Japanese to English Questions

[Keps]

Anime Dad wrote:

Yeah, I knew that

x 2.

[kenjilina]

qilver wrote:

i think Kanji will take years and years to learn it with thousands of characters to learn.

the great thing about kanji is that even if you can't actually read it but you recognise the character and know its meaning then you can with a certain degree of accuracy understand a sign.
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[obentou]

Can someone help me with the spelling?

How do you spell Tsukushi Makino's favorite expression "Arienaittsuno!~" *i'm not sure if I spelled that correctly *

Hiragana?

Or Katakana?

Gomen, I can't type in Kana cuz we don't have that program here, so I used Paint instead So they're pretty crooked.
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[4Qbmr]

obentou wrote:

Can someone help me with the spelling? How do you spell Tsukushi Makino's favorite expression "Arienaittsuno!~" Gomen, I can't type in Kana cuz we don't have that program here, so I used Paint instead So they're pretty crooked.

The top one looks right to me, but what do I know, I'm just a dumb gaijin!

[Anime Dad]

I've not heard that expression, and it's not in the JDict, but I assume the top one is correct because Katakana is usually used for non-japanese words IIRC.

[obentou]

Anime Dad wrote:

I've not heard that expression, and it's not in the JDict, but I assume the top one is correct because Katakana is usually used for non-japanese words IIRC.

You didn't watch HYD?

Anyways, sankyuu
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[Anime Dad]

obentou wrote:

You didn't watch HYD?

No, not yet. I wish I had more time to watch dorama, but I don't

[kokuou]

obentou wrote:

Can someone help me with the spelling? How do you spell Tsukushi Makino's favorite expression "Arienaittsuno!~" *i'm not sure if I spelled that correctly * Hiragana? Or Katakana? Gomen, I can't type in Kana cuz we don't have that program here, so I used Paint instead So they're pretty crooked.

The top one is the better of the two.
Since "arienai" is a Japanese word, you could write it as �A���G�i�C for emphasis, but he �[�� is really a reduction of �Ƃ�����, so it would be strange to write it in katakana.

For those that don't know the meaning, while it literally means "it's not possible for that to exist," it means something along the lines of, "OMG unbelievable!" or "I can't believe it" in the sense of someone being a little peeved.

HTH!

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[obentou]

kokuou wrote:

The top one is the better of the two. Since "arienai" is a Japanese word, you could write it as �A���G�i�C for emphasis, but he �[�� is really a reduction of �Ƃ�����, so it would be strange to write it in katakana. For those that don't know the meaning, while it literally means "it's not possible for that to exist," it means something along the lines of, "OMG unbelievable!" or "I can't believe it" in the sense of someone being a little peeved. HTH! ������

Sankyuu so much for explaining, but the words you typed in Japanese came out in question marks here in my PC *cuz it doesn't read Japanese language.* Any suggestions on how I can solve that? I'd really like to see the chaacters you wrote.
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[4Qbmr]

obentou wrote:

Sankyuu so much for explaining, but the words you typed in Japanese came out in question marks here in my PC *cuz it doesn't read Japanese language.* Any suggestions on how I can solve that? I'd really like to see the chaacters you wrote.

You might want to try checking in the sticky thread "How to type in Japanese for win xp, etc." there might be some information there.

[tabana]

Yup. It very useful.

If that doesn't work. First word is arienai (katakana), 2nd tsu-no (Hiragana) and toiuno (Hiragana)
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[aisya_chan]

i dont know whether this topic is related to this thread...

anyone know where i can find the free software english to japanese (romaji) dictionary?

[tabana]

There are a few posted here: link. IMHO, the best one would be kakasi, but it's in command line... so that's kind of suck.

Mecab is good too. The program's development continues. They are far from perfect though.
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[������]

michi can also mean "way" along with "street"

if you heard "michi ni mayotta" it means "i lost my way"
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[suika_suki]

i watched this japanese show and the girl said
"maki zushi wa oishi kedo, tabeniku katta"

what is "tabeniku" means?

[chiba]

suika_suki wrote:

i watched this japanese show and the girl said "maki zushi wa oishi kedo, tabeniku katta" what is "tabeniku" means?

not sure
random guess-difficult to eat??

so, the meaning would be 'maki zushi (i dont know what that is) is delicious but difficult to eat

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[don]

"maki zushi wa oishi kedo, tabeniku katta"
means, "The sushi roll was delicious but it was hard to eat."

[chiba]

don wrote:

"maki zushi wa oishi kedo, tabeniku katta" means, "The sushi roll was delicious but it was hard to eat."

Thanx!!
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[suika_suki]

don wrote:

"maki zushi wa oishi kedo, tabeniku katta" means, "The sushi roll was delicious but it was hard to eat."

ooooo~ thanx i've benn wandering for days

[aisya_chan]

minna,

can u help me to translate this to english:

un~ imi wakaranaiyo~

arigatou!