hey nice jhcj
but if you guys seriously want to learn japanese u should go take classes
private classes where they teach u one by one is by far the best , easier & faster for u to learn
trust me, u won't learn perfect japanese through only books

though i heard japanese classes in KL are veri expensive
they could easily go RM1000+ for i think half a semester?
so you could save up some time and money if u learnt the basic already
so good job

and if u do take japanese classes, i suggest u to learn how to write aswell, coz it totally worth it
my teacher say most malay don't learn kanji
chinese got no prob they are used to chinese characters
one note for chinese who think they can read japanese thru kanji is that not only the pronounciations are different but some kanji are also have different meaning
for example 'doctor' in chinese is 医生, in japanese it is 医者

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 2 2005, 02:17 PM

in my opinion asian should have no problems pronouncing in japanese
those westeners are the only ones havin problem - those wapanese

and btw jhjc i think u should write them in full spellings 'desu'

wat i meant was write it in normal ro-maji
'enpitsu' not enpits(u)

i think it is マレー not マレイ
as in マレー語 mareego, malay language
and malaysian is マレー人 (mare-jin)

and maybe u want to write the example dailogues together with kana too

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 2 2005, 04:13 PM

oh note that the topic marker particle, 'wa'
is written as は(ha)
私は日本人です。
watashi wa nihon jin desu

and more on watashi
watakushi or watashi (same kanji : 私) is polite
unpolite one for male is boku
while female use atashi
i think the least polite is ore

er yea they're the same
but when he said malay he meant malay language

I hav question
in wat situation do u use 勉強する?
coz usually I see 勉強をします
so they dont use を with する?

yea, benkyou(勉強) is a noun,
same thing as sentaku wo shimashita (洗濯をしました。)

so i'm guessing with the wo and shimasu it sounds more 'complete'?
勉強する is when u say it to like, friends?
is this right?

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 3 2005, 02:22 AM

hm, i guess i'll answer this

1) 'I am studying now' should be watashi wa ima benkyou wo shite imasu(私は今勉強をしています。)
I am reading a book would be ima hon wo yonde imasu（今本を読んでいます。）


2) 'i am studying in xxx right now', watashi wa ima XXX ni benkyou wo shite imasu（私は今XXXに勉強をしています。）
hmm i maybe wrong here do i use に or で?


3) 'let's go eat' would be, tabemashou （食べましょう）
though I'm not really sure when u say minna
wat i came up with :
minna, issho ni tabemashou ka?(みんな、一緒に食べましょうか？）
"everybody, lets go eat together?", sounds different

i guess i need some help here

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 3 2005, 12:27 PM

thnx for clearing that up senpai

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 3 2005, 03:00 PM

ya u hav to know the strokes order
in this case u need someone to teach u
u can also ask some of your chinese friends
i know my friends helped me quite a lot

shite imasu in english is similar to wat u have 'continous tense' note that the sentence got ima(now).
例：私は今勉強をしています。
ex. I am now studying.

the root word for shite imasu is suru
suru means 'to do'
so benkyou suru 「勉強する」 literally means, to do study

my japanese quite limited so...
think oe_kintaro can explain more

I think it is doumo 「どうも」?
the complete form is doumo arigatou gozaimasu
but ppl usually just say doumo

I'm not sure about hi/hello though
I guess you should see the situation?
Are the ppl just bumped into each other and say hi/hello or wat?

hm not sure abt that, maybe it is something to do with the story?
the closest I can think is 'douzo' which means 'sila'

btw, I personally think listening to dorama works better than anime
anime voice acting sounds over-acted at times
plus in dorama u can listen how they converse in real life
u'll notice the difference compared to anime

I've been wondering, whats the difference between gakusei(学生) and seito(生徒)
do we use gakusei for university student?

note that chichi(父) and haha(母) are used when mentioning our own family
if we mention someone else's would be otou-san(お父さん) or okaa-san(お母さん)
例：あの人は山田のお父さんですか？
ano hito wa yamada no otou-san desu ka?

and btw, I think better use koibito 恋人(lover) than boyfriend hehe
plus u can use it for both gf and bf


This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 6 2005, 01:09 PM

well yea when they're married they are wife and husband...
I was just commenting on boifurendo
and I did say use for boyfriend and girlfriend

here is another confusion of ro-maji
because sensē is also can be accepted

btw the verbal form of 'desu' is 'da'
so when talking, some might say 学生だ gakusei da! (is a student)
instead of 学生です gakusei desu

and the 1st to 10th day of the month...
i still havent remembered it

This post has been edited by 320cbr: Dec 11 2005, 07:29 PM

it's 9 now,
今九時です。(ima ku ji desu)
note : when stating time kyuu (nine) is said as ku

as for 9.30, half past nine u say,
今九時半です。(ima ku ji han desu) where 半 is the half

asking time,
今何時ですか？(ima nan ji desu ka?)

oops, hope u dont mind, sorry