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[Blebekblebek]

maybe u want to add this someday...

Hiragana Basic Words

i don;t have time to make caps for katakana words...
if you want to dl it..
Hiragana: http://www.geocities...ep/Hiragana.doc
Katakana: http://www.geocities...ep/Katakana.doc

[pachiZa]

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Anata (the most polite form) : it’s the way to say “you” to someone that older, the same age, or could be younger than us…but one thing for sure when we say “anata” to someone we talked to it’s mean that we honour them.
Something else…”anata” often to be said by wives to their husband, or someone to her/his boyfriend/girlfriend.
Ex : anata…nani shiteru no? (honey…what are you doing?) So we have to say “anata” when we talk to BoA ^ ^

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Anata is definitely NOT POLITE,  
I mean it's not RUDE saying Anata,
but my sensei told me NEVER USE "anata" all the times,
it's uncommon in Japan!!!  
I mean it's okay for a wife to call her husband "anata",
but not us calling BoA "Anata",
she would consider you being rather rude to be honest!
So I would advice you to call BoA "BoA san" rather than "anata"!!!  (If you notice in those TV shows, they call BoA "BoA san" all the times, THEY NEVER USE "ANATA", right?!?!)
You can only use "anata" when you are familiar with the person,
but not to the ELDERS ONE,
you will be killed (of course in an exaggerating way   )
But try not to use "anata",
you should call "the stranger" by name "Family-name + san",
rather than "ANATA"!!!!!

P.S It's completely impolite to call an person older than you "ANATA" as in You!!!

Mirai Pan-chan, on Jun 13 2005, 03:27 AM, said:

ty pplz!!!

i only know about hitotsu/hitori and futatsu ... any more?

Let me help you to finish it!!!
Btw, sorry if I wrote the romaji incorrectly,
since I never use romaji!!!

How many? = ikutsu
1 = hitotsu
2 = futatsu
3 = mittsu
4 = yottsu
5 = itsutsu
6 = muttsu
7 = nanatsu
8 = yattsu
9 = kokonotsu
10 = too
100 = hyaku
1000 = sen

BOLD = the sound should be STRESSED!!!  

ps. after 10, you just use normal numbers for counting!!! e.g. 11 = jyuichi

Let me give you a few more:
tabemono = food
nomemono = drinks
tsuyoi = strong (same as tsuyoku, but you use it in a different way!)

Your own family, you would call:
haha = mother
chichi = father
otouto = your younger brother
imouto = your younger sister
ani = your elder brother
ane = your elder sister
musuko = your son
musume = your daughter

When you want to mention someone else's family member,
you should say:
okaasan = mother
otousan = father
imoutosan = younger sister
otoutosan = younger brother
oniisan = elder brother
oneesan = elder sister
musukosan = his/her son
ojyousan = his/her daughter

You must say it correctly,
especially if you dun know the person that you are talking with very well,
in order to show your respect for them!!!

Edited by pachiZa, 16 June 2005 - 09:07 PM.

[pachiZa]

Blebekblebek, on Jun 13 2005, 07:19 AM, said:

maybe u want to add this someday...

Hiragana Basic Words

i don;t have time to make caps for katakana words...
if you want to dl it..
Hiragana: http://www.geocities...ep/Hiragana.doc
Katakana: http://www.geocities...ep/Katakana.doc

There are some mistakes in the table!!!
e.g. ni, nu, ne, no matched with the wrong characters!!!
If anyone wants to learn how to pronounce all hiragana and katakana correctly,
you can go to the following site:

Learn How to Pronounce Hiragana and Katagana NOW!!!

They are read out by my Japanese-school principle!!!!       
She is a pure Japanese,
so you can get the most accurate pronunciation!!!

Edited by pachiZa, 15 June 2005 - 11:47 PM.

[Blebekblebek]

^thx.... so much... *i'm still learning too *

thx for telling me... *ikutsu* hehehe...

[Mirai Pan-chan]

... yup, I think the table's wrong ... but ty!!! I need it completely accurate first before adding it, okies?

Haha, I've been lazy ... haven't added in a few weeks ... will be working again later ... ^^;;

Domo arigatou gozaimasu for all your help and support, guys! Aishiteru!~

[Mitsukai87]

I'm just wondering, how would you say "I'm sleeping" or "sleeping" in Japanese, a bit confused. Is it "neru" ?

[Mirai Pan-chan]

^Sorry, I'm not sure ...

[zhao*yun]

sleeping huh... usually nete iru or neteiru or neteru... its more polite if u use nete iru... continuos tense in jap is lk this if i''m not wrong['te'form+iru/imasu] basically iru comes from imasu... ~masu form is the formal form use in formal occasion... and for elders to... my sensei told me nvr to use ~ru form when talking to elders cuz sumth, sum elders dun understand it... sum1 correct me if i'm wrong...

*EDIT*
i 4got to explain the difference between ~ru and ~masu... hehe ~ru is the short form of ~masu... usually used in informal occasion lk talking to frienz... correct me again of i'm wrong...

Edited by zhao*yun, 21 August 2005 - 07:10 AM.

[BoA Fan 23]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[boaworld]

arigatou !!

[Koneko]

cool. now I can try to learn this.

[CCS_Tomoyo]

omg!! so muchh!! thanks for sharing! now i got some words i memorized.

[yellowBoAballoon]

thanks a bunch! i wanted to learn japanese so bad-and now i can thanks to you ~ i just have a (2 ^^) question : 1. are there any up and downs of how you say something? (like in chinese-where you have to kinda 'sing' (?)--it could mean something else if you say it in another tone) and 2. is there the word 'a' in japanese...if there is..sorry i can't find it-if you dont mind can you post how to say 'i am a dancer'---from your list i've got 'watashi wa odorite' but that would mean 'i am (femine--im a female) dancer' (with no 'a' in it)...thank you and sorry to cause any trouble. your list is very helpful and shows your generosity. thanks~

[Mirai Pan-chan]

^Watashi wa odorite is fine, to make it more polite you add desu at the end I think. There is no 'a' in Japanese, like in chinese. Ups and downs? Yes, but I'm not that sure what they are because I'm not Japanese.

[zhao*yun]

up n down? oh the tone? nah... jap dun hv neth lk tt... some word can hv 2 means depends on the sentence... mostly the kanji is different but the pronounciation is same... 1 kanji can also be read in many pronounciation... lk the word 'kokoro' means heart... it can also be read as 'shin'... do u know samurai-X? there's a character there name kenshin... 'ken' means sword and 'shin' means heart... i think the chinese also read the kanji 'shin' as 'xin'... d meanings r same... the jap divide the kanji into 2 parts... chinese-sound and japanese-sound... it's kinda hard to differ them though...