, are Chinese characters, which were first introduced to Japan in the 5th century via the Korean peninsula.

Kanji are ideograms, i.e. each character has its own meaning and corresponds to a word. By combining characters, more words can be created. For example, the combination of "buy(買)" with "thing(物)" means "shopping（買物）".

Kanji are used for writing nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs. Unlike the Chinese language, Japanese cannot be written entirely in kanji. For grammatical endings and words without corresponding kanji, two additional, syllable-based scripts are being used, hiragana and katakana, each consisting of 46 syllables.


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone coming to Japan soon
  • Anyone who want to learn Japanese Kanji
  • Anyone who want to learn practical Japanese
  • Anyone studying Japanese right now. Great way to learn real Japanese.

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