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  Topic: Use of the word 'Jap' - is it offensive?
Andocrates

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Views: 1579681

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:31 pm   Subject: .
Setfree. A girl in Japan (I was in Japan) told me "I really want to go to America." I asked her where she would like to live and she said Washington DC. That's a bit odd I thought to myself, ...
  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:21 am   Subject: Re: how to translate "Be mine"


Yes, the English way has a more subtle meaning to it because you're taking a directly literal translation into Japanese which makes it sound like "be my thing".



*edit* btw, it's always nic ...
  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:56 am   Subject: .
Your J-friend uses romaji because she has too. Ever watch them struggling over romaji? they have to read it aloud to make sense of it. It's your life and your choice, I'm just suggesting you shouldn't ...
  Topic: Japanese Word Order
Andocrates

Replies: 19
Views: 24525

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:04 pm   Subject: Re: .



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C:\ERROR: BRAIN: is faulty media - insufficient space.
C:\ERROR: All information on BRAIN: will be lost.
C:\ERROR: Please aquire a new BRAIN ...
  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:17 am   Subject: .
I agree with your message. I just wanted to mention the problems with polite speech.

If you had never heard a masu form in your life but had learned to speak in plain forms. I think you could lea ...
  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:43 pm   Subject: .
About that run in with the mother in law. Certainly for you it was a good learning experience, but as for me, screw em if they can't take a joke. I'm not going to speak "gaijin Japanese" for the bene ...
  Topic: Pimsleur Japanese Lessons
Andocrates

Replies: 66
Views: 99312

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:29 pm   Subject: .
Well, I'll put my 2 cents in. When you first decide to learn japanese you think, "well I'll bypass the writing system and just learn to speak." Sounds logical since Japanese has the second most diffic ...
  Topic: Japanese Word Order
Andocrates

Replies: 19
Views: 24525

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:02 am   Subject: .
You have good responses but i will share something I have discovered, Instead of trying to translate english into Japanese (which is really hard and slow) try to format a part of your brain and stick ...
  Topic: Help On Translating Japanese Characters
Andocrates

Replies: 68
Views: 71676

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:14 pm   Subject: .
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  Topic: Help On Translating Japanese Characters
Andocrates

Replies: 68
Views: 71676

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:33 am   Subject: �E
�C���i�I Man, appriciate the kanji lesson but did you have to subject me to a guys butt! :-P
  Topic: good japanese learning books
Andocrates

Replies: 19
Views: 22466

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:37 am   Subject: >
Pimsleur and NHK audio lessons are handy for learning basic conversational skills.

While I studied Japanese, I just couldn't seem to bring it all together to converse. I had Japanese people around ...
  Topic: how dedicated are you to Japanese?
Andocrates

Replies: 40
Views: 36903

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:10 am   Subject: .
Hang in there wsim, Japanese isn't really that difficult once (I'm saying once) you get the basics down (and the basics are a bitch)
  Topic: how dedicated are you to Japanese?
Andocrates

Replies: 40
Views: 36903

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:26 am   Subject: >.<
Yes, I did troll a little. If it makes you feel better I just read a message from a Japanese calling for the reinstatement of the Emperor and "he should not renounce his divinity." And a lot of "Doing ...
  Topic: good japanese learning books
Andocrates

Replies: 19
Views: 22466

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:15 am   Subject: .
The top textbook seems to be Genki Japanese, but the CDs are retardedly high ($500.00) but I learned Japanese from them. They made learning Japanese possible where other methods just left me scattered ...
  Topic: how dedicated are you to Japanese?
Andocrates

Replies: 40
Views: 36903

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:34 am   Subject: .
WARNING RAMBLING TROLL LIKE MESSAGE AHEAD!

Every country has "something" about it that is just bad. Americans are rude, England is tacky, France is . . . well, you know. Japan has a sort of superio ...
  Topic: what were the first japanese words you heard..??
Andocrates

Replies: 211
Views: 250035

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:19 am   Subject: .
The last thing I learned was �C���@�Ɓ@�̉��@the first is ������@outside temperture

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The second is body temperture ��������@The kanji aids for temperture are ki�@plus wate ...
  Topic: what were the first japanese words you heard..??
Andocrates

Replies: 211
Views: 250035

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:08 am   Subject: .
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  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:20 am   Subject: .
I love Japan, the Japanese and the language - but that doesn't mean I'm blind. The truth is the truth even when it hurts. I think hafu is plenty nasty. It's a term to remind you you're not as good as ...
  Topic: English To Japanese Questions
Andocrates

Replies: 1010
Views: 572571

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:14 am   Subject: .
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  Topic: How Do You Write ____ In Japanese?
Andocrates

Replies: 114
Views: 84345

PostForum: Learn Japanese   Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:13 am   Subject: .
It's an interesting question. For native speakers the same rules don't seem to apply. Some of my friends write my name Mike in hiragana �܂��� as opposed to �}�C�N any japanese word CAN be written in ...
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