what were the first japanese words you heard..??

sayonara tends to be used whe you are not meeting the person for a VERY VERY long time right..?? :hehe: yah.. better ask your mom not to say it.. :mrgreen:

sayonara

arashinokoto wrote:sayonara tends to be used whe you are not meeting the person for a VERY VERY long time right..?? :hehe: yah.. better ask your mom not to say it.. :mrgreen:

Exactly :p

and im not going to teach her any other ways :evil:

windrider wrote:Yeah... and theres also another one KESORRR! or something. But what do they mean actually?

"KESORRR!"?? Maybe KUSO?!! It literally means "shit"!

First words I heard in Japanese were.......

-Hai
-Ichi
-Kore ha nandesu ka? (actually a sentence, but I'll throw it in)
-Suwatte
-Arigatou
-Moshi moshi (my Grandma used to make me answer the phone like this when I was about 4-6 years old)
-Sayonara
-Gomennasai
-Chin chin (again, when I was a kid, Grandma used to tell me to wash my chin chin when I took a shower.) (For those of you who don't know what it means, it means "Penis")

Hmmm..let me see I picked up these words:
-Sayonara
- Irashaimase
- kokoro
- Ame
- Arigatou
- Hai
- Honto desu ka?
- daijyobu?
- Abunai
- Kirei
- Kawaii
- Wakarimasen
- Watsurenai
- Tasukete
- Chotto mate kudasai..

All of these I picked from watching japanese cartoons, anime when I was small around 11 years old :crazy: which I didn't understand the meaning at that time accept for "arigatou", "kawaii" ,"hai" and "Sayonara"

hee.. the first words i heard was many years back.

-konbanwa
-aishiteru
-oyasumi nasai
-watashi

well, this is when i was havin camp in school n suddenly a japanese teacher came over and taught us japanese for 2 hrs! n it was almost bed time (late at night) therefore all the "konbanwa" and "oyasumi nasai" words.. hehe

im still quite puzzled why being in a st john ambulance brigade camp includes learning japanese? haha

Is it just me or is aho-san's grandma a little strange?? :mrgreen:
As for the topic...
DOMO ARIGATOU MISTER ROBOTO!!!!
other notable mentions are baka, hai, iie, gomen, and jaa ne!!
for those into videogames there were a bunch of random exceptions like ryu, hadouken, shoryuken, renzokuken etc. oh ya don't forget the SHINKUU HADOUKEN!!!! :boxing:

Probably kaa-chan. My family is Taiwanese and my parents were born right before the end of the occupation. Lots of Japanese terms were still used in Taiwan, and whenever my mom used to call my grandmother, she'd refer to her as kaa-chan.

the first jpnese word i heard was SAYONARA
a common word

the first jpnese word i heard was SAYONARA
a common word

obasan, ojisan......j/k. :mrgreen:

i think moshiX2....cos last time got a chinese song with this title....
moshi moshi moshi..... ....... .....
well at that time i dunno it was japanese, i thought the phrase is very funny...moshi moshi...and the writer "created" it. :hehe:

For me:

Ohayou Gozaimasu
Konnichiwa
Konbanwa
Sayonara
And of course, Arigatoo

:mrgreen:

oh yeah
n i forgotten to list mushi mushi
another common word
:mrgreen:

Hmm...

For me... The first few words I heard was 'Hai', 'moshi' & 'Sayonara'...

I always hear 'hai' everytime... :hehe:

3Peace...
Orenji

orenji wrote:

I always hear 'hai' everytime... :hehe:

3Peace...
Orenji

haha..yes!..we use that in chinese too ne~

When I was visiting HK a long time ago, my cousin was taking some JPN classes, and he kept on repeating "Chottomatte" and I always wondered what that meant. It wasn't until I visited JPN to find out what that meant.

"wakamono to shoujo no kokoro no dorama de aru..."

(intro to Kidou Keiji Jiban)

when i was a little kid/baby my parents always said "abunai" when i was doing something. of course other words like "gohan" and "ohashis" were used. typical 3-4th generation japanese family.

First that i heard??? That's a really tuff one.
I guess since my first word was mother it would be...Kaasan.

But the most frequently heard was .... Dame desu yo!!!! :google:

the first phrase i heard was "Ohayou gozaimasu" :)