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yup! mom's been on it for... 19-20 years now... xp

Niles? Are you another Illinois baby?!

I'm a Ohio girl sadly xD

there is a Niles in Illinois

Yup! Just outside of where I live.

wow!
So how have y'all been?

Sleepy! I should freaking go to sleep!

that you should! I hope you did too! ^^;
it's 3:25am for me, what time is it for you?

あのうね、日本語でしゃべるほうがいいでしょう？

anou ne, nihongo de shaberu hou ga ii deshou?

Uh, hey, it'd be better to chat in Japanese, right?

Edit: えへへ、そのメセージは少し女らしいだね‥‥
ehehe, sono mese-ji wa sukoshi onnarashii da ne....
Ehehe, that message sounded a little girly, didn't it...

I don't think I'm that advanced yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coda (Post 1098592)

i'm not good enough for that yet ;p

それはいいよ。気にしないで〜　出来る事を使ってくれ。チャットしよう！
sore wa ii yo. ki ni shinaide~ dekiru koto wo tsukattekure. chatto shiyou!
That's okay. Don't worry about it. Please use what you can. Let's chat!

Even if you don't know a lot, try to use what you do know. It's good for practice, and we can give you tips on how to improve.

I realize my third sentence up there has an interesting structure, so grammar lesson:

I won't be posting up vocab for a little bit. I lost the lists. But I will do a lesson soon-ish. I know I said that before but life is.. busy. And you should add Coda to the list of teachers~ <3

Also, I will be adding my lessons via blogger. So here is a lesson on pronunciation that I think we should have since we don't have anything on that at the moment specific to the thread.

http://japanesebyshinka.blogspot.com...up-little.html

I've been using my friends from Japan to practice on. They help me get my pronunciation correct.

ouo coda-sensei! *goes to add to the list*

how would one say 'i cant write in kana on my 3ds' -w-

cant seem to edit posts on my 3ds either :/

「3DSにかなを書けない」
"3DS ni kana wo kakenai"
literally "Kana cannot be written on a 3DS" but context usually implies "I cannot write kana on a 3DS".

You might also choose to say "kana de" instead of "kana wo" -- the difference is "writing with kana" instead of "writing kana". There's not a substantial difference in meaning, although I suppose "de" might be slightly preferable because obviously you can draw a picture of a kana in a picture message.

domo arigatou koda-san

thank you very much coda

:3

I don't have a 3DS. :( Maybe someday soon.

んもう、サイテー！　仕事で大変な問題があったけど、何しても全然直せない。;_;
nmou, saitei! shigoto de taihen na mondai ga atta kedo, nani shitemo zenzen naosenai.
Ugh, this is the worst! A serious problem came up at work, but no matter what I do I can't fix it.

だめ
dame
That's bad.

Coda can't fix something isn't good ono

I just got Roseta Stone for Japanese! <3

Oh you lucky thing you 3< that thing is too expensive for me to get..

I order the japanese demo and they sent german instead .. i was like.. no.. xp

Really?! That is terrible marketing.

yea.. its why i joined livemocha xD

Oh! I'll have to look that up. I still haven't practiced my Japanese tonight - but I will soon.

I should try to get back onto livemocha

I'm learning more words! And I'm going to start watching anime with the English subtitles then without them and see what I can pick out.

がんばって　よ！
ganbatte yo!

Good Luck!

:3 I can pick out certain phrases and stuff but thats about it ^-^,

I remember when I was at that level. I'm a little farther along than that now -- I can generally follow the basic idea of the conversation if they're not talking too fast -- but I'm really out of practice. ^^;

ouo I need to practice more

We all need more practice! If not we'd all be talking in japanese.

xD I hope i can one day speak it.. =w= for now I'm settling with "toire wa doko desu ka"

=w= this way I won't wet myself

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fauxreal (Post 1119078)

We all need more practice! If not we'd all be talking in japanese.

それで、どうしてそれは日本語じゃなかった？
sore de, doushite sore wa nihongo ja nakatta?
Then why wasn't that in Japanese?

;)

*pretends she's saying this in japanese*

I don't know enough japanese to form sentences other then how to ask for the toilet =w=

I tried though ouo I know that at the end the word 'wakarimasen' will be there buuuut... i dunno what else goes in the sentence other then nihongo. xD

The important thing is to try, even if you have to look up every other word in a dictionary and you're completely guessing at the grammar. Truthfully I don't even know how to make that particular statement; I would probably approximate it as "Because I only know a little Japanese, the only sentence I can make is 'where is the toilet?'." ("nihongo ga sukoshi dake wakaru kara, tsukutteru bun wa 'otoire wa doko desu ka' shika arimasen.")

OnO

コダさん　すごい！
Coda's awesome ono

Crap! I was typing up a mini-lesson and accidentally hit my browser's back button and lost the whole post. ;_;

Here's the mini-mini lesson now >.> Instead of breaking down the whole sentence like I was going to before, I'll just teach a single construction from it that I think is really useful: "kara".

"kara" can basically be read as "because." If you say "X kara, Y" then you are saying "because X, then Y". Combined with the "X wa Y desu" ("X is Y.") formula that most Japanese students should learn right away, you can express a lot of relationships with this. (Note that "desu" + "kara" turns into "dakara". It's not a requirement -- "desu kara" does exist, but it sounds kinda formal -- but it makes it sound more natural.) So for example you might say "inu wa ookii dakara, kowai desu." ("Because the dog is big, it's scary.")

I've heard Dakara used before 8D so thats what it means x3