hi guise, I just spend 3 days memorizing all hiragana and katakana characters, finally I can read basic Japanese ( exclude kanji )

but I can only read yet don't understand any, what should I do next? learn all the vocabs? I can read chinese so its not that bad understanding kanji

Good job ah-suknat, keep it on.

guys.... i lurk in some japanese online shop site..... so theres 2 different site, both using different symbol, u know after the price.
why is that? check outb these 2 site.

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/ms-soundwave/

http://www.bacchusdo.com/bjb300.html

notice the symbol used at rakuten, is not like the usual yen used in bacchusdo... can explain for me why?

You mean 円 and ￥　?
It is just one is the wording, one is a symbol.
Just like Dollars and $.
Or Pound and £.
They mean the same.

oh.. ok... thanks

iie = no

how to pronounce it

ee - yeh

Hi

Can someone help me to translate the following phrases into japanese:-

"I wanted to buy a good dictionary."

"It was not very cold this morning."

Thank you!

"I wanted to buy a good dictionary."
- 私はいい辞書を買いたかったです。

"It was not very cold this morning."
- 今朝はあまり寒くなかったです。

This post has been edited by jayhan: Apr 12 2009, 12:39 PM

here is one nice website of jp which provide lesson of japanese for free

http://smart.fm

add me as friends in http://smart.fm/users/kevinlmw

ah suknat> start this course `Japanese Core 2000:Step 1` since you mastered hiragana and katakana

unless you want to improve your your reading speed then revise the hiragana and katakana course

have fun XD

suki na doubutsu wa cheeta de,suki na banana wa tabemono de suke na blabla....

doest this make sense? the banana one,.... coz i heard in a mobie

This post has been edited by PVCpipe: Apr 22 2009, 01:01 AM

hi sifu.. need some help here

is this hiragana correct or not?

わたし は しゃしん か です

watashi ha shashinka desu..

but i need the boku (ぼく) instead of watashi (so not like formal sentences (plus i think no need "desu" word there).. can help

i think the hiragana is correct edi

This post has been edited by PVCpipe: Apr 27 2009, 09:45 PM

無料だっとう？！

これなら、日本語を一瞬で上手になれる。

Not sure if you know about this but I found a website where you can post up essays/articles/phrases that you write in the language that you are currently learning (e.g. Japanese) and there are native japanese who will read and correct your entry.

On the other hand those native japanese are also studying english/mandarin or other languages, if you have the capabilities you can also read their articles and correct their language/grammar for them. It is a pretty interactive site whereby people are friendly and they teach you to write smoother and more fluent languages in their own tongue.

Lang 8 website

IamjustMEさんの日本語はとても上手だと思っている、うらやましいなあ。

This post has been edited by audreyreiko: May 15 2009, 09:46 PM

へええ～～～すごいのウェブサイトですね！！！万歳！！！

ーーーえぢてｄ－－－－－－－－

This post has been edited by jasonkwk: Jun 8 2009, 09:47 PM

Guys, possibly what is the meaning of the sentence below?

Oyasumi nasai bella san, mada astane?

Oyasumi nasai bella san - Good night , bella.

mada astane - ???? *I dont know the meaning*

it think mada astane was how she/he heard mata ashita ne