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Armando wrote:
> If I’m right, I should really stop using translations since they just change everything and confuse me… >.<I try not to think too much about song lyrics. Even in English, song lyrics tend to not make a great deal of sense. =)
Actually, I was wondering the same thing too. I always took it to be either poetic language or an implied verb.
Gigatron wrote:
> I’m told you can do in Japanese while still being grammatically correct.This is because of the particles. Word order is important in English because there’s nothing in the language itself to indicate what part a word is playing in a sentence – that is, “A verbs B” and “B verbs A” are different sentences. Since Japanese has particles, though, you can rearrange things and still retain the same meaning – “A が B を verb” and “B を A が verb” would be the same sentence. Though the latter might be a little more tricky to understand when listening.
I still thought you still had to have the verb last, though, but I guess that’s where the poetic language comes into it.
Michael wrote:
> Sounds like it should be a French word, spelled “animé” :PFrom memory, French does have something to do with it. Animation came to Japan from France, or something like that. Or maybe I’m misremembering. In any case, “anime” is an abbreviation of “animation” – which doesn’t really help in this discussion, since it’s pronounced “a-nee-may-shun” – which is spelt in Japanese as アニメーション. Hence アニメ.
Probably something like “takshii”. “U” sounds tend to get crushed.
So, am I the only person to blog my way through Japan, or simply the only person careless enough about Internet security to post a link in an essentially public forum? =P
Sorry, I meant “meh” is how you pronounce the “me” is “anime”, not “May”. “Mey” is closer than “may”, I suppose, but it’s still too drawn-out. I mean, I’ve seen one blog where the writer gives pronunciation guides whenever he writes a Japanese word or place name, and always uses “ay” every time a word has an “e” sound – for example, “Kobe is pronounced Koh-bay”. I just want to scream “it’s not bay! It’s beh!”
Yggbert wrote:
> The “me” in “anime” sounds the same as how you’d pronounce the month May anyway.… No it doesn’t. At least, not how I’d pronounce May. It sounds more like “meh”, only not so heavy on the h sound. Granted, “animay” is the way it usually gets pronounced in English, but “ahnimeh” closer represents how it’s meant to sound. Of course, the problem with using phrases like “sounds like” or “rhymes with” is that different English dialects pronounce vowels differently. (Interestingly, my Japanese lecturer commented that Americans usually have atrocious accents when speaking in Japanese, while Australians tend to be almost accent-free. Go figure. =P )
KiaiFighter wrote:
> (ie karate and karaoke, etc..)Ooo, and the old favourite, “kah-mah-kah-zeeee”. I mean, that’s not even how it’s spelt.
Yah. “Mon-ga” is too far the other way. Unless you were talking “mon” as in “Monday”. It’s kinda tricky to write the pronunciation of things in text.
And on that note, Yggbert, you’re not the first person I’ve seen write it, but why on Earth is “ay” the way you write the “e” sound?
I was the same as Michael – I stuck in the mouth and the spoon, and looked through what that turned up. I could also make out at least twelve strokes, so it couldn’t have any fewer than that. With those requirements, you only have list of about forty or so characters to look at (before they start getting so many strokes that they couldn’t possibly be the character we were looking for). Then I just looked through them until I saw the bit at the bottom (you know, the bit that looks like the bottom half of 並).
As it turns out, 嘘 has fourteen strokes, so twelve wasn’t too bad a place to start from. In hindsight, I probably should have recognised it faster, since I’ve actually looked up that character myself in the not-too-distant past (though admittedly the transcription artefacts in the video don’t really aid in reading).
As for handwriting recognition, I know there’s a kanji dictionary available for the DS which has handwriting-input system (which I’ve been tempted to buy, but have thus far managed with good old search-by-radicals) but I wasn’t aware of a similar one for phones. What sort of phone?
嘘 (うそ)
Something like jisho.org is helpful here, because it lets you try different combinations of radicals until you get one that looks right. I tried listening to it, but all I could make out was the o sound, but that at least helps if I find a character I think might be correct.
EDIT: GAH!!
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Joel.
Actually, I’m not sure why I said it’s not run by third-party companies. Gonna blame that on posting before I was fully awake. For some reason, I can’t edit it out of existence before someone reads it.
That said, I still stand by the rest of my post – your school will probably know best, or will have the networking and/or contacts to find out.
I think generally you’ll want to talk with your school and/or university for a student exchange program – it’s not, to my knowledge, ever run by third-party companies. At least, not in Australia – I couldn’t really speak for the UK with any certainty. That said, one I can suggest (if you need something to offer to your school/university) is Ritsumeikan in Kyoto. I was wanting to attend the winter program this year, until I realized I just plain can’t afford it right now. You’ve missed the deadline for the winter program, but you can still apply for next summer:
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/html/admissions/program_jp/rsjprwjp.html/
The JET program, incidentally, is not a student exchange program.
I’ve been using Nakama and Japanese for Busy People (the latter of which is mentioned on Tofugu’s resources page). I couldn’t really saythat they’re the BEST EVAR!! textbooks, because they’re the only ones I’ve had exposure to, but I’ve been finding them pretty useful.
Over here, Christmas break is summer holidays. That said, I plan to find a job. It’s been nine months…
I did. I went with a friend last year, though this was way back before I started seriously learning Japanese. Probably full of all sorts of mistakes. =P
I, uh, wasn’t so great at uploading photos for it, though, mostly because it took forever, but my friend uploaded a bunch. I promise to do better next time, especially now that I can work Microsoft Live Writer. I did, however, finish making a digital scrapbook of it a couple of months ago, which I’ve been meaning to upload somewhere…
Incidentally, the “Older Entries” link on the front page is currently broken thanks to a backend upgrade or somesuch like that – your best bet might be to click the “first post” link in the sticky post and navigate using the calendar after that.
I’m also very interested to read others’ blogs. I heartily endorse this product and/or service. =D
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