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Old 01-25-2009, 04:46 PM   #1
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Anyone speak japanese? Or is learning?
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Old 01-25-2009, 04:51 PM   #2
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I can pick up the odd word and I can read hiragana and katakana, but sadly thats probably as far as I'll get to go with it, its been a while so I'm not confident enough to pick it up again with a third semester of it.
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Old 01-25-2009, 04:51 PM   #3
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Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:06 PM   #4
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Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
Hehe, I was about to say the same thing.

I took a year of Japanese class, so I could probably last about 30 seconds into a conversation before becoming completely lost.
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:15 PM   #5
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Yes in fact that is exactly what I want to do!! No but seriously I'm only doing this in my spare time. I'd liked to learn spanish one day too. And possible German but right now I am concentrated on japanese. I don't even watch anime anymore Jillian.
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:21 PM   #6
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By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:21 PM   #7
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Hopefully one day I'll visit Japan and Singapore. I'd like to do something more in my life than watch tv without subtitles.
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:23 PM   #8
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By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.

有難う? Is that right?
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Old 01-25-2009, 07:19 PM   #9
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私は話せる。

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Old 01-26-2009, 03:33 AM   #10
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Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
Yes, yes I do. I only know a few basic phrases in Japanese. I'm around the language all the time though...I play a lot of fighting games where the characters speak it, I watch a lot of anime, and I listen to Japanese music every now and then.
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Old 01-26-2009, 07:49 AM   #11
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If you want to visit Singapore, then you should know they primarily speak Mandarin Chinese there, and not Japanese. [Though, to be fair, it's a rather large melting pot, so you could stick with English and be just fine. ]

If you don't learn either, then I would highly recommend the Lonely Planet phrase books for all your language translation needs.
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Old 01-26-2009, 02:24 PM   #12
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If you want to visit Singapore, then you should know they primarily speak Mandarin Chinese there, and not Japanese. [Though, to be fair, it's a rather large melting pot, so you could stick with English and be just fine. ]

If you don't learn either, then I would highly recommend the Lonely Planet phrase books for all your language translation needs.
I used to have the Lonely Planet guide to traveling north-east Asia.

I second this recommendation.
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Old 02-05-2009, 07:19 AM   #13
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