So you want to learn Japanese

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:11 pm

hahaha sounds like my german classes, cept my teacher only talks about how DVD players are so amazing and the marvels of the simpsons in german...: P

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:11 pm

Savia wrote:The thing that scares me about Japanese as a language is the lack of a word for 'I'

There are lots of words for I... Watashi (Neutral), Boku (Masculine)... Atashi (Feminin) And those are just the basics that I know. o.O;

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:13 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:There are lots of words for I... Watashi (Neutral), Boku (Masculine)... Atashi (Feminin) And those are just the basics that I know. o.O;

I thought that too, but ive had japanese people tell me theres no word for I so im confused :s

The Hitokiri Battousai · Post by **The Hitokiri Battousai** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:16 pm

as much as I would love to learn Japanese....I dont have the (what my school sounsler and other staff at my school said) "The mental capacity to learn a foreign language". So anyways, English is good enough for me.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:18 pm

The Hitokiri Battousai wrote:as much as I would love to learn Japanese....I dont have the (what my school sounsler and other staff at my school said) "The mental capacity to learn a foreign language". So anyways, English is good enough for me.

Awww.....

I look forward to picking up new languages in University next year. I need a new challenge.

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:45 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:
Savia wrote:The thing that scares me about Japanese as a language is the lack of a word for 'I'
There are lots of words for I... Watashi (Neutral), Boku (Masculine)... Atashi (Feminin) And those are just the basics that I know. o.O;

Well, from my experience, those are none of them direct equivalents. The old 'this one' meaning was the one that I had heard was closest for those...

...But I may well be wrong.

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:02 pm

orewa ha... wakarimasen nihongo...

ewwww...

Clarification: Watashi and atashi are FEMALE, orewa and bokuwa are male. other'n that... you're S.O.O.Y.O. ...
shit out on your own.

HeartbreakerByZep · Post by **HeartbreakerByZep** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:56 pm

I don't know for sure, I've never been to Japan nor have I ever been fluent in Japanese, but I've been learning for years, and I've been taught by a handful of Japanese natives (some with not so good english, some with near perfect english) and while some have advocated the use of boku for males and watashi for females, none has ever implied that it was anything but correct to use watashi if you are a male.

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:22 pm

I was talking once in a Japanese chat room, and all these girls were like, hey, you're a girl, right? and I'm like, no, I'm a guy. and they're like, use Orewa or Bokuwa, cuz you're confusing the hell out of us!"

Damn. I was really dumb.

billy_wires · Post by **billy_wires** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:24 pm

Hearing that anime wasn't real was like hearing that there was no Santa Claus. I was heart broken.

The one funny thing about it, though, is that his command of the English language is loose at best. In context, he said

It's Too Hard

This should be an obvious

Apparently Japanese isn't the only hard language for him...

Furthermore, the only reason I want to learn Japanese is because it would be a challenge. Duh.