Learning Japanese 001 Part 1

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myogaman

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Counting and you

Number = English = Japanese (Spelled) = Japanese (Spoken) = Japanese (Kanji)

0 = Zero = ゼロ = ZeRo = 0
1 = One = いち = IChi = 一
2 = Two = に = Ni = 二
3 = Three = さん = SaN = 三
4 = Four = し/よん = Shi/YoN = 四
5 = Five = ご = Go = 五
6 = Six = ろく = RoKu = 六
7 = Seven = しち/なな = ShiChi/NaNa = 七
8 = Eight = はち = HaChi = 八
9 = Nine = きゅう = KyuU = 九
10 = Ten = じゅう = JyuU = 十

11 = Eleven = じゅう いち = JyuU IChi = 十一
12 = Twelve = じゅう に = JyuU Ni = 十二
13 = Thirteen = じゅう さん = JyuU SaN = 十三
14 = Fourteen = じゅう し/よん = JyuU Shi/YoN = 十四
15 = Fifteen = じゅう ご = JyuU Go = 十五
16 = Sixteen = じゅう ろく = JyuU RoKu = 十六
17 = Seventeen = じゅう しち/なな = JyuU ShiChi/NaNa = 十七
18 = Eighteen = じゅう はち = JyuU HaChi = 十八
19 = Nineteen = じゅう きゅう = JyuU KyuU = 十九
20 = Twenty = に じゅう = Ni JyuU = 二十

100 = Hundred = きゃく = HyaKu = 百
1,000 = Thousand = せん = SeN = 千
10,000 = Ten-Thousand = まん = MaN = 万

Confused yet? Kinda sucks I can't make tables.
 

myogaman

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Maraveno said:
myogaman said:
Maraveno said:
can you put up links to previous posts like every week?
I don't know how D: I'd totally do it if I knew how though.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.142922?page=3#3250539


that? or did you misunderstand me??

or did you actually not know about that?

I'm sorry I'm tired it might just be me
i meant how to do it with code...like Myoga Answers His Own Question

but how do you know the post number?
 

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theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
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.
sorry but I call bullshit on programming counting as a language you know. It's all written in English, even Japanese programmers type C# in English. You may communicate in a language but only to a computer. You don't go to a friend and say.

string answer = " ";
bool checkin = 0;

while (checkin == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Do you want to go to a movie?");
answer = Console.ReadLine();
if (answer != " ")
{
checkin = 1;
}
}

If you want we could start a thread on this :eek:
 

myogaman

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Simalacrum said:
じゃああなた自身は日本語うまいのですか?
ごめんあさい
かんじ は わかりません。
 

Simalacrum

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myogaman said:
Simalacrum said:
じゃああなた自身は日本語うまいのですか?
ごめんあさい
かんじ は わかりません。
?ごめんあさい? じゃなくて ?ごめんなさい? だよ :p

in all seriousness though, goodluck with teaching English in Japan! ^^
 

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myogaman said:
theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
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.
sorry but I call bullshit on programming counting as a language you know. It's all written in English, even Japanese programmers type C# in English. You may communicate in a language but only to a computer. You don't go to a friend and say.

string answer = " ";
bool checkin = 0;

while (checkin == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Do you want to go to a movie?");
answer = Console.ReadLine();
if (answer != " ")
{
checkin = 1;
}
}

If you want we could start a thread on this :eek:
you know, i'd actually consider your point if it weren't because they're called computer languages.

the point is that if you want the computer to do something for you, you need to speak to it. if you need a person to do something for you, you need to speak to him or her. the communication between two objects (computers and people alike) are the definition of a language.

also that stump of code should err or at least give warning for doing implicit casts from a boolean to integer (depending on the language - i assume c#).
 

myogaman

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theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
myogaman said:
theklng said:
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.
sorry but I call bullshit on programming counting as a language you know. It's all written in English, even Japanese programmers type C# in English. You may communicate in a language but only to a computer. You don't go to a friend and say.

string answer = " ";
bool checkin = 0;

while (checkin == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Do you want to go to a movie?");
answer = Console.ReadLine();
if (answer != " ")
{
checkin = 1;
}
}

If you want we could start a thread on this :eek:
you know, i'd actually consider your point if it weren't because they're called computer languages.

the point is that if you want the computer to do something for you, you need to speak to it. if you need a person to do something for you, you need to speak to him or her. the communication between two objects (computers and people alike) are the definition of a language.

also that stump of code should err or at least give warning for doing implicit casts from a boolean to integer (depending on the language - i assume c#).
Damn, that's right. Bool are supposed to be true or false. lets continue this here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.144618
 

Grayjack

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Halfbreed13 said:
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I am done now.


But in all seriousness, I don't get it?
Damn you.
OT: Bookmarked for being interesting. Although the different styles scare me.
 

Omletrice

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Wow. I just realized their number system is identical to ours(Chinese). now I just need to learn how to pronounce all of them (&#12494;_<&#12290;)
 

myogaman

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Omletrice said:
Wow. I just realized their number system is identical to ours(Chinese). now I just need to learn how to pronounce all of them (&#12494;_<&#12290;)
Yeah, the Japanese did try to make their own number system and then was like "man this is hard." "yoink" True story
 

theklng

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myogaman said:
Damn, that's right. Bool are supposed to be true or false. lets continue this here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.144618
yeah let's not. i've proved my point, i have nothing more to say.
 

Omletrice

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myogaman said:
Omletrice said:
Wow. I just realized their number system is identical to ours(Chinese). now I just need to learn how to pronounce all of them (&#12494;_<&#12290;)
Yeah, the Japanese did try to make their own number system and then was like "man this is hard." "yoink" True story
They probably just used what they had always been using, so that's partly true. >_>


reminds me of what taiwan is doing with zhuyin fu hao(&#12549;&#12550;&#12551;&#12552;&#12553;&#12554;&#12555;&#12556;&#12557;&#12558;&#12559;&#12560;&#12561;&#12562;&#12563;&#12564;&#12565;&#12566;&#12567;&#12568;&#12569;&#12583;&#12584;&#12585;&#12570;&#12571;&#12572;&#12573;&#12574;&#12575;&#12576;&#12577;&#12578;&#12579;&#12580;&#12581;&#12582;)
Who knows, maybe we'll start speaking Jaiwanese instead of minnan.
 

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I know the hiragana alphabet, and the otaku essentials (kawaii, baka, moe, desu). Other than a few useful phrases (doko wa toire desu ka, anata no dewabango wa nanban desu ka [for the ladies, of course], etc.) I'm a newbie. I'll be watching this.
 

myogaman

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Quiz 5 - Vowels + K + S + T + N

Question 1 - write the English equivalent
&#12373;&#12288;&#12396;&#12288;&#12390;&#12288;&#12365;&#12288;&#12354;&#12288;&#12381;&#12288;&#12371;&#12288;&#12395;&#12288;&#12385;&#12288;&#12375;&#12288;&#12392;&#12288;&#12356;&#12288;&#12363;&#12288;&#12358;&#12288;&#12379;&#12288;&#12394;&#12288;&#12383;&#12288;&#12360;&#12288;&#12398;&#12288;&#12362;&#12288;&#12367;&#12288;&#12397;&#12288;&#12369;&#12288;&#12388;&#12288;&#12377;

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent
Ta Ne Shi A I Ku No To Ke Na So O Sa Se Chi Tsu Su Ka Ni E U Ko Ta Nu Te Ki

Answer Key

Question 1
Sa Nu Te Ki A So Ko Ni Chi Shi To I Ka U Se Na Ta E No O Ku Ne Ke Tsu Su

Question 2
&#12383;&#12288;&#12397;&#12288;&#12375;&#12288;&#12354;&#12288;&#12356;&#12288;&#12367;&#12288;&#12398;&#12288;&#12392;&#12288;&#12369;&#12288;&#12394;&#12288;&#12381;&#12288;&#12362;&#12288;&#12373;&#12288;&#12379;&#12288;&#12385;&#12288;&#12388;&#12288;&#12377;&#12288;&#12363;&#12288;&#12395;&#12288;&#12360;&#12288;&#12358;&#12288;&#12371;&#12288;&#12383;&#12288;&#12396;&#12288;&#12390;&#12288;&#12365;