peppy wrote:

A little bonus - the origin of the kanji is as follows:
「おはようございます」
ohayou gozaimasu (good morning)

「おはよーっす」→
ohayo-ssu

「おわーす」→
owa-su

「おす」
osu

「押して忍ぶ」（自我を抑え我慢する）
(押して)oshite (忍ぶ)shinobu (to push and withstand) - having the meaning of "swallowing one's ego and bearing with it"

Leads us to the final 「押忍」.

Hopefully I'm not too far off with this translation .

Pasonia wrote:

nana

neo@lex wrote:

my teacher didn't even know what Hentai, Baka and Sukumizu meant...

neo@lex wrote:

Echo wrote:

yon/shi nana/shichi kyuu/ku

shi sounds like "death"
shichi sounds too similar to ichi
ku sounds like "suffering"

something like that >.<

I know about 四 and 七, but are you sure ku isn't just a mispronunciation?

Yosuke Hanamura wrote:

Personally I took three years in high school, other than that I practice from time to time (when I'm bored).

eirrol wrote:

I nvever knew peppy is this bored! ROFL!

Daniellynet wrote:

I tried to but i cant do it with my parents at home.. (embarassed...) :/

Ekaru wrote:

Learned quite a bit in the past few months.

Also, Kanji can be a pain at times. Whose idea was it to give lots of them multiple readings? ><;

Echo wrote:

Only certain words. In general, English is much more similar to German/Swedish/etc. than French/Italian/etc.

For example, the verb "to say":

French: dire
Italian: dire
Spanish: decir

English: say
German: sagen
Swedish: säga

Echo wrote:

先に「来年日本語を大学に勉強する」って言ったけど、今勉強しないかもしれないと思います。日本語なら、自分で習えますからね。

adam2046 wrote:

You could read a book.
Use the internet.
Ask someone who knows to get you started.
A combination of all three.

adam2046 wrote:

Just do some google searches, almost all of the information will be quite useful to you.
Show some initiative.
And read some books...seriously they're good for you.

MegaManEXE wrote:

I'd love to learn any of the eastern Asian languages, but I have no idea how to get started learning. I don't really think Rosetta Stone or anything like that is the best way to go but I don't have any classes offered at my college in any of those languages.

:/

mekadon95 wrote:

Okay I'm taking JPLT2.lol
Still encounter problems w/kanji, especially Lv.7+ kanji

BTW, I learn 日本語　BECAUSE OF TAIKO xD

5ku112 wrote:

Can any of you recommend a good way to learn Japanese? I'm rather curious about learning this language.

peppy wrote:

It's as hard as you make it for yourself. You can easily find past papers on the net so why not just try some if you haven't already?

Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:45 pm (over 11 months ago)

Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:07 pm (5 hours ago)

IppE602 wrote:

I myself only know the basic anime japanese vocabulary

Numbbi wrote:

IppE602 wrote:

I myself only know the basic anime japanese vocabulary

Pashune wrote:

Unless you guys have some better ideas..

Glee

Daru wrote:

That said, I shudder to think of a conversation with a Japanese person who has learned about English and American culture entirely from episodes of Familiy Guy and Glee.

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

Hahaha, thanks. XD

At least I don't say "Baka" to everybody or anybody, or commonly at all. That'll make me feel like a total weab00. I'll focus solely on Engrish thanks. And Thai.

[Shalon] wrote:

I want to be a good japanese-speaker,

but now, I can't speak well, just little, haha.

listening some japanese music can improve your japanese language ..

minyeob wrote:

wow this topic still around here D:
I'm now preparing JLPT N2~
Listening is damn hard

listening some japanese music can improve your japanese language ..

And I strongly disagree with this
I have listened Japanese music for 3-4 years
But real Japanese is so much different from music >_<

Hakeru Prismriver wrote:

ahahaha that's my method >_<;