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alaureijs · Post by **alaureijs** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:53 am

I'm envious... You got to learn other languages than the standard English, German and *sigh* French... I wish they (schools) had appreciated Spanish more and the historical ties with Japan (450 year relationship and no lessons in that language... odd)

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:13 pm

here in Québec we learn French and English. Spanish is available but for other languages, you must search a lot!

Japanese for example is only given in 1 university out of the 20...

Elberet · Post by **Elberet** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:00 pm

kidan wrote:watashi ha baka desuyo.

Could you explain what meaning or purpose the "ha" has?

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:56 pm

In Japanese most things are done with particles.

'ha' (pronounced 'wha' in this case) marks the subject/topic of the sentence.

So 'watashi ha ...' means 'involving me ...' or 'speaking of myself ...'.

The genitive is made with the particle 'no'
'kore ha watashi no mono desu.' = 'regarding this here, it is a thing of mine.'

If you tell a direction you use the particle 'he/ni'.
'doko ni ikimasuka.' = 'where are you going to?'

As seen above questions are made by simply adding the question-particle 'ka' at the end of the sentence (and replacing the subject with a question-word).

The particle 'yo' at the end of a sentance is somehow compareable to an exclamationmark, as it stresses the statemant.

I think Japanese grammar is far more easy than German grammar, as it is more logical. But be warned: counting is not that easy and of course kana and kanji are quite a burden, too.

Elberet · Post by **Elberet** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:21 am

kidan wrote:But be warned: counting is not that easy

It can't possibly be more confusing then the numeral system of D'ni...

Then again, D'ni is an artificial language, so it probably doesn't count.

kidan wrote:I think Japanese grammar is far more easy than German grammar, as it is more logical.

I'd sign that statement at once. I believe that Japanese doesn't even have irregular verbs, does it?

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:23 pm

Counting is a bit complicated, as there are 2 systems of numbers (I hope i got the right romaji, as I usually write those in kana or Kanji):
ichi - ni - san -yon -go - roku - nana - hachi - kyuu - juu - juuichi - ...
and hitotsu - futatsu -mittsu - yottsu - itsutsu - muttsu - nanatsu - yattsu - kokonotsu - too

The second system is used when counting little thinks which do not fit in any category for which counting-suffixes exist (unless there are more than 10) like rolls. There are different counting-suffixes for long things, little animals, big animals, flat things, people, electrical devices, days, months, years,... which you should know, to speak good Japanese (can be quite confusing in which category something belongs).

Elberet wrote:I believe that Japanese doesn't even have irregular verbs, does it?

Basically there are only 2 of them:

suru - shimasu = to be
kuru - kimasu = to come

Of course all of their composita follow the same irregular rules.

alaureijs · Post by **alaureijs** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:06 am

I heard that there is a different way of counting books, another for counting bottles and yet another for counting people and another one for counting pencils...

alaureijs · Post by **alaureijs** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:08 am

Iceman[grrrr] wrote:here in Québec we learn French and English. [...]

Naturally... those are all your mothers tongue... (or rather the official languages of your country)

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:32 am

Yes but the other languages are so inacessible!

Elberet · Post by **Elberet** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:27 am

Btw, to bring this thread back on topic... It'd be nice if one could select the notification type right from the anime page. For example, instead of

Anime page wrote:Notification: OFF - enable

make it:

Anime page wrote:Notification: OFF - enable: all new group

That'd make the feauture quite a lot more useable.

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:44 am

alaureijs wrote:I heard that there is a different way of counting books, another for counting bottles and yet another for counting people and another one for counting pencils...

books: ~satsu
bottles: ~hon (long and round)
people: >2 ~nin
pencils: ~hon (long and round, same as bottles)
...

alaureijs · Post by **alaureijs** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:02 pm

?bug? got a group notification today, but the group adding to the existing episode was of a different group. (I'm looking for Seichi, but got XF instead on Ragnarok.. no offence!!)

I like the feature.. less pop-ups (but that can be boring too *S*).. I am wondering how the group is determined?

Changing the notification type from the Anime page itself looks like a useful addition to me too..

EXP... onegai... ???

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:23 pm

I guess group notify pops-up if you have one fie of that group for that anime.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:27 pm

*claps*

Je cemprend seulement la gare...

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:16 am

la gare ??
Did you mean "la guerre"

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new notification type [DONE?]

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