~March Daily Chit Chat~

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Paul said:
Operation Mt. Moon is complete X3

...I have too many operations =O
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Hey, you were the one that wanted to know Japanese right? O_o

Um, I've got a bunch of books that can help you out, I can give you their names and stuff if you want, along with other basic advice.
 
I want to know Japanese. But I don't want to learn it. XD
It's one of them "I want to know but too lazy to learn" things. XD
 
Arcanine said:
I want to know Japanese. But I don't want to learn it. XD
It's one of them "I want to know but too lazy to learn" things. XD
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Well this should help...Japanese is so hard that the average highschooler over there can't read the newspaper. XD
 
Japanese is one of the languages I want to learn. I tried once before. :\
 
Kazuhito said:
Well this should help...Japanese is so hard that the average highschooler over there can't read the newspaper. XD
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Well since I'm below average (even if I'm a straight A student XD) I can give up on it. That or invent something that I put it on my head, put in a disk with whatever I want to learn (in this case Japanese), go to sleep and wake up the next day knowing how to speak Japanese. XD
I'd be so freaken rich if I sold them things. XD

But really, I heard that Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn.
 
Well since I'm below average (even if I'm a straight A student XD) I can give up on it. That or invent something that I put it on my head, put in a disk with whatever I want to learn (in this case Japanese), go to sleep and wake up the next day knowing how to speak Japanese. XD
I'd be so freaken rich if I sold them things. XD

But really, I heard that Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn.
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They have three alphabets and a few thousand letters...so it's not the easiest thing to learn. XD
 
That and English are. I've heard many times over that English is the hardest one to learn. I don't understand alot of it, but I get by with it enough to make sure I don't look like an idiot. Even if my spelling isn't that good sometimes.
 
Three alphabets? Ok, that's like learning English, English and Spanish. XD
They must have a lot to talk about, seeing how they need three alphabets. XD
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That or they just like to read...a lot. XD

@Paul:

Yookoso (An Invitation To Contemporary Japanese)
ISBN: 0-07-072291-9

Kanji & Kana (Revised Edition)
ISBN: 0-8048-2077-5

A Guide To Reading & Writing Japanese
ISBN: 0-8048-0226-2

Oxford Japanese Minidictionary
ISBN: 0-19-860366-5

漢�*�（下） 小�*�１年 （Ｋａｎｊｉ ｆｏｒ １ｓｔ Ｇｒａｄｅｒｓ）
ISBN: 4-318-01145-3

Yookoso is a textbook for Japanese classes, it's pretty good for techincalites; Kanji & Kana and A Guide To R&W Japanese are both amazing Kanji reference indexes; Oxford is a great pocket dictionary since it lists everything in Kana and gives multiple verb forms; Kanji For 1st is a fullout Japanese workbook, no English, it's from the motherland. Having a real workbook is great so you can learn how real Japanese learn. Also try to find some normal Japanese books to read. I can recommend some pretty good Japanese fantasy books if you're interested.

A pretty good and fun study technique I use is this, take maybe anywhere from twenty minutes to a half hour and look up words in the Oxford dictionary. It should give you Romanjii listings as well, try to find common words and memorize them and their meanings. Next, put on a good number of Japanese songs. See if you can find the words you learned and try to connect them to other words to learn their meanings as well. Eventually you'll be able to put together phrases and sentences pretty easy.

Another place that can help is Japan-Guide. Go there, sign up and get yourself a penpal, you can teach each other stuff from your languages and such. People there reply pretty fast, I got five replies on my first day there.

Also, immerse yourself in Japanese as much as you can. It really helps if you only listen to Japanese music, only watch Japanese shows, without subtitles if possible. Try not to watch anime, watching live action shows is a lot better when you're trying to pick up on the language, you'll understand the mannerisms and actions easier if you see real people doing it in a real fashion and not how anime tends to exaggerate. It'll be easier if you're constantly hit with Japanese from all sides, your brain will naturally put things together for you. If classes aren't an option for you, like they aren't for me, you'll find it's easier to learn this stuff on your own. It helps if you know people that know Japanese to begin with, but just asking around should be enough.
 
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Ahem.

You Know You're Addicted To PC When;

You get mad when someone says what kind of computer they have when you asked them if they know what PC is.
You actually memorized time zones in Australia, because you need to know when your friends are on.
You actually know what XD is.
You have a strange fear of lags that no one seems to understand.
When your parents say that Online Jobs dont exist, you wish they understood what a mod was.
When your parents ask where half of your allowance went, you said you donated it to a wonderful community.
You seem to have more friends online than offline.
You actually know people from places in Asia that no one knows about, but apparently they have Internet there.
You know how to pronounce pwn and you can define it.
You have an official fan club.
You have become attached to your Post Count, and if you ever lost it you would die.
Your offline friends know all about your online friends, because of you- Where they live, how old they are, etc
When something good happens offline, you say w00t instead of Yay!
You know at least 15 people who need to get off the computer and go outside, knowing one is you but you couldn't care less.
You know someone who has an unnatural obsession with one or more of the following: XD, Anime, Ash, The Daily Chit Chat, or posting.
You actually made an emergency escape plan in case someone says Billie Joe sucks!
You think that n00bs are entertaining to watch, especially when they flame each other.
You think about cleaning your PM Box more often than cleaning your room.
You set your Homepage to the latest post made in DCC.
You know of at least 2 people who have pretended to be the opposite gender.
 
Your uprising will be deterred into my backyard for...reasons that do not need to be expressed.
 
Simon said:
Your uprising will be deterred into my backyard for...reasons that do not need to be expressed.
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Holy crap.

You're back. o_o That's never a good sign.
 
Eliana said:
Ahem.

You Know You're Addicted To PC When;

You get mad when someone says what kind of computer they have when you asked them if they know what PC is.
You actually memorized time zones in Australia, because you need to know when your friends are on.
You actually know what XD is.
You have a strange fear of lags that no one seems to understand.
When your parents say that Online Jobs dont exist, you wish they understood what a mod was.
When your parents ask where half of your allowance went, you said you donated it to a wonderful community.
You seem to have more friends online than offline.
You actually know people from places in Asia that no one knows about, but apparently they have Internet there.
You know how to pronounce pwn and you can define it.
You have an official fan club.
You have become attached to your Post Count, and if you ever lost it you would die.
Your offline friends know all about your online friends, because of you- Where they live, how old they are, etc
When something good happens offline, you say w00t instead of Yay!
You know at least 15 people who need to get off the computer and go outside, knowing one is you but you couldn't care less.
You know someone who has an unnatural obsession with one or more of the following: XD, Anime, Ash, The Daily Chit Chat, or posting.
You actually made an emergency escape plan in case someone says Billie Joe sucks!
You think that n00bs are entertaining to watch, especially when they flame each other.
You think about cleaning your PM Box more often than cleaning your room.
You set your Homepage to the latest post made in DCC.
You know of at least 2 people who have pretended to be the opposite gender.
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And "whatever" to the post you made about my presence here.
 
Simon said:
And "whatever" to the post you made about my presence here.
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Mmm. =] Still enjoy being headstrong, do you?

Eli does not care anymore, she does not.
 
Jack O'Neill said:
Darn it, Jorfe, you killed it. Now how will our uprising continue, hmm? >O j/k
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rofl....

And to think that I always killed things. XD;;
 
Eliana said:
Mmm. =] Still enjoy being headstrong, do you?

Eli does not care anymore, she does not.
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How the hell does that make me headstrong?
 
Uprising? o_O

Oro?

I've already uprised. You people and your foolishness...o.O


o.o It doesn't. I'm being really delusional at this point in time.
 
Eliana said:
Uprising? o_O

Oro?

I've already uprised. You people and your foolishness...o.O


o.o It doesn't. I'm being really delusional at this point in time.
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I'll get there...just dont rush me. XD

*just doesnt wanna pass Daddy* ;o;
 
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