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Miza_Radioaktiv

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:38 pm


おい! 

皆さんこんにちは!このチャットは実行仮名にあなたのためです。
もしあなたが漢字を読みません、rikaichanを使って下さい。

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Oi!

Minna-san konnichiwa! Kono chatto wa jikkou kana ni anata no tame desu.
Moshi anata ga kanji o yomimasen, rikaichan o tsukatte kudasai.

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Hey!

Hello, everyone! This chat is for you to practice kana.
If you can't read kanji, please use rikaichan.

勉強しましょう!
Benkyou shimashou!
Let's study! whee
PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:45 pm


えっと。。。Mitza_Radioaktivさん
タイトルの日本語、間違ってます。「日本語に」ではなく、「日本語を勉強します。」になります。それから、Pollの質問の日本語も間違ってます。二つとも、英語で言うとGrammar Mistakeですね。

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Um.... Mitza_Radioaktiv
The Title's Japanese wrong. Instead of "Nihonngo ni", it's "Nihonngo wo bennkyou shimasu." Also, the Poll's Japanese wrong, too. In English, those would be Grammar Mistake.

It'll be great if you can fix it! ^.^

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:47 pm


BTW, I can teach you Japanese if you want. blaugh
PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:53 pm


RyuseiStreamGirl
えっと。。。Mitza_Radioaktivさん
タイトルの日本語、間違ってます。「日本語に」ではなく、「日本語を勉強します。」になります。それから、Pollの質問の日本語も間違ってます。二つとも、英語で言うとGrammar Mistakeですね。

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Um.... Mitza_Radioaktiv
The Title's Japanese wrong. Instead of "Nihonngo ni", it's "Nihonngo wo bennkyou shimasu." Also, the Poll's Japanese wrong, too. In English, those would be Grammar Mistake.

It'll be great if you can fix it! ^.^


O_O... I honestly don't know what possessed me to make a typo like that... I thought I put を(wo). gonk

I'd love it if you helped me. ありがとうございます。(arigatou gozaimasu./Thank you.) heart

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RyuseiStreamGirl

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:18 pm


Hehe. Sorry for not checking this post for a while.

So, let's see if there are any other people who would like to learn Japanese.
PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:42 pm


*raises hand* I'd like to....

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:24 am


I'd very much enjoy learning.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:59 pm


instead of rikaichan *ahem just search up "google translate" >_>

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RyuseiStreamGirl

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:55 pm


So. What do you guys want to learn?

The alphabet... some simple, everyday words... names of items... You name it! I'll do my best in teaching!
PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:19 pm


あ~!
俺も勉強しりたい!

僕に関する限りは少し日本語が出来ますでも手伝いか?

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Aa~!
Ore mo benkyou shiritai!

Boku ni kansuru kagiri ha sukoshi nihongo ga dekimasu demo testudai ka?

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Ah~!
I, too, would like to study!

As far as I'm concerned, I can only speak a little Japanese, but can I help?

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:28 pm


I'm not sure maybe the alphabet first if thats ok?
PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:26 pm


: D
I'm excited, and this is fairly easy;
Mind if I take it?
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In Japanese, there are the same five basic vowels as in English;
A, E, I, O, and U

The consonants, however, are a different story.
Unlike English, with 21 consonants (including the partial vowels)
There are only 16.

These are:
B, D, F, G, H, J, K, M, N, P, R, S, T, W, Y, and Z.
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Now, Japanese is a syllabic language, so rather then a raw alphabet like English,
Japanese uses sets of letters (syllables) to create words.
There are two syllabic sets for Japanese;
Hiragana, which is used for most Japanese words,
And Katakana, which is used mostly for "loan" words,
Which is a fancy way of saying words stolen from another language.
There is also Kanji,
Which is a way of taking the hiragana symbols that can mean more then one thing,
And giving each meaning a different and defining symbol.
This is helpful for things like the world love (ai or 愛) and a conjugation of "to meet" (ai, or 会い)
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These syllables, except in the case of Shi, Tsu, and those syllables that stem from them,
Use the combination of a consonant followed by a vowel;
Such as a "t" followed by an "a" or an "o."
So, in translation, rather then spelling "toilet" the word is broken down phonetically into syllables, and becomes "to-i-re-to"
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The general rule to creating a syllable is to take any of the 16 consonants, and attach any of the 5 vowels,
OR
Take any vowel, and use it as it's own syllable.
However, there ARE exceptions to this rule, which I will now list.

When using "W," the only vowels still commonly used are "O" and "A"
That said, We, Wu, and Wi are all outdated and rarely used today.

When using "T," attaching an"I" changes the pronunciation from "ti" to "chi" and adding a "U" changes from "tu" to "tsu."
Ta, Te, and To are still fine, though.

Likewise, when using "S," adding an "i" changes from "si" to "shi."
However, Sa, Se, So, and Su are all fine.

The rest are minor changes, so I'll list them one after the other.
"Hu" becomes "Fu," "Zi" and "Di" become two different forms of "Ji,"
"Du" becomes "Dsu," and the rest are somewhat more complex.

For a list of all the Hiragana symbols, go here
For a similar list of Katakana, go here

The hiragana is a bit small, so you may want to save it, and zoom in ^^"

If I missed anything, let me know : D

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Zakuro315

PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:13 pm


i would REALLY like to learn, please. >_<
PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:21 pm


Contagious-san, It seems as though you have done well. Sorry, I was working on other stuff on Gaia and other places, I couldn't check this until now.

RyuseiStreamGirl

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alexelence

PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:30 pm


Im learning Katakana at the moment off of Wikipedia. You get used to it but can't help feel that its derelict ¬_¬

Also worried about my penmanship but oh well. One step at a time
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