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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  @ 02-01-2005 20:59 EverBlue | 21 posts
| I think it's a good idea with Japanese lessons! But I know everything that has been up till now.......but don't quit!
BTW, the present form of tabru is taberu, not tabete. Tabete is used if there's other verbs in the sentence that come after tabete. At least that's what I've always learned and experienced.... Correct me if I'm wrong.  | | 0 @ 02-01-2005 21:00 EverBlue | 21 posts
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* offtopic :
Of course I meant taberu when I wrote "tabru"!
| | 0 @ 02-01-2005 21:00 Jarka79 | 1,060 posts
| I like this one!!! Keep on going!  | | 0 @ 07-01-2005 01:19 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| That's funny... I learned it differently... | | 0 @ 22-01-2005 23:36 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Here are the "polite" ways of conjugating verbs. Lets take (my favorite) Taberu, which means "to eat"
for presnt tense, you drop "ru" and add "mas"
tabemas
for negative tense, you drop ru, and add "masen"
tabemasen
past tense is "mashta"
tabemashta
then, past negative, you drop "ru" and add masendeshita
tabemasendeshita | | 0 @ 12-02-2005 23:34 TimmyTomboy | 5 posts
| anata wa watasi no tomodachi des. | | 0 @ 22-02-2005 18:07 miaka21yui | 69 posts
| i wish i could speak japanese, cause thats a hecka cool language. i know it's really hard to learn though, my cousing takes it. thanks for the lesson on speaking japanese though. he he  | | 0 @ 12-03-2005 03:53 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| okay... sorry I haven't been on much lately... so... I dunno... I'll teach you miscellanious things.
what is your name? > anata no namae wa nan des ka?
vocabulary:
anata > you
no > 's
namae > name
wa > (subject marker)
nan > what
des > is
ka > (for some reason you put this at the end of a question). | | 0 @ 12-03-2005 03:59 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| how are you? > o genki des ka?
o genki > energy level
des > is
ka > (question thing)
you can't translate "o genki des ka" into english very well.
to respond to this, you say...
casual:
Hai, genki ii des yo
Hai > yes
genki > energy level
ii > fine
des yo> is (more polite) | | 0 @ 22-05-2005 00:57 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| And now for something totally different!
I'll ask you a question in Japanese, and you answer it!
here are some words I might use:
Tenki : Weather
Ashita : Tomarrow
Kinou : Yesterday
Atsui : Hot (weather wise)
Samui : Cold (again, weather wise)
Sai : Age
Nan, nani,: What
Tomadachi : Friend, friends,
So des ne? : Is that so?
verbs
Taberu : eat
Omou : think
Nomu : drink
Hanasu : speak
Suru: do (don't get any bright ideas.) 
Shaburu : suck (I just wanted to throw this in. Just to see what happens.)
Kiku : Hear, Listen,
Miru : See
| | 0 @ 22-05-2005 00:58 wiseass | 1,414 posts
| Tenki wa Atsui des ka? | | 0 @ 22-05-2005 14:05 Bombova | 18 posts
| Wow ^^'
Japanese is for me a mysterious language, it sounds really extra
Yours 'board lessons' interested me in Japanese... Another lessons and I'll like to learn it ;p | | 0 @ 25-05-2005 15:43 salaam | 15,547 posts
| Tenki wa Atsui des ka? - Is the weather hot?
Hmm in Finnish we use the same question marker thing as in japanese.. though we add -ko or -kö to the word itself.
like wave=aalto
and as a question it's aaltoko?
I eat=Syön
do i eat?=syönkö
Anyhow, this was supposed to be a japanese lesson  | | 0 @ 20-06-2005 16:45 ribosom | 323 posts
| you ROCK!
no seriously, I've been trying to learn Japanese using various grammar and vocabulary books but they're all so unclear, I really don't get anything.
 | | 0 @ 22-06-2005 07:54 The_Optimist | 
14,654 posts
| I can only say 'Kimi-Ga Sukidato Sakebitai'
and 'Anata dake mitsumeteru' | | 0 @ 04-07-2005 17:30 gmajor | 104 posts
| Hey! i can speak japanese!  | | 0 @ 20-07-2005 20:21 Bou_Is_Love | 7 posts
| Thanks for the basic lessons! I have been wanting to learn Japanese grammar for ages! Thankyou!  | | 0 @ 04-09-2005 22:18 Jfizzle38 | 1,602 posts
| wiseass u need to go home | | 0 @ 15-10-2005 23:44 Hike | 
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| ahh, my native language is not close of japanese.. no way!! my language is closer than english.. some words we spell same way.. but it doesn't matter anyway... 
Well, I got two questions.. here I go:
When u use "o" u mean "wo"??
Wot's mean: "rikuchino saihate umino hajikiri"?? | | 0 @ 23-05-2006 06:03 Blakimage713 | 19 posts
| I need to ask the person who made this a question... and I'm not trying to sound mean, I'm just taking Japanese lessons, plus the family talks to me in Japanese (because I am Japanese...), do you want to speak slang japanese, like the teens and the manga ppl use, or are you teaching traditional Japanese?
shirimasen. | | 0 @ 23-05-2006 06:05 Blakimage713 | 19 posts
| oh plus.. to help those out there who don't know pronounciation... because I teach a few ppl myself, you might want to put pronouciation. ^_^ | | 0 @ 29-01-2007 13:07 DeepHouse | 5 posts
| And won't you teach those kung-fu kinds of stuff? | | 0 @ 25-06-2007 23:05 nevertheless | 4 posts
| Traditional Japanese is rather available, I think. Blakimage713, will you help us to learn slang?) |
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