Hello, Yankee. This is the thread where we learn to speak Nihongo, so that we may one day speak like Happy Japanese.

This isn't a Japanese question per se, but I have a question about input. Does anyone here use SCIM to type Japanese? If so, how do I enter ッ/っ?

>>101
"xtsu" with Anthy. "ltsu" will also work. っ、ッ。

ビップ。

It works, thanks, VIPPER.

>>103
Won't typing "bippu" add the ッ automatically?

>>104
Yeah, it works in Anthy. I've been used to the two kana modes, and it doesn't work there.

それはビップクオリティですね。

What does よくってよ mean?

>>107
It means いいよ as said by someone refined and ladylike. This person will most likely be fictional and will also say わたくし and だわ and suchlike.

>>108
;_;

After six months of "reading" Japanese texts and playing Japanese games, I'm happy with my kana mastery and I'd like to move on to kanji. The thing is, many people are telling me that at first I should just memorise the meanings without knowing the readings. To me, this seems like a shoddy way to do things, but so many people are behind it. Is that really the way to go?

>>110
If you can see a kanji and know what it means, it will help you faster than seeing a kanji, knowing how to pronounce it, but not having the first fucking clue what it means.

Heisig's Remembering the Kanji is a pretty cool book.

お前さんを抱擁したいですよ。

Today's lesson: turning a verb into an i-adjective about wanting to do the verb. Ex: ワッフルを食べたい, want to eat waffle; 抱擁したい, want to hug.

I'm reading Heisig and I made it to 800th kanji today!

朴路美みたいにハスキーな声でお前さんって呼ばれたい
想像するだけではぁはぁする

猫 (ねこ) (n) (1) cat; (2) (uk) (col) submissive partner of a homosexual relationship; (P);

>>116
Hahaha oh wow

I would just like to note that 祭 is the most beautiful kanji ever.

The tablecat posting is supposed to be read as "wareware ga teeburu no ue kara hikisagarimasen" (though I have no idea if this is how it actually came out). It's meant to say "[poncy] we shall not retreat from atop the table".

普通っていうなぁ〜！

>>121
糞

As for me, it's http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Taito_l.png

>>124
この意味のない、実在すらも疑わしい字になんともいえない儚い美しさを感じるんですね、わかります

As a big fan of capacitors, I'm changing my vote to 率.

I would like for you to explain why RAKI*SUTA is written in hiragana and メガネ is in katakana in the Castlevania games.

>>127
It's usually in katakana.

I very recently started to learn the language for real because that's what all the cool kids are doing.
I downloaded a flash card program with flash cards for the kanas and kanjis, and the Pimsleur lessons.
Wish me perseverance, VIPPERs.

>>129
You should check out Heisig's books.

>>130
I thought those only became useful once you actually started learning them Chinese hieroglyphs at all. I'm really still at the awkward stage of remembering the difference between る and ろ, or ぬ and め, and of remembering the keyboard shortcut I assigned to switching keyboard layouts.
Well, anyway, I should check it out now since I'll (hopefully) need it very soon.

>>132
Heisig also wrote the book on the kana. I don't know how good it is, though, since I taught myself kana by memorisation and drills.

私は、サギです。私は長い首があり、嘴で水にいる魚を摘みます。
10他のスレにこのコメントを再投稿しないと、私はあなたのキッチンへ今夜に飛行し、鍋やフライパンを台無しにする。

I have spent almost five hours trying to get the bitch to agree to lunch, but we are still debating where to go have it and whether to drink sake or beer because the narrator refuses to teach me the vocabulary required to eat lunch then proceed into an afternoon of debauchery.

>>135

Just yell SEKKUSU at her until she bends over.

>>136
I thought he had to say FAKKU

Well, she agreed to dinner, but she wants to have it at 4 o'clock. Maybe it's a timezone thing?
Regardless, I'm more concerned about her having at least three different family names, changing between them seemingly at random. I don't even know her first name yet.

We have finally settled on the time to have dinner tomorrow, at her place... But now the instructor is teaching me how to count money. Is this some sort of foreshadowing? I fear the worst.

私は、サギです。私は長い首があり、嘴で水にいる魚を摘みます。
10他のスレにこのコメントを再投稿しないと、私はあなたのキッチンへ今夜に飛行し、鍋やフライパンを台無しにする。

>>140
As I translated this piece by piece via my Google Translate menu plugin, I carried out much w

韓国優れています。

私は大きい太い臀部です。

Can someone translate this?

どこの嫁もこうなのかなぁ…
仕事おわって帰ったら嫁が出迎えもせずにソファーで横になってた。
風邪ひくぞと声をかけたが相変わらず無視。

最近全然Ｈさせてくれなかったから嫁の横になってる姿みたら我慢できなくなって
今がチャンスと襲い掛かった。

裸にしておっぱいにしゃぶりついても起きる様子はなく、パンツも脱がしていじりまくった。
もともとマグロな嫁ではあるが久しぶりにいじり続けてもまったく声も出さず、感じもせず。

なんかムカついたから空気抜いて押し入れにしまってやった。

>>144
You're lucky I saw this while drunk, I don't translate things when I'm sober.

Is everyone's wife like this...?
When I finished work and came home she was lying down on the sofa, didn't even come greet me.
I told her she'd catch cold but got ignored like usual.

I haven't been getting any from her recently and seeing her lying there I couldn't take it anymore - I saw my chance and pounced on her.

I got her naked and sucked her tits but she showed no sign of getting up, took her panties off too and played around with her.
She was always the kind that just lies there but I'm giving her some attention for the first time in forever and she's not making a sound, not feeling anything.

Kinda pissed me off so I let the air out of her and put her back in the closet.

>>145
w's were had, would request translation again.

Thanks

(*ﾟーﾟ)

So, hey, bump for some advice.

I'm slowly, slowly learning the language, mostly orally. Once I can decipher all kana reliably, I don't plan on actively learning more than the bare minimum of kanji, since I expect to use technology (and in my travels, my evil foreigner status) to make the rest of them magically go away.

So, a question, where could I find some good material to listen to during the very long car rides I have to take way too often to my taste?
Not lessons like Pimsleur that require your attention and advise you against doing more than one half-hour lesson everyday, I need something entirely in Japanese I can leave in the background for hours and ignore like a normal radio program, and that I don't need to fully understand to learn from.
I'm thinking audiobooks accessible to kids and stuff like that. Maybe podcasts that deal in mundane matters that don't require fancy words. Major bonus points if they are not anime drama CD.
It needs to be more or less easy to acquire, too!
Any ideas?

>>148
Rip audio from nico videos where some guy plays a game and does funny commentary. It's pretty relaxing. It's also easy to rip just do this:
Go here http://www.nicomimi.net/
Paste in the nicovideo url into the box
It'll grab the audio for you and you can download it from there. Done!

>>148
Here's some cute radio shows: http://sayu.no-ip.com/usachan/peace.php

Or you can be old-school and listen to the NHK shortwave radio broadcasts.

On Monday I start Japanese 202. It's been 4 years since I've had any Japanese so I'm a little nervous. I should have studied more in my spare time. OTL

>>152
Good luck, VIPPER! Hopefully they'll have a small review period or something.

VIPPERS I am moving to Japan in four months and I need to learn to speak enough to solicit prostitutes and order beers. Please help me learn.

biiru o kudasai - give me beer
onna o kudasai - give me woman

Don't forget yaranaika.

>>155
I almost forgot how terrible Japanese looks in ro~maji.

I would like for someone to recommend me some Japanese texts that I should be able to understand knowing basic grammar.

Please use your powers to translate different 2-ch threads for everyone to enjoy.

>>154
Dear VIPPER, another VIPPER and I will also be in Japan for the entire month of July. I suggest we BOON together. Thanks, bye.

>>154
>>160

How do you guys get enough money to go there? The plane ticket alone is 500-900 dollars.

I will never have enough money to visit the glorious Nippon. (´；ω；`)

>>160

What a coincidence, I too plan on visiting Japan in July. What area will you be in, VIPPER?

>>162
Tokyo, for the most of it. I'll also be visiting Osaka/Kyoto/Nara and maybe a few others as well. What about you?

>>163

I haven't decided. I have a friend in SAITAMA, a friend in the rural area of Tokyo and a friend in Toyota city. I'd like to visit all of them, maybe do the 2 week rail pass? But I am sure they will all be busy...

>>164
Ah, then I think some booning is in order. Saitama is close!

>>165

Indeed, indeed. Any idea about how much money I should bring?
I've never really traveled. I was thinking about 1500, is that too much?

>>166
Assuming you're staying with your friends, I would say that's a good amount to bring. You'll never know when you want to buy something, and you should always bring more money than necessary. It would suck to not be able to eat for the last few days because of an impulse purchase of a rare Za Warudo figure.

>>167

I will probably not be staying with them, as they all live at home with their parents and I do not want to intrude on them.

>>168
Ah, you should look into hotel costs. Hostels might be an option, and capsule hotels would work if you're not claustrophobic. Depends on what you're comfortable with. 1500 should probably still be enough.

>>166
$100 a day is a pretty good amount, but you should bring a little bit more if you are planning on buying anything in particular.

今日は日本語の試験があるよ。でもぜんぜん勉強しなかった。ＯＴＬ

I would like to inquire about the presence of the "ho" character at the beginning of ホワイト. I'm not a native English speaker; do English-speaking people pronounce "white" with some added sound at the beginning?

>>172
Everybody I know pronounces it "ワイト」。I think some people might put a "huh" sound at the beginning of "wh" words, though I haven't heard it personally.

>>172
I live in Texas, where plenty of people pronounce "white" and other such words with an extra "huh" at the beginning. It's rather subtle, though; it's not another syllable, it's more like they pronounce it as if it were spelled "hwhite."

Why can't I find good grammar exercises.

I want to visit this summer, but 2000 dollars is the cheapest air-fair I could find OTL Any VIPPERs know of a cheaper flight?

>>176
Try Couchsurfing. They have more information then you could ever hope to sift through.

語 (ご), (n, n-suf) language

So that they get to stick it at the end of compound expressions without going on'yomi, the word is both a noun and a "noun suffix". It's like a language of a people who dislike irregularity at a fundamental level.

Hello all, high school student here. I have the chance to smuggle my way into a Japanese high school in a student exchange program - This would imply me paying for airplane costs, and then having a host family that will feed me and give me a place to sleep for a year. Is this an idea I should consider? What could the possible downside/s be?

>>179

>smuggle

Explain.

>What could the possible downside/s be?

Foreigner in Japan, Japanese school system, host family may not like you if you aren't what they expected, immigrations red tape, lack of support, etc.

Essentially, it comes down to what you're willing to handle. Think about your limits and then consider what you might be facing. Then, don't think, feel and you'll be tanasinn.

>>179
I don't know, what are the chances that a member of your host family could be a VIPPER?

>>179
I have a friend who did that for a summer, and she had a very pleasant experience with her host family. If asked, she at least would recommend it. But heed >>180's warning, of course.

>>181
Don't count on it, but they could be VIP QUALITY in other ways nonetheless.

>>181
In Japan ?
I'd say about 90%

>>182
Isn't that exactly what he's worried about?

Hello VIP

I really enjoy this Japanese blog. I think it's a nice place if you want to try out your basic Japanese knowledge.
http://www.koichiben.com/

I like that blog so much that I'm going to bump this thread.

Any VIPPERs coming to Japan this month? If so, please respond and we can boon together!~

ユダヤ人ら

日本人の祖先はイスラエル人だったそうですね
だから日本のネット文化を嗜むVIPPER達はある意味ユダヤ文化を楽しんだり真似たりしているのです。

SAoVQ is jews

So I can chain adjectives using the te-form, but what if I want to say something like "I like VIPPER and his mittens are kawaii."?
”ＶＩＰＰＥＲは好きで、彼のミトンはかわいい。”? Is this correct?

うんこは苦くて美味しいですよ

How do I attract a Japanese BBW?

あいうえお-かきくけこ-さしすせそ-たちつてと.

いまわなんじですか。ごぜんふういちはんです。こんびゎんわ。

This post commemorates my first Japanese classes!

>>193
I didn't even know there was a small ゎ character. What's it used for?

>>194
I don't know. That isn't what I meant to type.

As for me, it is clear that I'm a beginner.

すみません。

>>193
こんにちは。
私もちょっと日本語を分かる。
ビップと一緒は、簡単な日本語を話そう！

People will tell you Japanese used to have the sounds くゎ and ぐゎ but I don't believe them, ゎ clearly just exists because it is cute.

はらへた〜。もしかしてビップと一緒お食事しようか。

おまえら英語ばっかで話してんじゃねーよ