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Even more fun: 王を往々覆う （おう を おうおう おおう）
Also, the word 大祖父 is pronounced おおおおじ according to jisho.org (rikai-kun is saying だいそふ, which seems a tad easier).Back in days of yore, I asked a similar question to this, using the example sentence 心を食べます – Koichi recorded himself saying it and uploaded it so I could listen. That was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I’m almost certain that was on the old forum, which is now no more. Is there some way I might still be able to access that, I’m wondering? It could still be on TextFugu’s servers, and I’m sure there’s a way to see all the media that’s been uploaded to site (remember doing it before but I can’t remember how and it was a long time ago).
Just move on. Knowing Koichi, it probably won’t be till next year that anything gets updated, sorry.
I thought I’d look it up but the only resource I could find was from maggiesensei – it didn’t seem to mention anything about that kind of usage that I could see. Also, it didn’t fully explain how to conjugate, only saying to replace れば with りゃ but nothing about 五段 verbs (e.g. 渡せば -> 渡しりゃ).
I’m going to guess it’s a “tough guy” way of speaking, so it’s not going to be used in everyday conversation much, if at all.
When giving kun readings, it’s usually the case that a common word is used but a . placed to separate the kanji reading and okurigana. So in this example, the reading should have been listed as ひさ.しい to show that ひさ is the kanji part. I’m not sure why they do that but they do.
I think it’s just a mistake on Koichi’s part, this page has it with the . : http://www.textfugu.com/kanji/%E5%A4%AA/#top
@Mark: I actually meant the example question, but yeah, the first proper question also wasn’t easy :P
@missingno15: Eh, I was close enough. Putting 私は instead of 渡しりゃ, I didn’t really think it made sense but I’ve never come across this りゃ thing before.
Also, why did you not practice listening? Did you really think you were that good at it that you didn’t need practice?@Joel: Good answers. As for the よう part, were you maybe thinking of みたい? そう has two different forms – one that attaches to a ます stem or い-adjective stem (e.g. 降りそう, よさそう) and one that is “stuck on the end” of verbs, い-adjectives and states of being. Oh, and there’s also っぽい. I’ve read Tae Kim’s page on the topic so many times but I can never *quite* get the hang of the nuances of all of them.
Ugh, my listening is so bad, certainly not N3 level anyway. As for the first question, I could definitely make out words from it – it wasn’t *all* gibberish – but I probably couldn’t give you a summary of what was said :S
I know 48 groups are part of why you and missingno15 are doing so well but they’re just not for me.
Sweet. Be sure to let us know how it goes when the time comes.
Are you preparing for N2 already? Have you done N3 yet? Either way, stop progressing so fast, it’s making me feel bad about how lazy and unmotivated I am :PAhhh, so *that’s* why it’s “all about the Benjamins”, he’s on the highest denomination note :D Do the faces on the bills ever change, or have they been these specific people for as long as you can remember? English notes always have the Queen’s head on one side (as do the coins) and some other historical figure on the back that changes fairly infrequently (Charles Darwin has been on the £10 note for quite a while now). Scottish notes have landmarks on one side (castles, bridges, etc.) and on the other side (depending on the issuing bank) either famous Scots, Sir Walter Scott, or some guy called Lord Ilay.
The UK used to have £1 notes, but they too were done away with… as far back as 1984 apparently, wow. Hold on, Wikipedia is saying one of the Scottish banks still issues a small number of £1 notes; I’ve both seen and used them in my lifetime, but nowadays they’re like seeing an albatross.
…did anyone really care about any of that? Probably not, but it passes the time while waiting for more people to answer :P
Nice work, Astralfox. I’m forever having trouble with stuff like that. However, some of them are a little hard to grasp just from the English translation – you should maybe try finding example sentences to go along with them, to give a better feel for how they work. I had no idea how それとも would be used till I looked it up on jisho.org’s sentences section just now. Did you just find these while reading through a dictionary or was it while you were reading/watching “proper” material, because if you could get the original sentences for context that would probably work quite well.
I should’ve been clearer there: when I said “our coins” I meant “British coins”, since all parts of the UK use the same coins; it’s just the notes that are different. We’re weird like that.
Yeah, it’d be cool if other people joined in too. There’s only a few I can think of that would be able to do it though.
As for Scotland, our money is also pretty colourful:
Admittedly, I can’t say I’ve ever seen those £50 or £100 notes before, not even in pictures. The thing with our money is that we have three different Scottish banks all producing different looking notes, plus we use a lot of money from English banks too, so our wallets are just a big mish-mash of different colours and pictures :P American money just looks so boring.
Also, newer versions of our coins form a picture on one side, which is pretty neat too.
Mark must be on holiday or something.
Last one was too easy; maybe this one will be *ever so slightly* harder ;) When you have such a small vocab in comparison to natives, it’s not that easy to make good ones…
・ 運 ・
自 ■ 物
・ 詞 ・(I’ve no idea how these are displaying for you – it’s not that simple getting it all to line up neatly, and while it looks ok to me, maybe your screens are different)
Also, didn’t realise the kanji in your last one had that significance. It makes sense that they would have some kind of meaning, but I obviously didn’t know enough 四字熟語 to see it.
・ 今 ・
朝 ■ 記
・ 陰 ・There you go, made one myself. Much easier words this time ;)
