that gets the idea across, but I think you need to switch your sentence order a bit. as far as I know, it should be like this…

日本語で「bicycle」は、何と言いますか？
にほんごで「bicycle」は、なんといいますか？

or more casual would be …
日本語で「bicycle」は、何て言うの？
にほんごで「bicycle」は、なんていうの？

日本語で「bicycle」は何ですか？
にほんごで「bicycle」はなんですか？
Lit. What is “bicycle” in Japanese?

I know how frustrating it can be to learn a new language all too well =( The beginning can be a pain as much as the middle and (I imagine) the end.. (if such a place exists when learning a language).

The same advice I give my students learning English applies to us studying Japanese (and has basically been covered in this thread).

We need to focus on our small victories more than the gaps in between. All too often (especially intermediate and advance students) focus on the parts of speech that they do not understand, rather than what they do. For beginners it’s much easier not to fall into this pattern at the beginning because 95% is unknown.

Just recognize what you do understand and pat yourself on the back for knowing at least that much and use that as fuel to keep studying!

Another option for typing in Japanese (that is if you have it on your iPhone) is using the typical entry system used by Japanese people on their cell phones.

If you haven’t seen it before, each number has a consonant pronunciation associated to it and you tap it the number of times to get to the proper vowel sound you are looking for.

The layout is as such

あ　か　さ
た　な　は
ま　や　ら
＾　わ　。

＾ – this is for text based emoticons
。 – this is for punctuation
わ – this is for わ、を、ん、ー

so, if you want to type ko n ni chi ha
you would
tap か 5 times
tap わ 3 times
tap な 2 times
tap た 2 times
tap は 1 time
and hit enter/accept

This takes a LOT of getting used to. My old cell phone ONLY had this option for entering Japanese, I could not use romanji, However, I recently bought an iPhone and have the additional option of typing like a computer (romanji style) to type my Japanese, which has made me lazier again =(

Ahh, interesting!

I’m actually French Canadian, but neither of my parents spoke French. (All of my Grandparents could speak French, but sent their children to English school, so it ended with my parents)

Now I live in Japan and forget all the French I learned in Elementary and High School… It has all been replaced by Japanese. If I even try to speak in French, just Japanese comes out!

I’ve only heard it in a few cases in my life too.
First was happy new year. よいおとしを
And have a good weekend/holiday よいお休みを

Both situations seem to mean have.

This commercial was really common shortly after the earthquake. AC is the company which sells commercial air time (basically). After the earthquake, many channels were 100% news (no commercials) after about 4 or 5 days, some stations started airing some commercials and eventually went back to some regular programming.

When that happened, not as many companies were buying commercial air time, but they couldn’t just make the TV shows longer, and instead of leaving dead air, this commercial was aired VERY VERY often. So many people hated it, lol.

Anyways, as for the dog on the ball…

「こんにちワン」 ワンワン is the sound of a dog barking in Japanese.
of course you probably know that 犬（いぬ）means dog, however ワンちゃん is also a very common name or term too. ワンちゃん is typically used by children, but also by adults. (it’s a subtle difference my friend is having trouble explaining, but she said it kind of includes かわいい plus いぬ when used by adults)