Japanese for Absolute Beginners | Hiragana

1. Class introduction: Hi everyone and welcome to my Japanese for absolute beginner one class, I am your instructor, k1 can. Now as your first step in learning Japanese, we will first learn here I gotta one of the writing systems used in Japanese language. And the aim of this class is not just learning what here I've got my characters are, but the aim is to develop mastery. And to help you develop mastery of Hiragana characters. We will learn how each character is red and in each lesson there are guided and independent reading practices so that you are actively involved in the learning process. We will also show you how each character is written, demonstrating the correct stroke order for each character. And after each video lesson, you can use our writing Worksheets to practice writing the characters you have learned in the lesson. And as well as learning the Hiragana characters themselves. We will also learn how we form voiced sounds in Japanese using different kinds of diacritics, code tackled 10 and contact with them. And we will also learn how we form double consonants and long vowel sounds in Japanese by combining different Hiragana character. Enter ensure you develop complete mastery. There are regular review lesson so that you are constantly tested to recall what you learned in an earlier lesson. And you can also revisit one of these review lessons whenever you want to re-learn the characters from an earlier lesson. So if you're keen to start learning Japanese and wants to start on the right, but come and join us. And I will see you in the first lecture. 2. Japanese writing system: Hi everyone and welcome to the lecture on Japanese writing system. In this lecture, we're going to take a look at the overview of the Japanese writing system. The Japanese language is made up of three writing system. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji. The first two writing system are collectively called the Kanna. And Khanna refers to Japanese letters of the two canals. Hiragana is more common and Hiragana is mainly used to write native Japanese words and grammatical words, such as prepositions and particles that mark the sentence subject and object. Hiragana is made up of 46 characters, and each character represents a particular sound. Now, I know at this stage you might be thinking that this is way more than 26 letters you have to learn for the English alphabet. But unlike English, for which the combinations of different letters represent different sounds, each Hiragana character represents one particular sound and that never changes. Hiragana characters can be represented in a table like this. This table is called Golgi. You on Zu, Gou means 50 on mean sounds and x2 means grid or table. So good you on X2 refers to the five by 10 grid on which each character is displayed. The table actually consists of 45 sounds plus one sound, which is not included in this table. So these 46 sounds makeup Hiragana. The top row represents the five vowel sounds of Japanese. And they are our ee, oo, air, or. And each row then represents the same vowel sound combined with a consonant sound. Next row is CAF Key, cookie, core, and so on. There are certain exceptions to this rule, but we will learn these as we go through the class. Now this table can be shown like this with a vowel sounds written from left to right, but it can also be shown like this with vowel sounds written from top to bottom. Now, both table forms are correct and it's important to know that Japanese can be written from left to right, same as how the Roman alphabet is written, but it can also be written from top to bottom. And many Japanese books have texts written top to bottom. So this is just something to be aware of. Two right here now gonna characters following the correct stroke order of each character is important. So in all our lessons, we will demonstrate how each character is written. And after each lesson, you can download the lesson worksheets and practice writing the characters as this will help you to memorize the characters better. The other form of Carnot is katakana. And katakana basically represents the same sounds as Hiragana, but it uses different characters. Hiragana character is a more cursive and curvy, while katakana characters have more straight lines and sharper edges. Katakana is mainly used to write foreign words, loanwords, and onomatopoeia sounds. And because katakana represents the same sounds as Hiragana, Katakana can also be represented in goes you on Zoom like this. Lastly, we have Kanji and Kanji is the use of Chinese characters in Japanese. Kanji differs from Hiragana Katakana in that there are thousands of kanji characters, and rather than representing a particular sound, each character represents a certain meaning or an idea. Therefore, the same Kanji character can be read as a different sound depending on the context it's used in. Kanji is mostly used for content words. So they are used in many nouns, stems of many verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Kanji is also used to write many names of places. One thing to note with kanji is that because certain Chinese characters are not often used in Japanese, there use may confuse even Japanese people. So to help with reading certain Chinese characters, the sounds of certain Kanji may be written with Cana, usually above the Chinese characters. This writing of Kanji in canal is called fully Ghana. Fourier Ghana is not found in every text, but you may see it in certain signs on certain websites such as online dictionaries. Generally speaking, Japanese text is written in a combination of all three writing systems. However, this doesn't mean that every word will use characters from every writing system. But many words we use characters from at least two writing systems, most commonly Hiragana and Kanji. Now, one other form of writing system that's worth mentioning is ROM algae. Romagna is writing Japanese in Roman alphabet. And having some understanding of raw magic can be helpful as in certain keyboard settings, whether it be on your phone or on your computer, you may have to type Japanese texts by typing the Japanese words in Romagna. Therefore, some basic understanding of how Japanese words are written in Roma G is useful. Nevertheless, Roma j is not something you should rely on to help you develop your Japanese skills. Okay, So I hope that's given you a good understanding of the Japanese writing system. In the next lesson, we will briefly go over the structure of this class. See you then, bye bye. 3. Course overview: Hi everyone and welcome to the lesson on the course overview. In this lesson, I will give you an overview of how this course is structured so that you have a clear understanding of how you will learn and master Hiragana characters. As mentioned in the previous lesson, Hiragana characters are presented in code. You on Zoom, and each row represents the five-hour sounds together with a consonant sound. The first row is just a vowel sound, so this is called a row. The second row is k row and the third row is S row, and so on. And to learn the five characters in each row, we will learn three characters in one lesson and two characters in the second lesson. In all our lessons, we will demonstrate how each character is written, showing you the correct stroke order. After showing how each character is written and demonstrating how each character is read, there are guided reading practices to help you develop your reading skills. We will first do a listening repeat practice to help you develop familiarity with the characters. Once you've become used to the characters, the lesson we'll end with independent reading practices, so that you are independently recalling the sounds associated with each character. After each lesson, you can download the writing Worksheets and practice writing the characters. And this will greatly help with developing familiarity with the characters. After we have learned the five characters, there are review lessons to review what we learned in the previous two lessons. And you can also practice reading these characters in Japanese words. And the cycle is repeated with each row of characters. However, as you move forward with the course, you will naturally lose memory of what you learned earlier. So when you start to forget what you learned in earlier lessons, do revisit the review lessons to help you recall what you had learned before. Now, one thing to note with Hiragana characters is that some of the characters can be written slightly differently. For native Japanese people, this is not a problem at all, but for someone learning Japanese for the first time, it can throw you a bit as some of the characters can look very different. What we are teaching in our lessons is a more traditional way of writing the characters, which is what most people learn when they first land here I've got now, however, to help you develop awareness of different fonts for each character, our worksheets will show you how each character can be written differently. So do refer to the worksheets to learn about fonts variation. Okay, so that's it for this lesson on cost structure. The next lesson is our first lesson on learning. Can I gotta characters? I will see you there. Bye bye. 4. A-row - あいう (a, i, u): Welcome to the first lesson on learning Hidatsa characters. In this lesson, we'll focus on the first row of table, a row. And we'll start with the first three characters. Ee, oo. Let's begin. The first character we're going to learn is listen and repeat. Law is written like this. We begin with a stroke at the top from left to right. And then we have a downward stroke which curves to the right a little. The next stroke begins from up here, comes down at a diagonal line and then does a big loop like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's practice reading this karyotype again. Listen and repeat. That was great, well done. Next character is read E, E. Listen and repeat. E. E. E is written like this. First we have a downward stroke which begins from the left side and the stroke curves to the right and ends with a brush stroke ending, which then kind of points to where the next row should begin them. The second stroke begins from the right side and it's a shorter downward stroke like this. And it's a slightly diagonal stroke. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character again. E. E. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is listen and repeat. Is written like this. The first stroke is a short diagonal line at the top and it goes from top-left to bottom-right. Then the second stroke is around this stroke that starts from top-left and then curves round and down like this. Let's watch that again now. Let's now do a listen and repeat practice. Excellent job, well done. In this speaking practice, we're going to practice reading 03 characters we have seen in this lesson. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of 03 characters. That was great. It's well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first try reading one character at a time. Try reading the characters by yourself first, and then listen to check your own reading. E, e, e, e. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. You didn't really well, well done. The final independent practice is reading three character combinations. Let's begin. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in a row. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in a row and see you then. Bye bye. 5. A-row - えお (e, o): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in a row a, n. Let's begin. This character is read a, listen and repeat. A is written like this. The first stroke is a short diagonal stroke from top-left to bottom-right. And the second stroke is kind of like the English zed in a way. So first we go left to right and then diagonally to bottom left. And then instead of going straight to right, we kind of draw an arch. The arch must come down a bit early and turn into a straight line. Let's watch that again. Okay, So let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. That was great. Well done. Next character is all. Listen and repeat. 000 is written like this. First on the top left side, we begin with a short lefts arise stroke. Then the second stroke goes through this short line in a downward stroke. And at the end of the stroke we draw a big loop like this. And then we have this big empty space on the top right. And here we draw a floating diagonal line that goes from top left to bottom right. Now all looks very similar to, but a key distinction is that all has this floating stroke on the top rights. So do keep that in mind. Let's watch that again. Okay, let's now practice reading this character 0. 0. Excellent job, well-done. Let's first do a listener GP practice of two characters from today. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. That was great. Less than add to an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first, and then listen to check your own reading. 00 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00. Great efforts. Well done less. Now practice reading to character combinations. Fantastic job today. Well, in this lesson we learned the last two characters in a row. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in a row. See you then, bye bye. 6. A-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in a row. We'll first do a listening repeat practice to remind ourselves of the five characters in a row. After that, we do an independent practice of reading the characters. And lastly, we will practice reading words that use characters in a row. We'll first do a listener repeat practice of 05 characters in a row. Listen and repeat 0, 0. That was great, Well done. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. 0, 0, 0, 0. Great job, well-done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first focus on reading one character at a time and to make this process a little easier, the first five lines follow the order of the characters in a row as before, with independent practice, read the characters by yourself first. Then listen to check your own reading less than the practice. Oh, oh, excellent job. Well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. Now this is going to be a tricky practice. So for the first three lines will give you one of the characters in Roma j. Let's begin. 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. Excellent efforts by wood on the final practice is reading a three character combinations. And again, this is going to be a difficult practice. So in the first four lines will give you some of the characters in Roma j. From the fifth line, you will need to read all three characters by yourself. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, fantastic job. Well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. These words were combined characters we have learned, and also other characters we haven't learned yet. For characters we have not learned yet, we will provide a Roma G, right? Saying. So to read the whole word, you just need to read one of the five characters from the a row. Let's begin the practice. How, how excellent efforts at a well done. In this lesson, we reviewed the five characters that make up the a row, ah, ee, oo a 0. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the k rho. See you then, bye bye. 7. K-row - かきく (ka, ki, ku): Hello and welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the k row. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the k row. So let's begin. The first character is red car. Listen and repeat. Ha, ha. Car is written like this. The first stroke starts from far left, a little higher up, and you draw a big arch like this. And it ends with a brush stroke ending. Then you draw a downward stroke that goes through the first stroke and it goes to the left like this. And in this blank space on the top right, you draw a little floating diagonal line from top left to bottom right. Let's watch that again. Listen and repeat again. Ha, ha. That was excellent. Well done. Next character is red key. Key. Listen and repeat. P. P key is written like this. First we draw two lines that go from left to right, and these lines are drawn at a bit of an angle. Next we draw a diagonal line through these two lines like this. And it ends with a brush stroke ending. And then at the bottom to the left, we draw a curved line like this. Now, key can also be written like this, connecting these two parts together. And in many books and also on many websites, key is written like this. So do keep in mind that both of these are read as key. Key. Let's watch that again. Let's do another listen and repeat practice of key, P. Key. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is cool, cool, listen and repeat. Cu. Cu is written like this. And Cu is one of the easier characters to learn. And it's made up of two diagonal lines and it kind of looks like an angled bracket. Sign them. Let's watch that again. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of cool. That was great. Let's first do a listener repeat practice of reading 03 characters. T, t, t, t. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first try reading one character at a time. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Great efforts. Well, Let's now do an independent practice of reading three character combinations. Fantastic efforts. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the K Row, Key and COO. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the k row and col. See you then, bye, buh-bye. 8. K-row - けこ (ke, ko): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the k row and col. Let's begin. This character is read. Listen and repeat. Cao. Cao. K is written like this. The first stroke is a downward stroke made on the left side. And it's a long stroke like this. And as you can see, it kind of curves inwards slightly. And at the end there is a brushstroke ending. And then we draw a short stroke from left to right about here. And then a downward stroke through this short stroke which kind of curves to the left. Let's watch that again. Okay, let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. Great efforts. Well done. Next, this character is read Cole, who listen and repeat. Cool. Cool. Cool is written like this. This character is made up of two parallel bars. So the first stroke goes from left to right, but it ends with a brush stroke ending. Then the second stroke goes from left to right, but it's not a completely straight line. So it starts here and then it curves down and then becomes a straight line across. Let's watch that again. Okay, Now listen and repeat. Great job. Let's first do a listening GP practice of two characters from today's lesson. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time and read by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. Excellent efforts, Bohdan, less now practice reading to character combinations. Cool, cool, cool. Fantastic job today, well-done. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the k row and col. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the k rho. See you then, bye bye. 9. K-row - review lesson: Hi there and welcome back. In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the k row. And same as before. We'll first to listen and repeat practices and then independent practices. And lastly, we will read Japanese words that use characters from the k row. Let's begin. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of 05 characters together. That was great, Well done. Let's now do a listener repeat practice of individual characters. Great efforts. Will now do an independent practice, and we'll first focus on reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first, and then listen to check your own reading. Let's begin. Cool, cool, cool, cool. That was excellent, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. As before, you will only need to identify one character in the first few lines. Let us begin the practice. Excellent efforts welled on. The final practice is reading three character combinations. And again, we'll provide you with for the first few lines. Let us begin. Cool, cool. Cool. K. K. K, k. Excellent job, well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words and same as before for characters we have not learned yet. We will provide the row Maggi writing. Let's begin the practice. Excellent job today. In this lesson, we reviewed the five characters that make up the K Row Key. Coo. Cool. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the SRO. See you then, bye bye. 10. S-row - さしす (sa, shi, su): Welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the S row. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the SRO. Let's begin. This character is read, listen and repeat. Fat. Fat is written like this. The first stroke is a short stroke that's slightly angled and goes from left to right like this. Then you draw a downward stroke which is angle to the right. And it ends with a brush stroke ending. And then a little bit away from the end of the second stroke, we draw a curved line like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's do a listener repeat practice of reading this character. That was great, well done. Next character is read. She listen and repeat. She is written like this. This character is written in one stroke and we basically draw a long hook like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character again. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is Sue. Listen and repeat. Sue is written like this. First we have a long left to rise stroke like this. And then the next drug begins from the top and it goes through the first stroke. However, this downward stroke should come through the first stroke a little bit right from the middle. So it comes down to about here. And then it goes back. Cup doesn't loop, and then comes back down again. Let's watch that again. Do a listening repeat practice of reading this side again. Excellent job, well done. Let's first do a listening repeat practice. C, C, C. C. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first try reading one character at a time. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. C, C, C, C. You're doing really well. So this is the final independent practice. And this time we'll practice reading three character combinations. C, C, C. C. C. Excellent job today. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the row. So in the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the row n. So see you then. Bye bye. 11. S-row - せそ (se, so): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the row n. So let's begin. This character is read, listen and repeat. For, say is written like this. First, from a little bit high up here, you draw a straight line from left to right. And it's slightly angle, so the line goes upwards to the right. Then on the right, you draw a short downward stroke, which draws a little inward to the left. And the next stroke begins here. And then you kinda draw half a square, but a downward stroke is angled inward a little and it curves into a line at the end like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. That was great, well done. Next character is pronounced soul. So listen and repeat. So, so so is written like this. Now this character is written in one stroke and in a simplified sense, we first write an English And then draw an outage. So first we kinda rights as z, which is a little angled like this. Then from this point we draw an arch like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, let's now do a listening repeat practice. So, excellent job, well done. Let's first do a listening rupee practice of two characters from today. So that was great. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first practice reading one character at a time. Great efforts, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. So fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the S rho n. So in the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the S Row. See you then, bye bye. 12. S-row - review lesson: Hello and welcome back. In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the S row. As before, we'll do a listening repeat practice, independent practice and Japanese word reading practice. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of all five characters together. Let's begin. That was great. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first focus on reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first, and then listen to check your own reading. Let's begin the practice. Excellent job, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. And as before, will be provided for some of the characters in the first few lines. Let us begin the practice. So excellent efforts, well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. And again, it will be provided for some of the characters in the first few lines. Let's start the practice. So fantastic efforts and the final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. And same as before, four characters not in this review lesson, we will provide the row Maggi writing. Let's begin the practice. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson we reviewed the five characters that make up the row. So in the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the T Rowe. See you then, bye bye. 13. T-row - たちつ (ta, chi, tsu): Hello and welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the t rho. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the t rho, g, and let's begin. The first character is read. Listen and repeat. Ta. Ta. Ta is written like this. First we have a short line up here on the top right that goes from left to right, and it's angled upward a little. Then we drag a long downward line through this short line and it kind of curves outward just a little like this. And then in this blank space we draw two lines similar to coal from an earlier lesson like this. Let's watch that again. Listen and repeat again. That was great. Well done. Next, this character is read Ci t. So instead of a T sound, we have a CH sound, listen and repeat. T. T. T is written like this. First we have a short left to rise stroke up here and it's angled so it's an upward stroke. Then the second stroke is a downward stroke that comes down to about here, not all the way down. And then we draw this edge to the right, kind of going outward like this. Let's watch that again. Listen and repeat again. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is to. Now this is a very unique sound in Japanese, and this sound is somewhere between S and C8 sound. To make this sound, the tip of the tongue touches the part that's behind the upper front teeth. So it's listen and repeat. So is written like this. Now, this is kind of like a semicircle and it starts from far left. And we draw this loop like this. And then it ends kind of at the halfway point here. Let's watch that again. Let's now do a listening repeat practice. Great efforts, well done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of 03 characters. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first try reading one character at a time. Let's begin. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Great efforts. Well, lastly, let's now do an independent practice of reading three character combinations. Fantastic job today, well done. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the t rho, T N. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the T Rowe and see you then. Bye bye. 14. T-row - てと (te, to): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the t rho, n. Let's begin. The first character is read, listen, and repeat. Is written like this. Now TE is written in one stroke and it begins with a long line that goes from left to right up here. And this line is angle, so it's drawn a little upward. Then from this point we draw an arch like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, So let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. That was great, well done. Next character is tall. To listen and repeat. Toll is written like this. The first stroke is a short diagonal stroke from top-left to about here. Then from the other side we draw another diagonal line, but this time it's a long diagonal line, and then it curves and tons into a straight line across like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, Now listen and repeat tool. To great efforts so well done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of two characters from today. Great job. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. That was great, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. Excellent job today. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the t rho. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the T Rowe. See you then, bye bye. 15. T-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in a row. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of all five characters. Let's begin. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first do a practice of reading one character at a time. Let's begin. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Excellent efforts, well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. So if you're ready, let's go straight into it. Excellent job, well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. Identify the characters from the T Rowe and read the whole Japanese word. Let's begin the practice. Excellent job today. In this lesson we'll review the five characters that make up the t, rho, q0, Sue, and tall. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the end, rho. See you then, bye, bye. 16. N-row - なにぬ (na, ni, nu): Welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the n row. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the n row. So let's begin. The first character is red. Now, listen and repeat. That is written like this. This character has four strokes in total, and the first stroke is a short and left to right line that goes outward slightly. Then we draw a downward line through the short line and its angle to the left a little. Then in this empty space in the top right, we have the third stroke and it's a slight diagonal line like this. Then we have the final stroke and it's a downward stroke. And then we draw a small loop like this at the end. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. That was great, well done. The next character is read me. Listen and repeat. Knee is written like this. Firstly, it has a downward stroke on the left and it ends with a brush stroke ending that points to where the next stroke begins. And then in the space on the right, we draw two lines of similar length like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is new. Listen and repeat. New is written like this. So first we draw this downward stroke on the left side like this. And you can see that its angle to the right. Then we draw another downward stroke, and this stroke is angle to the left and crosses the other line. But at the bottom we draw a big arch that goes to the right like this. And at the end of the edge, we draw a small loop like this. Let's watch that again. Let's do a listen and repeat practice of reading. New. Great job, well-done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of 03 characters. Ma, ma, ma, ma. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first try reading one character at a time. Let's begin. Great efforts. Well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Excellent efforts, well done. Finally, less now do an independent practice of reading three character combinations. Fantastic job today, well done. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the n rho. New. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the n, rho, n. No. See you then, Bye bye. 17. N-row - ねの (ne, no): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the n rho 0. Let's begin. This character is read, listen and repeat. La. La. Next is written like this. First we have the straight downward stroke, and then we have a short line going across that downward stroke up here. And then we draw a diagonal line going through the first stroke down to here. And from here we kind of follow the line backup and draw a big loop like this. And at the end we draw a small loop like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's practice reading this character again. Listen and repeat. Law. Law. That was great, well-done. Next, this character is read, no, no. Listen and repeat. No, no. No is written like this. First we begin with a diagonal line like this, and towards the end, we draw a big circle round to the right like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, Now listen and repeat. No, no. Great efforts. Well, let's first do a listening repeat practice of two characters from today. No, no, no, no. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. Read by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. No, no, no, no, No, No. Excellent job, well-done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the n rho, O. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the n rho. See you then, bye bye. 18. N-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the n row. Let's begin. We'll first do a listener repeat practice of 05 characters together. Let's begin. Map. No, no, no. That was grades. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. No, no. Great job. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. And as always, read by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. Map. Map. No, no, no, no. Great job, well-done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. If you're ready, let's begin. No, no, no, no. That was great. Well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. As always, we'll start off a little easy. Let's start the practice. No, no, no, nah, no, no, no. No. Excellent job. Well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. Saying this before, identify the characters in the n row and read the whole Japanese word. Let's begin the practice. Nada. Michael. Excellent job today. In this lesson, we'll review the five characters that make up the n rho Ni Nu, know. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the h rho. See you then, bye bye. 19. H-row - はひふ (ha, hi, hu/fu): Welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the h rho. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the a TRO. Let's begin. This character is read ha, ha, listen and repeat. Ha, ha, ha is written like this. First, you draw a big downward stroke on the left. But this stroke is curved like this and it ends in a brush stroke ending. Then from up here, we draw a short line from left to right like this. And then we draw a downward stroke through this short line. And at the bottom we draw a loop to the right like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Ha, ha, that was great. Well done. Next, this character is read. He, he, listen and repeat. He, he, he is written like this. He is written in one stroke. And from here we draw a short stroke from left to right but outward. And then we kinda draw a grape shaped like this. And then at the end, we draw a short downward stroke to the right, like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. He. He. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is who? This character is sometimes written as full and sometimes written as a whole. And the essence of this character sound is the sound of air passing through one's mouth. So it's a sound somewhere between f and h sound in English. You need to open your lips and allow air to be expelled. Listen and repeat. Who is written like this? The first stroke is a diagonal line with the cross stroke ending like this. And then we draw a curved line in the middle. And then on the left we draw a short diagonal line like this with a brush stroke ending. And then on the right side we draw a short diagonal line like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's now do a listening repeat practice. Great job, well done. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of all three characters. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first try reading one character at a time. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Excellent job, well-done. Finally, less than an independent practice or reading three character combinations. Fantastic job today, well done. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the row key. Next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the h row, n whole. See you then, Bye bye. 20. H-row - へほ (he, ho): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the row, hair and Whoa, let's begin. This character is pronounced hey, who? Listen and repeat. Hair is written like this. Now hey is very simple to write and we kind of draw the roof of a tent, but the roof on the left side is shorter than the other side. Okay, so let's watch that again. Let's now read this character again. Listen and repeat. Who? Who? That was great, well-done. Next, this character is pronounced Hall. Who? Listen and repeat. Whoa, whoa. Let's take a look at how to write whole. First we have a downward stroke, which is slightly curved. And then it has a brushstroke ending to the right. Then on the right about here, we draw two lines that are similar in length. And then the final stroke is a downward stroke through the two parallel lines. And then at the bottom we draw a loop like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Excellent job, well done. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of two characters from today. Hey, hey, great job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time, read the characters by a cell first, and then listen to check your own reading. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Great effort. Let's now practice reading to carry into combinations. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Fantastic job today, well done. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the row, header and the hole. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the h rho. See you then, bye-bye. 21. H-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the eighth row. Let's first do a listing repeat practice of all five characters together. Let's begin. That was great. Let's now do a listener repeat practice, all the individual characters. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. Great job, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Great efforts. Well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. If you're ready, let's begin. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey. Fantastic job. Well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. Identify the characters from the H rho and read the whole Japanese wood. Let's begin the practice. He did fantastic efforts that I well-done. In today's lesson, we reviewed the five characters that make up the eighth row key. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the m rho. See you then, bye bye. 22. M-row - まみむ (ma, mi, mu): Welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the MRO. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the row. Let's begin. This character is red, ma, ma, listen and repeat. Ma, ma. Ma is written like this. First, you draw two parallel lines like this. And the one above is a little longer than the one below. And these lines are drawn at an angle so they go upward. Then the third stroke comes down the middle of these two parallel lines. And at the bottom we draw a loop like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Ma, ma. That was great. Well done. Next character is Read Me, me, listen and repeat. Mee, Mee. Mee is written like this. The first drug begins upon the left side and we draw a short stroke to the right going upward. And then we draw a diagonal line down like this. And then we draw an edge that goes to the right like this. And then around here on the right, we draw a short diagonal line which is angled and it goes through the first stroke like this. Let's watch the clip again. Listen and repeat me. Me. Excellent job. Well done. The last of the three characters for this lesson is more. Listen and repeat. Mu is written like this. The first stroke is a short line that's a little angled up like this. And the second stroke begins as a downward stroke through the short line and then stops and loops back up and down. And then it runs to the right like this, and up again at the end. Lastly, in this empty space up here, we draw a diagonal line like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this character. That was great, well done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of 03 characters. Ma, ma, ma, ma. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first try reading one character at a time. Ma, ma, ma, ma. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Ma, ma, ma. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading three character combinations. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the m Rho, me N mu. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the row. May see you then, bye bye. 23. M-row - めも (me, mo): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the MRO, mayor. More. Let's begin. The first character is read ME. Now. Listen and repeat. No. Man is written like this. First we draw a slightly curved downward stroke from top right like this. And then a little on the right, we draw a curved downward stroke that crosses the other stroke at the bottom. And then we draw a big arch around like this. Now looks a lot like new, which we learned earlier. But as you can see, there is a little loop at the end of nu, but not with men. Less what is written? Again? Let's now practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Now. Great job, well done. This character is Read More, More. Listen and repeat. More. More. More is written like this. First we draw the downward stroke with a hook at the end. And then we draw two parallel lines of similar length through the vertical parts of the hook. Now, with other characters that have two parallel lines, we draw the parallel lines first, but with more parallel lines are drawn at the end. Let's watch that again. Okay, let's now do a listener repeat practice. Excellent job, well done. Let's first do a listener repeat practice of reading two characters from today's lesson. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. We will first practice reading one character at a time. Ma, ma, ma, ma. Great efforts, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. Excellent job today, while I'm in this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the m rho, n more. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the m rho. See you then, bye bye. 24. M-row - review lesson: In this lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the row. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of all five characters together. That was great. Let's now do a listener repeat practice of individual characters. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. Ma, ma, ma. Great job, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. Excellent effort, well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. Let's begin the practice. Ma, ma, ma. Great efforts, well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words and the same as before. Identify the characters from the M row and read the whole Japanese word. Let's begin the practice. It's an ML model. Excellent job today. Well done. In this lesson, we reviewed the five characters that make up the m, Rho, me, move more. In the next lesson, we will learn the three characters in the y rho. See you then, bye bye. 25. Y-row - やゆよ (ya, yu, yo): Hello and welcome to the lesson on learning the characters in the row. The row contains only three sounds, uw and u. So we'll cover all the characters in the y rho in this lesson. First, this character is red. Yeah. Listen and repeat. Yeah, is written like this. First we draw this hook in the middle, which is slightly angled and it's drawn a bit high up. Then we draw a diagonal line which touches this first stroke. And then on the left, we draw the third stroke, which is angled like the second stroke, but much longer like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice reading this carrier. Listen and repeat. That was the second character is red. You listen and repeat. You is written like this. First we have a downward stroke and then we go back up the stroke and then draw an arch like this. And then around the middle parts we draw a downward stroke and it curves to the left like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Excellent job, well done. The last of the three characters is yo, yo, listen and repeat. Yo. Yo. Yo is written like this. First we draw a short line that goes from left to right here. And then we draw a long downward stroke, which means the other shows stroke. And at the end we draw a loop like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. Excellent job, well-done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of all three characters. That was great, well done, less than move on to the independent practice. And we'll first try reading one character at a time. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading to character combinations. Great FA again. This time, let's read three carrying the combinations. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson we learned the three characters in the y, rho, u, and u. In the next lesson, we will do a review of these three characters. See you then, bye-bye. 26. Y-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review the three characters in a row. Let's first do a listing repeat practice of the three characters together. Yo, yo, yo. That was great, Well done. Let's now do a listener repeat practice of individual characters. Yo, yo. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first focus on reading one character at a time. Let's begin. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Great job, well-done, less. Now practice reading to character combinations. Let's begin. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Excellent efforts, well done. The final practice is reading three character combinations. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Excellent job, well done. The last practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. And same as before. Read the whole Japanese word by identifying the characters from the y rho. Let's begin the practice. You may have excellent job today. Well done. In this lesson, we reviewed the three characters that make up the y, rho, u, and u. In the next lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the row. See you then, bye bye. 27. R-row - らりる (ra, ri, ru): Welcome to the first lesson on learning the characters in the row. In this lesson, we will learn the first three characters in the ARO. Let's begin. The first character is read la, la. Now, although we write this character as Iran, the consonant sound in Japanese is different from the English sound. To make the English are sound the tongue cause back a lot. So we say rah. Rah. However, with the Japanese sound, the tip of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth around the middle area. So is LA. La is similar to the sound in Spanish. Listen to the contrast. La, la, la, la. Let's practice reading this character. Listen and repeat. La. La. La is written like this. First we drew a short diagonal line up here with a brush stroke ending. And then we draw a part of the claw, so it's a downward stroke and then a hook like this. Let's watch that again. Let's practice again. Listen and repeat law. Law. That was great, well done. Next, this character is read li. Listen and repeat. Is written like this. First you have a short downward stroke on the left, and it has a brush stroke ending that points to where the second stroke begins. The second stroke is also downward, but it's much longer and it curves to the left like this. Let's watch the clip again. Listen and repeat. Excellent job, well done. The last character for this lesson is Lu. Lu, listen and repeat. Lou. Lou is written like this. First we have a shorter left to right line that goes outwards. And then we have a downward stroke that goes diagonal. And then it comes back. Cup goes round in a round shape. And from here it loops back and then touches the line here. This is all written in a single stroke. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's practice reading this character. Great efforts, well done. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of 03 characters. La, la, la, la law. Law. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first try reading one character at a time. La, la, la, la. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice of reading two counts are combinations. La, la, la. Great efforts while Let's now do an independent practice of reading three character combinations. La, la, la, la, la, la, la. Fantastic job. Today. In this lesson, we learned the first three characters in the row, law, Lee NLU. In the next lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the row n. See you then, Bye bye. 28. R-row - れろ (re, ro): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the last two characters in the ARO layer and law. Let's begin. The first character is read, listen and repeat. La. La. Layer is written like this. First we draw a straight line down on the left side like this. Then we kinda draw a seven across this line and then we go back up again. And then it's a straight line down and we end with a little curved line to the right like this. Now, looks very similar to an air, but the ending is a little different between these two characters. As you can see. Let's watch that again. Okay, Let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. Law. Law. That was great, well-done. Next, this character is read law, who will listen and repeat. Hill. Hill law is written like this. First we begin with a line which is an angled line to the right going up, and then it comes down in a diagonal line. After that, we draw an arch like this. Now this is all written in a single stroke. Law is very similar looking to Lou. Lou has the extra loop at the bottom. Let's watch that again. Okay, Now listen and repeat. Excellent job, well done. Let's first do a list and repeat practice of two characters from today's lesson. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. Practice reading one character at a time. Great job, well-done, less now practice reading to character combinations. No, no, no, no. Wow. Fantastic efforts at a well-done. In this lesson, we learned the last two characters in the row layer N law. In the next lesson, we will review all five characters in the row. See you then, bye bye. 29. R-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review all five characters in the row. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of 05 characters together. Let's begin. Ma li. No, ma, ma, No. That was great. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first focus on reading one character at a time. Read the characters by yourself first, and then listen to check your own reading. Ma, ma, la, la, la, la, la, la. Great job. Well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. No, no. Excellent efforts, well done. Let's now do a practice on reading three character combinations. No, no, no, No. Excellent job, well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading Japanese words. As before, read the whole Japanese word by adding to find the characters from the row. Let's begin the practice. Coumadin. Fantastic job today, well-done. In today's lesson, we reviewed the five characters that make up the row la li lu law. In the next lesson, we will learn the two characters in the final row, w, rho. See you then, bye bye. 30. W-row - わを (wa, wo): Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn the two characters in the WO, end war. Let's begin. The first character is red. One will listen and repeat. Law. Wow. Why is written like this? The first stroke is a long straight line down on the left side. And then we start with a slightly angled line through this line up here. And then we come across as a diagonal line. And then we draw a big arch like this. Now in Japanese there layer. And we're all kind of looks similar as they all have this same left side. However, they all end differently at the end. For now, we make a loop. For layer, we draw a hook and for y, we just draw an art. So these differences are something we will need to get used to. Let's watch that again. Okay, So let's read this character again. Listen and repeat. La, la. Now it was great. Next, this character is read. Listen and repeat. Now, although this is a character in w rho, the sound of w is actually a little bit weak in this character. So the actual sound of this character is somewhere between war and 0. So it's 0, 0. Quite often people will just read this character as an all sound. So do keep that in mind. War is written like this. First we draw a slightly angled, a short line left to right. Then a curved stroke down this line to the left. And then we draw a hook like this. And then at the bottom, we draw a very round half a triangle like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, Now, listen and repeat. Excellent job, well-done. Let's first do a listing repeat practice of two characters from today. Law. Law. That was great. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading one character at a time. La, la, la, la. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. La, la, la, la, la. Wow. Oh, excellent job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned the two characters in the w, rho, y, and war. In the next lesson, we will learn the final character in the garage on Table. See you then, bye bye. 31. ん (N) character: Hi everyone. In this lesson we're going to learn that one Hiragana character, the last character. Let's begin. This character is read, listen and repeat. Now the essence of this character is kind of to function as a final consonant in the syllable. So it's always used with other characters. For example, in the English word 10, and at the end does not really produce a sound of his own, but functions as a final consonant. So we read this as 1010, and the function of them is quite similar. Let's take a look at how is written. This character is written in one stroke and we begin with a big diagonal line from top to bottom left. And then it kind of goes backup. And then we draw a wavelike line like this. Let's watch that again. Okay, so let's now discuss how this character is pronounced differently depending on where this character is used and other characters nearby. There are five key rules to reading. First, if a is the final character in a word is pronounced as a sound somewhere between n and m sound. For example, 0. 0 means a book, and when we pronounce this word, is a sound somewhere between n and m, so it's 0, 0. Second, if o1 is followed by a character from k or g, rho then is pronounced as an NG sound. For example, this word means fine and after we have key, so this is pronounced. Third, IF is followed by a character from S, T, D, N, or row, then is pronounced as an n sound. For example, in this word, cranky, which refers to Chinese characters, ERM, is followed by G. So in this combination is pronounced as an n sound, so it's hanky panky forth. If a is followed by a character from NCBI or Pyrrho than ONE is pronounced as m sound. For example, this word pi means chairs in Japanese, and because it is followed by past sound, is pronounced as an m sound, so it's pi. Pi. Lastly, if a is followed by a character from a, h, y, or w row, It's pronounced as a sound somewhere between n and n g. For example, this word means phone in Japanese, and because it is followed by wa sound, is pronounced as a sound somewhere between n and n g. So it's, now, it's not easy for all these rules to stick rights away. So think of this as an introduction and as you continue to learn more Japanese and come across these patterns in future learning, you will become more familiar with how is pronounced. Also, we have a separate rule sheet on reading. So do use the reference sheet as a guide in the future. Okay, So since we don't read on its own, we'll practice reading words that use Uhm with other characters. First practice is a listener repeat practice. The rules on how to read the character will be displayed on the screen. So take notes of other sounds nearby as you repeat what you hear. Let's begin. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Google me, home. Phone. Phone. Then the then the great job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We're going to practice all the same was again, so he shouldn't be a difficult practice. Try reading the words by a cell first and then listen to take your own reading. Me home. The home game. Google, Google phone. Phone vendor. Then the Whoa, whoa, whoa. Excellent job, well-done. In this lesson, we learn different ways of reading the character. In the next lesson, we will review what we learned on reading the two characters in the WTO and from this lesson. See you then, bye bye. 32. W-row & N - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review the two characters in a row. And from the previous lesson, Let's begin with the character is in w row. First, let's do a listening repeat practice of the two characters. La, la, la, la. That was great. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. La, la, la. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first focus on reading one character at a time. La, la, la, la, la. Great efforts, well done. Let's now practice reading to character combinations. La, la, la, la, la, la. Fantastic efforts. The final practice will characters in the WTO is on reading Japanese words and same as before. Identify the characters from the W row and read the whole Japanese wood. Let's begin the practice. Laterally. Like Betsy. See he'll see. Excellent job, well-done. Let's review what we learned on reading was that there were five key rules on reading words that use. So let's first do a listening repeat practice, and we'll practice to was we saw in the previous lesson. Let's begin. Home phone. That was excellent. Less than add to an independent practice. And we'll practice different was this time. And for each word will put the pronunciation rule to help you with reading each word correctly. Let's begin. Fan. Fan. Thanks. Thanks. Man. Come back. Come back. Excellent job today. In this lesson, we reviewed the two characters in the w, rho, y, n wall and the use of. In the next lesson, we will learn how to form that go on. Sounds, voice sounds in Japanese. See you then, Bye bye. 33. Dakuon - G-row: Hello and welcome to the first lesson on learning about tack gone voice sounds in Japanese. So far in this course, we've learned 46 Hiragana characters and the sounds associated with these characters. And over the next five lessons, we're going to learn how we add takud then and hand backward then to form different sounds. Now, takud then and Hancock who then are essentially diacritics, which assigns we put on letters and characters to indicate how that letter or character is pronounced. Many other languages also have diacritics, and Pakistan and hand Dakota men are forms of Japanese diacritics. We've actually come across them already as some of the words in our review lessons use these diacritics. Now these markers themselves are referred to as takud 10 and a handbag 210. And the sounds we produced by adding these markers or cold pack Guam, and handout go on colloquially packet then and handouts 210 are referred to as 10, 10 and model. So from this point forward, That's what we will refer to them as. We will first learn about 10, 10, and 10. Ten can be added to four of the rows in the table. And in this lesson, we will learn how we add 1010 characters in k rho. Now, 1010 are basically voicing markers. So when we add them to a character, the consonant sound of that character changes to a voice sound. 1010 is written on top rights of a character, and it kind of resembles a quotation mark. Now, English has a lot of voiced and voiceless pairings. And this means that the two sounds are produced in a similar way, but one is voiced and the other is voiceless. A good example is the sound of k and g in English. To produce both sounds, the mouth is open a little and the back of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. Sound is made as the back of the tongue comes off the roof of the mouth. Now the one difference between these two sounds is that K is a voiceless sound, meaning that the sound is produced without vocal cord vibration, but with a lot of air expulsion. On the other hand, if G is a voiced sound, meaning that the sound is produced with vocal cord vibration, and also with little to no a expulsion. So when we put 1010 on characters in k row, we read these characters as a voice that gee, sound. So in effect, k rho becomes a G row. Listen to the sounds of these characters. So as you could hear, is not kept but key, but the consonant sound is read as the voice that gee sound. Okay, so let's now move on and do a practice on reading these carrying says. Let's first do a listing repeat practice of all the sounds in the Z row. That was great. Let's now do a practice of reading these characters individually. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice of these characters. And we'll first do a practice of reading each character at a time. Let's begin. Go, go, go, go. Excellent job, well done. In this last practice, we're going to practice reading Japanese words. And similar to other practices, you only have to identify the characters we're learning in this lesson. Okay, so let's begin the practice. Oh hi. Fantastic efforts at a well-done. In this lesson, we learned to add the 10102 characters in k row so that the consonant sound and K changes to a voiced g sound. In the next lesson, we will learn to add a 10, 10 to characters in s row to form voiced sound. See you then, Bye bye. 34. Dakuon - Z-row: Hello and welcome to the second lesson on learning about that. Go on. In this lesson, we will learn how to add 10, 10, two characters in s row to form a voiced sound. Now, S is a voiceless sound, meaning that the sound is produced without a vocal cord vibrations but with a lot of air expulsion. A voice pairing of S is z. So although the points of articulation is the same, zed is a voiced sound, meaning that the sound is produced with vocal cord vibration, but with little to no air expulsion. So when we put 1010 on characters in s row, they become a 0. Listen to the sounds of these characters. Yo, yo. So as you could hear, we put 1010 on each character in s row and the consonant sound is read as a voiced sound. However, one exception is the second character. And the consonant for this sound is read as a voice that j sound rather than z sound. So it's G rather than z. Okay, so let's now practice reading these characters. Let's first do a listen and repeat practice of all the sounds in the Z row. So that was great. Well done. Let's now practice reading each character individually. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first do a practice of reading one character at a time. Let's begin. 00 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00 00. Excellent job. Well done. In this last practice, we're going to practice reading Japanese words. Similar to other practices where we read was you only have to identify the character we're learning in this lesson. Okay, so if you're ready, let's begin. Fantastic efforts were wood on. In this lesson, we learned to add 10, two characters in s row so that the consonant sound as changes to a voiced sound. In the next lesson, we will review that. Go on. Sounds in G and Zagros. See you then. Bye-bye. 35. Dakuon G & Z-row - review lesson: In this review lesson, we're going to review that taco own sounds in t and z rows. Let's begin with the characters in a row. First, let's do a listener repeat practice of the five characters in a row. That was great. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first practice reading the characters one at a time. Let's begin. Oh, go, go, go. Great efforts. Let's now practice reading the characters in a row in actual Japanese words. These are words we saw in the lessons. Let us begin. Excellent efforts. Well done. Let's now review the characters in the Z row will first do a listener repeats of all the five characters together. That was great. Let's now do a listener rupee practice of individual characters. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll begin with practicing one character at a time. 00 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00 00. Excellent job, well-done. Let's now practice reading the characters in zed row in actual words. And again, these are words we saw in the lessons. Let's begin. Fantastic job today. In today's lesson, we reviewed the sounds in T n Zed rows. In the next lesson, we will learn that tack on sounds in d Rho. See you then, Bye. 36. Dakuon - D-row: Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we will learn how to add 10, 10, two characters in a row to form voiced d sound. Now t is a voiceless sound, so we produce the sound without vocal cord vibration, but with a lot of air expulsion. On the other hand, d is a voiced sound, meaning that the sound is produced where the vocal cord vibration, but with little to no air expulsion. So when we put 1010 on characters in a row, it becomes a, d Rho. However, some of the consonant sounds are pronounced differently. Listen to the sounds of these characters. All though. Though. So as you can here, we put 1010 on each character in t rho, and the consonant sound is read as a voice, the d sound. However, there were two exceptions. The second character is pronounced as G, and the third character is pronounced as x2. So in essence they are pronounced exactly the same as g and x2 from zed row. Now an important point to consider is that G and X2 in d Rho are actually very rare in Japanese language. They were more commonly used in the past, but in modern Japanese they are hardly ever used. In general, if a Japanese word has the sounds, the word will most likely use g and x2 from the zed row rather than from the d Rho. So do keep that in mind. Okay, So let's now practice reading these characters. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of all the characters in the d Rho. D. Do, DO. That was great. So let's now practice reading each character individually. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first practice reading each character at a time. Let's begin. Do, DO. Excellent job, well done. In this last practice, we're going to practice reading Japanese words. And same as other practices when we read words, you only have to identify the character we're learning in this lesson. Now because g and X2 are hardly ever used in modern Japanese, will only practice worse that used data there and door. Okay, let's begin the practice. Fantastic efforts, well done. In this lesson, we learned to add the 10102 characters in a row so that the consonant sound t changes to a voiced d sound, but with two exceptions. In the next lesson, we will learn how we add the 10, 10 to characters in a row to form the voice that be sound. See you then, Bye, bye. 37. Dakuon - B-row: Hello and welcome to the final lesson on learning about that. Go on sounds. In this lesson, we will learn how to add 10, 10, two characters on h row to form voiced b sound. Now the sound of H is perhaps the most voiceless sound in any language. To make this sound, the vocal cords open wide and the sound is produced with a lot of air passing through the mouth. On the other hand, B is a voiced sound, meaning that a sound is produced where the vocal cord vibration, but with little to no air explosion. However, we don't naturally associate h NP as being voiced and voiceless pairing. But when we put 1010 on characters in a row, it becomes a B row. Listen to the sounds of these characters. Ha, ha, P, P, 0, 0, 0, 0. So as you can hear, these characters are red with a consonant sound B. Let's move on to speaking practice. First, we'll do a listener repeat practice of all the characters in the B row. That was great. Let's now practice each character individually. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first do a practice of reading one character at a time. Let us begin. Great job, well-done. In this last practice, we're going to practice reading Japanese words and the same as before. You only have to identify the characters we're learning in this lesson. Carry it says in the B row, Let's start. The price is so bad. A mono. Be fantastic efforts at a well-done. In this lesson, we learned to add the 10102 characters in a row to form the B row. In the next lesson, we will learn how to add that model. Two characters in a row to form another kind of sound. See you then, Bye bye. 38. Handakuon - P-row: Hello and welcome to the lesson on learning about hand that go on. In this lesson, we will learn about the other kind of diacritic handouts, 210, colloquially known as model. Now motto is a small circle written on top rights of a character, same as 1010. And borrow is only added two characters in a row to form the voiceless p sound. Now 10, ten is regarded as a voicing marker, meaning that the consonant sound of that character is read as a voiced sound. However, hand Dakota then is regarded as a half voicing marker. Now that might not make much sense as really what this half voicing mean. Well, let's think of it this way. As mentioned in a previous lesson, age is the most voiceless consonant sound. As the sound is produced where the vocal cords wide open. And we make the H sound by passing a lot of air through the mouth. And when we put 1010 on the characters in a row, the characters are red with voice, the p sound. So we go from extreme voiceless voiced. Now, in general, the natural voiceless pairing to the voice to be sound is voiceless p, because the two sounds are articulated in a similar way. Both sounds are produced when the closed lips open. However, since p is a voiceless sound, it leads to a lot of air passing through when the lips release open them. Therefore, if we put the half voicing marker model on characters in a row, these characters are pronounced with a P sound. So as shown by this diagram, we're making the extreme voiceless h sound to become less voiceless p sound. Listen to how these characters are red. P, p, pull, pull. So as you could hear, each character is read with a voiceless p sound. Let's now practice reading these characters. First, we'll do a listening therapy practice of all the characters in the p rho, p, p. That was great. Let's now practice each carried out individually. P, P. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We'll first do a practice of reading one character at a time. Let's begin. P. P. P, P. Excellent job, well done. In this last practice, we're going to practice reading Japanese words. And similar to other practices, you only have to identify the characters we're learning in this lesson. Let's begin the practice. Hi, fantastic efforts at a well-done. In this lesson, we learned how to add, borrow two characters in a row to form the p row. The next lesson is a review lesson, and we will review what we learned over the last three lessons on using 10, 10 and borrow to form taco on and hand back on sounds. See you then. Bye-bye. 39. Dakuon D & B-row & Handakuon P-row - review lesson: In this lesson, we're going to review that taco own sounds in D and B rows, and hand the con sounds in P row. Let's begin with the attack on sounds in d Rho. First, let's do a listening repeat practice of the five characters in d rho, d, t. That was great. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of individual characters. Great job, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. We will first practice reading the characters individually. Let's begin. Excellent job, well done. Let's now practice reading the characters in d Rho, in actual Japanese words. These are words we saw in the lessons. So if you're ready, let's begin. Excellent efforts. Well done. Okay, so let's now do a listener repeat practice of the five characters in a row. Great job, well-done, less than do a listening repeat practice of the characters individually. Great efforts, well done. Let's now do an independent practice and we'll first practice reading the characters one at a time. Let's begin. Excellent efforts, well done. Let's now practice reading the characters in B row in Japanese words. And again, these are the ones we saw in the lesson. Let's begin. That was excellent, Well done. Okay, so moving on to the p row, let's first do a listener repeats of the five characters in that p, rho, p. Great job. Let's now do a listening repeat practice of the characters one at a time. Excellent job, well done. Let's now do an independent practice and same as before, we'll first practice reading the characters one at a time. Let's begin. Great efforts. Well done. Lastly, let's practice reading the characters in p rho in Japanese words. And same as before. These are was we saw in the previous lesson. Let's begin. Hi. Excellent jobs that I would add. In this lesson. We'll review the TAC Guan sounds in d and p, rows and hand icon sound in p rho. In the next lesson, we're going to learn how we can combine Hiragana characters. See you then, bye bye. 40. Yo-on Part 1: Hi everyone and welcome to the first of two lessons on your own sounds. So far, we have learned the 46 characters in Hiragana and the sounds of these characters. We then learn how we use takud then and handouts 210 to form voiced and halfway sounds, tack lawn and handout Guan. Now, over the next four lessons, we're going to learn how we combine certain characters in Hiragana to change the pronunciation of certain sounds. And first we're going to learn about your own. And the basic concepts of yawn is that we can combine a character in the I column from one of these seven rows, as well as that these rows in hackathon and hand back on with one of the characters in the y rho and form a new sound. For example, we can combine qi and Yang and form key MU and form a queue and key and your and form coal. And although we're combining key and one of the sound from the y rho, the i sound in key is dropped. So we just say q, q. Now in writing, when we combine these characters together, the character from the y rho is written in small writing to indicate this combination of sounds. So when you use the writing worksheet, you will get to practice writing. Yeah, you, your in small writing to indicate this your own sound. Lastly, when we combine characters to form your own sounds, the combined forms of regarded as forming one syllable. And this concept is really important because Japanese is spoken in rhythms of syllables. And as we will learn over the next few lessons, although yawn sounds are regarded as a single syllable, certain other combinations of Hiragana are not regarded as one syllable. So this distinction is very important. The technical term for this syllable in Japanese is more. So Japanese language is referred to as more datetime language. And as you continue to learn Japanese and learn how to pronounce Japanese words, we will revisit this concept of border again in the future. Okay, so in this lesson, we'll first practice forming your own sounds by combining characters in the cozy on table with y rho characters. And then we'll practice forming your own sounds with cat, Guan and hand that, go on in the next lesson. So let's go straight into practice of saying yawn sounds. First we do a listener repeat practice of all three sounds from each row. Can kill, kill. Here, show. Here we go. That was great. Well done. Let's try that one more time. Show the app. Excellent job. Let's now do an independent practice. Tried reading the characters by yourself first and then listen to check your own reading. Great efforts, well done. We'll do one more independent practice, but this time we change the order of the rows. If you're ready, let's begin. Kill. Show the app. Go. Fantastic job, well done. The final practice in this lesson is on reading words that use of these your own combinations. Now, there are a lot of combinations to think about. So to make this practice a little easier, we'll leave these characters on the screen. So please refer to these as you try to read the words on the screen then. Okay, let's begin the practice. Yeah. Now, at the end of this word we have the character for you and this carries is added to make the vowel sound longer. And this is another kind of combination which we will learn a little later. Let's continue the practice. Fantastic job today. Well done. In this lesson, we learned how to form a yawn sounds and we practice reading your own character combinations in the garage on table. In the next lesson, we will go over your own sounds for n hand dacron. See you then, bye, bye. 41. Yo-on Part 2: Hi everyone and welcome to the second lesson on yawn sounds. In this lesson, we will go over how we form a yawn sounds by combining tack gone and hand back on with ya, you, and you're now forming yawn sounds with Taco on and hand-on characters is the same as what we learned in the previous lesson. So we combine the character in the I column with one of the three characters from the y rho. So the combined characters are pronounced as following. Kill, plot, Kill, Kill, Bill, Bill, pill. Now one important point to note is that your own sands from the d Rho are hardly ever used in modern Japanese. So if a word has these yawn sounds, that word will most likely used a yawn combination from the zed row. So do keep that in mind. Okay, So let's move on and practice reading these characters. Now, although yawn sounds in d Rho and not common in Japanese, they are still sounds that exist in Japanese language. So we'll still practice reading your own sounds from the d Rho. Lets first do a listening repeat practice of all three sounds from each row. Kill, kill, kill. Bill, pill. That was great. Well done. Let's try that one more time. Kill, kill, kill. Bill. Pill. Excellent job. Let's now do an independent practice. Kill, kill. Good, Kill. Bill. Great efforts, well done. Lastly, we'll do one more independent practice, but this time we change the order of the rows. Let's begin. Kill, kill, kill, kill. Fantastic job, well done. Now same as before. We will practice reading words that have your own combinations. And just like before, we'll leave these characters on the screen, please refer to these as you try to read the words on the screen. Let's begin the practice. Fun that have. Now in Japanese, we can form double consonants using CR, like in this word. And we will learn more about this after the review lesson. Had Dr. Fantastic job today, well done. In this lesson we learned how to form a yawn sounds with TAC Guan and hand back on sounds. The next lesson is a review lesson on your own sound combinations. See you then, Bye bye. 42. Yo-on - review lesson: Hi there. In this lesson, we're going to review the yawn sounds we learned over the past two lessons. Let's first review the yawn sounds we form in the join table. First we'll do a listening repeat practice of all three sounds from each row. Great job, well done, less than I do an independent practice. Show. Great effort, well-done. We'll do one more independent practice, but this time the order of the rows will be chained. Let's begin. Fantastic job. Well done. Let's now do a practice of reading these combinations in words, same as in the lesson. We'll leave these characters on screen for reference. Let's begin. Oh, great efforts. Well done. Let's move on to yawn sounds we form with. First we do a listening repeat practice of 03 sounds from each row. Bill. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. Bill. Pill. Great efforts vote on, Let's do one more independent practice, but this time we'll change the order of the rows. Fantastic job, well done. Let's now practice reading was that use your own sounds and the same as before. We will have these characters on screen which you can use as reference. Let's begin the practice. Great job today. In this lesson, we reviewed what we learned on forming your own sounds. Over the last two lessons. In the next lesson, we will learn about the sounds in Japanese. See you then, Bye bye. 43. Sokuon: Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to learn another kind of character combination called a SOC 1. Soc 1 is formed by adding the character. When we add the character is written in small writing on the bottom left corner, similar to the y rho characters in your own. Same as before. Please use the writing worksheet to practice writing this small term. Let's listen to two words. The two words are written in a similar way, but the second word will have this small two to indicate sock on. So the first word is red, but the second word is red. Would that, would that. When we add the character in the word, we form an extra consonant of the character that comes after. So in the second word, the final character is tan. So by adding two, we're effectively create an extra t in the word for this reason. So corn is often referred to as double consonant. And the technical term for this extra consonant is germinate consonant. And what this basically means is that we pronounced a consonant sound a bit longer. So it's not just would that, would, that, would that. Now this mode Sue is only added before characters from K, S, T, or P row. So when we add the smart search before characters from these rows, the consonant sound of k, s, t, or p is pronounced longer. And because of this extra lengthening of the consonant sound, is regarded as an individual Mora, an individual syllable sound. Listen to the following example words and listen carefully to how the consonant sounds after the Snort server is pronounced longer. Matt, silver, nitrate, silver. Keep, keep, keep, keep. So as you can hear in each word, the sound of the consonant after the small answer is longer. Now one thing to note is that small circle to indicate so-called sound cannot begin a word, but it can appear at the end of a word. And when it does, the sound becomes a glottal stop, so it's the sound of the good. However, this use of SOC 1 is less common and it's generally used to indicate the speakers surprise or anger. Okay, So let's now move on and practice reading words that have gone sounds. Let's first do a listening repeat practice of reading was with the SOC 1. Listen carefully to how the consonant sound is pronounced longer. Let's begin the practice. Yeah, Benny. He see, that was great. We're going to do another practice and all the Roma j will be provided on the screen. So depending on the character that follows the Snort server, I'd like you to read each word making shorter pronounced a consonant sound after the CSU, a little longer. After you have tried reading each word, listen to check your own reading. Let's begin the practice. Fat. Our fatty. Great efforts, well done. In this lesson, we learned how to form so-called sound in Japanese by adding a small zoo in words. In the next lesson, we will learn the last Hiragana character combination code, torn. See you then, bye bye. 44. Chouon: Hello and welcome to the lesson on learning Sean. Sean refers to long vowel sounds in Japanese. And in Japanese, we can form a long vowel sounds by adding one of the characters from the a row in Gaussian table after a character that ends in the same vowel sound. Here's an example. Well, in this word the second character is car. And if we add the character after, rather than reading the two characters as car, we basically extend the vowel sound. So it's fun. When we write this long vowel sound in Rome, RG, we write this dash above the vowel letter to indicate this long vowel sound. Now to read this long vowel sound, there are various rules we need to be aware of. First, we can create the long sound by adding our after other characters that end in our sound. A good example is the word we saw earlier for mother. Or from. Second, we can create the long e sound by adding e after other characters that also end in e sound. A good example is the word for grandfather. It's one thing to note with this pattern is that sometimes the Roman Zhe, writing for this long vowel sound is indicated by writing the E rather than the dash above the vowel letter. Third, we can create the oo sound by adding Wu after other characters that also end in UX sound. A good example is the word for cucumber. And as you can see in this example, the long vowel sounds can also be created with your own combinations. Forth. We can create the long S sound by adding air after other characters that also end in air sound. A good example is the word for older sister or names. However, making long as sound by adding air is actually not that common. And it's actually more common to form the long as sound by adding E. A good example is the word for a teacher. Form for the final character is E, but this character is not pronounced. And instead, we pronounce the vowel sound in say, as a long vowel sound, so it's foam fall. Lastly, we can create the long o sound by adding all after other characters that end in or sound. A good example is the word for big O. However, similar to the long as sound, making long o sound by adding all is actually on common. And it's more common to form the long o sound by adding. A good example is the word for thank you in Japanese. And being at. The final character in this word is 0, but this character is not pronounced, and instead, we pronounce the vowel sound in tall as a long vowel sound. So again is being at 0. Okay, So with all that in mind, let's now practice reading words with a long vowel sounds. In this practice, we will practice reading words that have long vowel sounds. So again, similar to the practice in the previous lesson, this practice is not about recognizing the characters, but just practice saying Japanese words where the long vowel sounds. We'll do two practices, and the first is on words we have seen so far in this lesson. Let's begin. That was excellent, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. Try to read the words on the screen with the correct and long vowel sounds. Let's begin the practice. Sam. Though, kill, moon. Yeah. Excellent efforts at a well done. In this lesson we learned about torn long vowel sounds in Japanese. The next lesson is a review lesson, and we will review what we learned on soko on and Shawn. See you then. Bye bye. 45. Sokuon & Chouon - review lesson: Hi there. In this lesson we're going to review what we learned on from the previous two lessons. Let's first revisit what we learned on. So first we'll do a listening repeat practice of the words we saw in the lesson. Listen carefully to how the consonant following this is pronounced a little longer. Let's now do an independent practice, same as in the lesson. This practice is more about reading the words correctly by extending the consonant sound that comes after the small CSU. Okay, let's begin the practice. Fat gate. Our fatty. Great efforts, well done. Let's move on to review. First we'll do a listening repeat practice of was that long vowel sounds. That was great, Well done. Let's now do an independent practice. Try to read the words on the screen with the correct long vowel sounds. Let's begin the practice. Sam could fit. Excellent job today. Well done. In this lesson, we reviewed what we learned on SOC 1 and Sean sounds over the last two lessons. And this is the final lesson on learning here I've got now, I hope that this class has helped you to develop great familiarity with Hiragana characters. And I'm sure that as you continue to learn Japanese and practice reading Japanese words, you will soon develop complete mastery of all the characters and the rules associated with reading here I got them. Thank you for taking this class and I hope to see you soon again. Buh-bye.