I dont find pronunciation is that hard for Japanese. French and Russian are among the hardest.

Dictionary not enough. I need the bloody kanji cards.

Yeah but for a guy like, it would take a whole week to decrypt a single chapter.

Formal way. Usually used by upperclass person.

In Germans, the phrase Ach so? has same usage as Sou desu ka? in Japanese.

Ach so desu ka...

1) - (I dont know)
2) Daigaku. Todai means Tokyo Daigaku or Tokyo University.
3) Yes.

...unless if you took Japanese courses and live/studying in Japan like aburex does.

Literally speaking, in Malay we use, "Silakan" for the meaning of domo. So, when someone comes in, we usually use "Sila masuk (or anything with Sila)" for formal way. Although we usually use, "Ha! Apahal?".

If you want to give a way to a person, you can use domo too. Like in bus or train as if there's an appropriate person to have a seat.

IIAM, gakusei is widely use. But maybe that's for certain terms. I dont know much about both two words.

If they're married, they never use much the word koibito for each others.

Anata dare? means 'Who are you?'.

Oni-chan is for elder brother. Onee-chan is for elder sister. Otouto is for younger brother while Imouto is for younger sister.

Edit: Sometimes you might here Japanese talking like Anata dale because they tend to soften their tongue to pronounce the L letters. As they dont have any letters using L like letter.

This post has been edited by Dark Steno: Dec 6 2005, 02:51 PM

Abit off topic, you can try install your FF inside your usb drive for example. I dont remember how but it's useful when going to cyber cafes or other places that dont allowed installing such a thing inside their PCs. Even your extension can be installed along inside the usb drive. Try google about it.

Sensei, not sensē or sinseh.

Japanese language is pretty easy in building up sentences, the grammar. Let say, Anata wa baka desu, with added ka at the back, it will becomes a question type of sentence, Anata wa baka desu ka?.

xxboxx said something about the usage of ne. Depends on the meaning you want to say. It can become a question type(1) or to strengthen up the sentences(2).

(1) Anata wa baka desu ne... - If in Malay, 'Bodohnya awak ni'.
(2) Anata wa baka desu, ne? - Meaning, 'you're stupid, right?'.

*Sorry for using the word 'baka', but I just want to use something that you all can understand the meaning.

Usually people use sensei, but well, I am not taken any Japanese classes officially. But anyway, it's from Kanji that could be anything.

Hmm, I forgot. You can say, Ima wa kyu .... desu. Means, I dont remember the exact thing there.

1. Yes. You can use Nan desu ka? or anything related.
2. Yes
3. It's mo.

I'm no expert but you can use nan in a lot of conditions.

Nandato?! - wtf?!
Nan da yo~ - oh! why~

You're right. They prefer to use that term.

Most people will think like that. I thought like that at first when watching Chobits but later on, I found that Japanese does call their computers as Persocom (especially Windows as for Apple computers, they call it MAC).

Usually, the n that ended before letters like b, p, m and few others, the n became m. For example, senpai where sometimes it becomes as sempai.

For pasokom, the original word is personal computer then becomes persocom (in English way). When persocom became Japanization, it becomes pasokon but persocom ended with an M. So, pasokon becomes pasokom.

How about CAPCOM? Dont you think that they supposed to say it as Kapukom? Sounds funny.