Posted on: November 11, 2009, at 04:00:50pm

well im teaching myself japanese right now and...wow they dont have a lot of symbols they use.
the only reason they have more than 200 letters is that they use 2-3 english letters with each symbol
like neko its 2 symbols which are ね こ
first one is ne second is ko.
or if you like dogs same concept inu い ぬ which are the same 2 characteristics in and u

im using this site - http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
also become a member to listen to the sounds of the words it teaches you kanji (has mor straight lines), hiragana ( more curved lines), and romaji (which uses english letters for the words).

this is my name in japanese characteristics グレゴリー (Gregory) but the pronounce it gu re go ri i (i broke them up into each japanese characteristic symbol)
use this site to see ur name in japanese - http://japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/

just copy and paste the sites if you want XD.

konichi wa, Watashi wa Guregorii to iimasu. Yoroshiku o-negai shimasu.(hello, my name is gregory pleased to make your acquaintance.)

i use ranji japanese to type i had to go to site for other things, but i did know that entire phrase. XD

1. 1: tornarm
   Posted at 4:04pm on November 11th, 2009

   konichi wa
   yes there is a space between them i believe it uses konichiwa and konichi wa so it's confusing at times XD
2. 2: ~FlandreScarlet~
   Posted at 4:04pm on November 13th, 2009

   Thats so kewl! I did my name and it came out as: Teiraa
   Im so amused by that... :)
   I think Im gonna try the lesson...
3. 3: tornarm
   Posted at 3:36pm on November 17th, 2009

   at least your name is shorter then mine T.T mine is soo long XD