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 Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:50 pm
Konnichiwa! Watashi no name wa Kohaku sensei des!
Here, Members can help each other learn the language of japan, its history, and why it's so different from English.
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:52 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:55 pm
Unlike English,
The Japanese people speak in ideas, not words. Let me explain. How many words in English mean 'pretty'? There's beautiful, stunning, gorgeous, and many, many more, but they all basically represent ONE SINGLE IDEA. In japan there is only one word per idea. Genki stands for the english words energetic, happy, feeling good, being hyper, ect. They all mean the same basic thing. No more similies, no more pointless vocab from Shakespearian times, no more head aches.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:39 pm
UltimateFanKohaku Unlike English, The Japanese people speak in ideas, not words. Let me explain. How many words in English mean 'pretty'? There's beautiful, stunning, gorgeous, and many, many more, but they all basically represent ONE SINGLE IDEA. In japan there is only one word per idea. Genki stands for the english words energetic, happy, feeling good, being hyper, ect. They all mean the same basic thing. No more similies, no more pointless vocab from Shakespearian times, no more head aches. Technically not true. When you are leaning a language, you don't learn all the synonyms because that would be complicated. But if you read, or listen to songs, you'll realize that there are lots of words for even the same idea. Japanese has many words for "pretty" as well. Goukana, utsukushii, kirei, all mean different kinds of pretty. The word genki just means energetic, not hyper, or happy. However, in greetings, it has been generalized to mean all those things.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:12 pm
angel_ofdeathz UltimateFanKohaku Unlike English, The Japanese people speak in ideas, not words. Let me explain. How many words in English mean 'pretty'? There's beautiful, stunning, gorgeous, and many, many more, but they all basically represent ONE SINGLE IDEA. In japan there is only one word per idea. Genki stands for the english words energetic, happy, feeling good, being hyper, ect. They all mean the same basic thing. No more similies, no more pointless vocab from Shakespearian times, no more head aches. Technically not true. When you are leaning a language, you don't learn all the synonyms because that would be complicated. But if you read, or listen to songs, you'll realize that there are lots of words for even the same idea. Japanese has many words for "pretty" as well. Goukana, utsukushii, kirei, all mean different kinds of pretty. The word genki just means energetic, not hyper, or happy. However, in greetings, it has been generalized to mean all those things.
thank you for clearing that up
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:02 pm
Kon'nichiwa, watashi no namae wa Nani-desu. biggrin
Watashi wa hontÅni warui eigo o benkyÅ shitai. Watashi wa ikutsu ka o shitte iruga, watashi wa nigatena ndesu yo. Anata wa koko de watashi o tasukeru koto ga dekiru nin'i no basho o shitte imasu ka?
ArigatÅ gozaimasu!
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:38 pm
N A N I X9 Kon'nichiwa, watashi no namae wa Nani-desu. biggrin Watashi wa hontÅni warui eigo o benkyÅ shitai. Watashi wa ikutsu ka o shitte iruga, watashi wa nigatena ndesu yo. Anata wa koko de watashi o tasukeru koto ga dekiru nin'i no basho o shitte imasu ka? ArigatÅ gozaimasu!
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:14 pm
Konichiwa! Watashi wa Courtney desu!Matawa anata wa watashi o yobidasu koto ga dekimasu Sakura matawa Namine.
I'm sorry... Was that proper Japanese? I think it wasn't right... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:05 pm
Is there anyone here that can teach me to speak Japanese? I've always wanted to, but my mom thinks I should learn Chinese instead. I'm going to, but I'd like to learn Japanese first. Would anyone be willing to teach me?
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:49 pm
UltimateFanKohaku Konnichiwa! Watashi no name wa Kohaku sensei des! Here, Members can help each other learn the language of japan, its history, and why it's so different from English. *sou [from the poll]
*namae
*desu
(^^; ) If you want to make a topic about teaching Japanese, you should clear up any typos first...
And what I think you meant about the "speaking in ideas" thing is that the kanji can represent one or more meanings, unlike English characters, which represent no meaning by themselves.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:43 pm
N A N I X9 Kon'nichiwa, watashi no namae wa Nani-desu. biggrin Watashi wa hontÅni warui eigo o benkyÅ shitai. Watashi wa ikutsu ka o shitte iruga, watashi wa nigatena ndesu yo. Anata wa koko de watashi o tasukeru koto ga dekiru nin'i no basho o shitte imasu ka? ArigatÅ gozaimasu! hajimemashite, Nani-san. yoji0475 tomou shimasu. yoropikune ^^ eigo mata wa warui eigo wo benkyoushitai naraba, amerika-jin mata wa igirisu-jin ni sagasu nohouga ii janaino? watashi mo warui eigo wa nigate desukedo, sono koto ga benkyou sitakunain. maa, gaia online de, eigo wo benkyou suru guild mata wa forum ga aru janain desuka? sokode warui eigo wo oshiete iru kata ga aru kamoshiremasen. gambatte ne~ p(^^)q
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:11 pm
Memories of Kuroluna Konichiwa! Watashi wa Courtney desu!Matawa anata wa watashi o yobidasu koto ga dekimasu Sakura matawa Namine. I'm sorry... Was that proper Japanese? I think it wasn't right... sweatdrop hajimemashite, yoji0475 tomou shimasu. Nice try! Courtney-san 3nodding If I not mistaken for what u want to say, U can use this sentence: "Konnichiwa! Courtney desu! Sakura mata wa Namine wo yondemo ii desu", which means "Hallo! I'm Courtney! you can also call me Sakura or Namine." If you have noticed I have erased "watashi wa" in " watashi wa Courtney desu", the reason is when you're in conversation, you don't use "watashi wa" anymore when it refers to yourself or to whom you've talked to. more important thing is you can't erased it if it refers to other than I and you. And that applies for the last sentence too, which is " Anata wa watashi ni Sakura mata wa Namine wo yondemo ii desu" one more point lesson is "[verb-TE]mo ii desu", in this case was "yonde mo ii desu", u can use this phrase for expressing "can [verb]" hope these explainations will help sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:21 pm
yoji0475 Memories of Kuroluna Konichiwa! Watashi wa Courtney desu!Matawa anata wa watashi o yobidasu koto ga dekimasu Sakura matawa Namine. I'm sorry... Was that proper Japanese? I think it wasn't right... sweatdrop hajimemashite, yoji0475 tomou shimasu. Nice try! Courtney-san 3nodding If I not mistaken for what u want to say, U can use this sentence: "Konnichiwa! Courtney desu! Sakura mata wa Namine wo yondemo ii desu", which means "Hallo! I'm Courtney! you can also call me Sakura or Namine." If you have noticed I have erased "watashi wa" in " watashi wa Courtney desu", the reason is when you're in conversation, you don't use "watashi wa" anymore when it refers to yourself or to whom you've talked to. more important thing is you can't erased it if it refers to other than I and you. And that applies for the last sentence too, which is " Anata wa watashi ni Sakura mata wa Namine wo yondemo ii desu" one more point lesson is "[verb-TE]mo ii desu", in this case was "yonde mo ii desu", u can use this phrase for expressing "can [verb]" hope these explainations will help sweatdrop Ah! Now I get it! Thank yo--! Uh... Arigato gozaimasu! XD
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:30 pm
UltimateFanKohaku nani ka? -what does it say? not the best at japanese- CMIIW, "nani ka" means "something/anything", for example: "nani ka ga arimasu" means "there is something " if you want to say "what does it say?", you could use "nan to iimasuka?" or "nan desuka?", which simply means "what is it?" but in conversation to the same level as you (don't use it to elder people), you simply can use "nani?" which means "what?" or for ladies, "nannano?", as for guys, "nandayo?".
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:40 pm
Memories of Kuroluna Ah! Now I get it! Thank yo--! Uh... Arigato gozaimasu! XD doita shimashite. btw "doita shimashite" means "you're welcome". 3nodding
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