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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:24 pm

Wow. It's been SUCH a long time since the last time I posted!

Well, I'm pretty much back on again, so I'm willing to help others again ^-^

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:13 pm

mugoi_usagi

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Why does chat in the first post have チャツト　Have ﾂ？ And how do you tell the difference between シ　AND ツ when the letters are so small? Any tips.

ありがとう (Thank you).

It's difficult to tell the difference at all in the beginning. I learned "top" and "side."
ツ has the two small lines starting at the top and Top goes with Tsu.
シ has the two small lines starting at the side and Side goes with Shi.

あー。。そうですね。ありがとうごうざいますむごいさん！ (Ah...I see, thank you very much Mugoi-san!)

I use to think that they were smiley faces that looked the same ;P except one was stroke down after the 2 small lines and the other was stroke up. I'm sorry for bombarding you guys with questions but I just started learning (like serious learning) a few weeks ago sweatdrop but do you guys have tips on expanding vocabulary and should I move onto Kanji after Katakana?

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:41 pm

えーと。。。みんなさんはどこですか？

(Umm...where is everyone?) <-Counts as practice ^.^

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:58 pm

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Niceril

Why does chat in the first post have チャツト　Have ﾂ？ And how do you tell the difference between シ　AND ツ when the letters are so small? Any tips.

ありがとう (Thank you).

It's difficult to tell the difference at all in the beginning. I learned "top" and "side."
ツ has the two small lines starting at the top and Top goes with Tsu.
シ has the two small lines starting at the side and Side goes with Shi.

あー。。そうですね。ありがとうごうざいますむごいさん！ (Ah...I see, thank you very much Mugoi-san!)

I use to think that they were smiley faces that looked the same ;P except one was stroke down after the 2 small lines and the other was stroke up. I'm sorry for bombarding you guys with questions but I just started learning (like serious learning) a few weeks ago sweatdrop but do you guys have tips on expanding vocabulary and should I move onto Kanji after Katakana?

Well some people say to watch and learn from Drama's, but watching Japanese with English Subbed Anime's would work, too (At least in my opinion).

What I think you should do is instead of moving onto Kanji's, you probably should practice a little more on how to write in both Hiragana and Katakana (like writing short phrases). After you're very confident, THEN you could move onto Kanji, starting from extremely easy ones to harder ones. ^-^

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:28 am

Oh yeah！ありがとう！ I'm pretty much just youtubing, and reading Japanese right now almost daily for a bit but I only know how to ask questions like where is my cat or what is that? Any recommendations on reading material that would expand daily used vocabulary (conversation stuff).

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:24 pm

Hmmmm.... I don't think I can really help you with that... Japanese isn't my second language, and I speak it everyday (Cuz that's what I am. and so, it means its my first language)... So I don't really know how other people learn everyday vocabs..

But you could learn it by listening to Japanese things, and you could try and read some Japanese books...

Sorry! Can't really help you with that kind of area of learning...... >.<

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:33 pm

すみません！　How do you pronounce koukou (こうこう） [High school]?　おねがい！

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:30 pm

Well I guess we pronouce it like "Ko-ko-"（こーこー/コーコー）, without really pronouncing the う. Probably because it's a little hard (and annoying) to keep on pronouncing the う everytime. (The intonation(?) doesn't change.)

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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:29 pm

Yeah I was wondering how someone would pronounce the う’ｓ (looks like an apple o.o) each time. I literally spent a good 5 minutes trying to say it.

I also have a question about つ。

あさって。　(I'm told its pronounced A-sa-te but there's the つ there which confuses me.)

ありがとうございます。

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:47 am

How do you say "I hope to learn more Japanese here"?

Especially the bolded part, as I would like to know the conjugation for it.

Thanks. xd

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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:31 am

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Yeah I was wondering how someone would pronounce the う’ｓ (looks like an apple o.o) each time. I literally spent a good 5 minutes trying to say it.

I also have a question about つ。

あさって。　(I'm told its pronounced A-sa-te but there's the つ there which confuses me.)

When you have a word like asatte were the tsu is smaller than the rest of the characters you don't pronounce the tsu. Instead it is acting as an indicator that the next consonant is a double consonant. The best way I can explain that is you say asa and then slightly pause for the te. asa-te.

Sorry no japanese characters on my work computer.

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