Learning Japanese 001 Part 1

[myogaman]

I took two years of it, that was enough for one lifetime.
Before mother f**king geek squad wiped my computer, I could type.

But, I'll just use American type =P


Konbanwa, watashi wa Christi desu. Escapist to Facebook ga skidesu!

Probably pretty bad =P It's been a while.

I said,
Good Evening, I'm Christi. I like Escapist and Facebook. =P

Douzo yoroshiku, Christi-san. Boku no namae wa Nicholas.

Bideo gemu to hon ga sukidesu! (it is pronounced ski though)

Pleasure to meet you, Christi. My name is Nicholas.
I like video games and books.

 

[VanityGirl]

snips

Douzo yoroshiku, Christi-san. Boku no namae wa Nicholas.

Bideo gemu to hon ga sukidesu! (it is pronounced ski though)

Pleasure to meet you, Christi. My name is Nicholas.
I like video games and books.

Awesome, I'm glad I wasn't TOO off with my Japanese. It's been a while.

 

[Jellokatamari]

this is good webpage I found out about a year ago when I slowly started to learn by myself ( now I have actual university classes ;P)

http://japanese.about.com/

bunch of basic things, and I find her explainations very easy to follow. Check it if you want.

Cool thread by the way, nice initiative

 

[thehoff]

Interesting thread, keep it up!

 

[Kwaren]

わたしはにっほんごのがくせえ。 (Watashiwa nihongo no gakusee.) (I am a student of the Japanese language.)

僕は英語の画癖絵。　星英語の先生ですよ！ (I have no idea if the Kanji are right )
ぼく　は　えいご　の　がくせえ。　ほし　えいご　の　せんせい　です　よ！
boku wa eigo no gakusee. hoshi eigo no sensei desu yo!
I'm an English student. I want to be an English teacher!

I don't know if the kanji is right either because I haven't gotten that far in my studies but good for you! There is a program called JET you might be interested in. http://www.jetprogramme.org/

 

[Omletrice]

おい！　人　は　どこ　ですか？

Hey! Where are you people?

That sounded like "Where are the humans(people,lul.)?!" coming from a alien attempting to find and kill all humans. >_>

わたしはにっほんごのがくせえ。 (Watashiwa nihongo no gakusee.) (I am a student of the Japanese language.)

僕は英語の画癖絵。　星英語の先生ですよ！ (I have no idea if the Kanji are right )
ぼく　は　えいご　の　がくせえ。　ほし　えいご　の　せんせい　です　よ！
boku wa eigo no gakusee. hoshi eigo no sensei desu yo!
I'm an English student. I want to be an English teacher!

僕(ぼ&#12367[NOT MANN ENOUG--sorry.]は英語(えい&#12372の学生(がくせ&#12356[画癖**??(笑]。　欲しい(ほし&#12356[・・・☆?　おい・・]英語(えい&#12372の先生(せんせ&#12356ですよ！

I don't know about grammars, but I just corrected the kanji which made no sense. points at 画癖絵

**:Was pretty sure you ment student instead of picture retard.

 

[myogaman]

わたしはにっほんごのがくせえ。 (Watashiwa nihongo no gakusee.) (I am a student of the Japanese language.)

僕は英語の画癖絵。　星英語の先生ですよ！ (I have no idea if the Kanji are right )
ぼく　は　えいご　の　がくせえ。　ほし　えいご　の　せんせい　です　よ！
boku wa eigo no gakusee. hoshi eigo no sensei desu yo!
I'm an English student. I want to be an English teacher!

I don't know if the kanji is right either because I haven't gotten that far in my studies but good for you! There is a program called JET you might be interested in. http://www.jetprogramme.org/

Yeah, you need a bachelor's for that. I'm gettin' there slowly.

 

[myogaman]

おい！　人　は　どこ　ですか？

Hey! Where are you people?

That sounded like "Where are the humans(people,lul.)?!" coming from a alien attempting to find and kill all humans. >_>

わたしはにっほんごのがくせえ。 (Watashiwa nihongo no gakusee.) (I am a student of the Japanese language.)

僕は英語の画癖絵。　星英語の先生ですよ！ (I have no idea if the Kanji are right )
ぼく　は　えいご　の　がくせえ。　ほし　えいご　の　せんせい　です　よ！
boku wa eigo no gakusee. hoshi eigo no sensei desu yo!
I'm an English student. I want to be an English teacher!

僕(ぼ&#12367[NOT MANN ENOUG--sorry.]は英語(えい&#12372の学生(がくせ&#12356[画癖**??(笑]。　欲しい(ほし&#12356[・・・☆?　おい・・]英語(えい&#12372の先生(せんせ&#12356ですよ！

I don't know about grammars, but I just corrected the kanji which made no sense. points at 画癖絵

**:Was pretty sure you ment student instead of picture retard.

XD Picture retard
I just typed gakusee and pressed space, so whatever Kanji it thought was right was what I used.

Yeah I was all like "Where is everyone?" Don't know how to say that though ...

 

[myogaman]

What he hell is the point of this.

/points at original post

ｴﾚﾊﾞｱｽ の　あたま は　わるいい　です　ね？

 

[Blindrooster]

If i did this could i come visit Japan? you'd pay my way, of course.

 

[myogaman]

If i did this could i come visit Japan? you'd pay my way, of course.

Its only $800 for the ticket. I stayed there for a month with less than $700. I was living with my aunt and uncle soooo...didn't really pay for a place to stay or food to eat...Also its ~$50 (500&#20870 a week riding trains.

But when I become rich and famous, I'll buy everyone on the Escapist an all expenses paid trip to Japan! Too bad you don't become rich or famous being a teacher

 

[Omletrice]

Yeah I was all like "Where is everyone?" Don't know how to say that though ...

Probably something like "貴方（あなた）/君（きみ）/御前（おまえ）だちはどこ[か/ですが/でござるかｗ]?"

XD Picture retard
I just typed gakusee and pressed space, so whatever Kanji it thought was right was what I used.

It should be がくせい not がくせえ


I'd probably pick this up pretty fast if I actually take lessons.
But alas, I have the attention span of very low

Spoiler: For those who care.

I'm visiting family in Gifu and Hokkaido again, leaving on the 23rd. Will freeload in taiwan for a month first.

 

[theklng]

so basically once i learn japanese it'll be the 11th language i know. you're all below me.

How old are you? What languages do you know? When did you learn them? I'm ultra curious about this kinda stuff.

born in '86, go figure.

i know english, spanish, polish, danish, german, and also C, C#, java, F# and UML (as well as some MySQL - but i suck at optimizing query lingo).

i'm a natural at languages, so it's been easy for me to pick up on new ones. i learned all of them during elementary school and or high school, however. the computer ones just came with my university education.

 

[myogaman]

so basically once i learn japanese it'll be the 11th language i know. you're all below me.

How old are you? What languages do you know? When did you learn them? I'm ultra curious about this kinda stuff.

born in '86, go figure.

i know english, spanish, polish, danish, german, and also C, C#, java, F# and UML (as well as some MySQL - but i suck at optimizing query lingo).

i'm a natural at languages, so it's been easy for me to pick up on new ones. i learned all of them during elementary school and or high school, however. the computer ones just came with my university education.

Saying that programming languages count is cheating. If thats true, then I know 8 languages. But good job on expanding your horizons.

 

[theklng]

so basically once i learn japanese it'll be the 11th language i know. you're all below me.

How old are you? What languages do you know? When did you learn them? I'm ultra curious about this kinda stuff.

born in '86, go figure.

i know english, spanish, polish, danish, german, and also C, C#, java, F# and UML (as well as some MySQL - but i suck at optimizing query lingo).

i'm a natural at languages, so it's been easy for me to pick up on new ones. i learned all of them during elementary school and or high school, however. the computer ones just came with my university education.

Saying that programming languages count is cheating. If thats true, then I know 8 languages. But good job on expanding your horizons.

a programming language is still a language.

in addition, the way that you learn different paradigms in programming (instead of taking time out to learn each new language) can be easily abstracted to "human" languages. object oriented languages have the same principles in between themselves; much like because i know spanish, it's much easier for me to decipher italian, french and latin.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

I dont wanna learn Japanese,
they should be learning English

The only japanes i know is what i picked up at that Hibachi joint on Douglas Street

 

[myogaman]

I dont wanna learn Japanese,
they should be learning English

The only japanes i know is what i picked up at that Hibachi joint on Douglas Street

actually the Japanese are learning English from middle school to high school. The stereotype of Engrish is almost gone. That doesn't mean you shouldn't learn it though. Just because they know English doesn't mean they are gonna start making everything in English. This means that you still have to settle for shitty translations.

Also they still need people to teach them English. And people who teach English are higher on the priority list if they also know Japanese.

That and some of the best games aren't moved out of Japan, anyone need examples?

Also, its cool you have a ramen shop nearby, all we got is sushi places D:

 

[Simalacrum]

じゃああなた自身は日本語うまいのですか？

 

[myogaman]

Quiz 四 - Vowels + K + S + T

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

Spoiler

さ　て　き　あ　そ　こ　ち　し　と　い　か　う　せ　た　え　お　く　け　つ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Spoiler

Ta Shi A I Ku To Ke So O Sa Se Chi Tsu Su Ka E U Ko Ta Te Ki

Answer Key

Question 1

Spoiler

Sa Te Ki A So Ko Chi Shi To I Ka U Se Ta E O Ku Ke Tsu Su

Question 2

Spoiler

た　し　あ　い　く　と　け　そ　お　さ　せ　ち　つ　す　か　え　う　こ　た　て　き