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• Use of the word 'Jap' - is it offensive? Learn Japanese · 25 Mar 2007, 15:31 Setfree. A girl in Japan (I was in Japan) told me "I really want to go to America." I asked her where she would like to live and she said Washington DC. That's a bit odd I thought to myself, so I asked her why there? "B…
• English To Japanese Questions Learn Japanese · 18 May 2004, 11:21 ahochaude wrote: Yes, the English way has a more subtle meaning to it because you're taking a directly literal translation into Japanese which makes it sound like "be my thing". *edit* btw, it's always nice to check if …
• English To Japanese Questions Learn Japanese · 25 Feb 2004, 00:56 Your J-friend uses romaji because she has too. Ever watch them struggling over romaji? they have to read it aloud to make sense of it. It's your life and your choice, I'm just suggesting you shouldn't use that as an exc…
• Japanese Word Order Learn Japanese · 24 Feb 2004, 13:04 ajb_advance wrote: C:\chkdsk -format -vBRAIN: C:\formatting ....... C:\ERROR: BRAIN: is faulty media - insufficient space. C:\ERROR: All information on BRAIN: will be lost. C:\ERROR: Please aquire a new BRAIN: and try a…
• English To Japanese Questions Learn Japanese · 24 Feb 2004, 01:17 I agree with your message. I just wanted to mention the problems with polite speech. If you had never heard a masu form in your life but had learned to speak in plain forms. I think you could learn masu endings in a day…
• English To Japanese Questions Learn Japanese · 23 Feb 2004, 23:43 About that run in with the mother in law. Certainly for you it was a good learning experience, but as for me, screw em if they can't take a joke. I'm not going to speak "gaijin Japanese" for the benefit of a few old lad…
• Pimsleur Japanese Lessons Learn Japanese · 22 Feb 2004, 13:29 Well, I'll put my 2 cents in. When you first decide to learn japanese you think, "well I'll bypass the writing system and just learn to speak." Sounds logical since Japanese has the second most difficult writing system …
• Japanese Word Order Learn Japanese · 22 Feb 2004, 08:02 You have good responses but i will share something I have discovered, Instead of trying to translate english into Japanese (which is really hard and slow) try to format a part of your brain and stick your japanese in th…
• Help On Translating Japanese Characters Learn Japanese · 13 Feb 2004, 22:14 I got to have it, I got to have it ƒ`ƒ“ƒ|ƒRƒ}ƒ“.
• Help On Translating Japanese Characters Learn Japanese · 12 Feb 2004, 10:33 ƒCƒ„ƒiI Man, appriciate the kanji lesson but did you have to subject me to a guys butt! :-P