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20th December, 2007 at 16:41:07 -

Is there anyone here who can, or is learning to, write in Japanese? You don't need to be fluent, in fact, I'm only looking for some degree of knowledge of hiragana. Even feel free to post here if you want to learn because I'd be interested to find out.

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20th December, 2007 at 16:44:20 -

Why is this in solitaire club?

 
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20th December, 2007 at 17:00:48 -

Because I'm asking for help with my current project. Was this the wrong place to post it?

 
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20th December, 2007 at 17:58:02 -

You didn't say it was for a project.

You just asked if anybody knew japanese

 
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20th December, 2007 at 18:11:42 -

Right. Well. I'm glad we got that cleared up.

 
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20th December, 2007 at 20:20:41 -

I would like to learn japanese.

 
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20th December, 2007 at 20:28:03 -

I speak Japanese.

That table is shit, it has no COOL slight variant syllables like 'de'.

 

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21st December, 2007 at 05:21:40 -

Haha, I wouldn't say that table is "shit", but it's not the best (first one I found.) Those are the basic characters and it's not hard to learn g, z, d, b and p after that. Thanks for replying

 
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21st December, 2007 at 12:35:10 -

Hmm I remember learning what potion was after playing final fantasy in japanese, but that's about it.

 
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21st December, 2007 at 19:55:00 -

Heh, yeah. I guess most Final Fantasy player will know that "saboten" means "cactus", at least

 
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I had no idea.

 
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Urusai baka gaijin!

 
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22nd December, 2007 at 11:36:57 -

Die stupid old man?

 
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Shut up foreign barbarian ~ Shut up stupid foreigner

 
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have i stumbled into a flame war?

 
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22nd December, 2007 at 16:49:19 -

No, that's about 75% of my japanese knowledge.

 
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22nd December, 2007 at 17:05:09 -

I know that hai means yes.

and Arigato gozaimasu means thanks very much, or something.

oh, and sensei is master/teacher.

 
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23rd December, 2007 at 10:24:28 -

Apparently 'Baka' means 'Idiot' lolz

 
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23rd December, 2007 at 10:32:39 -

I thought baka meant stupid but whatever, translations aren't exact.



 
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23rd December, 2007 at 17:21:01 -

baka means stupid/idiotic. urusai means noisy. gaijin is just a shortened/slang (albeit widely-used) version of gaikokujin which literally means "outside country person". I doubt you'd ever hear that line from a Japanese person, though. Unless you made them listen to ICQ_startup_horn.wav for a week, or something.

A lot of people are interested in Japan, anime, culture, etc. I'm interested to see how many of them are also interested in learning the language.

 
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my biggest barrier in learning it is that I have no one to speak it to.

 
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Ohayogozaimasu! Boku wa o sukoshi Ninhongo hanasu. O genki desu ka?

 
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24th December, 2007 at 09:00:52 -

Urusai Snerlin no Bakayaro!

 
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24th December, 2007 at 10:12:46 -


Originally Posted by Knudde (Shab)
my biggest barrier in learning it is that I have no one to speak it to.



Yes, speaking is hard without a conversation partner. Skype is an option.

As far as the symbols go, you could practice them on your own. Try writing your name in katakana, then your friends' names.

Snerlin: genkiyo

 
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Shab - bakabaka

 
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25th December, 2007 at 17:41:37 -


Originally Posted by LIJIothy
Urusai Snerlin no Bakayaro!



At least my sentences are gramatically correct.

You're just saying "Noisy Snerlin's idiot".

Frankly, I don't own any idiots.

 
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Oh, ok.

 
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27th December, 2007 at 13:39:15 -

Well, other than English and probably the language of his country, LIJI uses crap online translators anyway. You should see his Dutch!

 
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28th December, 2007 at 11:05:55 -

I watch a bit of anime and haven't learned any Japanese really.

 
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Dude, how did you get 2 Santa hats?

 
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6th March, 2008 at 16:24:00 -

The Daily Click is probably the last place you should be asking this type of question (I agree with Total Klik's general impression of TDC. This place is full of .. people who aren't that bright). Try looking for some people in the romhacking community or a foreign language forum. You'll get better results there.

I guess for everything else like graphics and such you might be able to find someone around here, but other than that.. yeah.

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6th March, 2008 at 16:51:16 -

Thanks for reviving a topic to tell us we're stupid. You probably can go back to TK now, although they don't have a board anymore.

 
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6th March, 2008 at 17:54:12 -

That's exactly why I'm here instead.

 
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6th March, 2008 at 19:16:37 -


Originally Posted by machrider
(I agree with Total Klik's general impression of TDC. This place is full of .. people who aren't that bright)



If you spend enough time here you'll get to know a few people who actually do know some stuff.

Thanks for the advice, anyway. This probably wasn't the best place to ask but you never know - a lot of people are into anime/Manga and Japanese culture so I figured that a couple of them would be learning the language too.

 
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"(I agree with Total Klik's general impression of TDC. This place is full of .. people who aren't that bright)"

Wow, you think Total Klik and it's regular members are bright? TDC may have some n00bs, but it's heaven compared to crap like TK. And why would anyone even be bothered about the opinion of a site like TK anyway?

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I'm so tempted to mention something about the TK boards, but I won't

 
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6th March, 2008 at 19:36:50 -

I'm sorry. I'm just kidding around, relax.

Also I just realized I horribly misinterpreted this post. why is this in the Solitaire forum? I just realized that this isn't a help request but rather asking if people are studying Japanese (followed by a bunch of people acting in typical n00b fashion spouting out random words in romaji like weaboos, which prompted my earlier post).

Also Nim was my friend back in the k&p days, I don't know why I decided to put a diss on one of his topics, I forgot to read what I was replying to. I guess I just saw a bunch of people acting in an annoying manner and then decided to comment on it.

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6th March, 2008 at 19:45:53 -


Originally Posted by machrider
Nim



GIL!!

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Oh yeah, nevermind. I read this correctly then.

Also all those replies people made with the stereotypical "gaijin" jokes and speaking in wapanese wasn't necessary. So I was justified in what I said. I don't mean to piss anyone off though.

 
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Originally Posted by Nim

Originally Posted by machrider
Nim



GIL!!

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er.. NIM!!

 
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6th March, 2008 at 19:51:11 -

wait, nim just edited his post, now the post I just made is out of context. what was I talking about again? ah, forget it. it's not important.


also sorry for the multipost

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hah, it's ok. The whole point of this topic is because I was making a kana tutor in MMF. But my girlfriend tested it and found so many bugs that I don't even want to look at it anymore. So that's why it's not in the downloads section right now and I'm idling instead. Just like the #O3 days, haha.

 
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6th March, 2008 at 19:59:53 -

The only forum I used to use in terms of "klik" was TK now it's down. It's kind of weird using the forum that the people on the forum you use always make fun of. I mean, I see one thing that strikes me as stupid and suddenly I bring out the ol' TDC userbase insults, it's like a bad habit.

Anyway, if anyone knows Japanese and not random words you learned from Naruto, please help Nim out. He's a cool guy.

But yeah, you should also check around in the romhacking community maybe. I think you might find some people that can translate a project for you there. And.. well, let's just say I doubt anyone knows Japanese here, for no reason really, just because, I mean not because TDC is stupid, I mean not at all, of coarse not.

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6th March, 2008 at 20:12:11 -

It's not translation I need help with, it's testing. I wanted people to be able to tell me if it was helping them learn the symbols - because if not, then I'm wasting my time making it. I may just release a beta version on some beginner Japanese forums.

"...if anyone knows Japanese and not random words you learned from Naruto..."

This made me laugh because there's so much truth in it. Listen to Uncle Gil, kids - don't learn Japanese from Naruto unless you want to sound like a 13 year old girl.

 
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Originally Posted by Nim
It's not translation I need help with, it's testing. I wanted people to be able to tell me if it was helping them learn the symbols - because if not, then I'm wasting my time making it. I may just release a beta version on some beginner Japanese forums.

"...if anyone knows Japanese and not random words you learned from Naruto..."

This made me laugh because there's so much truth in it. Listen to Uncle Gil, kids - don't learn Japanese from Naruto unless you want to sound like a 13 year old girl.



Well, just make sure it isn't an anime forum... they'll probably give the same replies as you see here (or worse). I don't know much Japanese but I do know that romaji is the devil. This guy named Nash used to tell me that back in the k&p days in fact. I think. Maybe.. was it him..? I don't remember.. BUT you get the idea.

Also I edit my posts too many times.

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Originally Posted by Nim
Don't learn Japanese from Naruto unless you want to sound like a 13 year old girl.



Learn it from Bleach / One Piece instead

 
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MACHRIDERのおちんちんはとてもへんだ

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Your font is supersmall, is that a ta or da?

 
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heh, it's da. Ctrl-+ to make text bigger.

 

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Again, I don't know much Japanese but according to Google translator you just said

"It is very much for Johnson."

I don't know who Johnson is, but it sounds like it's very much for him. I apologize to any burden I have placed on this Johnson person (whoever he may be) by posting here. It's not my fault actually, think of it as collateral damage. I didn't mean to do any harm. I think this Johnson person is just being over emotional. He should relax. I think Johnson is over reacting. If this is too much for him, then I can't imagine how the rest of the internet is for him because it's a very harsh world out there, out in the wild web. It's either kill or be killed, you know survival of the fittest and if you don't have what it takes to slam with the best, then you should just go jam with the rest.

 
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Haha, that's horribly wrong. Never use Google Translator.

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Originally Posted by Is it Bill Bailey?
Haha, that's horribly wrong. Never use Google Translator.

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So yeah, anyway. I just watched How to kill a mocking bird. First black and white movie Ive sat all the way through

 
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Originally Posted by Is it Bill Bailey?
MACHRIDERのおちんちんはとてもへんだ

post too short my arse



I know Japanese. I hope you did't mean to make it mean that. That's pretty unappropriate! Everyone probably knows what that means by now anyways so I won't say anything else.

Kanji is essential so we wouldn't confuse ourselves with homonyms (spoken Japanese is too simple).

This is an older topic started back in December 20th 2007. I bet that the original poster can pass all the JLPTs now. By reading his or her posts, the person must be pretty annoyed by some of these dumb posts. I could tell he/she is very motivated in learning Japanese. That Hiragana chart is very helpful, everyone should know those extra syllables because they only have an extra mark on thier top right side from their parent character.

 
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8th March, 2008 at 07:44:32 -

thats cool that you know japanese, does that mean you know how to speak it or write it. p.s.thumbs up for that great pic you done on the oekaki compo!

 
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Originally Posted by Krisna Sarith

Originally Posted by Is it Bill Bailey?
MACHRIDERのおちんちんはとてもへんだ

post too short my arse



I know Japanese. I hope you did't mean to make it mean that. That's pretty unappropriate! Everyone probably knows what that means by now anyways so I won't say anything else.



No, most people here are quite stupid, I'd imagine most of them just see box characters or question marks.

 

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9th March, 2008 at 14:44:25 -

I work for a Japanese Company, we have many Japanese girls, and some guys working there too,

they taught me my name, and how t osay Crazy fool like Mr.T but... I cant remember how to write it,

Fool was a variation on Baka,

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