webdriver 10 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 well, just a suggestion, I believe most of us here is Japanese Beginner, so for SaruDa please post less Kanji and more hiragana....(well kanji is crucial too but not on the beginner level) no offense bro or if you want please attach how do we read the kanji to make it easier for us SaruDa... Thank's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SaruDa 11 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 If you have firefox you can use the rikaichan or furigana inserter plugins to see the reading of a word written in kanji. Chrome...I don't know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whitexshadow 10 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 some random stuff: amai = naive anieue = other way of adressing an older sibling aneki = older sister aniki = older brother chin[suffix] = cute way of addressing someone chan[suffix] = usually for girls and little kids but applicable to guys and older people. IE = cute way of addressing someone close to you empitsu = pencil hana = flower hon = book kawaii = cute kowai = scared kun[suffix] = usually for boys but sometimes girls are addressed as kun too kyodai = siblings ofukuro = mother oishi = delicious oyaji = father/uncle/old man ojou-san/sama = young lady/miss/mistress uchi/ie = house/home umi = sea ushio = tide to = door yowai = weak note: aniki and aneki can also be used to address someone you respect. e.g. = gang leader, boss Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SaruDa 11 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 amai = naive Amai can also mean sweet(smelling or tasting). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
superBlast 10 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Here's a few words I can remember that possibly hasn't been mentioned yet. Gomi = Trash (It's defiantly the trash in a trash can but I'm pretty sure you can use it to call someone trash. Not sure since that's my own assumption.) ごみ Ego = English (quite possibly spelled wrong. I know I'm close though since I remember it by remembering the ego waffles ) えご Nihongo = Japanese (It's japanese for japanese lol) にほんご Kazaku = family (I'll forever associate this word with dangos.) (also possibly misspelled.) かざく Dai = big (Picked this up from anime. So I could be wrong about it.) だい Itadakimasu = Um... has no translation and is more of a phrase then a word. Then again I probrably don't have to mention that since most people here probably heard it a million times through anime. Though my favorite english wording of it is "Thank you for the food". いただきます Gohan = Rice, food, and I think it could mean lunch as well. (Real easy one to remember if you like DBZ.) ごはん Asa = morning (I ending up remembering this one by remembering Shuffle!'s green haired chick which I'm sure is also named Asa.) あさ Onanako = girl (Drilled into my head by a certain foreign language learning program I got a free copy of.... *whistles*) おななこ Otokonoko = boy (Same as above. Could be spelled wrong. My spelling is based on how I remember it being said) おとこのこ Onanosuto = Woman (Same as above. Also could be spelled wrong. Same as above.) おなのすと Otokonosuto = Man (Same as above. Same as above.) おとこのすと Kanojo = Female (Same as above. Not 100% sure but does make sense of some anime/hentai titles.) かのじょ I forgot the one for male And that's it. Man listing those down kinda helped me remember stuff I thought I didn't remember. Now watch me forget again in 10 minutes Notes: If a word has "go" at the end, then it's probably the name of a language in japanese.... probably. But I noticed that alot of language names end in "go". Similar to "go", if an word ends in "jin" then it probably means ______ country's citizen. Like for americans, it'd be (and I do feel like converting america to japanese) "Americajin". But I'm also not entirely sure about the "jin" thing either. Can someone else confirm this? Edit: Just remembered another one. Shinbun = Newspaper (..... yeah I have no comment for this one hahaha.) しんぶん Edited March 22, 2012 by superBlast Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whitexshadow 10 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Here's a few words I can remember that possibly hasn't been mentioned yet. Gomi = Trash (It's defiantly the trash in a trash can but I'm pretty sure you can use it to call someone trash. Not sure since that's my own assumption.) ごみ Ego = English (quite possibly spelled wrong. I know I'm close though since I remember it by remembering the ego waffles ) えご Nihongo = Japanese (It's japanese for japanese lol) にほんご Kazaku = family (I'll forever associate this word with dangos.) (also possibly misspelled.) かざく Dai = big (Picked this up from anime. So I could be wrong about it.) だい Itadakimasu = Um... has no translation and is more of a phrase then a word. Then again I probrably don't have to mention that since most people here probably heard it a million times through anime. Though my favorite english wording of it is "Thank you for the food". いただきます Gohan = Rice, food, and I think it could mean lunch as well. (Real easy one to remember if you like DBZ.) ごはん Asa = morning (I ending up remembering this one by remembering Shuffle!'s green haired chick which I'm sure is also named Asa.) あさ Onanako = girl (Drilled into my head by a certain foreign language learning program I got a free copy of.... *whistles*) おななこ Otokonoko = boy (Same as above. Could be spelled wrong. My spelling is based on how I remember it being said) おとこのこ Onanosuto = Woman (Same as above. Also could be spelled wrong. Same as above.) おなのすと Otokonosuto = Man (Same as above. Same as above.) おとこのすと Kanojo = Female (Same as above. Not 100% sure but does make sense of some anime/hentai titles.) かのじょ I forgot the one for male And that's it. Man listing those down kinda helped me remember stuff I thought I didn't remember. Now watch me forget again in 10 minutes Notes: If a word has "go" at the end, then it's probably the name of a language in japanese.... probably. But I noticed that alot of language names end in "go". Similar to "go", if an word ends in "jin" then it probably means ______ country's citizen. Like for americans, it'd be (and I do feel like converting america to japanese) "Americajin". But I'm also not entirely sure about the "jin" thing either. Can someone else confirm this? Edit: Just remembered another one. Shinbun = Newspaper (..... yeah I have no comment for this one hahaha.) しんぶん Family = Kazoku [and lol at clannad reference] Dai can also mean great Girl = Onanoko Kanojo can also mean girlfriend the one for male is Kareshi [i remembered this one from kareshi kanojo no jijou] Edited March 22, 2012 by whitexshadow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SaruDa 11 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Onanosuto = Woman (Same as above. Also could be spelled wrong. Same as above.) おなのすと Otokonosuto = Man (Same as above. Same as above.) おとこのすと Onna no hito and otoko no hito? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
superBlast 10 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Family = Kazoku [and lol at clannad reference] Dai can also mean great Girl = Onanoko Kanojo can also mean girlfriend the one for male is Kareshi [i remembered this one from kareshi kanojo no jijou] Ah ok. I was spelling family and girl from memory. And plus it's true about the dango thing. I have kazaku filed right next to dangos and clannad in my head And the kanojo also meaning girlfriend makes those titles even more sense lol. Onna no hito and otoko no hito? Huh? Never heard either of those before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
webdriver 10 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 ^ The right one Should be Onnanoko, don't forget the double "n" Onanosuto or otokonosuto is not exist... or rather, the meaning is not woman and man, SaruDa is correct, Onna no Hito and Otoko no Hito Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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