He got no Japanese lesson at all, he just want to say f***!

Ore ni itte no kai?

For serious JLPT student, around 300 hours (100 classes), as I did before, that level 3 and 4 study time.

But how fast can you learn it depends on you.

No. You must take and pass 3-kyuu first. You can take 2-kyuu during the next exam session.

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Added on June 2, 2007, 12:28 pmTo memorize Kanji? I have books for for that, a complete list of Jouyo for all JLPT levels plus some extended non-Jouyo.

I guess it is like learning/remembering Hanzi in Chinese school plus more things to remember than just the on-yomi

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Jun 2 2007, 12:28 PM

Yes, can you take STPM first before SPM?

There are some differences between Kanji meanings in Japanese. However, it is likely bears the same meaning in Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

There are some kokuji that have no equivalent in Chinese, and even Chinese people have to re-adopt Japanese Kokuji.

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Added on June 12, 2007, 10:21 amsocchi no thread ga shinda?

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Jun 12 2007, 10:21 AM

-dono is like -sama or -shi or -san, it's rarely used in modern Japanese and especially among youngsters during casual talk.
Family name first just like all Asian (CJK) names are formed.

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Jun 25 2007, 01:06 PM

you can translate the other way around - Japanese-English.

My favorite site is Jim Breen's WWWJDIC - http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

^ you are giving the necktie. He didn't actually "getting" it. The sentence is from first person view, which is from your view.

So the verb is "ageru" not "morau".

... ga suki could mean "I love you", even though it literally means "I like ..." (... is the thing/person you like, whatever you like)

Daisuki - I like ... very much. Just another heighten level of ... ga suki.

Aishiteru is the better way to express "I love you" as the the word "ai" (love) is directly expressed.

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Added on September 4, 2007, 9:58 pmOguki 動き
- is the perfect present tense of root "oguku" 動く
- to move

Yoi 良い - means pleasant, feel good, skilled. To express you are feeling good - usually you use ii 良い (the same kanji, different kun-yomi) or kimochii 気持ち
instead

Anata wa means "you are ..."

jugyouchuu no ryouka is pronounced as ju/gyou/chuu no ryooka.
If you are sengau, gyou sounds like ngyou. make sure you pronounce chuu with a long u vowel. Ryou pronounce "Ryo/o" in slow motion. Separate kana vowels, but sounds like a single long o vowel in regular expression.

R in Japanese is pronounced without rolling in your tounge (unlike Spanish R which require rolling your tounge in), somewhere between L and R.

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Sep 4 2007, 10:02 PM

English's "like" may differ "suki". Refer English translations for "suki" and "ai suru" below.

Daisuki alone is rather awkward unless you are answering a question, where the subject/object already been mentioned.

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Added on September 4, 2007, 10:54 pmJapanese is a pronoun-loose language, that means you don't have to mention the pronoun/object/subject if you already mentioned it or you are talking to someone or obviously known.

The correct sentence in full is "anata wo aishiteru". the verb is "ai suru', so the particle is "wo" not ga. "suki" is a special adjective, there is a special reason why the particle for "suki" is "ga" instead of "wo".

好き【すき】(adj-na,n) liking, fondness, love, (P)
愛する【あいする】(vs-s) to love, (P)

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EX: "namae wa ..." means "my name is ...". The pronoun is obviously the person who said that sentence,

EX for aishiteru involving me and choyster. Just example
ME: aishiteru (means "I love you, choyster")
Choyster: Gei!

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Sep 4 2007, 11:19 PM

okay, this thread is kinda on the down. So, I would try to spice things up.

My question is "Do you speak Japanese like a girl?"

What I want you to do, is record your voice saying these three lines..

Line #1: "Iin janai?"
Line #2: "Jouzu desu ne?"
Line #3: "Dou kashira" or "Dou darou?"

I will give your recording to my Japanese friends, and they will tell you whether you speak Japanese like a girl or not.

Sounds Interesting?

Correct. Anyways, if you want to put your verbal Japanese to the test, you can PM me or attach your voice recording in your replies.

The reason why is, many of you guys learn verbal Japanese from cartoons. Mostly, cartoon characters are female. I want to see the influence of Japanese female cartoon characters on your real-life Japanese verbal skills.

I will send your voice recordings to my real-life Japanese friends (male friends) and see how "feminine" your Japanese really is. Interested? You can started recording now.

generic, feminine or masculine translation?

je beg to differ. Katakana is mostly used for foreign loaned words, not specifically English. In restaurants or places that require reservations, they usually write names in Katakana to avoid confusion when trying to read Japanese names.

even some Japanese words are written in katakana e.g. tabako (even though there is a Kanji for tabako).

これ以上　－Bed べっど,　Wakatta わかった？

This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Oct 27 2007, 09:57 AM

以上 are Kanji (read "ijou"), my dear Padawan.
the small っ indicates a small pause in between syllables. it is not pronounced as "tsu" like regular capital "tsu".

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I'm simply saying "for the above-mentioned (question) Bed べっど,　Wakatta わかった？" to reply to your answer.

I was talking about the Kanji, officially there is a Kanji for tabako, even though it is an English-loaned word. One of the exception but usually we use Katakana to write "tabako".

I can teach you, here, or find a language school. A lot of them in Klang Valley alone.

both are interchangeable...

however - to apologize "gomennasai" or "gomen kudasai" is preferable i.e when you cheated someone...

"suimasen" or "sumimasen" is used to excuse yourself, i.e trying to get yourself away from the crowd or getting to the loo...