23 Mar 2011, 5:26 pm
23 Mar 2011, 5:26 pm
Fudo wrote:
aww 
all this talk in foreign script excludes fudo..
all this talk in foreign script excludes fudo..It's okay; we're back to English.
23 Mar 2011, 5:29 pm
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23 Mar 2011, 5:31 pm
Rwyf am ddechrau sgwrs, ond byddaf yn ceisio cadw er y pwnc, felly byddaf yn mynd dramor i gyd yn ogystal.
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23 Mar 2011, 5:34 pm
from the land of the rising sun to the valleys.. 
still oblivious, is fudo
23 Mar 2011, 5:34 pm
jmnixon95 wrote:
Hangeul is understandably easier, considering it's an alphabet.
No one really knows all the kanji.
Way too difficult. My friend (who is staying with me; she is from Japan) knows tons and tons, but when I asked her, she said she's not even close to knowing all of them. Each person knows at least a few thousand, though... or was that Hanzi... I think they'd theoretically have to know less kanji in Japan because they also have hiragana and katakana, while in China/Taiwan/Hong Kong all they have is hanzi to go by. Plus, not every word in Japanese has corresponding kanji, as you probably know. So sometimes, you just have to go with the hiragana and/or katakana for it. Usually hiragana for truly "Japanese" words.
No one really knows all the kanji.
Way too difficult. My friend (who is staying with me; she is from Japan) knows tons and tons, but when I asked her, she said she's not even close to knowing all of them. Each person knows at least a few thousand, though... or was that Hanzi... I think they'd theoretically have to know less kanji in Japan because they also have hiragana and katakana, while in China/Taiwan/Hong Kong all they have is hanzi to go by. Plus, not every word in Japanese has corresponding kanji, as you probably know. So sometimes, you just have to go with the hiragana and/or katakana for it. Usually hiragana for truly "Japanese" words.Yep.
And I love how letters are in syllable blocks, it's fun. 
From what I remember, you need to know about 1500-2000 kanji to read a newspaper, but 3000-5000 hanzi for Chinese.
Having a mostly verbal mind, I can't memorize that many logographs. Furigana in Japanese can be helpful, but it's not used much. 
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I also find it interesting how often they used katakana during the days of WWII... many older people have katakana in their names, combined with kanji. Or they just have kanji. My Japanese name is just kanji, like many names given in Japan these days:
Huh, didn't know that. Interesting indeed. Especially considering that now katakana is mostly used for foreign words.
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23 Mar 2011, 5:39 pm
Fudo wrote:
from the land of the rising sun to the valleys.. still oblivious, is fudo
still oblivious, is fudoRwy'n cafflo. Rwy'n defnydio Google Translate.
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
The first one meant "I want to start a conversation, but I'll try to keep on topic. So I'll go all foreign as well."
But then everyone reverted back to English....
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23 Mar 2011, 5:41 pm
23 Mar 2011, 5:43 pm
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Rwy'n cafflo. Rwy'n defnydio Google Translate.
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
Hura erraz ulertu dut.
23 Mar 2011, 5:46 pm
23 Mar 2011, 5:49 pm
23 Mar 2011, 5:49 pm
has not read a book since trying to read the silmarillion..
too inattentive he is
23 Mar 2011, 5:52 pm
You lost interest in talking about Japanese fast. Whatever...
I'm reading my Basque grammar, which is fun and useful, since it has many example sentences and some translation exercises. 
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23 Mar 2011, 5:53 pm
dunbots wrote:
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Rwy'n cafflo. Rwy'n defnydio Google Translate.
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
Hura erraz ulertu dut.
Sut y gallwch ddeall mor hawdd?
(How can you easily understand?)
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23 Mar 2011, 5:56 pm
rabbitears wrote:
dunbots wrote:
Quote:
Rwy'n cafflo. Rwy'n defnydio Google Translate.
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
(I'm cheating. I'm using Google Translate.)
Hura erraz ulertu dut.
Sut y gallwch ddeall mor hawdd?
(How can you easily understand?)
I meant that I could easily tell you were using Google Translate.
I probably should've used "jakin" (to know) instead of "ulertu" (to understand). 
I don't speak Welsh at all, except for being able to understand a few words.
23 Mar 2011, 6:00 pm
dunbots wrote:
You lost interest in talking about Japanese fast. Whatever...
Whatever...No, we can still talk; the others pressured me into changing the topic.
So we can talk about it more if you want.
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