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Japanese - The Basics
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@ 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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 0  @ 07-10-2004 23:36 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| unchi... is a naughty word. It means like... shit. | | 0 @ 07-10-2004 23:45 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| and a wakazashi is a short sword. | | 0 @ 08-10-2004 00:14 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Here's another lesson on Japanese.
This is the part I got really confused with...
dun Dun DUN!!!
CONJUGATION!
In case you don't know what conjugation is, it's like past-tense and all that jazz.
The verb we willbe working with is "to eat" which is "taberu"
to say "I eat sushi", you change the "ru" to a "te"
"I eat sushi"
"Watashi wa sushi o tabeTE"
if you want to make it past-tense, or in other words, "I ate sushi" you change the "ru" to "ta."
"Watashi wa sushi o tabeta"
If you want to say that I DON'T eat sushi, you change the "ru" to a "nai"
"Watashi wa sushi o tabenai"
Then, if you want to say you DIDN'T eat sushi, you change the "ru" to a katta
"watashi wa sushi o tabekatta."
*just to let you know, this is the "casual" verb conjugation. I'll tell you the polite way when I'm in the mood. I know, I'm mean.
the conjugations for taberu, are pretty simple, the tough ones are like... let's say... "to speak." It's pretty much the same, only there's an extra step involved, as you will see later.
To speak is "hanasu." as you can see, there is no "ru" to replace stuff with. That's what makes this one difficult. So, you do something really weird...
you change the "su" in hanaSU to a "sa" so it becomes hanaSA.
now you can do all the conjuating.
hanasate
hanasata
hanasanai
hanasakatta.
The "sa" thing only woks for the casuual way of verb conjugatin... | | 0 @ 08-10-2004 00:15 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| i mean conjugation!  Woah my first smiley! | | 0 @ 08-10-2004 02:46 bogler | 185 posts
| let's congradulate her with all the smilies!
* offtopic :
Let's not... A simple thank you usually suffices, plus a smiley overload annoys me
andro
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| | 0 @ 09-10-2004 05:20 bogler | 185 posts
| bogler's my brother. just so you know. | | 0 @ 09-10-2004 05:24 wiseass | 1,414 posts
|  sorry about that. Bogler is MY brother. He left his thingymajig unattended. | | 0 @ 09-10-2004 05:38 DontSleep | 340 posts
| what is muramasa? | | 0 @ 09-10-2004 06:12 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| I don't know exactly what the word means, but I know it was this sword making school... thing. | | 0 @ 10-10-2004 13:17 salaam | 15,547 posts
| ah can some one tell me that where do u use hira- and when katakana? so hmm I'm thinking of learning japanese...at least the writing | | 0 @ 12-10-2004 02:25 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Sorry I couldn't answer sooner. You use katakana for words that DO NOT have japanese origin. You use hiragana for words that DO have japanese origin. | | 0 @ 12-10-2004 13:15 salaam | 15,547 posts
| hmm I see. Thx. So if I wanna be able to read japanese text, I have to know hiragana, katakana and 2000 kanjis hmm at the moment I can remember 23 chinese characters.. and I guess that they have another meaning in japanese...? | | 0 @ 16-10-2004 01:26 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Alright. You see, um... Kanji's are the same thing as the Chinese characters. Same meaning... different way of saying it. Let's take the Kanji for "Big" In Chinese, this kanji is "Da" but in Japanese, it's "Okii"
| | 0 @ 16-10-2004 01:28 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Alright. You see, um... Kanji's are the same thing as the Chinese characters. Same meaning... different way of saying it. Let's take the Kanji for "Big" In Chinese, this kanji is "Da" but in Japanese, it's "Okii"
| | 0 @ 16-10-2004 10:39 salaam | 15,547 posts
| yeah I know that they are Chinese characters.
But I thought that they might mean sth different in japanese...at least in some cases  | | 0 @ 16-10-2004 23:27 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| no... not really. | | 0 @ 17-10-2004 10:03 salaam | 15,547 posts
| I have started to learn hiragana btw.. interesting. | | 0 @ 17-10-2004 10:18 salaam | 15,547 posts
| so it'd be nice if you could put some japanese text here (in english letters) so I could practice writing... and it can be longer than couple of lines  thanks. | | 0 @ 21-10-2004 12:06 DontSleep | 340 posts
| how do u say "take him away!" in japanese? ( its weird i kno  ) | | 0 @ 23-10-2004 02:36 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| click here for kana! | | 0 @ 23-10-2004 02:37 Cyd | 
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| Hi Rachel...  | | 0 @ 23-10-2004 02:38 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Kare o Tolate kudasai. | | 0 @ 23-10-2004 04:47 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Hi Cyd | | 0 @ 24-10-2004 02:29 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Actually, I think it's
Kare o asoko ni toratte kudasai | | 0 @ 03-12-2004 23:52 wiseass | 1,414 posts
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