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はじあまして、こんのさんです。
あめりかじです。
わたしはだいがくのさんねんせいです。
せんもんはあじあけんきゅうです。
どうぞよろしくおねがいします。
Just to make sure I know what I wrote down I have:
Nice to meet you, my name is Konno (I dont know katakana yet, and my name is Connor, but I think i did good with the hiragana that i know, lol)
I am an american.
I am a junior in college.
My major is asian studies.
Nice to meet you.
Ok now, lemme tell you whats going on with me in english. I am visiting Japan for a month in the summer and needed a foreign language credit and thought, why not Japanese because I love the language and already try and learn it with a friend (who by the way i and beating ^_^ )
My first name is not Connor but my teacher calls me Connor because even english teachers confuse which name of mine is first and last because they both can be first and last names, lol.
I know its a bit childish but my only exposure to the actual spoken language is from animes that I watch. I really have a great time learning the language and hope to be able to speak as good as my japanese friend can. He's incredible, of course he has an accent but once I got used to it I totally could understand every word he said, He plans to be a Japanese teacher here in america.
Ummm, idk what else to say, I'm kinda hoping I can ask for help on this forum. Like I was trying to figure out how to say what time it is for example:
- なんじですか。
+ごごきゅうじよんじゅうはちふん。
i felt the need for a dialogue, lol. But i believe i asked what time it is then answered by saying that it is 9:48 pm.
I'm kinda just looking for corrections atm, like just then I reread what i typed and forgot to specify PM then had to also correct 48 cause at first i just wrote 40.
But ya I'm hoping you guys are open to help me.
oh yea and is it customary to use commas when writing japanese? I know there are no question marks.
-Connor
 
はじあまして、こんのさんです。
あめりかじです。
わたしはだいがくのさんねんせいです。
せんもんはあじあけんきゅうです。
どうぞよろしくおねがいします。

はじめまして。 JREFへようこそ!
わたしは あしかが といいます。
こちらこそ、よろしくおねがいします。

Just to make sure I know what I wrote down I have:
Nice to meet you, my name is Konno (I dont know katakana yet, and my name is Connor, but I think i did good with the hiragana that i know, lol)
I am an american.
I am a junior in college.
My major is asian studies.
Nice to meet you.

You do not use "san" for yourself (unless you are talking to a small child and referring to yourself as "Mr. Connor"). As for "Asian Studies", I believe the correct term is "Ajia-gaku" but I think more people would understand "Ajia (no) kenkyuu" better as you have written. Is "Konno" what you would like to go by? If you were going for Connor, the most common way to write/say it in Japanese would be "こなー"(hiragana) or "コナー"(katakana).

...Like I was trying to figure out how to say what time it is for example:
- なんじですか。
+ごごきゅうじよんじゅうはちふん。

①(いま)なんじですか。
② ごご くじ よんじゅう はっぷん/はちふん です。

When followed by じ, the number nine is pronounced く instead of きゅう. While I do not think はちふん is a mistake, it is more common to pronouce it "happun" as it is easier to say.

Feel free to post your language-related questions. There are some very knowledgeable members here who are nice enough to help out their fellow JREFers.

Welcome to JREF! 🙂
 
oh wow

Ummm I am soooo soo sorry. But I don't understand.
I've only been in the class for 3 weeks if that helps. But I do think you said something about science in your second line?
Maybe I should not have put hiragana in my introductory post, lol.

Ok so no ~san when I'm referring to myself.
Oh and the asian studies... In my text book that's what it says and that's the only thing i have read so far. ^_^
And for how you spelt my name in hiragana what is that horizontal dash, i thought that was katakana? But yes I was going for Connor.
Ahhhh your right!!! about the くじ i was trying to not look at my textbook as i wrote everything down. Thank you for correcting me!!!
And I forgot to specify that that I wanted to know the time for this very instant. the いま.
Ya i have that other way of saying 8 minutes in my book also. Ok so use 'happun'.
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I'm so sorry i probably seem really ignorant at the moment, for doing more than I actually know. But if you could or have time to rewrite your intro lines in english id be glad to say hi. lol.
and thank you very much for the corrections!
 
はじめまして、コナーさん!
わたしはハーフとハーフです。
わたしもだいがくせいです。(にねんせいです。)
どうぞよろしく!

Hey Green44, welcome to JREF! I hope you enjoy it here and learn a lot. Sorry for speaking for Ashikaga but his second line says, "My name is Ashikaga." The ー is a long vowel marker i.e. konaー becomes konaa.
 
Thank you half-n-half!!!
I hope I learn a lot and keep up with my Japanese.

So just to be clear my name, Connor, would translate to Konna, こなあ, is it ok that I didn't the long vowel marker there... I'm not sure how to do that on my computer, lol.
 
はじあまして、こんのさんです。
あめりかじです。
わたしはだいがくのさんねんせいです。
せんもんはあじあけんきゅうです。
どうぞよろしくおねがいします。

はじめまして、コンノさん。
私は氷男です。
ようろしくおねがいします。

(I dont know katakana yet, and my name is Connor, but I think i did good with the hiragana that i know, lol)

if you type in your PC according to changnig style from hiragata to katakana, you can click on SPACE to change the word from Hiragana to kanji or katakana.

JREFへようこそ!

sorry ASHIKAGA, but ようこそ what is the exact meaning to it .
 
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