Learn 125 Beginner Japanese Words with Risa! Learn Japanese Vocabulary
If you want to learn Japanese you must start with those 125 Beginner-level Japanese words with Risa! Master those 2000 words vocabulary list and you understand 80% of Japanese Conversation! Learn Japanese words you must know!
We've painstakingly removed all the intros, outros and gaps to give you an uninterrupted learning experience. This is the perfect video to get started with Japanese language. You will be able to read and write Japanese basic words.
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I keep seeing comments that say “Why not add the romanji?” The point is if you learn Hiragana you’ll know how to pronounce the words. I took an intensive Japanese class this semester and we learned both Hiragana and Katakana in less than two weeks.(it was only like the second and third week of the semester). They aren’t hard to learn. Actually, before I took this class I had started teaching myself Japanese at home with these videos! Just focus on a few at a time and write them down and repeat it over and over! It really helps!! 🙂 They have a video series on here to help you learn them too. If you really want to learn Japanese it would help a bunch since they don’t write in romnji! Good luck!! <3
I just started 4 days ago learning this at home I know hiragana and about to finish katakana my goal is to fully memorize them because I start college again soon and I won’t have as much time to study this. And it’s TRUE after the second day I didn’t need romanji to read the words.
That’s like learning how to write sentences before you know the Alphabets…
Just practice. You need to make flash cards and just write down Hiragana/Katakana. Make sure you’re not just memorizing, but also writing. Two different things.
後できみは文法ができる。
I’ve been working on hiragana and katagana for about 2 or 3 months now, but that’s mainly because I’m taking my time and have other time consuming work to do. Honestly, memorizing the characters is not difficult, it just requires an honest interest in the Japanese language and culture. Honestly, I believe you should learn their writing systems before you start learning their vocabulary.
Not only because it makes learning Japanese easier, but because it is more respectful to their language and their culture.
I learned Hiragana and Katakana in 4 days 🙂
Well, 125 is a lot of vocabulary to get through, but here’s the first 25 words in romaji:(edited to add the the time codes for each word)
1. atatakai, warm 0:00
2. yawaraka, soft 0:07
3. pika-pika, shiny 0:15
4. sawayaka, fresh 0:29
5. poka-poka, snug 0:37
6. doki-doki suru, get excited (nervous) 0:46
7. hajimaru, get started 1:00
8. waku-waku suru, get excited (anticipation) 1:08
9. saku, to bloom 1:31
10. kinchō suru, be nervous 1:41
11. kowai, scary 1:55
12. tsukuru, to make 2:06
13. kirai, to hate 2:17
14. kurai, dark 2:27
15. kuroi, black 2:36
16. maguro, tuna 2:50
17. toro, fatty tuna 2:56
18. sāmon, salmon 3:02
19. uni, sea urchin 3:09
20. ikura, salmon eggs 3:20
21. dara-dara, lazily 3:31
22. guzu-guzu, hesitating 3:38
23. para-para, sound of flipping through a book 3:48
24. sukkiri, refreshed 3:54
25. uto-uto, dozing off 4:00
It’s late here, so I’m dozing off too! _Watashi wa uto-uto shimasu!_ I might come back and do some more another time. The next 25 words start from かわいい at 4:06 🙂
ありがとうございます
arigatou
arigato
Romaji é meu pau de saiote
Arigatougozaimsu
Please keep doing more videos like this. It was extremely useful. I learned a lot and I enjoyed it. Can you do 125 Intermediate Japanese Words now? I would love to see that. Thanks for your effort!
Thank you so much for this! I am studying at university, and my vocab is a little lacking. This really helps, and a lot of them I recognize from knowing somewhere : D Thank you! You have a great voice and give natural sounding example sentences with lots of emotions n intonations to them. I really appreciate that additionally to just a translation : )
It’s super fun!
An almost 22 minute long video of Risa-san?!……. thank you Santa!.
More like risa-kun
Kochirakoso
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これは変態じゃないです
変態だね!
The untranslated bits are really good exercise as well, since you know the context and they’re short. Really good way to get used to natural speech 🙂
This will be a video I watch until I memorize everything.
If it isn’t too much trouble, could you include the Romaji spelling with the Kanji? It would really help with sounding out words for us Roman-letter reading people. 🙂 But only if it isn’t asking too much.
Thank you for your lessons!
Joseph Connolly Romaji will only hold you back.
learn Hiragana, then Katakana, the. the long arduous process of the kanji
+Abnormality P I fully agree. Anyone wishing to really know the language should learn those. But I also think that for the purpose of learning these phrases to verbally communicate, Romaji would be best for untrained ears and would make learning the spoken phrase faster.
Yeah it would help for beginners but since it will help you A LOT i always recommend that you learn Hiragana first, and maybe a little bit of Katakana 😉
You are so adorable!! Thanks for turning learning Japanese into an enjoyable experience for my daughter and I!
Risa, I would like to see you do a video with “That Japanese man Yuta”, That is the name of his Youtube channel. He does random interviews in the Tokyo area on all sorts of topics, from language, to social and cultural differences between Japan and other countries. It would beneficial for both your channels, and interesting for all your viewers.
Hi there! I think your video is really good in teaching new japanese words 🙂 and I believe putting the romaji for the words would be much more better and helpful for people to pronounce the word 🙂
Oh my god this is sooooo good, thank you very much! The best way to learn is through mnemonics and creating example situations with vocabulary for me so this is the best.
Such a bubbly personality! Makes it easy to learn 🙂
me encantan sus videos, son muy buenos y didácticos
Risa, as i am learning Japanese for when i go to Japan in August for the first time. You are the only person i enjoy learning from on YouTube. Thank you!
Just learned about this channel, it’s so awesome. I hope I can get my Japanese vocabulary good enough to get by the next time I visit Japan. I want to go to idol handshake event. Would be cool if I can speak to them as well.
This is a really good video… not only is she introducing tons of Japanese words, but her banter with the person off camera really helps hit definitions home. I wish I had these videos while taking 100 series Japanese courses.
And Risa levels up her cuteness again. I might die halfway through the video from cute overload.
Risa’s voice is wonderful, her Japanese pronunciation easy to follow yet still entirely correct. But she seems uncertain of the meanings of some of the words, and when giving English equivalents, sometimes gets the accent wrong, e.g. on second syllable in ‘photograph’ (correct is primary accent on first syllable, secondary on last).
BTW: isn’t ‘shashin’ better translated into English as ‘photo’, since it does specifically refer to pictures taken with a camera? A picture painted with a brush on a canvas would be ‘e’, not ‘shashin’.
Final BTW: how did Risa reach the conclusion that these are all beginner’s words? I have not seen several of them in either of my beginning level Japanese books, terms like “health insurance card” seem rather obscure for beginners.
Of course, the good side of this is that I now know several of the words that left me stumped when I saw them in Rumiko Takahashi’s “Rinne’ manga;)
Thank you for this video! Learned a lot of useful vocabulary!