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dave55man

はじめまして。
デイヴィドです。
どぞよろしく。

said in romanji:
Hajimemashite
davido desu
dozo yoroshiku

It mean hello, my name is dave, how are you doing.
I've been taking japanese for over 3 semesters and am currenlty minoring in Japanese. I hope to go live in Japan one day. I was over in Tokyo last spring and found Japan quite fun.

So i'm here to give out any help in japanese :P If you wanto learn how to speak the language, read it, or just say a common fraise ask me and I can translate or help :]

dave55man

not really, the translation can be skewed. どぞよろしく、is used as a formal way to greet people, for instance when going to a new high school you would say hello to the class this way, or meeting someone new in a company. It also has the meaning, "please take care of me" , though personally I have never heard it being used this way.

brokenhands

What's the rule on silent vowels?

For example the word desu, or names like Daisuke.

brokenhands

Can anyone here read/write kanji?

brokenhands

I got down all the hiragana, most of the katakana, but Katrina kept me from learning Kanji.

Just wondering how many characters there are.

brokenhands

I was reading about Japanese verb conjugation. They have a past tense, and a present tense, but no future...

So from the languages I've studied:

Vietnamese - it's hard to say just "no"
Spanish - don't "like" anything
Japanese - don't believe in the future
English - borrow enough words from other languages, and you'll eventually make your own

I can't wait until AI takes over the world, and we all speak binary.

Vladimir

dave55man;4857 wrote
はじめまして。
デイヴィドです。
どぞよろしく。

said in romanji:
Hajimemashite
davido desu
dozo yoroshiku

It mean hello, my name is dave, how are you doing.
I've been taking japanese for over 3 semesters and am currenlty minoring in Japanese. I hope to go live in Japan one day. I was over in Tokyo last spring and found Japan quite fun.

So i'm here to give out any help in japanese :P If you wanto learn how to speak the language, read it, or just say a common fraise ask me and I can translate or help :]

Cool, thanks.
I thought a standard translation of "どぞよろしく" was "how do you do," which isn't a question, while "how are you doing" is. And if I remember correctly どぞよろしく literally (though roughly) means "Please take care of me." Am I correct, Dave-san?

How do you say: "My favorite food is..."?

Vladimir

l Vash l;7573 wrote
A friend sent me this when I was trying to learn how to pronounce Japnese words for a live radio DJ thought it was interesting and a very usefull site. An easy guide to Japanese pronunciation

I think the best way to learn the pronounciation is by talking to Japanese people.

Vladimir

l Vash l;7586 wrote
lol well if we don't have any Japanese people to talk to that doesn't help now does it =P, but the site is just a little cool thing on how to get you to pronounce words better I think it's really cool.

True, true, but still...
Watching anime isn't bad either ^^

Vladimir

l Vash l;7594 wrote
Yeah, combined with watching anime, reading this, listening to other live DJs I learned much about the pronounciation of the words a lot better

Same, but if I go to Japan, I'm sure people will hardly understand me.
My teacher told me that even when he was in Japan, the Japanese men were like: Huh? What did he say?
In Japanese if you're even off my a little bit in pronouciation, the meaning of your sentence may become something else...

Vladimir

brokenhands;19395 wrote
What's the rule on silent vowels?

For example the word desu, or names like Daisuke.

It's usually as far as I've noticed (or maybe even always) with the su syllable.
To be honest, I'm not sure of the exact rule, but most of the time somehow I do get it right instinctively.

Vladimir

brokenhands;19575 wrote
Can anyone here read/write kanji?

I only know about 90, but working on it. Why?

Vladimir

brokenhands;19590 wrote
I got down all the hiragana, most of the katakana, but Katrina kept me from learning Kanji.

Just wondering how many characters there are.

Katrina? :/ Who's that?

Anyway, there are 1945 kanji that are taught at school. These are the kanji you need to know to be able to read every day Japanese.
If you buy a book on kanji, they'll have these 1945 characters.

nicoletan

Well, I do have learn about japanese language last year with a japanese teacher in the language tuition centre...i just took the elementary level....so I can understand some of the japanese words they used in anime....until I went too busy with my studies and have no time to go for the class anymore ... i was suppose to take the japanese international exam this year but I guess I won't make it since I stil have my professional exam in my hand...sob sob....anyhow...I'm going to japan this week to pray...haahaha:romance:

Xyw13

Baka-Otaku;34860 wrote
Hmm wooah iam still stuck with Hiragana, but wooah kanji have 1945 basic characters, that's gona be hard.
べんきょ　べんきょ　べんきょ　!!!!
^ ^was immitating Keitaro from Golden Boy lol

And the meaning here is...? O.o

Xyw13

Baka-Otaku;34863 wrote
Benkyo, benkyo, benkyoo!!!!!!
or in english Study Study Study !!!
but am too lazy to study everyday so i guess ill need like 20 years to learn fluent Japanese xD

How old are you...? Maybe you can make it before 80... muhahaha

Xyw13

Baka-Otaku;34871 wrote
rofl, i think ill make it before 40... ^

that's what you think.... (>80 now...)

Xyw13

brokenhands;34975 wrote
i was reading about japanese verb conjugation. They have a past tense, and a present tense, but no future...

So from the languages i've studied:

Vietnamese - it's hard to say just "no"
spanish - don't "like" anything
japanese - don't believe in the future
english - borrow enough words from other languages, and you'll eventually make your own

i can't wait until ai takes over the world, and we all speak binary.

001000100110111001100110011? 01110000011001!!!

l_Vash_l

A friend sent me this when I was trying to learn how to pronounce Japnese words for a live radio DJ thought it was interesting and a very usefull site. An easy guide to Japanese pronunciation

l_Vash_l

lol well if we don't have any Japanese people to talk to that doesn't help now does it =P, but the site is just a little cool thing on how to get you to pronounce words better I think it's really cool.