I ask it here for I don't trust google...

[Mike Cash]

If you want to be taken seriously, might I suggest you give thought to not making references to learning Klingon?

 

[The7thSamurai]

lol. I had no idea what Klingon was until I did a Google search just then! I thought it was an Asian or African language!

 

[kohlrak]

I try to refrain from such referances as possible, considering people people think of it as a simple character exchange... Even though it does have grammar and does have logic behind it. The only difference it has from behing a normal language like all the others, is that it was made purely for entertainment purposes and has no background. Despite how much i despise lojban or whatever it's called (another language with no background, nor created for entertainment) i have to admit it is a language with grammar rules and i would have to respect one's expertise on it. I shoudln't be taken any more, or less seriously for saying i learned the language and making referances to it. That would also be like not taking me seriously for learning one of the african tribal languages.

Oh, and sorry for the late reply, my internet went out randomly again... I see they're startin' up this agian. Finally, 6:50 AM it is back.

 

[DoctorP]

ok...so this was just a google bashing thread then right? Screw it use Yahoo!

 

[RockLee]

Annoying members because you are too lazy to research yourself is not the way to go. You can't learn Japanese in a few days/months, don't think there's a magic potion you can drink so you can.
If you use google correctly, you will find everything you need. But if you even don't know a thing or two about Japanese I doubt you'll find anything of value indeed. I suggest you start at the bottom and work your way up, don't skip because it won't do you any good.

 

[ricecake]

internet became a garbage dump

Nowadays,it's wise not take what you read on the internet at face value for cyberspace loosely solicitates infornations could've been " doctored ".

I typically cross-reference materials with several credible sources.

 

[kohlrak]

ok...so this was just a google bashing thread then right? Screw it use Yahoo!

It wasn't a google bashing thread, but that's what it turned into, sadly... Either that or a subliminal kohlrak bashing thread...

Annoying members because you are too lazy to research yourself is not the way to go. You can't learn Japanese in a few days/months, don't think there's a magic potion you can drink so you can.

I'm not trying to annoy members, i am doing some of this research myself but many of these things i cannot find examples for (people need to learn how to give examples) so i come here asking for better deffinitions for examples, but i'm not getting it.

If you use google correct, you will find everything you need. But if you even don't know a thing or two about Japanese I doubt you'll find anything of value indeed. I suggest you start at the bottom and work your way up, don't skip because it won't do you any good.

Not true... i challenge you to find a tutorial on the 650x processor family. How much RAM the systems typically have. And information on how to get 650x programs to run on the Nintendo Entertainment System (which uses the 6502 processor). I once found a page that had all this information, but i lost the link long ago. Either that or guy didn't pay the bill on the server, i'm sure some one copied it though for as long as it was up.

And i'm not trying to skip. Actually, my book (at this point) comes up to conjugations of だ. 4 conjugations of it. "present Tentative", "past", "present", and "past tentative." Currently, i'm simply trying to get the other conjugations, weather i can use them or not and when we talk about conjugation of other verbs, i'll want to just explain how to conjugate that type of verb into all forms. Same with conjugations of other irregular verbs. Then i don't have to worry later if my book covered it all or not.

Nowadays,it's wise not take what you read on the internet at face value for cyberspace loosely solicitates infornations could've been " doctored ".

Thus why i like to come here so much. People here do speak the language. People here did learn the language. Therefor, people here have likely read about what i'm looking for. I'm not actually asking them to do research for me so much as i'm asking them to use their knowledge to answer the questions. It seems they rely more on google than their own keyboard.

I typically cross-reference materials with several credible sources.

I would love to that with japanese, but i don't have several credible resources to use to cross referance with. And i can't get much information on だ for almost all websites i've found, have the same copied information. Either a page that only talks about present regular and past regular negative and positive or i find that page above on this site that gives no examples of it (with english translation) or much deffinition of what affect the words have on the sentance, but mearly what the conditions are to use it.