Who's Learning Japanese?

yeah haha. that's the new format!

anyway, those are official minna no nihongo videos??

hey guys~ got a question.... u noe those japanese guy when they say "tadaima" when they got home? how do u write it in hiragana?

tadaima = ただいまin hiragana :good

tadaima = ただいまin hiragana :good

hahha thx ^^
was updating my "thing"~ a suitable title for me hahaha! going bak to mysia tomorow~ waa!!! can't wait~

yes... they are knewer thant the book, but they are original.

are you kidding. lol they are quite.... funnny..... LOL
kinda retarded but i kept watching! =x opps ahhaha

are you kidding. lol they are quite.... funnny..... LOL
kinda retarded but i kept watching! =x opps ahhaha

hai... chotto okashii video ne...
demo... originaru desu n_nU

haha love japanese... yes those videos are addictive XD

hahaha. amazingly interesting videos.

man~ 6more weeks to jlpt!! @@

Wow! I found an organisation who plans student trips to Japan for like 1 week! And though it's very expensive I might be able to do it :sayw :sayw :please =O :suki

ooh what organization is that?

http://www.speakfun.nl/japans/taalreizen-fukuoka.htm It's called Speak&Fun but offcourse I'm 100% sure it's trustable so I won't do anything untill I know that for sure XD But I mean OMG It's in Fukuoka :please :gboy :suki I can go visit Tenjin, Yahoo Dome and all YUI-related spots :please

Sounds great!!! :clap

Though for me 680 euro's for one week + probably all sorts off extra cost is really expensive :rolleye

coooooooooll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :please

i wish i could go at least 1 week!!!
i would pay whatever!!
well... i don't know if it's expensive or not, but Japan is really very expensive... so... i don't find it weird...

No you're right, but still for ME it's extremely expensive =P Since my parents HAVE to pay for my schooltrip to Rome next year (which I'd love to trade for a trip to Japan XD) but my school forces us to go to Rome

so cool you get to go to rome!

and Japan is expensive but if you are streetsmart, it's quite affordable actually. been there a few times and didn't cause as much a big hole in my pockets as i thought! :D

well i'll be going there next june for holidays and then permanently there in october! can't wait!

OMG you mean you're going to live in Japan! :sayw Sugooii ne!

Which part of Japan :clap

ラッキー!!!! x3

i'll reach 1kyuu and i'll go too!!! :good
頑張ります

そうね, どこに住ますか

hmmm my prep school is in tokyo so at least for one year i'll be staying there. as for uni it can be elsewhere other then tokyo, which i have not decided yet though. staying in the outskirts can be quite nice!

but i hope it's not hard to find work for a foreigner there!

anyway どこに住ますか should be どこに住みますか. missed out a character there ;)

がんばってね、Miyukiさん!

Can you also choose to go to Fukuoka? :please

haha would love to visit there one day! :D

haha would love to visit there one day! :D

i`ve been there. and i can say it is a nice city. i love the locals. every one is friendly there.

Has anyone gone through a phase where they are too nervous to speak in Japanese to a native speaker who is not a teacher? That's what I am going through now. I've got a Japanese flatmate, yet the only thing I've said to her in Japanese is すこしだけです when she asked if I could speak Japanese (after finding out that I've been studying for a year). Yeah, my Japanese -is- pretty atrocious, but it is also at a stage where my classmates understand it, and we are happy to make small talk in Japanese when we hang out.

Oh yeah, we also used the みんなの日本語 [Minna No Nihongo] book too. I believe that it's a widely used book for beginners (and they is now a 中級 version of it too).

Thing I found hardest about Japanese? I'd say everything except pronunciation *laugh*. But only applies for individual syllables - I do not doubt that my 病院 and 美容院 sounds too similar. Particles caused me a lot of grief at the beginning (still do, は and が？ バアア). And Kanji, oh how I despise thee. I know it's a necessity and all, but I just don't have a good memory for it. Add to the fact that they threw 30 new Kanjis per week for us to learn (about 5 compounds per Kanji) and I was forgetting faster than I was learning (*sad laugh*). And I suppose that one of the problem is that when I am not studying, I am more likely to type than write, and you only reinforce recognition when you type Kanji.

This post has been edited by TooNice on Oct 15 2009, 10:16 PM

Yes, it's a lot of effort to learn Japanse ne sou deshou? My biggest prob is pronounciation =P Need to get rid of my Dutch accent. Im using Japanese for busy people book and it's very clear about the grammar so that's not such a big prob for me

Omg I reallly want to do that language course in Fukuoka :please

These are gramamr bits that get me every time. When I think I know the correct one, I end up being wrong :)

would it not be

どこに住むつもりでしょうか？

or would that only apply if you were not sure you were going?

These are gramamr bits that get me every time. When I think I know the correct one, I end up being wrong :)

would it not be

どこに住むつもりでしょうか？

or would that only apply if you were not sure you were going?

yup when you use "~つもり"　it will end up with the "intend to/ plan to ~" meaning.
which can be used in both cases.

どこに住みますか will be asking "where will you be staying?"
and
どこに住むつもりでしょうか will be asking "where do you intend/ plan to stay?"

which basically will have the same meaning in this case. ^^

>o< まちがえちゃった!!!


hai, i could have sayed that "~tsumori" thing... but Ketsuko is 100% sure is staying in Japan... and the "~tsumori" is more when someone is planing to do something, so it's less sure... like 90% XD

but i may have sayed "どこに住むの?"... :sry
shall we speak more informal here? We already know eachother... ne~?

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anyway... ohh!! So cool! You're going to study there!!
Ketsukoさんも, がんばってね!! :clap

Woohooo I just started learning Kanji today =P I allready know numbers 1 till 10 and boku/watashi and namae :hee Just 2000 more to go @@

haha sure. no need to be all formal here anyway. haha
but first i have to do well for my JLPT1 in like only less than 6 weeks!! omg.
study study study~!!
anyway miyuki, where do you study your japanese?

and ids, ganbatte! though it might seem a lot more, well it starts with a small step!

I'm studing in my city's gakko nwn
The first 4 years I have done a very slow course... but this year i started the fast course and i'm learning wild more than before!! Last year, i learned 4 units in half an year. But this year i'm learning like 10 or more units in half an year! x3 I'm so happy! But it's really hard...

Ids, that's so cool! Do your best and you'll learn a lot! n_n
Japanese, with the kanji thing, is a very very very interesting language... so... as Ketsuko sayed, ganbatte ne~!

Ketsuko san, I'm sure you'll pass! :clap

ah i see. cool. which city do you stay in?
i think the amount of stuff learned within a period of time, be it a lot or little doesn't matter. you can learn lotsa stuff but don't master them well, on the other hand learn a manageable amount and master it at the same time would be better.
though i like to learn lotsa things at one go! haha
it's gonna get harder from now on so, ganbatte!

yess!! with the university and all the stuff it's difficult to follow in time :S
but i loveee so much japanese... it's so cool learning new stuff all time :suki

i'm from Rosario, Argentina... *-*
here we have a Rosario Nihonjin kai... and there is where i learn nwn
the senseis are all borned here, but their fathers are from Okinawa
also i'm going to kaiwa clases with a sensei from Tokyo x3

Well, I'm an otaku, so I think I need to learn Japanese. Luckily, in my high school, Japanese is taken to be one of subjects. So I don't need to pay more for studying Japanese.

Wow. I haven't posted anything for a while.

Anyway, for my Japanese course at school, our syllabus is as follows:

+ Family Life and Home (greetings, family, birthdays, likes and dislikes, health and sickness)
+ Neighbours and Communities (homes, neighbourhoods, directions, shopping, restaurants)
+ Education and Work (schools, a day at school, jobs)
+ Friends, Recreation and Pastimes
+ Holidays, Travel and Tourism (Destination and Transport, Accommodation, Sightseeing and Weather)
+ Future Plans and Aspirations

* up to restaurants right now. class makes me hungry now. :P

cherii nice to see you back because you used to post alot

well for my course i learning some stupid things like enviromental problems and technology. I doubt i will ever use the vocab there bar CO2

its just stupidlyhard now and its not fun anymore for me... :what

I'm learning grammar,particles for JLPT now...It's a killer.

I'm starting with my Japanese class soon again :good :gboy

PWRTSM, that must be really hard *-*U what's all that difficult stuff for? XD

i'm learning sonkeigo nwn really happy with that!! I'm learning how to speak with my superiors!! so, when i go to live to Japan, i'll be prepared XD
the only crazy stuff is that there are 3 ways of saying the same... 1 way for men, 1 way for verbs from 1st group and 2nd but without those whit only 1 hiragana, and 1 for special verbs and 3rd group...
japan people and their complicate way to think XD