Forum: Japanese Language

uhmm i'm kinda confuse with the sound r in japanese for example futari sometimes they sounded like futali and sometimes futari,can someone help me and oh do i really need to learn kanji?

Nekko mimi Nekko mimi mode Nekko mimi mode des! Nekko mi mode tha Nekko mi mode Nekko mi mode Nekko mi des! Nekko mi mode tha

Lately, Ive been hearing WAAAY too many words in Jap for 'Love' Im trying to figure out if they are all the right way to say it. (Please excuse my poor grammar Im hearing the words spoken, not read) Daisuki - love and skedai (this is wrong spelling, I know. Sorry) Please help! Im...

How many ways can you say evil in Japanese, besides warui? Evil meaning wicked or bad. Please let me know and please list as many translations as possible. Thank you. :D

Can i ask for some romaji incantation of the kidous used in bleach. i can't find the romaji, all I can find is the english ones.Thank you in advance.

Just a Quick question, I just wanted to make sure the katakana I am using for my name is correct. エヴォクジ Wasn't sure what "vo" was but when I type it in ヴォ comes up so I just went with it. Didn't really want to make a thread for it, but I don't want to feel like a idiot knowing I have been...

Yes...it's me...the Chocobo. Again. Anyway, as my predictions were true, sensei assigned us to write an introductory paragraph just of ourselves. Aren't I smart? Anyway, the foreign exchange student has already arrived , which is why she's actually doing that. Anyway, I've gotten my...

The meaning of: Bokura Aruiteikou This line: "Bokura wa ima hikari no naka Umare kawareru yo summer dream" The Japanese of:

uhm...How do you translate this(?): EDIT: Kanji & some new stuff Itsumo hitori de tabita Kono sekkai ni ikiteru kara いつも一人で旅た、この世界に生きてるから Sono hi wa Naze Kimi no kizu o seoto suru no darou? その日は，何故、君の傷お背おとするのだろう？ Umareta no imi o wakaranai kara Itsumo kurushiinda kimochi ga aru...

In this sentence, do I assume that there is a implicit(である) after 日本人 or の particle is a form of copula? The で for 米国人で is a connective だ, so there should be a kind of ending verb for this te sequence after 日本人. 米国人で奥さんが日本人の人を知っている I know an American whose wife is Japanese.

I'm going for the JLPT level 2 in December, so I'm trying to start studying now, and I have a few questions for anyone who's taken it before. 1. Is there a list, anywhere on the internet, of the kanji I'll be expected to know? I've found a vocabulary list, but it's all in kana, which is not what...

I asked on another forum a while back and I was told 「か」 between two nouns. Today I was just on the WWWJDIC when I found this sample sentence: 選ぶべき道は自由か死だ。 The alternatives are liberty and death. If か between two nouns means 'or', then surely this means 'must choose between liberty or...

How do you say "I hope that..." in Japanese? It's probably the only major grammar point I have yet to learn, but it seems to come up a lot and I want to know how to say it without splicing English into my Japanese. For example, "I hope you had fun today" or "I hope you have a safe trip home" or...

I'm teaching myself Hiragana and Katakana, and some other basics of the language, and I just have a few questions. First is a kind of technical question, but I think it'll help me with studying - How do I make it so I can type in kanji? Then, when someone says 'no', does that mean a...

How can I use the japanese alphabetical simbols in my keypad? Thank you in advance.

how to say "i will take care of you" and "i will keep my promise" in romaji? can any1 help ><? thx

I'm a bit confused about this one. What is the verb for "to guide"? Is it 導く? I want to say "he will show us the way", "show" being "guide". I feel pretty stupid to not know this though. Oh well, gotta learn it some day.

There's this word (I'm not exactly sure what word it is though:unsure:) and I'd really like an exact defenition because I've seen several different translations in anime. The word I'm talking about is said when someone is wrong about something and the person tells them so. I've seen it mostly...

What the heck does it mean!? :banghead: I've searched all through Google and it's everwhere like on blogs and youtube. Does it mean "comment" or something? Google translator isn't helpful at all....-_____-

Err, yeah. I didn't know how to describe this in the title X_x Every year when you enter Japanese (III for me starting tomorrow) sensei asks us to write about our lives. Like...literally give a biography of ourselves. It includes... I. Introduction (Name, Age, Hobbies, etc) II. Family...

watashi zutto hittori no sekaini ikitanda.....sheteru ka? anata watashi no kokoro ni wa enai.....shiteru ka? watashi zutto kotoni matte iru kara...hayaku ko-i..... watashi sabishi desu... kureshi desu.... shiteru? help me translate as soon as possible pls ><

In a couple of days I am going to start learning Japanese on my own! Anyone want to give me some tips or some suggestions? It will be most helpful :p Thanks in Advance!

I don't think it simply means "I will say more"?

Hi-I want to make a furry parody of the Major from GITS:SAC. I want to make her a cat-her last name is Kusaneko. What should her first name be? How do I make a Japanese cat-themed pun out of Motoko? Please let me know. Thank you.

I've been reading a lot of shounen manga recently and I keep seeing "知ったこっちゃねぇんだよ！" (shitta koccha nee n da yo" and I'm not all to sure what it means. I tried to convert it to non-slang Japanese to try to understand it better and got: 知ったのはこっちじゃないのよ (shitta no ha kocchi ja nai no yo), but I'm not...

I'm translating this song, and for some reason it's causing me a lot of grief. I'm not used to translating songs and now I see why they can be so difficult. These may be some newbie questions, but I need to get this right! Here's what I got from this: I twist myself around it (?) Darkness...

Heyy Guyzz! I'd like to know how to speak Japanese, I just love eastern Asian languages, I can speak English and Arabic fluently, so can someone tell me if Japanese language is easy?:D

I've been learning from Tae Kim's guide recently, and I wanted to practise some of the more difficult grammar points (and some of the not-so-difficult ones) by making my own sentences. But I don't have a teacher or any Japanese speaking friends, so could you guys just have a look at these and tell...

Hi. I'm working on a project and I'm interested in Japanese youth, street and college slang. I'd like to know can someone please help me out with English to Japanese slang translations? Please let me know. Thank you. :D

?_____? I remember when I first started with Japanese last year, I read an article on pitch accent. And then a few times in the past year I've been reminded of it, looked some stuff up, made a :( face and then forgotten about it. Basically, I've suddenly been reminded of it again and I...