Who knows Japanese???

Pavel · **on:** May 15, 2008, 07:59:56 pm

Just to wonder, because I'm thinking of doing it in secondary school. Would it be hard you say?

herrgoda · **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2008, 08:02:17 pm

I was doing East Asia Studies at university, and although Japanese is hard stuff, it's miles away from Chinese. Actually it takes some time to get used to it, but once you get the grip of how it works, it's fairly straightforward.

Vamerica · **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2008, 01:30:08 am

Im taking it next school year at High School

myavia · **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2008, 01:18:37 pm

gambatte kudasai!

jameswyhk · **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2008, 02:06:01 pm

Je ne parle pas japonais.

blumage · **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2008, 02:09:46 pm

Quote from: "jameswyhk"

Je ne parle pas japonais.

je suis Francais?

Pavel · **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2008, 02:26:21 pm

LOL all of you. Now kto govorit po russki?

blumage · **Reply #7 on:** May 29, 2008, 04:27:14 pm

Quote from: "new-at-flying"

LOL all of you. Now kto govorit po russki?

now this sounds Russian

Pavel · **Reply #8 on:** May 29, 2008, 05:55:23 pm

Yes... I think you guessed by the last word...

Seattle · **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2008, 11:54:48 pm

Can anyone guess what this sais: Ego milou Elenika!

blumage · **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2008, 06:19:30 am

Quote from: "Seattle"

Can anyone guess what this sais: Ego milou Elenika!

Ego means "I" i guess taking it from the word egocentric which means I in the Centre.
Elenika which I'm sure means Ellenic thus meaning or referring to something Greek.
I dont know greek but i guess that by putting the words together it could mean:
I___________Greek
Speak
am
understand
or anything that makes sense. :wink:
Ain't I right?

Yahiko · **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2008, 04:56:25 am

Konnichiwa, genki desu ka.

Or for those who have the asian character set installed in Windows or such...

今日は、元気　です　か。

Myojin Yahiko - CEO Yahiko Air [FT]

Pavel · **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:14:19 pm

It kind of wonders me... how can people remember all there weird letters... Is it like 1 letter per word?

EXTspotter · **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:33:03 pm

Depends. Most of the time it means a word and words put to gether form more complex words which are strung together to form sentances. (I know it is a different language, but...) In Mandarin Chinese the word for computer (Dian-nao) literally means Electric brain. However, some nouns are formed phoenetically. For instance, countries, China (Zhongguo), the UK (Yingguo), France (Faguo), the USA (Meiguo) and Germany (Deguo) have actual meanings in Chinese, things like Big Country, Middle Country,... however most others are spelt phoenetically, like Spain (Xibanya) and Italy (Yidali) are spelt phoenetically, there is a smaller 3rd group of countries like japan where both languages use the same characters but these represent different words (I think) Japan in chinese is Riben, but is something completely different in japanese (which in itself has a stem from Traditional Chinese with other languages).

Blue Sky Mine · **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2008, 01:06:05 pm

My sister is ennerving me with her Japanese- I ask a question and she responds in Japanese which is idiotic because a) I don't speak Japanese and b) the Japanese words for "Yes" sounds very much like the German word for "No".

What a geek

:wink: