Japanese

Also, your explanations of pronunciation are counter productive. "haah ee". That is not how "はい" is supposed to sound.　What you're saying would be more like "はあいい". You also weren't very clear in your "vocabulary list". Some of those words are different depending on context (such as "愛", or as you put it, "あい"), while other things are only to be used in a certain way (such as that, as you put it, "あお" is a noun and you're not supposed to use that form of the word to describe something as being blue in color).

I kind of realized that. thanks for pointing that out though.

About the color blue. That is how my teacher told us it was said and spelled. I have her class tomorrow so I will ask her about that.

Originally posted by Afrobean

And dude, you're obviously still beginning. Beginners shouldn't teach. Heck, I wouldn't even feel comfortable teaching things to a beginner and my current level is higher than what my high school teacher's was.

It may seem like it but I'm not. I'm not saying that I'm am expert or something it's just that I'm not exactly a beginner. I’m just in between.

most of you guys are a lot older than me and have probably(maybe) have been studying longer than I have. I mean most you that have posted know a lot of kanji. I’m barely in the middle of learning kanji. I’m not even suppose to be learning kanji at all. My Japanese Teacher is teaching us what a Japanese AP student should be learning and I'm not even in high school yet.

What I had typed out isn't even 1/4 of what I really know. Most of that is also what I originally learned in the first week of school.
Also I was half asleep when I typed all of that out so I didn't realize all those mistakes.

Originally posted by Dimitri13

I do not believe OP is from Japan. She has made too many mistakes in her post. I believe she is a 14 year old American girl who wishes so hard to be Japanese. (Weeaboo) Mod, track IP please :{

That, or she just recently moved to Japan and is trying to share her (albeit partly incorrect) knowledge with us.

Although I'm still going for the first one.

I didn’t realize the mistakes that I made.
No I don’t wish to be Japanese. And I’m not American either.
I’ve been living in Japan for 2 years.
Also if you didn’t know I do NOT live on Mainland Japan.

Originally posted by nestlekwik

These are more for brushing up on what you know already, but I have found these to be great tools in keeping your hiragana and katakana sharp:

http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html - this lets you do "flash card"-type recognition of hiragana, katakana and kanji where the character is shown and you select its Romanization (or vice versa). It is browser-based and not too intensive.

http://lrnj.com/ - this is the infamous Slime Forest game. Slime Forest is an RPG you download for the PC where to attack enemies, you have to type in the Romanized forms of katakana and hiragana. Fun stuff.

I suppose if you had enough will power to memorize the characters from these tools, they could actually teach you the characters, so if you are willing and can do it, more power to you.

That Just Gave me an Idea.!

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Right now I am correcting the mistakes I made.
And am adding some kanji and katakana and some More difficult phrases and words.

[EDIT] And Also adding stuff that will help you remember some of the hiragana characters. For those of you who DON"T know anything of the characters and are having trouble remembering them.

**SethSquall** · 03-12-2008, 09:40 AM

Re: Japanese

Originally posted by Dimitri13

Erm.. Is that supposed to be 12 o'clock?

If so, it's supposed to be jyuu(10) san ji desu.

十三時です

?

So why is it 13. I understand why it's 10 first that was a silly mistake hehe but are we in 24hour clock or something?

**Afrobean** · 03-12-2008, 10:14 AM

Re: Japanese

Originally posted by SethSquall

十三時です

?

So why is it 13. I understand why it's 10 first that was a silly mistake hehe but are we in 24hour clock or something?

Saying 13 o' clock doesn't make sense in English, but 十三時 makes sense just fine. They have a kind of thing with midnight that I don't recall exactly (could be 0 or 24 depending on the day that you're counting it as or something), but yeah whatever.

**pokelda** · 03-12-2008, 11:52 AM

Re: Japanese

Originally posted by Afrobean

Saying 13 o' clock doesn't make sense in English, but 十三時 makes sense just fine. They have a kind of thing with midnight that I don't recall exactly (could be 0 or 24 depending on the day that you're counting it as or something), but yeah whatever.

Its called military time rofl. And no, I have never heard of 十三時 ever in my japanese speaking life so I am inclined to believe it does not make sense at all. Besides, Dimitri was trying to say 12 o'clock not 13 o'clock so this was only him making a mistake.

**jimerax** · 03-12-2008, 11:56 AM

Re: Japanese

13:00 usually means 1:00 PM

**pokelda** · 03-12-2008, 11:59 AM

Re: Japanese

Originally posted by jimerax

13:00 usually means 1:00 PM

But not in Japan however*

**SethSquall** · 03-12-2008, 12:37 PM

Re: Japanese

Someone say "It's 12oclock" please haha. I want to know if I have it right.

十二時です

?

**pokelda** · 03-12-2008, 12:50 PM

Re: Japanese

Yes, that's correct

This is actually pretty good for an intermediate attempting to teach, I don't see why afro needs to bitch about it.

**Maid** · 03-12-2008, 12:50 PM

Re: Japanese

What's the point of this thread?

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