最近、人々はレギュラーだと思った。だから日本語を話しませんか？(ﾟｰﾟ)(｡_｡)ｳﾝｳﾝ

って、皆お元気ですか。

So, the ones I know;

wwwwwwww = lol

w stands for warau (笑う) which means laugh

88888888888 = applause

8 is hachi (八) which sounds like the onomatopoeia for clap; pachi (パチ)

39 = thank you

3 is san (三) and 9 is kyuu (九), so 39 is sankyuu which sounds like "thank you"

801 = yaoi

All of you should know this one =P

dkdk = heartbeat / excited

dkdk stands for dokidoki (ドキドキ) which is the onomatopoeia for a loud heartbeat

wktk = trembling with anticipation

wktk stands for wakuwaku tekateka (ワクワクテカテカ) which is the onomatopoeia for trembling with anticipation / excitement

ktkr = it's here!

ktkr stands for kita kore (来たこれ) which means it's here (often used after wktk)

零　〔ぜろ．れい〕

まず、日本漫画なら、黒白の作品が多くあります、その一方、韓国漫画は主にフールカラーです。この方面から見れば、私は韓国漫画のほうが好きです。（笑う)

そして、日本漫画の画面は韓国のより小さいみたいです。他に、日本漫画のストーリーは多分短い、それに比べて韓国漫画はすこく長いです、何百章の漫画も珍しくない、その中で、ダラダラと思う漫画もあります。Ծ‸Ծ

以前、私は日本漫画が好きでした、でも韓国漫画を見た後、日本漫画に対する興味が韓国漫画に移してしまったみたいです。皆はどう思いますか、韓国漫画を見たことがありますか、日本漫画と韓国漫画どちらが好きですか。

最初の言葉からもう一度チェックして、やはり私の日本語は少し変な感じがあるみたいです、入力したことと言いたいことは少し外れがあります。(恥ずかしい)(〃▽〃)(〃ﾉωﾉ)

今日は皆さん！

ここにね、漢字練習を書きませんか。

Hello everyone! (:

Let's practice kanji here.

How will we do it?

There will be a kanji given, and you have to write down the readings (on-yomi 「音読み」 and/or kun-yomi　「訓読み」; respectively as Chinese reading and Japanese reading). Of course, you have to write down the kanji meaning (at least one). If you don't know the kanji, but you want to post and continue the game, please state one part of the kanji you might happen to know. For example,

灰

Kanji component: 火 [ 'hi' (ひ) meaning, 'fire'].

And then give the next kanji. But that only in case you don't know the kanji yet you know a component of it. Also, it's good if you write down/memorize the kanji you don't know. Or try to. After all, that's why we are practicing. Please, give kanji only you know, don't go and copy/paste. (:

Let's begin!

始め！

「傘」？

音読み：

訓読み：

trans.

or Kanji Component:

First of all, a textbook is indeed handy.

The textbook I used in my japanese classes was the "Japanese for young people" series. Genki is a good source of materials to learn japanese.

The main page:

Not only can you buy different kinds of japanese textbooks on Genki's site, you can also find other various instruments. In the "Self-study" section, you can find useful links for learning the kanas, vocabulary, kanji and grammar/conversation.

Link:

For offline practises I also found a programme called kanji gold.

It is a programme that helps you learn and practise kanji with tests, different levels of kanji, pop-up flashcards etc.

You can download it here:

All these programmes and sites are free to use!

I hope this is of use for you (:

Let's Learn Japanese Basic: Learner's Textbook

This is the first set only

Format: pdf

Host: Mediafire

Summery: The Japanese in MangaLand series from JPT introduced language learners to an innovative, entertaining and educationally-sound way of learning Japanese through the use of manga. Now, this same approach is applied to the often-daunting task of mastering kanji -- the Chinese ideograms in Kanji in

MangaLand,

There is a volume 3 which I no longer can find on my harddrive, sorry.

but id really like to know what my name is in Kanji.

Kanji is so beautiful. ^.^

(Robert or Robaato)

If anyone can help, i would really appreciate it ^^

Thanks :3

:Excited:

It's simple and fun...

Title: Learn Japanese Now

Summery:Learn Japanese Now! Comes with two CDs, one of which has various key sections--useful "survival phrases", fun activities, conversations and practising speech against the voice of a native speaker. The other CD has a thorough grammar tutorial. This combination is certainly a valuable one for people who are serious about learning a language, and the product is clear and easy to use: in role-plays, phrases are highlighted in a box and their English translations placed underneath, while the voice recognition software allows you to measure your own voice against that of a native speaker and the games hone the things that have been learned. Sections are tailored to various activities, such as getting around, going out and business situations, while at any point you can call up a grammar tutorial that will explain a topic in more detail.

Split into four parts

Japanese for beginners – the Verb

I hesitated for a few weeks,what my next lesson to be about. It’s not like I have no idea. Just the opposite. I’ve had many,many teachers until I met a wonderful linguist,Japanese linguist. Yeah,my last teacher was and still is a Japanese linguist.

So,it’s not like I haven’t bumped into different ways of teaching. I myself am a teacher,in some ways.

But lately,I started wondering,what the brain can consume better and easily,to form so called language base.

We’ve talked about the kana,the kanji,the sentence structure,the first step into the language,nationalities and languages,the important ”です” verb,honorifics and introducing oneself.

If one is really following my lessons,they most probably are hungry for more.

I’ve read many books related to Japanese as a language,even history books about the old Japanese. Many had the so called individual way of teaching,and many had similarities. I though want to dart into an easy and unique way of teaching. So,I think it’s time although teachers think it’s early, to introduce you how Japanese verbs work. They are the base and it’s not only in Japanese.

Later on,I will carefully choose texts or even books for children(though surprisingly one of the most hardest books to read are exactly the books for kids) and we’ll step into the language usage.

Remember a thing I’ll tell you as a student,and as a teacher – be confident.

It isn’t only about the language,but in life as well. I am not a native English speaker,but as you see,I play,somehow, well with the English grammar. Even if I am to make a mistake,I won’t panic that someone will laugh at me,or will mock on me. Those who laugh at your hard work,I am sorry for being rude,but they are losers. (:

Build your confidence,I will help you.

JAPANESE VERBS

Call it simple,if you dare; call it difficult,if you dare. But in Japanese,there is no plural. Alas, the verbs aren’t inflected according to person,to gender,to whatever. They simply have only the tenses you have to memorize,of course a few other usages,but that’s a bit too early to talk about. What I mean,say,in English,let’s inflect the verb ”go”-

”I go”, ”You go”, ”She goes“,”He goes” and so on.

Notice how the verb is inflected in third person. Yes,yes, in Japanese though we don’t have that. The verb stays same way with all persons.

Say,in French, these that speak the language know that in a certain form the verb must be inflected according to the gender. In Japanese we don’t have that either.

How about the regular and irregular verbs? Actually,there are very,very little irregular verbs in Japanese,if I can call them irregular. Why’s that? Well,even in their irregularity they are regular. Ahahaha,yeah,crazy,I know. Mainly the verbs

する(suru) and くる(kuru) will have their ”jumpy” forms to memorize. Yeah,I’ll tell you later their meaning.

What we have in Japanese? Three main groups, in which every verb has its place. Let’s see these groups,their stem,and lastly how the verbs are categorized.

•Irregular verbs – する( to do) and くる( to come);

•Ichidan verbs – All verbs that their ending is either いる(iru) or える(eru); Some are exceptions and go into the last category(godan verbs),but rest assured,it’s stated so by the teachers;

•Godan verbs – All the rest of verbs in Japanese ( with endings, う(u), く(ku), ぐ(gu), す(su), つ(tsu), ぬ(nu), ぶ(bu), む(mu) or る(ru).)

There is a well-known fact that I should mention. If you go ask your Japanese friend about ”Godan” verbs,for example – they’ll have…no damn idea what are you talking about.

You see,Japanese,native Japanese speakers,don’t study the verbs this way. The types of verbs were made for non-native speakers.

Interesting,ne? And,it’s not only about the verbs,but about many other things.

I had so many ideas,how to order the things I should say about Japanese verbs,and these that I shouldn’t say since it’s kind of early for you. But,I decided to make the things into bites.

To not confuse you,I’ll just say the following thing,

As we have the three verb types, ichidan,godan,and irregular verbs – this way we have each of the types with five bases.

Each verb has five bases. A certain tense,a certain form and polite,or impolite inflecting ,yeah,such things are important and so the bases help us to inflect the verb into the right tense,form and even if needed politeness can be showed.

I said, you’ll get awfully tired and confused by this lesson,so I want to make the things into bites.

Let’s talk about the Base II.

BASE II

As a teacher I want to teach you the polite language. We can always mention the daily bent Japanese,but you need a good base in your Japanese. Here the ”Base II” comes. It’s used to form the polite verbs, the present tense and it’s actually the verb’s stem can be seen there.

GODAN VERBS

Let’s see Base II of godan verbs. To get the Base II stem,you just need to change the ”u” ending vowel to an ”i”. Let’s make some exercises. (:

Sample:

Kau (to buy) – Kai;

Aruku (to walk) – Aruki;

Isogu (to hurry) – Isogi;

Kasu (to lend) – Kashi;

Matsu (to wait) – Machi;

Shinu (to die) – Shini;

Asobu (to play) – Asobi;

Yomu (to read) – Yomi;

Kaeru (to return) – Kaeri.

See? It’s not this hard. Just like a child’s game. ;D

When you want to turn these stems into the polite form of theirs,just a normal polite verb. Add ”masu” after the Base II.

Sample:

Kai – Kaimasu;

Aruki – Arukimasu;

Isogi – Isogimasu;

Kashi- Kashimasu;

Machi – Machimasu;

Shini – Shinimasu;

Asobi – Asobimasu;

Yomi – Yomimasu;

Kaeri – Kaerimasu.

Now you have the polite form of these godan verbs,as well the present simple tense(or future tense).That’s right,you have the present simple tense which ends on ”masu”. (:

ICHIDAN VERBS

How about ichidan verbs? They differ from godan verbs. To form the stem,you drop the ”ru” part from the ending. Just a snap,and they are ready for conjugating.

Sample:

Taberu (to eat) – Tabe;

Miru (to see,watch) – Mi.

Dropping the ”ru” , you have now the Base II of ichidan verbs. Let’s put the in polite form ,adding ”masu” at the end.

Sample:

Tabe – Tabemasu;

Mi – Mimasu.

Is it hard? (: No,it’s not. Don’t stress out with many verbs,it’ll do no good. Keep it simple until you reach the level when things get a bit harder,but not impossible.

Before we go to the irregular verbs,let’s make two sentences for example with a godan verb and an ichidan verb. I have to show you something very important. (:

Example with godan verb:

たかさんはマンガをよみます。

(Taka-san wa manga wo yomimasu.)

Taka reads manga.

Now, you see that when we talked about the verb ”desu”,I said ”wa” goes with ”desu”. That was true,and is still true. To form the person ”Taka-san”,or ”you”,”I”,”we”,”they” and so on,we need the particle ”wa”. It’s always stuck right after the main subject.

In our case it’s ”Taka-san wa”,which in English gets only as a translation – (Mr.) Taka.

Just a rule,folks. You must memorize it. (:

Let’s go to our grammatical ”o”,or known as ”wo” -> を

” を ” – IMPORTANT PARTICLE FOR THE VERBS

The Japanese particle を (pronounced “o”, not “wo”) is used to mark an object that is affected by a verb. The particle を is placed just after the object modified by the verb, similar to the way the particle は immediately follows the subject.

Simple grammar structure: Subject + は + Object + を + Verb.

Now when we mentioned the grammatical ”o”,or ”wo” – we can move to the next example for ichidan verb.

Example with ichidan verb:

わたしはテレビをみます。

(Watashi wa terebi wo mimasu.)

I watch TV.

If you have questions,leave them behind your head now,and focused on the irregular verbs,folks.

IRREGULAR VERBS

We have to see Base II of the verbs する( to do) and くる( to come); These two verbs have their exceptions more often than any other verb in Japanese. But we won’t talk about it now,I’ll just state their stem and the polite forms,adding ”masu”.

Kuru – Ki – Kimasu

”Ki” is the stem,Base II.

Suru – Shi – Shimasu.

”Shi” is the stem,Base II.

I bet you have met ”shimasu” and ”kimasu”. These verbs are a common thing in the language. It’s good because you’ll meet them often and won’t be afraid that you’ll forget the so called exceptions.(:

That’s all for this lesson,seriously. I hope you won’t confuse things,and things you’ve heard. Because I said I have to avoid things,or else you’ll just get lost in this lesson. So,if you don’t see a thing you know in this lesson,it’s because I skipped on purpose. (:

If you have questions,feel free to ask.

Title: Dirty Japanese

Format: PDF

Summery: Invaluable for those traveling to Japan, this guide features useful sidebars featuring English expressions commonly used in Japan. Pronunciation guides, a reference dictionary, sample dialogues, and an offensiveness-rating system from "use at will" to "use at your own risk" also help readers learn to communicate effectively.

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Tutorial:

I'm going to break everything down in very simple steps and I have included pictures just in case any of the steps are a bit confusing to understand from reading or you just want to make sure that you're doing it correctly. But I think you'll find it's fairly easy. So with that in mind let's get started!!

Step One:

Click on the start menu in the bottom left corner [Windows 8 of course looks different but either way locate your 'start' menu] and click on Control Panel.

Step Two:

Click on Clock, Language and Region. Depending on which view you have your Control Panel set to will change what, exactly, you're looking for. I generally have mine set 'Control Panel Home' the default view. But regardless of how yours is set up, you're basically looking for the little globe and clock icon.

Step Three:

Under this section you are going to click Change Keyboards or Other Input Methods. This will open a new window titled Region and Language Options. In this window you will click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and then you will click on the button labeled Change Keyboards...

Step Four:

From there you will open another window titled Text Services And Input Languages. Here you will see two sections: one titled Default Input Language, one titled Installed Services. Here you'll see that your default setting is English (at least in my case). In the Installed Services section you'll click the button Add...

Step Five:

This takes you to yet another window titled Add Input Language. This is essentially a massive list of languages that windows is set up to work in. In this list you simply scroll down and locate Japanese. Once you find it you want to click the tiny + box. This will show you two more options each with their own tiny + boxes: Keyboard and Other. Under Keyboard make sure that the Japanese and Microsoft IME boxes are selected. And under Other make sure that Ink Correction is selected. Once you have done that simply click OK.

Step Six:

This will take you back to the Text Services And Input Languages window. If you have done everything correctly up until now you will see both Japanese and English in the Installed Services section (indicated by the green circle in the picture). Then simply hit Apply and OK

EXTRA HELP:

Step Seven:

Once you've finished all that, your computer is ready for you to type!! At the bottom right corner of your screen (where you're time, battery, internet connect ect.) You should now see the letters 'EN' and a ? button. By clicking on the 'EN' you can toggle between languages.

 

Step Eight:

Once you've selected Japanese (indicated by the 'JP' letters) you'll see a red dot and paint brush, and several other tiny buttons. First and foremost, by selecting the Red Dot and Pain Brush you will be able to toggle between the Japanese keyboard and the Microsoft IME. Microsoft IME allows you to be able to type in Hirgana/Katakana/Kanji phonetically (by how they sound). This is a HUGE help for those of us who have QWERTY style keyboards, because it saves you from having to memorize the positions of keys on an actual Japanese keyboard. So make sure that this is selected.

Step Nine:

Next you can toggle what you type by clicking on the Hiragana (あ) right next to the red dot and paint brush. By clicking on it you'll bring up a menu with several typing style options. Typically when I'm typing something in Japanese I use the first option in the menu: Hiragana. Each option does something different and you can experiment with those as you get used to using it.

 

FINAL:

Now you will be able to toggle back and forth between English and Japanese, pretty much whenever you feel like it. Simply open up something to type into and voila~! You can change back to English simply by clicking on the 'JP' and clicking English again. You'll notice that 'EN' reappears. [TIP: when typing in Japanese, it is helpful to be mindful of the space bar. Taping the space bar will change your Hiragana into various Kanji that make a similar sound to the Hiragana you're typing. It is helpful but can be a bit confusing at first so be mindful of that!!]

SOOO THAT'S IT!!! YOU DID IT!! ... If you have any questions feel free to simply reply in this thread or pm me, and I will try to help you as best as I can. ENJOY~!!