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Japanese - The Basics

01-10-2004 00:52

wiseass

1,414 posts

Okay okay okay okay. My name is Rachel. I'm going to teach you inferior mortals some Japanese.

First. I want to let you know that Japanese is a hard language to learn.

Rule number one! Japanese put the VERB at the END! so, go ahead and get comfortable with putting verbs at the end. Go Ahead. Say "I sushi ate" or "You moron are" and so on and so forth.

Now it gets hard, Let's say you want to say "I ate sushi"
The word for 'I' is Watashi. But teenage males use Boku instead

The word for "Sushi" is just plain Sushi.

The word for "ate" is Tabeta

It seems like it should be "Watashi Sushi Tabeta" right?

WRONG!

It is Watashi WA Sushi O Tabeta

You're probably thinking... WTH is Wa And O? They're markers. They're Subject and Object markers. Without them, Japanese wouldn't know If you ate the sushi, or if the Sushi ate you. Wa always fallows the subject, and o always fallows the object.

Questions?

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01-10-2004 01:00 Cyd
11,162 posts	Whoever talks like that in Japanese is most likely a Wapanese anime fan. Yeah, that does mean something(Wapanese), but I hate it when kids try to speak it and properly so they act like they're so cool with the words, (-chan, -san, sensai, chibi, baka, ne, ect..) "He is so chibi, ne?" Or "He's a baka!" ...grrr..
01-10-2004 01:01 Cyd
11,162 posts	that should read: *cant speak it properly
01-10-2004 01:03 andro
43,215 posts	* offtopic : I may be an inferior mortal, but I'm an inferior mortal with supreme god-like powers over what's typed in here andro Culture/Languages Moderator
01-10-2004 11:12 TenkoKitsune
1,710 posts	quit pickin on her guys. shes doin this for me cuz i asked her to teach me japanese. i only kno a few random words.... not sentences. so thanx tons rachel, u dont kno how long ive been tryn to find someone to teach me.
01-10-2004 13:47 salaam
15,547 posts	try Finnish after japanese then.
01-10-2004 14:08 loser_kid_71
9,668 posts	The sushi ate me
01-10-2004 14:24 salaam
15,547 posts	Hmm do they have tone things in japanese? no?
02-10-2004 00:46 wiseass
1,414 posts	Thanks TenkoKitsune! YOU RULE!
02-10-2004 06:04 wiseass
1,414 posts	Lesson number two, this is how you count to ten in Japanese 1 ichi 2 ni 3 san 4 yon 5 go 6 roku 7 nana 8 hachi 9 kyu 10 ju And this is counting from 11 to 19 11 juichi 12 juni 13 jusan 14 juyon 15 jugo see the pattern? now, this is counting in your 20's 20 niju 21 nijuichi 22 nijuni 23 nijusan 24 nijuyon 25 nijugo 30's... 30 sanju 31 sanjuichi 32 sanjuni 33 sanjusan 34 sanjuyon 35 sanjugo you should by now be able to count to 99 (kyujukyu) 100 is hyaku.
02-10-2004 06:21 andro
43,215 posts	Very enlightening. Thank you
03-10-2004 04:12 wiseass
1,414 posts	Thank u andro. ur real cool.
03-10-2004 04:40 wiseass
1,414 posts	Okay, now I'm going to teach you about family members. Japanese talk about THEIR parents in the casual way, and they refer to YOUR parents in the really really polite way. and, of course, you refer to your parents in the polite way as well. NOW WHAT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR... Polite Father-Otosan Mother-Okaasan Older Brother-Oniisan Older Sister-Onesan Younger Brother-Ototosan Younger Sister-Imotosan Grandma (or old woman)-Obaasan Grandfather (or old man)-Ojiisan Casual Father-Chichi (Be careful when you use this one, because Chichi also in Japanese means something um... not very nice. Mother-Haha Older Brother-Ani Older Sister-Ane Younger Brother-Ototo Younger sister-Imoto Grandma-Sobo Grandpa-Sohu
03-10-2004 07:37 salaam
15,547 posts	may I ask you that how long did it take with you to learn hira- and katakana... plus the hanjis (kanjis in japanese?)
03-10-2004 19:02 wiseass
1,414 posts	It took me about a year to learn hiragana and katakana. I still don't kno all the Kanjis.
03-10-2004 19:53 brodyisgod
391 posts	anati wa dansiki des
04-10-2004 02:28 wiseass
1,414 posts	I think u mean anata wa daisuki des...
04-10-2004 02:50 darlin_princess
3 posts	this is great stuff, i learn japanese at skewl i've been learning it since year one. i'm now in year 11 thatsd great stuff keep up the good work
05-10-2004 19:36 brodyisgod
391 posts	do i? what does ur one mean?
06-10-2004 00:27 wiseass
1,414 posts	Anata ga daisuki means I love you.
06-10-2004 00:28 wiseass
1,414 posts	... akward silence
06-10-2004 03:13 bogler
185 posts	WISEASS sister! whats -unchi- mean
06-10-2004 04:56 AngelicDory
274 posts	wow... confusing
06-10-2004 11:50 TenkoKitsune
1,710 posts	the only japanese i ever learned was from anime and anime fanfiction..... and those are usually never right.
06-10-2004 13:30 DontSleep
340 posts	what is wakizashi?
07-10-2004 18:10 brodyisgod
391 posts	i wasnt saying i love u i meant what i wrote which means something else