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sat985 - Jun 13, 2002

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		sat985		Jun 13, 2002
			I know alot of people play imports here, an want to learn japanese but figure its too hard. I did some searchin an found a few tools that are pretty damned good. One of em is give you some katakana, and 5 different choices as to what it is. there are 700some of them on that page. They are pretty useful, especialy for memorizing the characters. Which in effect is what you want to do if you wanna play imports. Next ones a character chart, and a beginners guide you could say. Good for reference, use it with the above an you'll be actualy remembering the stuff in no time. an last but not least is a page of several different tools, from on an kun readings via quicktime, to stroke order, kanji, and culture. 1... 2... 3... Should help some people get underway

		BigDAlcala		Jun 13, 2002
			Ohisashiburidesune - Long time no see Ohayougozaimasu - Good Morning Konnichiwa - Good afternoon Konbanwa - Good evening Douitashimashite - You're Welcome Sumimasen - Excuse me Tastu - Dragon A (sounds like the "o" in "on") e (eh) u (oo) i (ee) o (oh) C'mon! Everyone who knows Japanese extend this thread so they can sticky it for those who need to learn for playing imports! Woohoo!

		MasterAkumaMatata		Jun 13, 2002
			You have You're Welcome, but where's Thank You?

		jim993		Jun 13, 2002
			i'm really not into my mind right now but isn't there some sort of linking characters that can extend into the other sentence so it's in the first sentence and second and has two meanings in both but you have to combine the two to get the real meaing blah blah blah if i figure out what i'm saying i'll edit this post.

		ajnin		Jun 14, 2002
			the only japanese i know is from martial arts, and most of that is little to 0 help in playing games

		Xai		Jun 14, 2002
			Thanks - Arigato You know, if you know how to speak japanese, and you know hiragana and katakana, kanji will come to you after reading enough manga... atleast that's how my friend learned. And me? If I were to go to the country of my mother's ancestors my reading level would be equivalent to that of a second or third graders. How demeaning woohoo! I hit post 100

		mal		Jun 14, 2002
			I know it's been posted before, but this... offers some insights into learning japanese.

		Xai		Jun 14, 2002
			Lol, that's hilarious. Even tho it's a joke, I do agree with the author's point of the grammar structure being somewhat odd for westerners. You'll all laugh when you try directly translating the words into sentences and see what you get Note: I'm actually not that great with japanese either, I was when I was a little kid but well, never really used the language so I'm rusty with it. sighs I hate it when japanese girls laugh at me when I use words out of context

		ajnin		Jun 14, 2002
			here is a funny like of japanese people trying english engrish...

		sat985		Jun 14, 2002
			LOL, page was 'interesting'. heres one for ya, might be of use in games. 1-10 ichi=1 ni=2 san=3 shi=4 go=5 roku=6 nana=7 hachi=8 que=9 ju=10 then theres ju-ichi=11 ju-ni=12 ju-san=13 ... you get the idea. learning it all will take time, probably 10 years to get it all.

		Cloud121		Jun 14, 2002
			Watashi wa (Name) desu - I am.... Watashi wa (Age) sai desu - I am __ years old Nihongo - Japanese Okashii - Funny/Strange Genki desu ka - How are you? ii otenki desune - Nice weather isn't it? Mina - Everyone Jya matta - See ya! Haha - Mother Chichi - Father Sobo - Grandmother Sofu - Grandfather Ani - Older Brother Ane - Older Sister Otouto - Younger Brother Imouto - Younger Sister Nichiyoubi - Sunday Getsuyoubi - Monday Kayoubi - Tuesday Suiyoubi - Wednesday Mokuyoubi - Thursday Kinyoubi - Friday Douyoubi - Saturday Otanjyoubi wa itsu desu ka - When is your birthday? Denwabangou wa nan desu ka - What is your phone number? Ichigatsu - January Nigatsu - February Sangatsu - March Shigatsu - April Gogatsu - May Rokugatsu - June Shichigatsu - July Hachigatsu - August Kyuugatsu - September Jyuugatsu - October Jyuuichigatsu - November Jyuunigatsu - December As you can see, it's just a number, followed by Gatsu. Also, Four is both Yon and Shi, and Seven is both Shichi and Nana. I could go on forever with this, but I'll just leave it here, maybe post some more later.

		sizone		Jun 15, 2002
			damn cloud, what is that? the "datiing simulator" japanese to english dictionary?

MasterAkumaMatata

Jun 15, 2002

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by ajnin+June 14 2002,05:48-->QUOTE(ajnin @ June 14 2002,05:48)here is a funny like of japanese people trying english



engrish...[/b]

I had a good laugh with the one about Toiletries....