How well do you speak Japanese? Page 2

Started by MyFirstLvl100 August 14th, 2007 4:59 PM
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Tamaki

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Age 28
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Posted November 2nd, 2009
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Don't say "anata", it's not polite ^^


uh? what are you trying to say there?
heh my bro taught me a little conversation stuff a loooooong time ago so i dont remember it too well >< i was trying to say oh! its one. see you later. because... a=oh and you add yo to something to show emotion. and then i wasnt sure how to say its one so i winged it... ichi= one, desu= is, and then yo. and anata isnt polite? i never knew that... so i should say... kimi?
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Don't say "anata", it's not polite ^^
actually "anata" is polite, it's the "kimi" that isn't, omae is even less polite.

I was actually recently doubting my Japanese skills but when I went on Pokesho's imageboard, it was easy to read.
Maybe I'm not that bad afterall.
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Posted October 31st, 2008
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The word in itself is not unpolite, it's reffering to the person you're talking to at the 2nd person that is. You don't say "you", you say the person's name instead, because saying "you" to someone is considered kind of aggressive. Well, unless you're older than/the boss of/the wife of/etc the person you're talking to.
So it would look like :
person 1: Konnichi wa! (Hajimema****e, watashi no namae wa [your name] desu.) O-genki desu ka?
person 2: Hai, arigatou gozaimasu. [name of the person]-san wa o-genki desu ka?
person 1: Hai, genki desu.
person 2: A! Mou ichi ji desu yo! Sayonara.
person 1: Sayonara.
(they could say "Soredewa mata", "see you later" instead of "sayonara")

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To answer your question, I had like 3 or 4 Japanese lessons in school and learnt some of the basic stuff like writing 'My name is Jamie', how to say hello, goodbye etc.

Just the basics really.
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Tamaki

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The word in itself is not unpolite, it's reffering to the person you're talking to at the 2nd person that is. You don't say "you", you say the person's name instead, because saying "you" to someone is considered kind of aggressive. Well, unless you're older than/the boss of/the wife of/etc the person you're talking to.
So it would look like :
person 1: Konnichi wa! (Hajimema****e, watashi no namae wa [your name] desu.) O-genki desu ka?
person 2: Hai, arigatou gozaimasu. [name of the person]-san wa o-genki desu ka?
person 1: Hai, genki desu.
person 2: A! Mou ichi ji desu yo! Sayonara.
person 1: Sayonara.
(they could say "Soredewa mata", "see you later" instead of "sayonara")
mine was sort of a older to younger thing... friends sorta who are casual. i havent read my books in forever but i remember a few things
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Posted September 5th, 2008
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16.2 Years
I know some basics. I know some of the mythical creature names and some of the very short words such as 'ku' (sky) and 'sho' (fly).
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Fuku: MEE?
Yu-Ohki: Mrow...
Ken-Ohki: Meow, meow, meow.

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I know some basics. I know some of the mythical creature names and some of the very short words such as 'ku' (sky) and 'sho' (fly).
"Ku" doesnt mean sky! "Sora" means sky!

You couldnt even get a simple word like that....

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I know basic sounds, phrases and numbers from school, I want to learn it for my school certificate over the next two years but there are other classes that interest me. =P I'll just learn it at home then. ^_^
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I skipped a year of Japanese, since I taught myself. But yeah, I know things like "self introduction," "hobbies," and other stuff...but I sound like kid who just came out of the textbook, I'm always using -masu forms instead of dictionary forms. xD


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Age 31
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Posted June 28th, 2011
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16.8 Years
Pretty good I guess. I keep a JP dictionary with
me. When I learn something new, I tell my friend
and she is like ?. I just laugh, but she knows a
little too. Yet, I can speak it, but I can hardly
write in hiragana and katakana.

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Cherrim

Age 34
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本当?
じゃぁ、日本語で話そうよ!=D 
私は日本語の練習したいから...
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...too bad I can't speak Japanese properly anymore. Took me a good 30 seconds to remember the verb for "to understand" and I'm not even sure I used it properly. XDD;


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Posted July 5th, 2008
214 posts
18.2 Years
I know the basics, and I know myabe six or seven sentences. I've been trying to learn online, so I'm learning slowly.

I can read Kanji very well, if I've seen the symbols before, I'll memorize it and then be able to recognise it later.

Although I can bearly speak Japanese, people say that the tone of voice I speak it in I sound like I'm from Japan. ^^;
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16.3 Years
Not good, I can only understadn this words: Harigato, Konichiwa, Sayonara 3? Only 3?
yeah, 3...I can only understand 3 words of Japansese xD
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i can speak fluently all laguages (you'd have to if you went all around the world once)
Actually, I'd probably only be able to speak one language fluently. The rest I would know a handful of useful phrases in and that's about it because you don't need to speak something fluently if you've just visited a place. And I doubt you know every language fluently. If anything, just the more common ones. ;[


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