[Lucid:]

I've been learning my katakana over the summer, and reviewing some kanji recently too. ^.^;; It's not a lot, but I'm determined to not completely forget the bits of Japanese I know.

[Demonskid]

I been so busy and depressed over the summer i haven't done anything ..

I spoke one word of japanese when with my family in PA and got yelled at ;-;

[Lucid:]

;A; how horrible of them!
I watched some anime over the summer but not as much as I should have. my computer at work blocks most sites to watch anime on, and at home I was doing other things.

[Demonskid]

yea last week or the week before i answered the phone in japanese and got yelled at again xp

"you are an american so speak english!" >o i'll speak what ever i want

[Lucid:]

being multilingual is good! D:

[Demonskid]

it's not that.. they LOVE it when their kids speak spanish or french

but since it's something other then what schools around them teach, no. its bad.

I spoke some lines of Tatu's songs x'D

[Lucid:]

crazy people. D: what makes one language more acceptable than another? they should all be considered beautiful!

[Demonskid]

my family is evil and weird =.=


OH! I was watching Aoi House's Music Video and they spell I love you

Aishteru when its supposed to be Aishiteru

even if the i in shi is silent in the word it's still THERE.. when you look at the Higarana there is no 'sh' it's 'shi'

D8

[Lucid:]

That's why I hate romanji. =P Using the hiragana, it's ALWAYS spelled right! :D

[Demonskid]

Thanks for writing in, D.K.

I asked Jason DeAngelis (our resident Japanese expert and the person who helped with the lyrics for "Itsumo Futaride") about this, and he told me:

When romanized, the standard way of writing it would be 'ai shite iru'.
In spoken Japanese, however, it often becomes a contraction
pronounced "aishteru".



Hope that helps clear things up. Thanks!

that is what they told me =/

[Lucid:]

precisely why romanji sucks. it's just bad practice and nobody follows standard.

[Demonskid]

the thing is the Higarana sound is 'shi' =w= SHI there for when WRITTEN in Romaji like they did in the video.. it needs to be in there D<

[shinkamalei]

@demon:
what?!
part of america is us being a melting pot for everyone else! lolol
they should practice languages too

@lucid:
oh?
good job!

[Demonskid]

the note they sent me made no sense shin! ;-;

[shinkamalei]

note?
oh u mean the whole "aishteru" thing.
well you can note them back saying often times the "i" after an sh is silenced but there are so many times when its not.
like shimasu
or shinkansen
or shinyama D<
and so you shouldn't omit it in the romaji since it may mess up not only spelling but how they learn it.
besides that, there is also "su" which ending on the verb is pronounced "s" instead of "su".
do they write it like that as well?
and if so, be like there isn't any hiragana that is s or sh.
so yeah

[Demonskid]

I don't know about their su - s thing.. they only sang like 3 lines of japanese the rest in english

http://www.gomanga.com/flashanime/index_aoi.php

xp