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01-25-2009, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
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にほんご
Anyone speak japanese? Or is learning?
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01-25-2009, 04:51 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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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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01-25-2009, 04:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
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01-25-2009, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 205
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
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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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01-25-2009, 05:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
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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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01-25-2009, 05:21 PM
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#6
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 205
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By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.
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01-25-2009, 05:21 PM
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#7
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 579
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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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01-25-2009, 05:23 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 579
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nis~sijai
By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.
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有難う? Is that right?
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01-25-2009, 07:19 PM
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#9
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 1,178
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私は話せる。
勉強を頑張って。 :p
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01-26-2009, 03:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: in the back of your mind...
Posts: 67
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.
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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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01-26-2009, 07:49 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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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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01-26-2009, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: in the back of your mind...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua
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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I used to have the Lonely Planet guide to traveling north-east Asia.
I second this recommendation.
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02-05-2009, 07:19 AM
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#13
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: United States
Posts: 761
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I'm learning.
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