Learning Japanese 001 Part 1

myogaman · Sep 22, 2009

Quiz 6 - Vowels + K + S + T + N + H

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

さ　ぬ　は　て　き　あ　そ　ほ　こ　に　ち　し　と　い　か　へ　う　せ　な　た　え　の　ふ　お　く　ね　け　つ　ひ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Ha Ta Ne Shi A I Ku Fu No To Ke Na Hi So O He Sa Se Chi Tsu Ho Su Ka Ni E U Ko Ta Nu Te Ki

Answer Key

Question 1

Sa Nu Ha Te Ki A So Ho Ko Ni Chi Shi To I Ka He U Se Na Ta E No Fu O Ku Ne Ke Tsu Hi Su

Question 2

は　た　ね　し　あ　い　く　ふ　の　と　け　な　ひ　そ　お　へ　さ　せ　ち　つ　ほ　す　か　に　え　う　こ　た　ぬ　て　き

New Week!
Hey! This thread is a week old. Woo! I'm glad that it's lasted this long because now we're past what I already know. I'll keep doing the quizzes for Hiragana and then move on to Katakana. So there are now two quizzes, Hiragana/Katakana and Sentences/Vocab. This will start tomorrow.

Thanks for the support, if so many people hadn't called this thread awesome, it would have died for sure.

Omletrice · Sep 22, 2009

Maybe you should include a example of how each is used and their write order before a quiz :O
ex:
た(ta), かた[kata]（肩）Shoulder.

Might be too much work, though. (ノ_<&#12290

myogaman · Sep 22, 2009

Omletrice said:
Maybe you should include a example of how each is used and their write order before a quiz :O
ex:
た(ta), かた[kata]（肩）Shoulder.

Might be too much work, though. (ノ_<&#12290

Yeah, I recommend using that learning kana website or the japanese about website for that D: I really wanna get into speaking and stuff.

Omletrice · Sep 22, 2009

myogaman said:
Omletrice said:

Maybe you should include a example of how each is used and their write order before a quiz :O
ex:
た(ta), かた[kata]（肩）Shoulder.

Might be too much work, though. (ノ_<&#12290

Click to expand...

Yeah, I recommend using that learning kana website or the japanese about website for that D: I really wanna get into speaking and stuff.

I'd suggest buying books, So you can study them whenever.
But then... the book I use is in Chinese, so I can't really say the same for English ones.
Since I heard that translating Japanese to English without restructuring the whole thing and changing somethings a-bit and have it make sense for everyone is a pain in the arse.

myogaman · Sep 22, 2009

Sentence Basics
A is B. The cat is brown. My car is broken. This is banana bread. The simplest sentence that can be formed that isn't a fractured sentence. In English, we have The, A, An, It, and several other words used to confuse non-English speakers. In Japan, they have DeSu. Most Japanese and Japanese books say DeSu as Dess though. Take all of our An, A, The and whatever and forget 'em. This isn't French with Mr. Mop and Mrs. Teapot. This isn't German with two quarters before 3pm. This is as Japanese and in Japanese, A is B is translated at A Wa B DeSu.

In other words A Wa B DeSu = A is B

The cat is brown. Cat Wa brown DeSu. NeKo Wa ChaIRo DeSu. ねこ　は　ちゃいろ　です。　猫　は　茶色　です。

Notice that Wa (&#12431

uses the Ha (&#12399

character instead of itself. I have no idea why. But it's way easier than figuring out An and A and The. These are words we don't even have definitions of. This is also why KonNiChiWa is spelled こんにちは. You see, KonNiChiWa is just the first half of a sentence that became a greeting. Sort of like "How do you do?" or "Good Day." When literally those sentences to make sense.

So lemme break down the A Wa B DeSu

A is the subject. は denotes that A is the subject. This way you can have a large sentence then just put は after it to show that is the subject. "The girl who's mother owns the convenience store on 5th really likes you." B is the second noun. ***I HAVE ERASED MOST GRAMMAR TERMS FROM MY MIND***. Finally DeSu is the verb. Just like how 'is' is the connecting verb in English.

The easiest way to practice this is to just take English and plug it into the Japanese sentence. I Wa male DeSu. Dog Wa dumb DeSu. Traffic Wa slow DeSu. As you expand your vocab, put the actual Japanese where it goes.

This is bare bones shit and I am obviously not the best teacher. If you have trouble with this, please post!

Tomorrow I'll post the basic sentence quiz and introduce how to yell, make a sentence a question, and link nouns to other words. (Like "The brown Cat is happy.") Have a great day

myogaman · Sep 22, 2009

Quiz 7 - Vowels + K + S + T + N + H + M

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

さ　ぬ　は　て　み　き　あ　そ　む　ほ　こ　も　に　ち　し　と　い　か　へ　め　う　せ　な　た　え　の　ふ　お　く　ね　け　つ　ひ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Me Ha Ta Mu Ne Shi A I Ku Ma Fu No To Ke Na Hi So Mi O He Sa Se Chi Tsu Ho Su Ka Ni E U Ko Ta Nu Te Ki Mo

Answer Key

Question 1

Sa Nu Ma Ha Te Mi Ki A So Mu Ho Ko Mo Ni Chi Shi To I Ka He Me U Se Na Ta E No Fu O Ku Ne Ke Tsu Hi Su

Question 2

め　は　た　む　ね　し　あ　い　く　ま　ふ　の　と　け　な　ひ　そ　み　お　へ　さ　せ　ち　つ　ほ　す　か　に　え　う　こ　た　ぬ　て　き　も

IxionIndustries · Sep 22, 2009

Bah.. I'm too busy learning Spanish to be bothered with Japanese... I doubt there's a lot of people from Japan who live in Oklahoma..
That's the one in the center of the U.S. by the way..

myogaman · Sep 22, 2009

IxionIndustries said:
Bah.. I'm too busy learning Spanish to be bothered with Japanese... I doubt there's a lot of people from Japan who live in Oklahoma..
That's the one in the center of the U.S. by the way..

I was amazed to find out that Boise, Idaho has a large amount of Japanese living there. If you dig deep enough, you'd be surprised.

Jynxer · Sep 22, 2009

I've been learning for about a year now so this will be pretty useful

joe182 · Sep 22, 2009

Christ, japanese is confusing

Good thread though

myogaman · Sep 23, 2009

Quiz 8 - Vowels + K + S + T + N + H + M + Y

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

さ　ゆ　ぬ　は　て　み　き　あ　そ　む　ほ　こ　も　に　ち　し　と　い　か　よ　へ　め　う　せ　な　た　え　の　ふ　お　く　ね　け　つ　や　ひ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Me Ha Yo Ta Mu Ne Ya Shi A I Ku Ma Fu No To Ke Na Yu Hi So Mi O He Sa Se Chi Tsu Ho Su Ka Ni E U Ko Ta Nu Te Ki Mo

Answer Key

Question 1

Sa Yu Nu Ma Ha Te Mi Ki A So Mu Ho Ko Mo Ni Chi Shi To I Ka Yo He Me U Se Na Ta E No Fu O Ku Ne Ke Tsu Ya Hi Su

Question 2

め　は　よ　た　む　ね　や　し　あ　い　く　ま　ふ　の　と　け　な　ゆ　ひ　そ　み　お　へ　さ　せ　ち　つ　ほ　す　か　に　え　う　こ　た　ぬ　て　き　も

myogaman · Sep 23, 2009

Sentence Quiz 1

Question 1 - Write the following in English

わたし　は　おんあ　です。

Question 2 - Write the following in English

Couch は small です。

Question 3 - Write the following in English

Cat Wa brown DeSu.

Question 4 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

You are dumb.

Question 5 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

I am a foreigner.

Question 6 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

The bunny is white.

Answer Key

Question 1 - Write the following in English

I am a women.

Question 2 - Write the following in English

The couch is small.

Question 3 - Write the following in English

The cat is brown .

Question 4 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

あなた　は　ばか　です。

Question 5 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

わたし　は　がいじん　です。

Question 6 - Write the following in Japanese Hiragana

うさぎ　は　しろ　です。

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Extra Fake Credit. Post in Romaji or Hiragana what gender you are on this thread. Put it in a spoiler too

I'll wait an hour or so for some more posts until I post the next lesson.

myogaman · Sep 24, 2009

Well shit...looks like I'm going to have to put everything in a spoiler so you can't cheat on the test...

To make a noun possessive, use の (no). So "My cat" would be "わたし　の　ねこ". To clarify a bit on the order, always put the subject after の. So to say "My cat is brown." it would be "わたし　の　ねこ　は　かひろ　です。" So notice that NeKo is before the particle (Wa) because it is the subject. Now how about saying you have black hair? "わたし　は　くろ　の　かみのけ　です。"

Simple, eh?

Now lets ask what color your cat is! IRo is Japanese for color so... "ねこ　は　いろ　です　か？". Cat, color? is the how I would literally translate this. か (Ka) is like a question mark in English.

So how would you answer? "ちゃいろ　です　よ！". よ (Yo) is like an exclamation point. But it doesn't mean anger or yelling like in English. よ just means that you implore it is the truth. That it is certain.

Its really quiet now...lots of people said they bookmarked. So how is it going? Am I going too fast? Too slow? Do you understand my explanations? Or is there not enough time to learn another language?

myogaman · Sep 24, 2009

So is the thread dead?

EDIT: Oh cool, theres still life here. I'll post todays lesson in ~4 hours. I got to go to school

Andrecova · Sep 24, 2009

I've been wanting to learn Japanese for some time, but because there wasn't any school to learn it nearby I never got around to doing so.
But now I'll try to finally learn something, I'm memorizing Hiragana. So thank you for doing this, and keep it up!

myogaman · Sep 25, 2009

Vocabulary 2
Get the Genki 1 book.

Genki 1; page 12 and 13 (its a huge list). Work on this, memorizing vocab is the best you can do before I add more confusing things to your life.

myogaman · Sep 25, 2009

Quiz 9 - Vowels + K + S + T + N + H + M + Y + R

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

さ　ゆ　れ　ぬ　は　て　み　き　あ　そ　り　む　ほ　こ　も　に　ち　ら　し　と　い　か　よ　へ　め　う　せ　な　た　ろ　え　の　ふ　お　く　ね　け　つ　や　る　ひ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Ri Me Ha Yo Ta Mu Ne Ya Shi A I Ku Ma Fu No To Ke Na Yu Hi So Mi O He Sa Se Chi Tsu Ho Ru Su Ka Ni E U Re Ro Ko Ta Nu Te Ki Ra Mo

Answer Key

Question 1

Sa Yu Re Nu Ma Ha Te Mi Ki A So Ri Mu Ho Ko Mo Ni Chi Ra Shi To I Ka Yo He Me U Se Na Ta Ro E No Fu O Ku Ne Ke Tsu Ya Ru Hi Su

Question 2

り　め　は　よ　た　む　ね　や　し　あ　い　く　ま　ふ　の　と　け　な　ゆ　ひ　そ　み　お　へ　さ　せ　ち　つ　ほ　る　す　か　に　え　う　れ　ろ　こ　た　ぬ　て　き　ら　も

myogaman · Sep 25, 2009

Homework
I haven't seen any posts on sentences, c'mon how hard can it be to just plug words into a pre-made sentence?

myogaman · Sep 25, 2009

Quiz 10 - Vowels + K + S + T + N + H + M + Y + R + W + N(again)

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

さ　ゆ　れ　ぬ ま　ん　は　て　み　き　を　あ　そ　り　む　ほ　こ　も　に　ち　ら　し　と　い　か　よ　へ　め　う　せ　な　た　ろ　え　の　ふ　お　わ　く　ね　け　つ　や　る　ひ　す

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

Ri Me Ha Yo Ta Mu Ne Ya Shi A I Ku Ma Fu No To Ke Na Yu Hi So Mi O He Sa Se Chi Wa Tsu Ho Ru Su Ka Ni E U Wo Re N Ro Ko Ta Nu Te Ki Ra Mo

Answer Key

Question 1

Sa Yu Re Nu Ma N Ha Te Mi Ki Wo A So Ri Mu Ho Ko Mo Ni Chi Ra Shi To I Ka Yo He Me U Se Na Ta Ro E No Fu O Wa Ku Ne Ke Tsu Ya Ru Hi Su

Question 2

り　め　は　よ　た　む　ね　や　し　あ　い　く　ま　ふ　の　と　け　な　ゆ　ひ　そ　み　お　へ　さ　わ　せ　ち　つ　ほ　る　す　か　に　え　う を　れ　ん　ろ　こ　た　ぬ　て　き　ら　も

Note that Wo を is actually pronounced O お and the W is silent. This is because it isn't used in any words but rather as a particle (like Wa &#12399

.

This concludes Hiragana, next up is Katakana

myogaman · Sep 27, 2009

KaTaKaNa Quiz 1 - Vowels

Question 1 - write the English equivalent

ア　エ　オ　イ　ウ

Question 2 - write the Japanese equivalent

I U A O E

Answer Key

Question 1

A E O I U

Question 2

イ　ウ　ア　オ　エ

So what... no one is going to type a simple sentence in Japanese?

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