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Anime & Japan Discuss your favorite animes here. TV series, OVAs, movies or even manga. Also discuss Japanese related topics such as Jpop/Jrock, Japanese culture, etc.

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Old February 19, 2008, 10:58 PM   #1
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Does anyone here know any Japanese language, etc? Understand the Japanese alphabet? Out of curiosity. God, it looks so difficult to get to grips with all the different characters they have.
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Old February 19, 2008, 11:23 PM   #2
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I don't know any myself but I know a few people who are learning the say its soooo hard to learn. A lot of it is because learning to speak it and learning to read it are two completely different processes so it doubles the workload!!!
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Old February 19, 2008, 11:27 PM   #3
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I can count to ten and say "beers please", so I'm pretty sorted.
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Old February 19, 2008, 11:28 PM   #4
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I can count to ten and say "beers please", so I'm pretty sorted.
Beers the most important word in any language!!
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I can say "hello" in japanese. Such a unique skill.

The japanese language seems very difficult to learn. The writing looks awesome, though.
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Old February 19, 2008, 11:31 PM   #6
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I can count to ten and say "beers please", so I'm pretty sorted.

I know naff all, but Id defo need to learn Vodka please. Glad you have your priorities sorted there pools. Now can you just write than down for us?
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I'll move this to Anime & Japan since it seems more appropriate there.

And no, I don't actually know the language, but I do know and recognize a few words/phrases here and there - mainly because I watch a lot of anime. xD
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Silly me, should've noticed this place actually existed haha.
Seems very complicated, that's granted. How do you get to grips with all the language and the totally bizarre symbols? How asian kids cope with learning all that in childhood is one of the greatest mysteries to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system

And distinguishing complex characters from one another... :S

But it must work well enough as a language, albeit a very complex one.
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dog = inu
cat = neko
bird = tori
thank you = arigatou
heart = kokoro

I also know that in japanese, you don't extend the sounds of vowels when there are two of them together, like in english.

i.e.
(english pronunciation) dooku = doo-ku
(japanese pronunciation) dooku = do-o-ku

Same goes for consanents(sp?)

(EP) kutto = cut-oh
(JP) kutto = kut-t-oh

Sometimes, the rules change. I don't know why. Don't ask.
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