Forum: Japanese Language

say, does this "i love you jessica" or, if not, what does it say and what should it say to mean "i love you jessica"? 私はあなたの愛はジェシカ this is from a bet a friend has with me. thanks guys

I'm translating a song into Japanese for my class right now, and it's driving me insane. There are these lines that I just can't put in any shorter form, I don't suppose I could get your guys' input. No one else has what I need When it's just us two, I get shy but you keep me cool The way...

Hello folks, Every now and then when I do lyrics or shows, I run into phrases I just don't get. Some time ago, it was 「そうこなくちゃ！」　 I googled and found "Now you're talking!" So far so good. Now here's another one, mind helping me out? ここぞって時 or ここぞという時 Ex. 「プレゼント渡そうと思ったのに…。

Before: I'm currently learning Japanese, I'm only a beginner though. I know all hiragana, numbers, months, simple sentences and grammar, but not much more. OK SO, a couple days ago I was reading this manga scan online, and in one of the pages that splits the chapters there's a picture to...

筆者はミステリー小説との出会いにより本の世界にどっぷり浸かり、もうひとつの好物であるゲームでご飯を食べてさせていただいている。 I'm not sure what do you mean by もうひとつの好物であるゲームでご飯を食べてさせていただいている。What is the connection between a game and eating?

これ　漢字は　何？ ありがとう。

Me again with my random questions xD I'm sorry for bugging you all so much! Here we go~ What is the meaning of 「もん」 at the end of a sentence? Example: 「恋愛とか愛するとか好きとかもう無理ですもん」 I understand the sentence but I just don't know why 「もん」 is there. Is it just like 「よ」 in the sense that it...

I need an online romaji to kanji translator. It's for my Photoshop textwork. I can't seem to get any fonts to help me out, so I need a translator. Does anyone know any sites that have one? If you do, then please post up the URLs. Thanks in advance ^^

hi..guys..girls i used to visit this forum and finally registered ok my question is i want to learn japanese language i know some words but want to start again so i want to ask from where should i start katakana or heragana or kanji?

Hey, everyone! So I am in a type of Materials Development class in my grad program, and what I'm looking at doing is creating something to help beginning learners of Japanese to learn the written language. Most of this project is actually based off of the text Japanese: The Written Language by...

はじめまして。 hajimemashite. Quick Facts: I'm a senior at Rutgers University. I am taking Japanese 101 right now. The course/books we are using is: Genki (excellent Textbook published by Japan Times). It helps the student to learn 4 essential skills. reading,writing,speaking, and listening. I...

Hai, guys ! I was thinking about starting to learn japenese and I'd like to have some help from everybody that knows how to write/speak it. The way I intended to do so is with a little simple game. I will start by writing a sentence in english and someone will translate it in japenese and after...

So, I'm planning on doing the JLPT 3-kyu this year, but I don't know really what's on it or how to study for it or anything...does anyone know of a book I can use to study from? I'm not averse to buying study books (I have mad hax to get them cheap...long story...), but I want to find a really...

Windows: Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings. Somewhere in there should be the option to install East Asian Language support. There should be a checkbox to enable it for all programs (by default it is only enabled for MS Office and Notepad I think). Note that this might...

ゲームのThreadの中に、このアイデアが浮かんできました。皆さんはここに日本に行くときにや日本語を使うときなどの経験を話しませんか。 （げーむのThreadのなかに、このあいであがうかんできました。みなさんはここににほんにいくときにやにほんごをつかうときなどのけいけんをはなしませんか。） たとえば、ある夏に私はホスト･シスターの学校に行って、クラスの前に転びました。超恥ずかしかったが、私とホスト･お母さんと一緒に笑いました。忘れられないことになりました。 ...

えー、作家っていうのは、そのー、自殺で人生の幕を閉じることが多いわけで。 What is the で here? Is it a particle or copula?

Plese guys help me to find out name of this song or at least lyrics? http://www.pown.it/257 Thanks!!!

UGH. I still can't translate lyrics completely :/. What's up with all this poetic Japanese?! A couple specific questions: -What the heck is シラ? -"逃げ腰ぎみの回覧" = Escape from what kind of circulation o_O? These were the only lines that made absolutely no sense to me.

My friend and I are attempting to come up with awesome words for 'fire'. We've already thought of most of the ones in English. Does anyone (who speaks Japanese) know of some awesome-sounding words for 'fire', 'inferno', 'magma', 'blast', 'lava', etc.? I'd be greatly appreciative.

Mouseover a kanji character for lookup information I'm trying to learn the kanji and I've made a super way to learn them but, This trick with mouseover is great but where can I get all of the kanji this way, with readings, meanings? I made a list of 30 kanji from the song Sunao Na Niji with...

In English class, there was a Japanese Exchange student that did a Walt Whitman poem in Japanese, and she translated it word by word. Anyway, that was some years ago and my English teacher was wondering what it literally meant in Japanese and what it would be inferred to mean in English. So, I took...

I have been Lightly Studying Japanese ( Self Study) For the past Couple months, I have gotten decently far at least to my accord ^^ >.>.. Anywho been wondering about Secondary/Post Secondary Japanese Classes Lately. For my Senior Gr.12 year I was thinking of Transferring to the only School in...

Hi all. First time poster here :). I've been trying to study Japanese for a little bit, and I am hoping that you guys can help me out. Now before I ask, I am thinking that I could simply just ask what the sentence is in Japanese, but I'm trying to study the grammar and fit the pieces together. I...

I'm working on a 'secret project' and am in need of help with translation a specific paragraph into Japanese. I may add a few more things in this thread because my project is still under construction. But for now, I'll place the English text here. It's weird... :rolleyes: All of us: We live in...

konnichiwa and konbanwa and ohayoo gozaimasu!. If you want to learn basic nihongo, the site below might be useful for you. http://www.geocities.com/jay3242000/mypage.html minasan, benkyoo ganbatte kudasai. have fun!:D

My dream has always been to go to Japan, but, I have to admitt, with the issue of picking colleges and my graduation project this year, it's very hard to practice as I should. That's why I wanted to start this thread. By conversing with the other members of this site that know romaji, I can...

I'm actually starting to learn some japanese with some turkish and 4 other langs. o.o I'm trying though:cool: I go on xat alot which gets me used to tons of different types of lang. I have learned some words in japanese so yayz for me:cool:I can finally chat to people in the lang.

ささいなことでからかわれる get made fun of for the littlest things How do you interpret でから. It is attached to noun. What is this で, is it the contextual particle?