Does anybody speak Japanese?

Sephon · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 54

Hajimemashite.

As I am a anime freak I am of course intrigued by the Japanese language, and lately I've began to study it more seriously like visiting different quiz sites about japanese words and sometimes I even study some from a book i dug out at home.

My goal is to be able to speak and understand basic japanese since I'm not so suitable to sit and study all nights long, I just do it as long as it's fun. So once I can form sentances and speak like a 8-year old nihon-jin or something I'm happy. I'll probably throw in some Hirigana just for the heck of it, nice to be able to write in cryptic languages Razz

Gokigenyo (Damn it's hard to write in Romaji)

leonhartgoh · newbie! Joined: Dec 12, 2004 Posts: 49

wow~~ hahaha
everyone's so psyched up about learning japanese! GANBATTE KUDASAI!

darkmortal90 · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject:

Hmm... why are you curious to know if we speak Japanese...

I don't speak it, but I'm still Asian!

Kitsune_Springfield · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:50 am Post subject:

I just buy some japanese books and dictionary....

Please give some advise to learn quicky....

(watashi wa Firipingo ga hanasemasu.)

わたひ　わ　ふぃりぴんご　が　はなせます。
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-A state in which no other outcomes are impossible.
-A result which can only be obtained by a single causality, and other causalities would necessarily create different results."

Sarki · newbie! Joined: Sep 29, 2004 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

Well, I don't want to seem like someones who's thinking "You've done this mad!!!" all the time, but anyways:

私はフィリピン語が話ます (Watashi wa Firipingo ga hanashimasu)

I mean, reading hiragana is a great way to start, but everyone who wants to know Japanese should know either hiragana and katakana, besides a short amount of kanjis. I consider the Watashi (私), Go(語) and hanashi (話) enough simple. By the way, whenever you're using the wa particle to remark the subject (in this case, Watashi), we use the HA symbol (は).

Advises to learn quickly? I don't think there's a good way to learn japanese quickly, just doing it in an organized way. And try to learn as many different kanjis as you can...

Now I'll stop, I don't want to make people think now I'm a troll...-_-

ephbuck · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:54 am Post subject:

yeah, learning japanese can be a Hell, i hated learning japanese, i was force fed the stuff as a kid, but then again, i'v never liked english either..

Tsorovanx · newbie! Joined: Dec 06, 2004 Posts: 27

jut started learning..taking it in college..any advice or just good learning materials would be appreciated

Kitsune_Springfield · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject:

Sarki · newbie! Joined: Sep 29, 2004 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

*Yosse*

Japanese has, unlike English and other languages well known around the world, three alphabets (English just has one). However, they're divided into two groups: Kana's ( かな ) and Kanjis ( 漢字 ). Also, the kana's are divided into two, the hiragana ( ひらがな ) and katakana ( カタカナ ). Hiragana alphabet (which is what you used) has 46 different characters. The katakana is supposed to have the same number, but it is possible to make a few more sounds...

Kanjis are a different thing. Usually, they're more complicated and requires more work to write them than the other. The average number of existing kanjis is over 50,000. Wait, don't be afraid. No one knows all of them. In fact, the only kanjis that exist nowadays (and are used) are over 3,000. There's a list (called Tôjo Kanji, or something like that...), that ensembles near to 2,000 kanjis, which are the more used, and the ones tought at school.

That's like a short introduction. I recommend asking Saint Google for more information.

ephbuck · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

that minimum list is kinda low.. i know we were tought 500 kanji b4 5th grade, then we were supposed to know 2000 at the end of our second year of middle school... i miserbly failed those.. and hence the reason i'v loathed kanji since as long as i can remember.. and now i remember less than 100.. and i'v been out of the loop for...5 years..

Sarki · newbie! Joined: Sep 29, 2004 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

ephbuck, were you born and raised in Japan? Because it really seems so...

By the way, you just remember 100 kanji? That must be pretty useless ^_^

ephbuck · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject:

ninjaz · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

What are u complaining about Evil or Very Mad

,in my country,english is the common language,ur native language is the next language that u have to master,if u have a family like me,they will force u to learn more language besides these two language such as arabic(for religion),chinese(at school as a module) and indonesian language(as to speak to my far away relative).So,the solution was that,i only learn hard as to pass my exams and to please my parent's.Now,to be frank,i actually forget all the languages i had learned in the past except english. Rolling Eyes

ninjaz · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

What are u complaining about Evil or Very Mad

,in my country,english is the common language,ur native language is the next language that u have to master,if u have a family like me,they will force u to learn more languages besides these two languages such as arabic(for religion),chinese(at school as a module) and indonesian language(as to speak to my far away relative).So,the solution was that,i only learn hard as to pass my exams and to please my parent's.Now,to be frank,i actually forget all the languages i had learned in the past except english. Rolling Eyes

ninjaz · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:15 am Post subject:

sorry for double posting,my computer was jam,thus thinking that it was not submit,i actually press it two time Sad

and also,i am sorry if my letter actually offend u or anybody here in the forum.sorry Embarassed