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 Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:17 pm
Because i haven't gotten a wireless mouse, i have to use my laptop mouse pad. It's kind of hard to do some words because google translate is, well, CRAP.
This is what i have.
Nihon
Konnichiwa
Hai
It took 10 minutes to do those 3, as to why i don't have that many.
Anyone else here know/learning Japanese?
Is anyone interested in learning another language?
OKAY!
I've been cramming my brain with japanese vocab and grammar from 10pm to 12am, and i have officially read two japanese sentences (and by read, i mean i had to look at the characters and then find the pronunciations). One i know is right, the other... uh, not so much. My japanese characters actually look pretty good when i write them out, so i'll be sure to take a picture soon.
Namae wa nani desuka
What is your name?
Tomodachi no namae wa nandesuka
What is my friends name?
^^i'm pretty sure that one is wrong.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:40 am
You are almost everything to me...that is more or less correct...
友達の名前は何ですか？ (I hope people don't just see squares for that '~')
except for the first one, you would not say Namae wa nani desuka, you would say Namae wa nan desuka... ...but nothing is more important to me than me.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:44 pm
Gold Marra You are almost everything to me...that is more or less correct...
友達の名前は何ですか？ (I hope people don't just see squares for that '~')
except for the first one, you would not say Namae wa nani desuka, you would say Namae wa nan desuka... ...but nothing is more important to me than me.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:07 pm
I'm also wondering when you use 'wa' and 'ga'
Neko wa kawaiidesu
Cats are cute
Neko ga kowai
Cats are scary
Wa and Ga both mean 'are' right?
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:29 pm
Kore no imi wa nanidesu no ka?!
Direct Trans: What is the meaning of this?
Or...
NANDESKA?!
Konnichiwa is hello in the evening.
Hai is yes.
Moshi-moshi is hello over the phone.
Itadakimas is "it's time to eat"
JAPANESE PEOPLE USUALLY HAVE A VOWEL AT THE END OF A WORD.
If addressing a person named Lloyd, they'd say Lloydo. They also say their "r"s as a sort of d. Their "l"s are a sort of r. (Ex: We must keep the water "crean.") (For the r/d thing, maybe for my name irl, Francesca, they'd say Fudandesca?) Confusing, right?
I can't read Hirigana or Katakana, but I can read romanji.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:13 pm
Symphony Lillis Kore no imi wa nanidesu no ka?! Direct Trans: What is the meaning of this? Or... NANDESKA?! Konnichiwa is hello in the evening. Hai is yes. Moshi-moshi is hello over the phone. Itadakimas is "it's time to eat" JAPANESE PEOPLE USUALLY HAVE A VOWEL AT THE END OF A WORD. If addressing a person named Lloyd, they'd say Lloydo. They also say their "r"s as a sort of d. Their "l"s are a sort of r. (Ex: We must keep the water "crean.") (For the r/d thing, maybe for my name irl, Francesca, they'd say Fudandesca?) Confusing, right? I can't read Hirigana or Katakana, but I can read romanji.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:23 pm
FapJack Symphony Lillis Kore no imi wa nanidesu no ka?! Direct Trans: What is the meaning of this? Or... NANDESKA?! Konnichiwa is hello in the evening. Hai is yes. Moshi-moshi is hello over the phone. Itadakimas is "it's time to eat" JAPANESE PEOPLE USUALLY HAVE A VOWEL AT THE END OF A WORD. If addressing a person named Lloyd, they'd say Lloydo. They also say their "r"s as a sort of d. Their "l"s are a sort of r. (Ex: We must keep the water "crean.") (For the r/d thing, maybe for my name irl, Francesca, they'd say Fudandesca?) Confusing, right? I can't read Hirigana or Katakana, but I can read romanji. Yes that is right~ ENGRISH FO TEH WA! Rike, I enjoy saying Professor Rayton rike that.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:15 am
FapJack Ohh, but i thought 'nani' meant 'what'?
Hnn... how to explain...
Well the best example I can think of is our 'a' and 'an' they both mean the same thing, yet when and where we use them are different.
Nani kore - what is that
namae wa nandesuka - what is your name.
In cats are cute and cats are scary, you would use wa, ga isn't really used there...
so it would be neko wa kawaii desu for cats are cute
and neko wa kowai for cats are scary...
...but nothing is more important to me than me.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:54 pm
FapJack Ohh, but i thought 'nani' meant 'what'? Nani does mean what, but the some characters are... synonyms? Like in the title for Full Metal Alchemist in japanese, it has the character for 'money' three times in it. However, it also is part of the title yet it doesn't actually say money. It can mean more than one thing. :3
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:49 pm
Symphony Lillis FapJack Ohh, but i thought 'nani' meant 'what'? Nani does mean what, but the some characters are... synonyms? Like in the title for Full Metal Alchemist in japanese, it has the character for 'money' three times in it. However, it also is part of the title yet it doesn't actually say money. It can mean more than one thing. :3
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:50 pm
Gold Marra FapJack Ohh, but i thought 'nani' meant 'what'?
Hnn... how to explain...
Well the best example I can think of is our 'a' and 'an' they both mean the same thing, yet when and where we use them are different.
Nani kore - what is that
namae wa nandesuka - what is your name.
In cats are cute and cats are scary, you would use wa, ga isn't really used there...
so it would be neko wa kawaii desu for cats are cute
and neko wa kowai for cats are scary...
...but nothing is more important to me than me.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:56 pm
Also, I thought that 'Nippon' was Japan? *learned that from Code Geass* Though, I could've misheard.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:51 am
   ▬▬▬I'm trying to learn japanese~
I kinda fail a lot though XD▬▬▬Radical, dude.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:16 pm
Symphony Lillis Also, I thought that 'Nippon' was Japan? *learned that from Code Geass* Though, I could've misheard.
ahahahahaha~ omg I laughed so much! *takes deep breath* I'm sorry.
No, Nippon is just a fail way of saying Nihon, because the japanese are sometimes known to pronounce 'telephone' as 'terepone' and other such sounds with a 'p'
it was and I suppose still is, a racial slur. For example you would call a japanese person a n**.
(I learnt this because my great grandmother started complaining that I was learning the language of the yellow Nips)
...but nothing is more important to me than me.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:03 pm
I actually took Japanese for four years in highschool :3
I'm a little rusty now, but I still know most of my hiragana, some of my katakana and basic sentence structure.
If you ever want to struggle through some practice with me, let me know sweatdrop
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