Welcome to the eight lesson of our free online kanji course! With the help of carefully selected teaching materials that are freely available online, we are going to remember all the kanji you need for JLPT level 5. Before we start with this lesson, let’s review all the kanji from the previous lessons! Do you still remember all of them? You can use our flash cards to help you in your learning journey.
Lesson 1: 一, 二, 三 , 四 , 五 , 六 , 七 , 八 , 九 , 十 , 百 , 千 , 万 , and 円 .
Lesson 2: 日、月、火、水、木、金、土、川、and 田 .
Lesson 3: 人, 私, 上,下 , 左 , 右 , 中, and 山 .
Lesson 4: 雨 , 大 , 本 , 今 , 何 , 母 , 父 , 男 , 女 , and 子 .
Lesson 5: 友, 出 , 年 , 国 , 会 , 名 , 天 and 休.
Lesson 6: 小 , 先 , 入 , 分 , 前 , 半 , 学 and 多 .
Lesson 7: 後, 午 , 時 , 行 , 見 , 生 , and 口 .
All good? Then let’s start with a nice (inspirational?) Ted Talk about Kanji before we go to the short set for this week: 間 , 東 , 高 , 外 , 来 and 話 .
間
Meaning: Time, Time span
Onyomi: Kan/Ken [かん/けん]
Kunyomi: Aida [あいだ]
Vocabulary: 週間 – しࠀうかん – shuukan – a week time
NB: be careful, because there is a false friend! 間 is not the same as 聞 (to listen).
東
Meaning: East
Onyomi: Tou [とう]
Kunyomi: Higashi [ひがし]
Vocabulary: 東京 – とうきࠂう – toukyou – Tokyo
高
Meaning: High, expensive, increase
Onyomi: Kou [こう]
Kunyomi: Taka(i)/Taka(maru)/Taka(meru)
Vocabulary: 高速 – こうそく – kousoku – high speed
外
Meaning: Outside/Other/Foreign
Onyomi: Gai/Ge[がい/げ]
Kunyomi: Soto/Hoka [そと/ほか]
Vocabulary: 外国人 – がいこくじん – gaikokujin – A foreigner
来
Meaning: To come
Onyomi: Rai
Kunyomi: Ku(ru)/Kita(ru)/Kita(su)
Vocabulary: 来年 – ࠄいねん – rainen – Next year
話
Meaning: Speech, to talk, conversation
Onyomi: Wa [わ]
Kunyomi: hanashi/Hana(su) [はなし/はな(す)]
Vocabulary: 会話 – かいわ – kaiwa – Conversation
And it’s a wrap! If you like to do some more repetition, you can watch the video below, that discusses 日、月、火、水、木、金、土、川、and 田 – yup, all kanji that we already learned! 🥳 (With some new compound words.)
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