日本語

Is a time consuming language.

And worse still, I've been neglecting my efforts.

Hug me.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

-hugs-

Thanks for reminding me that I need to study katakana before school starts back.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:10:36 PM by INUH

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

It took me longer to learn 영어.

If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.

You had some in your title for a little bit, though I forgot what it said.

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You're right.

Besides, 官话 is much better.

D:<

**leaves thread in a rage**

Doesn't actually know what that says.

♥♥II'GSJQGDvhhMKOmXunSrogZliLHGKVMhGVmNhBzGUPiXLYki'GRQhBITqQrrOIJKNWiXKO♥♥

"Nihongo", or the Japanese language.

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The kanji are what're really getting me.

I can read the ひらがな　and the　カタカナ quite fluently, at least. And I can watch sub-title-less anime and have a vague idea of what's happening.

Still a long way to go.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

@Edmania:...You're learning Korean? Or what?

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

The Kanji was the easiest part for me...

@Rocket: Put that through Google translate or something.

If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.

When I took Japanese in college, we had a week to get hiragana and another week for katakana. If you hadn't mastered it by then you'd fall behind.

I actually gave up on the language completely because of kanji. Playing an RPG in Japanese is helping a lot though, at least in terms of words like "physical attack" and "magic defense".

Learning the radicals and what they mean can be very helpful. Otherwise, you just need to practise using them on a regular basis.

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^I snagged them first, but it's still the most challenging part.

^^Huh. I had both down in three days.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

@Edmania: That answers my question.

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

Well, see, I'm good with kanji so far because I've had one semester and only know like 14 of them. I think next semester is when they get difficult.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:18:44 PM by INUH

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

On the other hand they have words like "woodsea" which cause you to run around looking for the ocean instead of a forest. And the tree radical is in everything anyway, don't deny it.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:19:00 PM by Clarste

たたかう!　まほう!　アイテム!

Edit:Full-width exclamation marks aren't working for me for some reason.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:19:58 PM by Meophist

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More like:

• 能力 属性 対象 備考 ラーニング
• 老化ミサイル - 敵範囲? 全低下付与 -
• 手間手箱 - 敵全体 全低下付与 -
• 100万ボルト 雷 敵単体 割合ダメージ -
• エナジーボルト 魔 敵単体 Lv1,10%
• マインドブラスト 魔 敵全体 麻痺付与 Lv4,5%
• タイムストップ 魔 敵全体 停止付与 Lv50,1%
• ヒール - 敵単体 HP回復 Lv1,50%
• 仏の御石の鉢 -砕けぬ意志- - 味方全体 攻撃強化付与 -
• 火鼠の皮衣 -焦れぬ心- - 味方全体 防御強化付与 -
• 燕の子安貝 -永命線- - 自分 HP回復、状態異常回復 -
• 龍の頸の玉 -五色の弾丸- 魔 敵範囲 火水地雷の追加ダメージ。カットイン有り -

edited 5th Jan '11 11:20:44 PM by Clarste

^^Oh yeah, I forgot about the NES emulator.

^That's for anything past NES. I tried one for SNES though (Terrenigma) and I did pretty well.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:21:13 PM by TheMightyAnonym

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

Ah, most of the RPGs I played in Japanese are from the SNES era. Still learned some Japanese from Dragon Quest when I was a kid, stuff like ホイミ and メラ.

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ホイミ isn't a word though.

I like using PSX dating sims. You can read the text along with voice acting, which is nifty if you have a good vocabulary.

^That's weird. I ran it through a translator and I got this: イミ

edited 5th Jan '11 11:25:30 PM by TheMightyAnonym

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

I'm so ashamed of this because I feel like a weeaboo, but I've picked up on a lot of the hiragana and katakana just by looking at Nico Nico Douga and Pixiv a lot.

That's my odd confession of the day.

edited 5th Jan '11 11:29:18 PM by Tumbril

Tumblr here.

Lawl. I'm sure that will be useful in Japan.

It's funny, I was just working on my Japanese. Earlier this week I picked up a book with "dirty" Japanese phrases and words for the hell of it.

I'm in my second year of it in college. I'm doing fine in terms of grades (I do great on the tests), but it still feels like I'm not getting it down. I could use a Japanese friend to talk to or something.

In my 400 level linguistics class on syntax, I think at least half the class are Japanese students. It's pretty funny.

Oh, I still need to research study abroad programs. The applications for some of the ones in the summer are due pretty soon, and I have no idea what I want to do.

Ruining everything forever.

It is to me!

In case anybody's wondering, those are the basic healing and attack magic spells of Dragon Quest.

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