Whats wrong Az?

Also welcome Sui :D

And question for the thread, whats the difference between Hiragana & Katana @.@; like which one is the one your suppose to use and everything.

Hiragana is for everyday writing and stuff
Katakana is for foreign words

:3

Kanji can be a pain some times... Also how to you get the characters on your computer so you can type with them?

ugh i wish i could remember vocab *shiku Shiku*

here ya go white :3

度も有賀とございます。
Domo arigato　gozaimasu。
Thank　you.

どういたしまして
douitashimashite
your welcome

:3

that one site you gave me is interesting! I like that you can listen to leasons i just wish it was free~~

which one? there are a lot of them up on the front page :3

Japanese pod 101! where ever that one is~~

ah yea. they have a free account but you barely get anything..

the word of the day emails you get are helpful :3

i got to try the premium version for 3 months FREE x3 it was epic and i downloaded everything i could x'D

that is good! I just like it because i just need refreshers that is all so i t is nice just for that~

i kinda want an ipad so i can put my lessons and stuff on it because I downloaded the PDFs and stuff too.. this way i can review with out needing a computer =/

oh that would be very nice, but i don't have one of those... I just wish i could re-take the classes at school, but my three years in high school counted for the two classes they offered in college... and they wouldn't let finial aid cover it since i already had the credits in it TT^TT

i wish my highschool had japanese courses D:

I just wish i took it in Middle school instead of Spanish... curse my low self esteem... I would of had 7 years i think, if i took it thoughout middle school... lame right?

that got rid of it in middle school though TT^TT we were soo worried about our sensei's job when we found out that they might get rid of japanese in high school

all my school had was French and Spanish

and the middle school had no other language so.. that and to even TAKE a foureign language you needed good grades in English which i didnt =/

今日、日本語の試験がある。。。心配している。たんごをたくさん。。。忘れた。ー＿ー
きょう、にほんごのしけんがある。。。しんぱいしている。たんごをたくさん。。。わすれた。ー ＿ー

Today, I have a Japanese exam... I'm worried. A lot of the vocab... I forgot. -_-

そうな！がんばってよ AZさん。できるよ！

Ｏｈ　ｎｏ！　ｄｏ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｂｅｓｔ　Ａｚｓａｎ．　ｙｏｕ　ｃａｎ　ｄｏ　ｉｔ！

@dk: awwhh the japanese program for us got cancelled soon after our year. other then that we had french and spanish too.

And new vocab for me to learn.. i was never to good with vocab in it's te form T^T my　先生　taught us masu form first..

kanji=sensei

がんばって！！
Ganbatte!!
Do your best!!

Two problems:

(1) You misspelled "doumo" and "arigatou".

(2) That phrase is usually written without kanji at all -- in fact, native speakers may have to double-take to realize what it was you said.

But good work getting the IME running, and keep trying!

hmmm well i am new at this japanese thing you showed me and not good at kanji at all, but i think i can handle the spelling errors... it was just soo long ago that I did japanese.. that and i am use to writing it out... no more kanji for me!

どうも　ありがとう　ございます。
domou arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you very much.

Now i feel better. i just have to remember the long vowels~

ええ、ぼくもかんじがきらい。
Ee, boku mo kanji ga kirai.
Yeah, I dislike kanji, too.

I never know if I'm using the right kanji because I know so few characters x.x;;

はい、　はい。　ほんとう　です　ねえ。
hai, hai. hontou desu nee.
yes, yes. so true.

i was suppose to know over 100 by the time i graduated but i barely think i know 25...

I probably know about 200 or so kanji, or... mmm... yeah, maybe about that many? Maybe 250 depending on the time. >3<' I need to keep up with them though so I don't forget them :(

I probably failed my test, but... IDK I don't care right now x.x

I know my number kanji and the days ouo

When I graduated, I knew 500 or so. I've forgotten a great many since then. *is old fart*

@_@ I should know about 500 kanji... but I'm bad at remembering them because we don't use them often enough :P

they have WAY to many kanji =w=

There's only around 2200 official kanji. Much better than Chinese! And consider the size of your English vocabulary; you certainly know more than 2200 words, and English is pretty awful at being able to figure out how to write a word just based on its sound.

Coda, how did you learn your kanji? Did you learn it by compounds (remember which kanji goes with which and how it was read) or did you just memorize all the readings of each kanji? (that's what I did, memorize the readings. Cause from there you can usually guess how something is read, then if you know the reading of one, or if you know the vocab)

I can't spell my english words to save my life D:

XD I can't spell in THREE different languages that I can write! Yay for me <3
english, Japanese, OR Korean. Especially Korean... XD

xD I wanna learn one at a time and i gave up on english ;3

LoL
I think my spelling's so bad with Korean cause I'm not entirely certain on how to pronounce things @_@'

Neither! I learned kanji as part of vocabulary instead of standing alone. I would learn a word including how to write it, and that was that. If I came across a kanji I recognized in a word I didn't, that was at least enough information to look it up, and thereby learn another reading for it. But I never focused on practicing "this character has these readings" or "this compound sounds like this".

Korean's pronunciation is very normal and consistent. It's very much like Japanese in that regard. And it's an alphabetic language like English, just organized into written syllables to make it even easier to see the cadence of the word.

Aaah >3< That would be a good way to learn it practically, but unfortunately for school since we were tested on vocab usually, and Kanji only during final/midterm, there was never any reason to remember the kanji as well as trying to remember the word @_@ But I don't know, I do prefer just learning all of the readings.

I know it's consistent, but I find it very difficult to pronounce. Along with the writing, there's some rules I can never quite remember as well. >3<' Something about the fourth character going over to the next syllable or something like that. I don't remember ;-;

i wish i could remember the kanji i learned, it was just so much and towards the last year i started to not study and stuff, which made everything harder...

Kanji is hard to memorize ._.

it soo is! then trying to memorize the stroke order UGH... that is the worst!
My sensei really worked us hard on it too..