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| eyn |
 Posted: May 15, 2005 10:36 pm |
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羽ありたまご
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 2084
Location: Canada
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First of all, is there anyone here that actually know Japanese? I don't, I know how to read some hiragana and katagana, but that's about it. I always wanna learn Japanese but I always get lazy and stopped halfway. Does any of you here know a good way of learning Japanese?
How about we start a thread here for people who wanna learn Japanese? I guess it's more fun to learn it together, but hell I don't know how to do it like that. Maybe each of us can post a new Japanese word he/she learnt each day, or we can have a small translation class trying to figure out what each sentence of Ai's song means, day by day, little by little. What do you guys think? |
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| a1strank |
| Posted: May 15, 2005 11:38 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 122
Location: Alpharetta, Georgia
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| I have no clue how to read japanese but I like this idea..I would like to learn Japanese too..I am chinese so I can read the chinese characters in Japanese..but it doesn't help that much... |
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| yumiotsuka |
| Posted: May 15, 2005 11:49 pm |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 955
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hmm... i wana continue learning japanese.. as im going to japan this november and will be staying around until march... however, i can only speak and listen...(5o%) read (3o%)and write(7o%)  |
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| naokice |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 12:45 am |
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Happy Days
Joined: 14 May 2005
Posts: 113
Location: California, USA
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| i know a little bit of japanese. just enough to get by my customers when they're buying donuts. i took japanese for a year in High School(9th grade). But.. i did really bad. i got a D on my report card.. reason for failing that class??? I couldn't stop starrin' at the japanese girl in that class -_- |
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| yumiotsuka |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 1:03 am |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 01 May 2005
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| lol naokice... u seems to have a weird reason *oops* :roll: |
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| seed8801 |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 2:28 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 38
Location: malaysia,kl
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lol...naokice
i think i will also keep starring at japanese girl like u
i like this ideas but i dunno many japanese word...
even basic i also dunno... 
i just know a few word from anime onli |
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| arone |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 2:30 am |
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SMILY
Joined: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 392
Location: HONG KONG
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eyn, i think yours are good ideas!^^
I just learn japanese by myself
I am also a chinese, so I can read those chinese words....
but some of them are actually in different meaning with the chinese words that i know in Hong Kong.
Now, I can just speak that 90 words....
and some of the words....really little words...
I like to learn them from TV games and mostly, songs!  |
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| kizz |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 10:47 am |
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金魚花火
Joined: 22 Apr 2005
Posts: 148
Location: Poland
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さぁぁぁ！みんなさん、日本語を勉強しましょう?!
愛ちゃんのことために！ わたしは日本語を二年ぐらい勉強しました。
まだよくないです ひょひょひょひょ！
 i had to show off a little lol  i have been studying japanese for 2 yrs with my sensei (shes japanese- moved to poland in 1996, i dont know why the hell she moved here but well she said she feels more free here than in japan, maybe because shes 52 so the older generetion - housewives generation) so i study with her. she's so cool. |
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| seed8801 |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 10:50 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 38
Location: malaysia,kl
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kizz wrote: さぁぁぁ！みんなさん、日本語を勉強しましょう?!
愛ちゃんのことために！ わたしは日本語を二年ぐらい勉強しました。
まだよくないです ひょひょひょひょ！
i had to show off a little lol i have been studying japanese for 2 yrs with my sensei (shes japanese- moved to poland in 1996, i dont know why the hell she moved here but well she said she feels more free here than in japan, maybe because shes 52 so the older generetion - housewives generation) so i study with her. she's so cool.
wat mean by the japanese word u wrote ??  |
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| naokice |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 7:24 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 14 May 2005
Posts: 113
Location: California, USA
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yumiotsuka wrote: lol naokice... u seems to have a weird reason *oops* :roll:
lol i couldn't helpt it. i didn't have a girlfriend at the time  |
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| yumiotsuka |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 10:52 pm |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 955
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lol shall i start the new word first?? 
ok here it goes
1st. don't be upset-->(male) okoranaide
(female) okoruna-yo
2nd. make me warm--> Atatamete
3rd. you look beautiful--> kirei dayo
4th. haven't seen you around for a while-->
hisashiburi ne OR hisashiburi dane
5th. how's it going--> genki datta OR saikin do(o prolonged) OR genki?
6th. So we've met again--> Mata atta ne
7th. what's up?--> nanka kawatta-koto atta?
shall i put hirigana, katagana and kanji as well? |
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| eyn |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 10:56 pm |
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羽ありたまご
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 2084
Location: Canada
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yumiotsuka wrote: shall i put hirigana, katagana and kanji as well?
omg, you rock yumiotsuka! Yes, it will be very helpful if you can post the hiragana, katakana and kanji together! I'm not sure when you should use hiragana and when you should use katakana, so maybe you can explain a little bit? Arigatou, sensei! 
Kizz, you should post some japanese for us to learn too! Lucky you have a Japanese teacher, share your daily lesson with us! 
I know one sentence:
Oh I see - Naru hodo! |
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| CETMA |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 11:03 pm |
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SMILY
Joined: 14 May 2005
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| haha, i'm in my 4th year of japanese. So i know it really well. Um....i was in a oregon state wide and southern washington speech contest in japanese, 2 times. That was really fun. Yeah i know lots of japanese and i have alot of japanese friends. |
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| yumiotsuka |
| Posted: May 16, 2005 11:19 pm |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 955
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im too young to be a japanese sensei as my japanese is still half a bucket -.-!
kanji they use to replace some of the word... like kimi 君 instead or きみ that would look too weird...
hirigana is the "older form" of word..
while katagana is the "simplified" version of hirigana |
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| CETMA |
| Posted: May 17, 2005 1:39 am |
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SMILY
Joined: 14 May 2005
Posts: 473
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yumiotsuka wrote: im too young to be a japanese sensei as my japanese is still half a bucket -.-!
kanji they use to replace some of the word... like kimi 君 instead or きみ that would look too weird...
hirigana is the "older form" of word..
while katagana is the "simplified" version of hirigana
um... iunno who told you that. But i'm 98% sure, hirigana is the raticals that the japanese people took from the chinese kanji to make their own language. Hirigana is used for japanese root characters/words. Kanji is chinese characters. It's used in japanese to make abbreviations for hirigana. Katakana is forgien words in japanese characters. Like my name (tim) would be written with the katakana characters te-i-mu ティム
katakana is only used for words that aren't japanese. But the japanese people like to use katakana for japanese root words sometimes because it's kinda like a slang.
for example: (about hiragana and kanji)
何時も、人はビクリするますよ。<- in kanji
いつも、ひと は ビクリ するますよ。<- in hirgana
itsumo, hito wa bikuri surumasuyo. <- romanji
Always, a person is surprised. <-translation
see, kanji is just used to make things simpler.
The word bikuri ビクリ isn't a japanese word. So it's used in katakana as a standard for the japanese language.
makes sense right? |
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