おっす！ペリーです。

never had a proper Japanese lesson but 日本語 is my first language since I was born there. But Im not that good since I only finished my elementary there..

夜露死苦

mihawk wrote:おっす！ペリーです。

never had a proper Japanese lesson but 日本語 is my first language since I was born there. But Im not that good since I only finished my elementary there..

夜露死苦

Haha! Not often you see someone use the Kanji for よろしく! .clap.

Glad to have you mihawk - the more contributors to this thread, the better it will be. Be sure to ask any and all questions you have here! これからもよろしくね！

well its not the proper kanji for よろしく

it's yankee style

i'd like to join :D . i've learnt japanese by self taught since 5 grade elementary school (i'm in high school now) but still seems can't master kanji (i know katakana and hiragana already). so i think this thread will be a very much help to me!
ありがとうでよろしく！

I'm trying to teach myself how to say how many times something has happened using google translate, so I'm naturally suspicious of the results. :) Are these the correct uses?

once = 1度 (ichi-do)
twice = 2回 (ni-kai)
3 times = 3回 (san-kai)
47 times = 47回 (yon-jyu nana-kai)
Saw a concert/show 3 times = ライブは3回見ました。(Raibu-wa san-kai mimashita.)
Saw a concert/show only once = ライブは1度だけ見ました。 (Raibu-wa ichi-do dake mimashita.)

320, those are pretty much correct. While I don't recommend teaching yourself Japanese via G-Trans, －度 and －回 are pretty much interchangeable when you are talking about occurrences. It's the other uses for each that differentiate them. Style also plays a role, but you may not have enough experience to utilize that.

Thanks for your question. .balloon.

Yeah, I don't like how google translate will give me the same english even when changing particles around completely...

Thanks for the check! :)

Just wanted to see how many people on here study Japanese, if so....tell me how long you've been studying and your level ( beginner, intermediate, advanced, practiclaly native) ya know. For me, I've been studying for 1 year, and I can say I'm like...idk..high intermediate.

Thanks in advance for your comments. <3

I thought this was quite interesting and funny way to learn Onomatopoeia in Japanese

G1です。よろしくお願いします。

いっぱい書きたいけど、翻訳が面倒なので、やめます。
I'd like to write more, but translating it will be a pain, so I won't.

i have not started learning Japanese properly yet, planning to learn next year as an elective module in Ngee Ann Poly. Now learning Hiragana using an iPhone app XD. The app is something like a storybook and it have step by step learning. Its called Human Japanese. But now i only learn 15 Hiragana characters so far. XD. Thanks i think i will check this thread often.

皆さん頑張ってください！
Minasan ganbatte kudasai!
(Everyone do your best!) <--- err.. i really suck at translating things lol


Anyway, I have another question if you don't mind..
I often see this ～ちゃう ( -chau ) like たべちゃう....
Though I don't really know what does ～ちゃう imply..


Also.. I wanna share some resources I use in learning Japanese
1. rikaichan (firefox) /rikaikun (chrome) - i find this very useful since you can just hover on japanese characters and see the definition, plus the reading for it.. but you need to be able to read kana first since the readings are provided in kana XD

Firefox - www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jipdnfibhldikgcjhfnomkfpcebammhp?hl=fil

2. www.alc.co.jp - learned this from tenjou-sensei.. i find it very useful too since it provides a lot of examples for study <3

3. www.nihongoichiban.com - I find this very useful especially for JLPT takers..

4. www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar - Tae Kim's ever useful grammar guide.. I learned almost everything here.. Of course, with a lot of practice on Twitter xD

That's all! Goodluck and have fun learning

Thanks for the links Yurisaku! Those all look like great resources

yurisaku wrote:


Anyway, I have another question if you don't mind..
I often see this ～ちゃう ( -chau ) like たべちゃう....
Though I don't really know what does ～ちゃう imply..

～ちゃう = ～しまう
so saying たべちゃうis actually the same as saying たべてしまうbut in a more casual way.

and yeah, alc is very useful. Highly recommended, but only if you know the kanji for the word you're looking for.

oh i see!!! thanks ganstream1 .clap.

@yurisaku
OMG Thank you so much for Rikai-Kun, It is amazing!!! This will make understanding Japanese on the internet SO much easier
OTL Thank you again

@Jibba
I use that ALL THE TIME hahahaha xD
Enjoy Rikai~! XD

@yurisaku
thx alot now i can learn japanese alone , step by step

ganstream1 wrote:
and yeah, alc is very useful. Highly recommended, but only if you know the kanji for the word you're looking for.

If you use Firefox you can you use the Rikaichan add-on to view the readings for kanji or the meanings of words when you hover over them. It can make ALC more accessible.

I also second your recommendation of it.

EDIT: I just read back in the topic and it was posted. Sorry. :S

http://www.nekoguchi.com/2007/10/24/japanese_emoticons/

I found this site which lets you use all those japanese emoticons combined with the japanese language bar

ie:
ﾎｫ━━━━(ﾟÅﾟ)(Åﾟ )(ﾟ　 )(　　)(　 ﾟ)( ﾟÅ)(ﾟÅﾟ)━━━━!!!!ら　（ほーら）
(≧∇≦)b (いいね）
(# ﾟ∀ﾟ);y=ｰ(・ω・)・∴ﾀｰﾝ (ころす）
βακα..._φ(ﾟДﾟ )　（ばか）
(　・ω・)

It's a lot of fun

Jibba wrote:http://www.nekoguchi.com/2007/10/24/japanese_emoticons/

I found this site which lets you use all those japanese emoticons combined with the japanese language bar

ie:
ﾎｫ━━━━(ﾟÅﾟ)(Åﾟ )(ﾟ　 )(　　)(　 ﾟ)( ﾟÅ)(ﾟÅﾟ)━━━━!!!!ら　（ほーら）
(≧∇≦)b (いいね）
(# ﾟ∀ﾟ);y=ｰ(・ω・)・∴ﾀｰﾝ (ころす）
βακα..._φ(ﾟДﾟ )　（ばか）
(　・ω・)

It's a lot of fun

Thanｋ for the website dude!!! .happy. 　・~ヾ(ﾟｰ^*)

Seeing that there is a new thread on learning Japanese, I'm just trying to re-live this thread to share with new members what others have been sharing previously.

Anyone as expert as tenjou-san and would like to give us learners some pointers, do feel free to do so.

Anyone with questions related to the Japanese language, do go ahead and ask~~

(I'm a learner, just in case anyone starts to direct the questions to me LOL)

I'm not an expert, but I was going through some of my notes today that native speakers told me about how to speak more naturally.

- When saying words try to think that you're saying at least two characters at once. So, when you think about saying ありがとう imagine the word in your head as あり-がとう, not あ-り-が-とう.

- If you're thinking in romaji, imagine the characters written as: と=To, そ=So, へ=He, etc... with a big consonant and a small vowel. Don't over-emphasize the vowels, pretend they're "small".

- Getting the beginning and the end of a word right is most important. In fast natural speech the middle of the word is often really quick and sloppy anyways.

- Say particles as if they're part of the previous word. So like, the が and じゃ in "日本語が上手じゃありません。” are said completely as if they're the end of the previous word.

Hmm am interested in learning too so i shall reply to this thread .nerd.

Currently i am waiting for my national service to start ( aka i have little freedom left,about 1 month)
Have been learning online from different sites i can find but only know how to speak the very basics,for example asking for directions and buying stuff etc, hope to be able to learn how to write the basics also before i go and serve my nation haha. After the 2 years serving my nation i am going to take up a japanese language course.

wow ... I´m not good in japanese, but after reading the posts ... I think I will join, or at least have an eye on this topic.
If I will learn the basics ... so I can understand something, it will be good.
So if someone has something basic for VERY beginers, then I won´t reject it.
Thank you.