I just happened to come across this site that offers Mangajin comics, this is a way you can learn Japanese while reading manga, if offers plenty of explanations for the culture and the way of their speech.

Apologies if this has been posted before, I just don't see it anywhere on the first post.

http://www.thespectrum.net/features/mangajin/

thanks for the link!

not bad... thanks

anyone mind to teach me in detail what this means?

1. は (ha) is pronounced "wa" when it immediately follows the subject. It is usually only pronounced "ha" when it is part of a word.
2. へ (he) is pronounced "e" when it immediately follows a place or direction. Both of these are very simple to detect.

is it means if ha in the end of subject it will it pronounced as wa like konnichiwa?

after some effort i able to memorize kana, but having trouble when it come to kanji =.=" how you guys memorize it? since usually it pronounced diferent when with diferent kanji >.<

i think, that because they are particles : wa,ga,ni,e,wo

when は as particle,it is pronounce as wa, yes there are word that using は as wa, but its very rare..... usually は is pronounce as "ha" in a word form.... so its not necessary は, in the end of a word is pronounce as "wa"
i guess(just my guess) the old time japanese language use は as particle by the pronunciation of "ha", but since the time goes by, and its kinda hard to pronounce "ha" alone (as particle), it slowly become "wa"

へ, as a particle is pronounce as "e", in word as "he"

hope thats answer ur qstion


correct me if im wrong guys

This post has been edited by PVCpipe: Jan 15 2009, 03:04 AM

Sauce: http://theshenanigans.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/more-chibis/

no entry for "ん" ?

ん = n
wanna learn for japanese long time d - -"
but until now cant get it sooo....
hmm thanks for tis tread, can revision =D

i see, thanks for helping^^
with this confusing stuff it quite easy to mess up sometime XD
well,times to struggle memorizing kanji =.="


lawl, nice hiragana charts for otaku to memorize.

Hello guys, where can I find some informal letters for Japanese like the "o" in the picture above comparing to the BOLDED letter? Just like the "mu" letter , normally people write with a dot instead of turning a round in the end.

忘れたい

what's this?

This post has been edited by Hikaru Kenshin: Feb 7 2009, 12:31 AM

(I) want to forget

sugehh ... nice thread .... wooots ! japan FTW~

i guess thats comes from the used font

Eh....rolled back.
Here is my post again.

JLPT results is out.
Some may have got theirs, some are in the mail in on the way.
Hope everyone gets good scores.

Can anyone help me in differenciate jishoukei and futsukei form? Been terrible in these sections..

different terms for the same thing wrt verbs, but when I think more about it jishokei is perhaps more specific to verbs whereas futsukei maybe to a larger subset.
edit:

yes, I have confirmed that jishokei is a subset of futsuukei. If you can read japanese this chart makes it clear

http://www.kanjifumi.jp/keyword/fu/futsutai.htm

jishokei refers to positive plain verbs found in the dictionary and is a subset of the plain form


This post has been edited by oe_kintaro: Mar 1 2009, 08:48 AM

woot thanks for the teaching XD

what does this mean? lol

anata wo aishite iru... google sendiri lol...