Thread: Japanese Language Courses

Change your wallpaper then, miitan.


Preferably to something cosplayish if you pine for some yellowtail.

Perhaps it is my natural apathy and sloth. I will wait till I can afford the Rosetta Stone software for Japanese. While I fully understand that that will not give me all the nuances of Japanese it will give me a good start so that I could travel to Japan and not be such a gaijin.

Even so, you'd sound like a Japanese tourist trying to speak horrible Engrish because you had high grades in English in school and could speak sentences correctly.

Uhm even that is unlikely.
None of the highschool kids i met could even go further than: "Herro, my namu isu ...
how can i herupu you?"
Luckely i can speak Japanese a little, so i had a great time with them.
although most Highschool girl ran away because they were afraid of Japanese speaking foreigners i think

Originally Posted by miitan

Perhaps it is my natural apathy and sloth. I will wait till I can afford the Rosetta Stone software for Japanese. While I fully understand that that will not give me all the nuances of Japanese it will give me a good start so that I could travel to Japan and not be such a gaijin.

Good luck with that. You could be teaching them a class in Japanese and you'd still be a gaijin. They'll still use 'English' at you.

Originally Posted by Yonathen

Uhm even that is unlikely.
None of the highschool kids i met could even go further than: "Herro, my namu isu ...
how can i herupu you?"
Luckely i can speak Japanese a little, so i had a great time with them.
although most Highschool girl ran away because they were afraid of Japanese speaking foreigners i think

They're just afraid of foreigners....and also I've found most people get really suprised if you speak their language. I get it all the time from the Mexicans. They run away or speak English back to me. Really annoying.

Anything, Betong is so right with the too many words thing....dude, why do you need "desu ka" at the end of a sentance when there's already a question mark? Dumb.

Desu ka is only the beginning of it

When they get into keigo it's like a machine gun fire of redundant words.

The polite form of Japanese speech.
Soo annoying~

Well, polite form is polite. Keigo is honorific.

Potáto Potato
you know i mean the same

Keigo is like, "To humbly eat" and stuff...you just do things humbly? it's so silly. It's why Chinese is so superior to that nonsense. Just one writing system, no conjugation, all you have to do is throw in your parts and you've got a sentence.