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The cafe is nice. It’s not a place I’d go for dinner as much for a quick snack, and a place to rest your feet. That’s largely because the portion sizes are small, but the food is tasty. I really like the mayonnaise pizza.
That said, if you’re looking for a good show while you eat I highly recommend the Back Stage Pass cafe on the top floor of the Akihabara Cultural Center. The girls will really spend a lot of time chatting with you, and they put on a live stage show. At one point a girl sang to me that I was her oshimen. It was kind of awesome. ;)
I’ve been to the AKB cafe a few times now, and I’ve gotten some of the collectable coasters. My wife, and I haven’t gotten any of our favorites, so we thought we’d share. If you have an oshimen or two just let me know, and if I have their coaster, or I get it later, I’ll mail it to you free of charge.
I’m surprised that after two or three days Japanese news shows are still doing in depth coverage on it. I mean that’s impressive. I had no idea idols were so huge to people outside of Akiba.
Also, I was very amused by a morning show yesterday. I had recently tweeted that Japan should just give up and name itself Japan 48, and then a morning show explicitly said that the idols that ranked were JPN48.
I didn’t have access to a TV the night of the election, but wandered into a random “British” Japanese pub, and it was on the TV, and everyone was watching. I got there just in time to see 峯岸みなみ’s speech.
Thanks for this! I can’t wait to run through it later tonight.
I think this is an incredible service because most people here watch anime, or can easily watch anime, and this will help encourage us to turn off the subtitles, and really practice our input.
I’d love to see search get added. Might reduce the number of threads on this or other popular topics. :)
Thanks Andrew, I think you’re right.
After reading the responses I think you are all right. I wanted to edit my original post to show my summary of my findings. Both the direct simple answer to my question, and the philosophies and experiences you guys have shared. Sadly, the edit button isn’t appearing on my screen at the moment?
@Andrew – According to the Android app HJ Lite (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.braksoftware.HumanJapaneseLite&hl=en):
“…Japanese on the other hand, has very strict rules about what is and isn’t a language sound. The total number of one-syllable building blocks out of which any Japanese word can be constructed is – wait for it – about 110.” It goes on to say that we can only guess how many are in the English language, but many estimates say it’s safely 8,000.
I’ve read on one other site that it was closer to 200 sounds in Japanese, but I don’t remember that source or the exact number. The other source may have decided to define uniqueness slightly differently as well. Either way you can see why I compare it to a hash table or the Pigeonhole principle.
I’ve also seen loan words have ウ be both w or u.
I see katakana as a giant game of Mad Gab (http://www.madgab.org/)
Hollered Hay We Canned => Holiday Weekend
He Legs Shunned Hey => Election DaySo if you can hear yourself saying it, then you’ll likely know the loan word.
If you’re a computer guy then think of going from English to Japanese, with the loan words, like using a hash table. You’ll find the answer based on approximation, but you risk collisions. ;)
If you’re a math guy then it’s not unlike the Pigeonhole principle, but I think that’s a weaker comparison.
Man, I just need to really listen to you guys. I think this post both gives me the clarity I wanted, and supports what you guys keep trying to tell me:
From @Tsetycoon13
“The official rule is that if there is JUKUGO, or compound-kanji (at least 2 kanji NEXT to each other), both kanji use the ON’YOMI.
You use the KUN’YOMI when the kanji is BY ITSELF. You also use the KUN’YOMI when hiragana FOLLOWS the kanji to generate the meaning of the word.
HOWEVER, EXCEPTIONS are ALL OVER THE PLACE. A kanji by itself may favor the on’yomi, and two kanji in jukugo may favor the kun’yomi. A jukugo may even have on’yomi for one kanji and kun’yomi for the other!
I usually try to just know the actually word in the first place, and then understand how the reading of the kanji works. I’d say that despite these rules, at least 45% of all words have these reading exceptions.
Good luck!”So if the exceptions didn’t exist it sounds like the only time you’d use an on’yomi is if you have compound kanji. Is that correct?
I did, but I was asking, at least in my mind, a slightly different question at the time.
You gave me a good lol though, thanks, I needed that after today. :)
Edit:
I do apologize for being confusing between my two posts. Part of the reason I posted a second time is I started to notice that I kept bombing kanji readings. I was often getting them flipped, and not knowing when to do one or the other. The other conversation made me feel OK enough with that, but when I read a page on Textfugu where Koichi encouraged me to explore my weaknesses, and take action now to overcome them I realized I was still doing poorly with kanji. This caused me to want to double check my understanding between the two even more closely. After searching, and reading, and searching, and reading I felt like I was missing a key simple rule that clarified the two. I thought I had, at one time, read a clear simple rule, but couldn’t remember where.
Anyway, that’s my long rambly excuse. I’ll check those links out, and hopefully never ask a similar question again. I really do appreciate your effort to help me. :)
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Same here. If I have more than one option I prefer to go with the optimal, but if I can have more than one option I’ll take them all. ;)
If I find one I like, or find that I didn’t like any of them over my smartphone then I’ll update the thread. If I wait till I get back then that’ll be sometime in July though.
@Crystal – Yeah, that’s what I’m doing for now. I’m doing it with my Droid though. I’ve heard some conflicting advice on the topic though. Some people agree with Koichi, and say a smartphone dictionary is all you need, and I’ve heard other says that the more expensive ones have some advantages. In the end the best advice I was given is to go to Akiba, and test a few of the expensive ones out, and see if they actual will be helpful for my needs.
@kanjiman8 – Good idea. I’ve been trying to remember, but I didn’t think about making a note of it at the time. :(
Haha, that pic is hilarious!
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