what are the names all about. all i know is you call your older class mate sempi.


you seph you know anything you love japan also.

Well I'm not familiar with the language but I sure love the history.

no we do not call our clas mates sempi we call our teachers sensei

we say stuff for example my name

Takashi kun that means im younger than the person who is talking to me

Takashi san means im older than ther person

and chan is to decribe girls you cant call me Takashi chan cuase im no girl

i think i got it mixed up...im lazy right now

i know cosa means mother, niichan means (older) brother, dosa means father, yamaiya means stop/stop it (though the spelling is probably incorrect)


thats all i really know about the japanese language.

Ok, Hai means yes, eeyae(don't know the spelling) means no...

i know japanese but im not good at teaching it XD

yeah, languages are hard to teach. i doubt i'd ever be able to go anywhere and teach english like i wanted to. (any student i taught would end up more confused than they started because half the time i don't have my grammar, syntax, punctuation right.)

Well, if I taught english people would think the ice cream on an ice cream cone was the cone...

I understand why Cloud wouldn't want to teach Japanese also, it's a hard language to learn because some words mean different things, according to online translaters...

yes very thats all i needed to know.. but there may be more once im stuck on a thing on the anime shows.

if you watch jap in anime with subs you might learn some jap by saying the word and stuff

yah i know. just need to know why there were so many names for 1 person.

maybe, when I will learn english enough I will try myself in japanese :B):

Yeah...you're right i love japan...in matter of fact i would love to go there one day...but i don't know they're habits, at least all of them...but i sure love their culture and idials of work...

yeah it would be fun to go to japan and see what it's like there, though it is a long flight in...

VZ depending where you live in canada can make the flight shorter like the yukon province (something like that) but when i got to japan in august its gonna be a hella long flight though i have fun there brings back my childhood memories

Alaskans get the quick flight...

XD you got that right and so do the people in the ring of fire

im on the other coast of canada so it'll be a long flight for me either way... and it is expensive but oneday when i have more money i'll go.

Same, I'm in Ohio, the mid-southern part. I doubt I'll have the money one day though.

how bout that thing there making to send people to the brink of the atmisphere and back down. that would cut flying time in half. like the 18 hour flight would be 9 hours or somthing like that.

Going to the atmosphere and flying down sounds fun. Though I'd probably get unlucky, have whatever suit they have you wear with some flaw and then I'd burn to small pieces as I fell down, either that or I'd run out of oxygen...

the plane will tear apart into pieces and it wouldnt be 9 hours

you wouldnt even reach japan so tough luck

they said it would be about 2037 befor they made it so you could do that. but maybe i could be wrong on the date. 20-50 years or so.. so it may be made by then. im not sure.

I learnt about 3 years or Japanese,but I can't remember most of it.

BlackCloud's name is Takashi,if you didn't know. (I think,it's his MSN name.)

i'd love to learn the language, i hear it's tough but i'd still like to learn it.

Trust me,it is.

Yeah, even if you learn it it's still hard to speak it fluently.

So true, I know that for certain.

Right now i'm teaching it to myself. here's an example:

"En kitai en kan sou shuugyou nicchuukou o za shaurai"
Translation: I hope I can learn japanese in the future"


I hope i said it right :blink:

From what I know you made some mistakes, but don't take my word on this as I'm not an expert >.>

I've learned that Watashi is I, me, or myself in Japanese. Never heard en being used. Japanese in Japanese is nihon-jin as well, for that I am certain. The rest I'm not sure of since my japanese vocabulary is limited >.>

there r many words for it:

hon'in, warawa, watashi, watakushi, ore, ware, and en

Yeah but there's appropriate time for each of them, I en would be it there. Not sure. I usually use Boku or Watashi.

Funny, I thought Japanese was Nihongo in Japanese.

That refers to the actual language they speak,the nationality is nihon-jin and the Japan is just nihon. English is eigo. That was a mess up on my part mainly, but yeah Japanese(Language as she was referring it as) Is nihon-go while a japanese person or nationality is nihon-jin.

As for what I know of the language itself I don't know alot and I have trouble remembering alot of it, I only know these words as romanji, I'm still trying to learn how to write it... but with my limited time to study another language due to university studies, it may take a long time for me to learn it:
desu = am
ka = ?
ikimasu = (to) go
ryuu = dragon
oba-san = aunt
hai = yes

ichi - 1
ni - 2
san - 3
shi - 4
go - 5

Iie = No

Anata = You, them

Watashi = I, me, myself

Boku(Guys only) = I, me, myself

taitike = enemy

wa = subject marker

ga = topic marker.

Well seeing as how thsi discussion has gone many ways...I know a bit of Japanese from watching all those subbed anime. I know about the honorfics, or for those who don't know what they mean...The words used at the end of a person's name. For example...Link-san. Means Mr. Link. It's just a way of saying mister, and showing respect...lol I'd like to take hours explaing this, but I'm short on time...So check here.
Japanese Titles aka Honorifics

yup, u learn alot being a japanese anime fan, i find it to be more acurate than the english ones but hey, that's jus me :ermm: ....

Yup it's kinda true. But nothing is better then being a native speaker.

I'm proud to speak english as my language though. it's alot tougher to learn then japanese is. But Japanese is a language I'm going to stay constant in hopefully ^_^