Well "sunde" means "live/reside" ... but that doesn't make much sense in context. "Ikanari" probably was put in katakana for emphasis, I know that is done sometimes.

I wish I knew more, sorry XD

so I'm right when reading ikanari as 'suddenly' if so.. good ouo

now to figure out what sunda means *n*

Edit: yay help from Coda:

sunda - suru nda - suru mono da = "what is this thing you do?"

なっ - rude negative command

なぁ - after a verb means something similar to　ね

right now i'm asking myself WTF you thinking dk

I started playing a Japanese RPGMMO and well... I've learned the kanji for legend, bee, honey, success, flower, and benefit/welfare.

it took me all night last night and all day today to figure out.. I CAN CLICK ON THE BUTTON AND HAVE A GUIDE SHOW ME THE WAY TO THE MONSTER I NEED!

おめでとう！ Good job, DK!

花 = Flower.

That's the only one of what you said that I currently know XD

どもありがとう。 *bows*

so now i need to find 10 of 神秘の肉 (mysterious meat) .. but the bee's aren't dropping it! OnO　*works on translating the "クエストヒント" (Quest Hint)
HEY LOOK I'm GETTING USED TO READING KATAKANA! *n*
*cough*


Edit: So reading the Quest Hint.. I have to wait for evening for these　ムーンフロッグ (moon frog) to come out.. OMG THEY ARE SO CUTE x3 I'll post a screeny of them later

Hehe, I could read "meat," I just don't know how it's pronounced owo;

And I'm actually pretty good at katakana! I just mess up シ/ツ and ソ/ン :s-dead:


What is this game? I'm curious~

Lucent Heart Its pretty fun so far xD

Those katakana mess me up from time to time too but i'm getting used to them! *u*

Ok I was suggested to www.language-exchanges.org

I found a native Japanese person to chat with, he is going to help me learn. He said two things I am missing is having a Japanese environment, and immersion.

And to also 'mimic' what I hear. To try and get rid of any accents.

Then he showed me some videos of 2 different people. One who had NO accent at all, and another who had a heavy accent.

and then he showed me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO9V_gAs0M

I found this one to be my favorite cause it was funny.

Okay so do we know any good apps that are to help learn?

if you have a android the Tengu apps help =)

and the Human Japanese app is good

and Rosetta Stone has a Free app for for andriods

Hi D!

I don't know what those are but I am looking them up as soon as I finish making dinner.

I discovered that I could understand most of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4U06UAYWkQ

(There's also a version with subtitles at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85XtjQPhOr8 but don't cheat and watch it first ;) )

It makes sense -- since the movie is intended for children, the lyrics are kept fairly simple, nothing too difficult. So if you want to test yourself, or practice, give it a listen! If you can work up to being able to understand it without looking at the subtitles, then you've learned a lot!

Edit: The romaji is wrong in the subtitles, though.

Edit 2: And I'm not 100% in agreement with the translation back into English, though it's not awful. I'm pretty impressed by the Japanese lyrics.

Edit 3: Maybe I should try doing my own translation in a spoiler...

I did not understand most of it, but part of it was I couldn't understand the singer >w>; But I was able to mostly sing along to the version with subtitles -nod-

I got the 'video is private' message ;o; not fair

HI FAUX ouo

Mind if I jump in to try to teach myself?

(Now if I can just find a Dutch, Ugaritic, Afrikaans, Russian, Egyptian, and...other help places)

sure =) feel free to find a spot ^_^

So. I've been doing flashcards of kanji and I seem to be doing well! *yay*

Hey - it's a start.

I almost think I should scan my Japanese text book or post the PowerPoints from class. Those might be helpful to some here -nod nod-

*o* what text book?

-crawls over to ulti's place to get to her textbook-

I'll take either! <3

Eh? Textbook?

I'm taking college classes in Japanese! I'm currently in my fourth semester ^^

:o そうですか！　いいんですね、上手になっているんでしょう。

はい！ So much so that I could read everything you wrote, kanji and all! =D

ええっ？　本当？　もっと難しい事を使おう。

I got up to もっと that time XD　
But judging from the translation, I'm guessing 難しい says "muzukashii"

You would be guessing correctly!

Coda is on top of this.

Well, I did take six semesters in college and I've been TRYING to keep my skills up since then (though I'm kinda rusty).

O_O...I'll work on that.

Coda, I wish I would have taken Japanese. But I actually don't think they offered it at my college. Either two of them.
They have this intensity class that is eight hours, here in the city, that is popular. I don't know if I'm going to take it though. It's pricey.
I've just been teaching myself and it might have to stay that way.

... cause I'm poor. :(

In retrospect I really should have said 使いみよう there (tsukaimiyou, "let's try using") -- if anyone wants me to post up a grammar lesson on how that fits together I'd be happy to oblige.

Edit: Actually that should be tsukattemiyou... whoops, I'm rusty. I knew something sounded wrong.

It's fine XD I would have believed you either way.

I'm doing Japanese homework, anyone wanna do it for me? >w>;
It's easy enough, I just don't wanna do it

Anything you kids want to post - I would be totally happy with.

I wish I knew could get a hold of some Japanese nursery rhymes or something to learn it easier.

Well, I used TWO things there, so it's really two lessons, although they're both fairly small.

〜てみる (~te miru)
If you add "miru" to a verb in -te form, it changes the meaning to "try to X". So for example, たべてみる ("tabete miru") means "to try to eat" or "to try eating". It's a normal -ru verb at this point, so it conjugates as you would expect -- たべてみた ("tabete mita") means "I tried to eat" and たべてみてください ("tabete mite kudasai") means "please try to eat".

〜おう (~ou)
The -ou conjugation is called "volitional". It's usually translated as "let's X" or "shall we X?"

For -ru verbs, you drop the -ru and add -you. (miru -> mi + you -> miyou, shall we look?)
For -u verbs, you replace the -u with -o and then add a u at the end. (nomu -> nom + ou -> nomou, shall we drink?)

Oh, so ~おう is the plain form of ~ましょう? I never knew it existed =O

Yep, Ultima, you're exactly right, it's the same.

SCAN IT! OuO

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okvu9xhzyu...001-010.pdf?m=

MLC Japanese Language School gives free lessons and tests =)

Lol, I'm done already. But I do still have access online to all of my homeworks from all four semesters XD