if i remember correctly...hiragana is the most commonly used which is for the phonetical spelling of japanese words, and katakana is for like the "nihongonized" american words
ex. arigatou would be spelled in hiragana but...sank yuu (or however the nihongonized version of thank you was, i forgot and to those anal people domo sumimasen deshita ::bows: would be katakana

yeah then there's the kanji...1085 (or close to that number) accepted ones rite? (the joyo kanji or something like that i think it was called), well i know there's more but those are the ones they teach in schools rite?

i guess i should START trying to learn it

aznanimedude wrote:

yeah then there's the kanji...1085 (or close to that number) accepted ones rite? (the joyo kanji or something like that i think it was called), well i know there's more but those are the ones they teach in schools rite?

Joyo contains 1945 kanji (of the approximately 50,000 existing kanji).

aznkether wrote:

you don't HAVE to laern Kanji, but you pretty much won't be able to read anything unless they provide you with mini hiragana translations. Hiragana is used for traditional/native Japanese words i.e. I-KU = to go i.e. TA-BE-RU = to eat i.e. SA-KA-NA = fish Katakana is used for non-Japanese word translations i.e. A-RU-BA-I-TO = part-time work; the German word der Arbeit which means job i.e. KU-RI-SU-MA-SU = Christmas Of course there are sometimes where people use Katakana even for native Japanese words, which happens a lot when playing Japanese games. Also, not to be anal to the above poster, but the ROMANJI you are looking for is: arigatou gouzaimasu

you mean ROMAJI right?
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Joyo contains 1945 kanji (of the approximately 50,000 existing kanji).

ahh i see...i knew my number looked weird...yeah it's 1,945, yeah still alot but VERRY nice considering those are the 1945 chosen out of all the kanji there are

and sorry for the offtopic but i must ask...
a-nesuto...is that goto maki in ur sig? if not domo sumimasen but just wondering

aznanimedude wrote:

ahh i see...i knew my number looked weird...yeah it's 1,945, yeah still alot but VERRY nice considering those are the 1945 chosen out of all the kanji there are and sorry for the offtopic but i must ask... a-nesuto...is that goto maki in ur sig? if not domo sumimasen but just wondering

yep
and Fujimoto Miki in my avatar
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aznkether wrote:

Also, not to be anal to the above poster, but the ROMANJI you are looking for is: arigatou gouzaimasu

Not to be anal to aznkether, but it's ROMAJI, not ROMANJI.

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edit: a-nesuto beat me to it.
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kokuou wrote:

Not to be anal to aznkether, but it's ROMAJI, not ROMANJI. ������ edit: a-nesuto beat me to it.

the master speaks!

you guys are too nice, my friend Miki straight up smacked the back of my head when I asked her what the Romanji of something was... and not a loving tap kind of smack either... whiplash inducing upside the head kind of smack.

Tu_triky wrote:

the master speaks!

For the longest time, I thought it was romanji....until I saw the katakana. Now I know better. I think the confusion lies because we are using Roman letters.

dochira wrote:

For the longest time, I thought it was romanji....until I saw the katakana. Now I know better. I think the confusion lies because we are using Roman letters.

i thought the confusion lay because of smoknig Roman Red = weed

Tu_triky wrote:

i thought the confusion lay because of smoknig Roman Red = weed

Did you use up all the rolling papyrus?

krim wrote:

Did you use up all the rolling papyrus?

gomen, i did...i've been relegated to using zags....

a-nesuto wrote:

yep and Fujimoto Miki in my avatar

wow, i almost didn't noticed that until you brought it up....that is Miki...

dochira wrote:

For the longest time, I thought it was romanji....until I saw the katakana. Now I know better. I think the confusion lies because we are using Roman letters.

honestly me too...until i saw this

�� wrote:

Joyo contains 1945 kanji (of the approximately 50,000 existing kanji).

wow, that many kanji 50000!

oops, it was a typo

qilver wrote:

wow, i almost didn't noticed that until you brought it up....that is Miki...

i noticed the miki jsut not the goto...and quilver's got ai takahashi
::officially ends off topic speaking::

well i'm not sure how many there are (i know there's quite alot) but i believee only the 1945 joyo kanji are the ones you need to learn and worry about rite?

aznanimedude wrote:

i noticed the miki jsut not the goto...and quilver's got ai takahashi ::officially ends off topic speaking:: well i'm not sure how many there are (i know there's quite alot) but i believee only the 1945 joyo kanji are the ones you need to learn and worry about rite?

those are the ones typically required for reading comprehension of newspapers, books, and the like.

Tu_triky wrote:

those are the ones typically required for reading comprehension of newspapers, books, and the like.

Have you seen Nep League? There's a segment that tests their kanji knowledge.

50,000? are u kidding?

that surely breaks my head..

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