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[BlackThornn]

*reading up a little before he heads off* Outstanding, man. Perfect amounts. Keep up the great work. ^_^

[merylsilverburg]

Originally posted by Reid


Also, a few more useful phrases for conversation.

Anata wa nihonjin ja arimasen.

I'm not Japanese.

Eh? I thought Anata was "You" for females. Um...maybe I'm wrong....*feels stupid* But anyway, Reid, great thread, this is teaching me a lot! Arigatou gozaimasu! You're teaching the perfect amounts!

BTW, BowevelJoe, I have this book called "Japanese Slang" that has all sorts of insults, slangs, and lingos that the Japanese use. But, this book is kinda outdated, so they might not be used anymore or it might be cheesy to use. :p

[BowevelJoe]

ahh post some stuff meryl that would be awsome!

Ah Reid this is awsome, keep up the good work, i just might be able to call you a stinky can of tuna fish by the end of next week! nah not you, your the cool teacher..hmm..

*looks around the classroom*

[Cannibal Clown]

As of what Meryl said, I also thought that anata was a way of saying "You" i don't know if it's directed for girls or not, but that was what I thought.

[Reid]

Well, here's a quick run down of personal pronouns.

Watashi

I

Anata

You

Kare

He

Kanojo

She

Watashitachi

We

Anatagata (Anatatachi) *

You (plural)

Karera (Karetachi) *

They [ masc. , he and other(s) ]

Kanojotachi

They [ fem. , she and other(s) ]

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I'll post a bit more later tonight (just got home). I just wanted to put those up because of the gender confusion with anata from previous lessons.

[merylsilverburg]

Oh, don't forget Boku which I believe is "I'm" or "I am" for males.

Now, I have a major request for help. I hope Reid or someone can help me out! My sister recently bought a Japanese Dessert Recipe Book, and she wants to make a Chocolate Heart Shaped Cake. Unfortunately, she doesn't read Japanese, but she wants me to help her translate the recipe, because I know a little, and have all sorts of dictionaries and books, and stuff. But, it's HARD!! There are sentences I don't understand and, the Japanese have a different measuring unit. Anyway, here are the sentences I need some help on:

Shokuriimu I think it might be "Sho" in the beginning, because the Kanji dictionary had different meanings for this character.

Okashi tsukurio hajimeru mae ni junbi I think it means something like, "Directions to prepare ahead for the structure of the cake"? Omigod, I don't know!

BTW, BowevelJoe, here's two words:

Shimatta means "Damn"

Kuzo means "S***"

[Reid]

Kuriimu means cream.

Okashi tsukurio hajimeru mae ni junbi means;

Order of food preparation for the cake's structure., as far as I can tell.



That might not be the exact meaning, but it's the best I could do.

Also, when you see a word like kuriimu, usually you can just say it out loud, and hear that that it sounds almost exactly like the English word, cream, and tell by that.

[merylsilverburg]

Originally posted by Reid

Also, when you see a word like kuriimu, usually you can just say it out loud, and hear that that it sounds almost exactly like the English word, cream, and tell by that.

Thanks for your help, Reid. Oh, and I know that kuriimu was cream, but the thing is.....there's this weird Kanji character in front, so I wasn't sure what it's translated to because of it. That's why I wrote Shokuriimu because of the Kanji. The character means "Life", "To Be Born", or "Student" so when you put that together with kuriimu.....what do you get?

[BlackThornn]

..The one albino kid from everybody's high school? O_o

Btw... bump!

[Cannibal Clown]

Originally posted by BlackThornn
..The one albino kid from everybody's high school? O_o

Btw... bump!

Where in the h*ll did that come from?

[BlackThornn]

LOL. ..Uh.. I thought it was funny at the time. *was thinking of the movie Me, Myself & Irene...*

The thread seemed like it needed a bump up. *shrugs*

[merylsilverburg]

Originally posted by Cannibal Clown


Where in the h*ll did that come from?

BlackThornn meant it as an joke answer to my question on the "student" and "cream". I like it, BlackThornn, that was pretty funny! But, really.....I wonder what it does mean? My sister needs to know!

[BowevelJoe]

hahahaha neato, im not albino, people think im mexican..but im not..im a magic monkey from outer space! my names bingo, i like to climb on things, can i have a bannana? Eek Eek!!

***ki Makka Licka Smookaka?

Can i have my pancake back?

Dukik! Gururu Kikikililili fartenat jukalipanak erkiltap!

Hey! Remove my chicken nugget from your underpants!

btw, thats all BS, dont repeat it, its probably curse words or nothing for all i know

[BlackThornn]

.... *backs away from Bowevel slowly*

[merylsilverburg]

*follows BlackThornn*

[Reid]

Sorry, I took way too long to get back to this, but here's another lesson.

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In Japanese questions are formed by adding a particle to the end of the sentence (many different particles are used to show word relation in Japanese).

The question particle is ka, and is placed at the end of a sentence.

Word order of the sentences does not change, ka is simply tacked onto the end of the sentence to make it insto a question.

Ex.

Yamada san wa gakusei desu ka.

Is Mr. Yamada a student?

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The negation suffix, -masen can be used with ka to make negative questions, invitations, or suggestions.

Ex.

Ikimasen ka.

Don't (won't) you?
Why don't you (we) go?

Tookyoo e kaerimasen ka.

Don't (won't) you go back to Tokyo?
Why don't you (we) go back to Tokyo?

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*Note*

When writing in romaji (Japanese using the alphabet) a question mark isn't necessary to place after ka, because ka makes it a question without having to need that.

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That's all for now.

:p

[Cannibal Clown]

Hey Reid? Where Are you getting all of your info from. Just curious. A lot of it looks very familiar from a book I have. It's called "teach yourself Japanese." It's not a very discriptive title, there's probally a whole bunch of books titled that. But, I had to ask.

[Reid]

I have a textbook called, Japanese All The Way which is published by Living Language, that I'm basing the lesson structure around.

The book has large units with a lot of information in each one that's grouped into smaller units.

I take the topic of the unit (or two) then write it myself (making sure my terminology and Japanese spelling is right), adding some extra conversational stuff not in the book at the end (except today, because I didn't have time).

I think the book is out of print, but it's really good.

Also, almost all Japanese language textbooks will follow the same lesson order, because learning languages from the ground up usually needs to be done in a somewhat distinct order. The material might be spaced out differently but all of the lessons at the beginning of a book will be similar to ones from other books . . .

(If i'm making sense anymore . . . :p )

[BowevelJoe]

no one wants to take japanese from me..

[Reid]

Hey, anyone who has stuff to contribute here should!

If more people are teaching different material we can all learn new things.