Nihongo(Japanese)?

[Danny]

Konnichiwa, mina-san.

Hi, everyone! Does anyone here speak Japanese or know even a little bit?

[pink-cheetah]

konnichiwa!

i know some, if you mean, like, basicss, counting and stuff..... im half japanese.. you?

[Danny]

No, I'm english. But I got into the language from Japanese pop culture.

[pink-cheetah]

No, I'm english. But I got into the language from Japanese pop culture.

lol, i shoulda relaized that from ur "location" up there ^..

do you like anime and stuff? one of my friends is into anime and she's really good at it...

[Danny]

Yeah, I like anime and manga.

My favourite manga is Dragonball/Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama. The TV show is always getting slagged off for being too "OTT" but the manga (comic)is so much better.

[Tsubasa]

ohayou! hajimema****e, tsubasa desu, yoroshiku. ^_^ I speak a decent amount of Japanese and can read pretty well, too. =P Also an anime/manga fan. (Nana is a current favourite.)

[Suzuran]

I'm trying to learn Japanese. I don't know a whole lot yet, but I'm working on it! It seems like a hard language to learn, but maybe that's just me. u.u;

I'm also an anime/manga fan. I listen to a lot of Japanese music as well.

[pink-cheetah]

ohayou! hajimema****e, tsubasa desu, yoroshiku. ^_^ I speak a decent amount of Japanese and can read pretty well, too. =P Also an anime/manga fan. (Nana is a current favourite.)

konnichiwa!

hai. but i cannot read japanese besides the basics of katakana or hirogana or w/e it is. i can sorta write [which is fun! have any of you tried it?] ;)

[SOS~]

I love J-Pop (as you can see).And manga my fav is Marmalade boy is Saukura!

[LOST_and_Narnia_Fan!]

Konichiwa danny son!!!

I take nihon-go on monday mornings!!!!!

Sionata!

I love J-Pop (as you can see).And manga my fav is Marmalade boy is Saukura!

[SacredSpirit]

Its all in the name!!!!

[Tsubasa]

I can read hiragana near-perfectly and most katakana, and I know nearly 100 kanji. =P I don't take formal lessons but I do converse with Japanese people often.

Japanese is not an especially difficult language, I find - not nearly as hard as, say, various dialects of Chinese (Mandarin especially). It has the same sentence structure and grammar as Korean...

My name means "wings" in Japanese, actually. n.n

J-pop is indeed a good type of music. I tend to listen to it fairly often... although I like BoA's music too, and she's not exactly Japanese, so maybe it's just Asian music. Who knows?

[Danny]

ohayou! hajimema****e, tsubasa desu, yoroshiku.

Kore wa wakatta.
I understand this, it says:

"Morning! Hello, I'm Tsubasa, nice to meet you."

I can read hiragana and katakana pretty well, but my Kanji skills are very limited.
I'm glad that other people have an interest in the language as much as me!

Ureshii!

[Tsubasa]

Yeah, that's basically what I said (though I think yoroshiku means "please take care of me" - not sure if I'd want that though =P). It's so great to meet other people with an interest in this language. n.n

[Danny]

Yeah, that's basically what I said (though I think yoroshiku means "please take care of me" - not sure if I'd want that though =P). It's so great to meet other people with an interest in this language. n.n

You're right it does, but doesn't it sound weird directly translated into English? So even though it basically means "please take care of me", or "Be nice", I usually translate it as "Nice to meet you".

Like the word "Douzo". It means roughly "Please", and is often used with "Yoroshiku". I.e. "Douzo yoroshiku": "please take care of me".
But it can also mean "Here you go", "Please accept this" depending upon the circumstances.

And "Hajimema****e" is only used on the first meeting, it means "How do you do" roughly, and the "Hajime" part means "Start", Beginning" and so you could argue that it means "First meeting".

[Tsubasa]

I thought hajimema****e meant "it's nice to meet you for the first time" or something like that. *shrugs* Japanese is so different from English it's hard to translate. You really have to know the phrases in their original language and the context they're used in...

*Sigh* I'm supposed to be a translator for scanned manga but I'm not confident about my abilities... though that'd be why I'm speaking like this, I guess. Have to see it from a new point of view!

(And all the different phrases you can add onegaishimasu to...XD)

[Impreza]

I'm able to speak Japs. Not that fluently though.

[pink-cheetah]

may-ooh-neh-zoo.

[Tsubasa]

That....sounds more like some dialect of Chinese I haven't learned. o_O

[Danny]

may-ooh-neh-zoo.

Nani? :confused: Nihongo ja nai.

By the way, Japanese is based around short or stretched syllables.

"may-ooh-neh-zoo" would be spelt "mei-oo-nee-zuu"

[pink-cheetah]

eh… I was actually saying “mayonnaise” like my great grandma said it… ya know how some japanese talk in this english-japanses kind of thingy?

yeah, you need to hear that story... its funny ;)

[Impreza]

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J-pop is indeed a good type of music. I tend to listen to it fairly often... although I like BoA's music too, and she's not exactly Japanese, so maybe it's just Asian music. Who knows?

If i'm not mistaken, Boa is Korean. Japanese has lots of International singers such as Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, Chihiro Onitsuka, Kyoko Fukada, etc. Well, if u like Japanese animation (anime) you'll love most of the songs like the ones in Naruto, Bleach, Evangelion etc. Asian Kung Fu Generation is among the best out there.

Oh yeah, if u happen to like K-Pop also (Korean music) u can go to kpopkingdom.com They have a forum where they talk lots about the Korean entertainment industries.

[pevensie_lover]

I know japanese a little bit. Inu means dog, baka means stupid and arigato means thank you. I love japan, especially its comics, I love detective conan, doraemon, and crayon shinchan books. and I love the game too, all 97% games that I played are made in japan and the hardware too was made in japan(playstation2). Japan is a clever country :)

[pink-cheetah]

and dont forget "cat"! my dad once knew someone who's cat was named 'nekko' [sp?] and he'd never heard of that before (he's chinese), and he told her, 'what a unique name!' ;)

[Impreza]

I know japanese a little bit. Inu means dog, baka means stupid and arigato means thank you. I love japan, especially its comics, I love detective conan, doraemon, and crayon shinchan books. and I love the game too, all 97% games that I played are made in japan and the hardware too was made in japan(playstation2). Japan is a clever country :)

Yeah, Inu is Dog in Japanese. That's why there's a Japanese animation entitled Inuyasha aka Dog Demon or something.

[sakura_shinguji]

now i meet all the Japanese :D :D

Hajimema****e...watashi wa sakura_shinguji desu-ka...Mareshia kara kima****a..nihon-go wakarima****a...tempura ano sushi suki desu-ka ;)

now i was in Japan, study here..so I learn a little Japanese but unfortunately I can't read Katagana and Hiragana :( in my college now we use English as first languange and its weird coz here in Japan, its hard to found someone who can speak or read English very well

[Impreza]

now i meet all the Japanese :D :D

Hajimema****e...watashi wa sakura_shinguji desu-ka...Mareshia kara kima****a..nihon-go wakarima****a...tempura ano sushi suki desu-ka ;)

now i was in Japan, study here..so I learn a little Japanese but unfortunately I can't read Katagana and Hiragana :( in my college now we use English as first languange and its weird coz here in Japan, its hard to found someone who can speak or read English very well

Yeah, and i'm sure lots of other Malaysians also like to eat tempura & sushi where u can get the Californian Roll at RM2 per piece at Carrefour. Hehehehe.

Huh? i thought Katakana & Hiragana are the basics of Japs before u go to Kanji? Oh yeah, Where in Japan are u now eh? Bila mau grad?

[pevensie_lover]

Yeah, and i'm sure lots of other Malaysians also like to eat tempura & sushi where u can get the Californian Roll at RM2 per piece at Carrefour. Hehehehe.

Huh? i thought Katakana & Hiragana are the basics of Japs before u go to Kanji? Oh yeah, Where in Japan are u now eh? Bila mau grad?
In Indonesia there's alot of japanese restaurant too. I love to eat unagi sushi and tempura, especially salmon. ... it makes me hungry... :)

[-Forever_Young-]

well, my friend loves Japan. So I know some words - "kira kira boka" is "shiny idiot," i think. she also knows some Russian...

[sakura_shinguji]

Yeah, and i'm sure lots of other Malaysians also like to eat tempura & sushi where u can get the Californian Roll at RM2 per piece at Carrefour. Hehehehe.

Huh? i thought Katakana & Hiragana are the basics of Japs before u go to Kanji? Oh yeah, Where in Japan are u now eh? Bila mau grad?


I'm in Nagoya. Just for two years, and now....I'm already in Malaysia. Going home in 13 April. Its good to going back home and meet all my friends here...I miss them so muchhh!! :) But I miss Japan actually, the star there....the winter, yuki..original tempura, sushi, sashimi, udon, wasabe...and I'm very miss my home there. My house is in Iwakura City, near the Gojo river, thats is the famous place in Nagoya especially when sakura is all going out. It is a very beautiful place you know...this place is near Nagoya, just in 30 minutes by car. but if you go by train, it takes only 15 minutes.

here is the link for the pics in Gojo river, after the sakura celebration last year...it is very beautiful...you must see it! ;)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/safasakura/CAM_0073.jpg

[sakura_shinguji]

oh yeah Impreza.....I sudah grad...bulan mac yang lepas....hehehe :D

[Impreza]

Huh? Then why are u still staying in Japan? Kerja ke? Oh ya, where in Japan are u?

[sakura_shinguji]

oh ya...I forgot to tell ya....now I'm in Malaysia...coming back just in one week. and I 've work now....but its weird to say that I was in Malaysia now, and my heart still at Japan ;) I miss Japan so much!

[Impreza]

Where in Japan were u again?

[sHeRyL]

konnichiwa! hehe.. yea i take japanese in school..
i LOVE it! hehehe..