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Ya know whats great about the japanese language?
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by クリッム^__^
on 2005-08-21 23:06:59
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That most words are spelled the way they sound! I hate learning languages that have messed up spelling... >_>
ã?°ã?‹! ^_^
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| I like that also. English is confusing in soo many ways |
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by Sir Diabolic
on 2005-08-22 11:02:56
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Plus there's the fact that English can have up to five words to describe one thing while Japanese has one word to describe five things.
"Insert profound and life-altering quote here."
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by night_link
on 2005-08-22 11:36:50 (edited 2005-08-22 12:09:45)
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| You don't need anything changed for plurals? How about that? |
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by Michishirube
on 2005-08-22 12:32:35
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I like how there are only two irregular verbs in the language. It makes it much easier to learn how to conjugate and so on. Also just how the language sounds. It just kind of flows together. It's not like some of the more gargled languages |
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Hirigana is better I think. Though people now use kanji and hirigana mixed I think hirigana looks prettier. Kanji is sorta a duplicate of chinese. Learning kanji is way hard. I'm chinese so i have to memorize two pronunciations .ic. ~tt
Mars
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Hirigana is easier for me. And Kanji is the hardest for everyone. I'm chinese and I can't even memorize all those characters yet. T_T;;;;
Hoyeah.
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Some Japanese words don't look the way they sound. The "u" in some of the words are silent. Ex: Spelling- Yusuke Pronounciation- Yuske |
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The u in "Yusuke" is not really silent, neither is the u in "desu", etc. What you do is you kind of swallow the u...aargh, I really can't describe it.  |
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Nah, if you know Chinese, especially Cantonese, learning the pronounciation of Japanese is easy coz some of the songs are borrowed over from spoken Chinese and mainly in the Cantonese dialect. And if you know Chinese, obviously you not gonna have problems with writing. The difference between the Chinese and Japanese language is like that of Calculus and Introductory Calculus (there's these two units in our high schools here). Meaning that if you know Calculus, doing intro calc is easy. Plus Intro Calc is drawn from Calculus just as JP is drawn from Chinese. |
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by voodooxdoll
on 2005-08-27 18:02:34
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japanese is a beautiful language, in my opinion that is. but i stopped learning it some time ago. and i find it hard with so many forms, like the de-form, informal-form and so on. and then sometimes i would mix up chinese with kanji..-_- and there are some words that you have to pronounce in this certain tone or else its mixed up with another meaning... |
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isn't it hiragana... not 'hirigana' |
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ah. gomen nasai. it is hiragana. i must have not been thinking when i posted. -^
Mars
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by AnimeAngel27
on 2005-10-14 10:57:32
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Yea Japanese seems like such a copmplex language at first sight but as you get into it your surprised to find that it's simple because they like to keep things simple and easy unless stupid english, I think that sooner or later English should be done away with (as should the english system of measurement, someone please tell me why we in america still measure using inches and pounds and all that stupid stuff... metric is just so much more simple...) i have to agree, japanese is the best!!
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hehe I like that they use so many Kanji cuz I'm Chinese ^^ but if you're not Chinese then it's the worst part about Japanese... well I'm having a hard time w/ Kanji pronounciations too... but still, it's much faster reading stuff w/ so many Kanjis... actually I think the best part for both Chinese and non-Chinese ppl is that it has SOOOO little pronounciations... for example if you learn Chinese you're gonna be pretty stressed over the Z's and ZH's and X's [arrr and my last name is Xia...], but on the other hand if you're Chinese you know how hard it is with the TH sound and syllables with more than 1 consonant [just like how "present" is "purezento" in jap...]  |
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| man....i'm of japanese descent...and yet i dunno how to speak one...i hope to learn it soon... |
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I'm a chinese too. Usually I'm more good in reading kanji because they mix some chinese characters. But in hearing... umm... still have a long way to go. I can only understand a little japanese through animes.  |
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what is so great about japanese language...isn't that obvious...u can read newly released manga or see anime faster
just nuke it
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on 2005-10-26 00:58:48 (edited 2005-10-26 00:59:02)
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Lol, Nukeman's right. Some of us don't know japanese so we need to wait for all those translation subtitles. |
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another things is if i master japanese well...then i can go to japan to work n at the same time learn about aotumobile......i love that...then i'll go to see gt n D1 grandprix
just nuke it
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