Youtube Videos with Resources for Learning Japanese!!

So, again, I like watching videos made by people who know Japanese, and have been to Japan, or are living in Japan. So here, I decided to make a list of my favorites of those. Some of them will have links and stuff in the descriptions, so please check those out as well!

Rachel and Jun: How to Learn Japanese (Online and Free)

GaijinGakusei: Learn Japanese For Free Online~!

GaijinGauksei: Learning Japanese Through Video Games

Tanoshii Emi: Learning Japanese Through Entertainment

MissHanake: How to learn Japanese by yourself

Tanoshii Emi: How to Learn Japanese: Resources Part 1

I'll try and add more to this list as I find more good resources/tips/etc. Enjoy~

Youtubers in Japan!

Hey, so recently I've been watching a lot of videos on Youtube from people who are in Japan, and/or talk about Japan, the Japanese language, the culture, etc. And I thought that I might make a list of some of my favorite youtubers who post Japan-related stuff!

So, here they are, in no particular order! I hope you enjoy!

Sharla in Japan

Tanoshii Emi

Japan with Regan

Rachel and Jun

Sachie

kanadajin3

GaijinGakusei

ミカエラ

descentsubs (really, this is just a youtube account where someone subs VOCALOID songs, but I really like the subs, and I think it's good for listening to Japanese. I'll try to make another post where I link to subs of Japanese songs and I guess just Japanese music in general)

So, that's all I have right now, I'll add more to this list as I find more people, hopefully.

Short Overview of the Four Alphabets of Japanese

Romaji

Basically just the English alphabet.

Has no particular purpose.

There's really no need to learn it, as I've been told on numerous occasions from various sources.

But there's essentially nothing to "learn" about it, it's literally just the English alphabet, but with Japanese pronunciation. And if you were for some reason, to choose to learn Romaji instead of Hiragana and the other alphabets, you could actually risk messing up the pronunciation of the words because knowing the alphabet, there are loads of irregularities, making it a little bit difficult to learn Japanese that way.

Hiragana

Probably the most used alphabet, unless Kanji would be more used, I'm not quite sure.

Definitely the first alphabet to learn.

Hiragana, from what I can see, is similar to Katakana, excluding the fact that the sounds are the same.

More curvy-looking than Katakana.

Katakana

Has the same sounds as Hiragana.

Is more box-shaped.

Has shapes that are similar to Hiragana.

Kanji

These came from China.

For the number of Kanji to learn, it would probably be around 2000, and something like 2500-3000 if you are/were a student.

Probably the hardest alphabet to learn.