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Non-Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: Pavel on May 15, 2008, 07:59:56 pm

Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: 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?
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: herrgoda 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.
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Vamerica on May 16, 2008, 01:30:08 am: Im taking it next school year at High School
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: myavia on May 29, 2008, 01:18:37 pm: gambatte kudasai!
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: jameswyhk on May 29, 2008, 02:06:01 pm: Je ne parle pas japonais.
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: blumage on May 29, 2008, 02:09:46 pm: Quote from: "jameswyhk"
Je ne parle pas japonais.

je suis Francais?
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Pavel on May 29, 2008, 02:26:21 pm: LOL all of you. Now kto govorit po russki?
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: blumage 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
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Pavel on May 29, 2008, 05:55:23 pm: Yes... I think you guessed by the last word...
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Seattle on May 29, 2008, 11:54:48 pm: Can anyone guess what this sais: Ego milou Elenika!
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: blumage 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?
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Yahiko 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]
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Pavel 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?
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: EXTspotter 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).
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Blue Sky Mine 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 :roll: :wink:
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: CHR on June 02, 2008, 02:02:38 pm: How can you remember such long a series of letters in English? Look at the word "Japanese", 8 letters. In many of the Asian languages, although they may have more characters, each word is shorter.
Title: Who knows Japanese???
Post by: Pavel on June 02, 2008, 10:31:49 pm: hmm... yeah maybe we are just used to it...