Japan birthday song

Davey

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• 12 Mar 2005

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hello everybody im bit in a rush, and i hope somebody can help me out here... im looking for the text of Happy birthday in japan... its my fiancee her birthday today and i would like to sing it in 3 langauge but i dont know japanese one ... i hope you guys know it,, or know where i can find it...
greetings baka dutch

 

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NANGI

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• 13 Mar 2005

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Konnichiwa dutch baka-san!

Japanese sing Happy Birthday Song in English.
Because there is not Happy Birthday Song in Japan.
Why isn't there Happy Birthday Song? Japanese had not a custom to celebrate one's Birthday. :sorry:

This is a difference of custom and culture.

NANGI

 

RockLee

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• 13 Mar 2005

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Yes indeed, as birthdaypresents are getting more popular over the years (western influence) and singing mostly is english ;-) If u want to surprise someone, give them a Birthdaycard !!!

 

MajideSaiaku

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from experience with my g/f i get the impression most western holidays are simply a vehicle for the younger generations to convey feelings, as if every adopted western holiday is just a valentines day by another word, but then , i could be wrong.

 

Suki-Yaki

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Just a few days ago we celebrated my sensei's birthday ! (Japanese teacher)
we sang happy birthday in English , ate cake and did the same old stuff. Perhaps because the class is a bunch of gaikokujins , but our second sensei was participating , usually our sensei's guide us into the diversity of the Japanese culture , but everything went on so "traditionally"


If you really wanna sing it the Japanese way ,put some Japanese accent into the English . But if your fiancee is not familiar with the Japanese cultural aspects then you are loosing the point here .

 

yukio_michael

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• 14 Mar 2005

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There are birthdays in English?? 窶怒窶堙??堙??堋ｷ窶堋ｩ

 

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Malaika

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• 15 Mar 2005

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LOL. well that surprises me, I thought they sang it in japanese, I know I could of sworn that over here, there was a japanese program, where they teach you japanese and they should this program where it was a boy's birthday and everybody was singing it in japanese, I could be wrong, because I know that the word they were using was "congradulations" I can't spell it in japanese, but it was something like that.

*scratches her head*

 

Hiroyuki Nagashima

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NANGI said:

Konnichiwa dutch baka-san!

Japanese sing Happy Birthday Song in English.
Because there is not Happy Birthday Song in Japan.
Why isn't there Happy Birthday Song? Japanese had not a custom to celebrate one's Birthday. :sorry:
This is a difference of custom and culture.
NANGI

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In Japan, there is not a birthday song.
ﾂ江ﾅ津暁ｽﾅｾ窶佚｣窶堙懌?堙??啀ﾅ椎ｽ窶啀窶愿ｺ窶堋ｪ窶堙昶?堙ｱ窶堙遺?堙娯?兮ﾂ青ｶ窶愿ｺ

 

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MelNamine

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Malaika said:

LOL. well that surprises me, I thought they sang it in japanese, I know I could of sworn that over here, there was a japanese program, where they teach you japanese and they should this program where it was a boy's birthday and everybody was singing it in japanese, I could be wrong, because I know that the word they were using was "congradulations" I can't spell it in japanese, but it was something like that.

*scratches her head*

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That's because it was just that, a show that teaches you Japanese. If you go to any birthday party in Japan, the song will be sung in English. It's the norm, just as you'll hear "Merry Christmas" during the winter holidays.

I have to say though, after moving so much I'm actually amazed to have met so many people who find it hard to believe we sing it in English. With all the loanwords and the compulsory English classes in school, you'd think it'd be understandable. Kind of reminds me of the time I went to school in Chicago and the teacher made the foreign kids in class sing happy birthday in their native tongue. When it was my turn I had a really hard time explaining that we sang it in English. She really believed that I was either lying or totally wrong... So she made me sing it in Japanese, which just sounded so awkward to me. After I was done she smugly told me, "See, you do sing it in Japanese." :auch:

 

Mike Cash

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Glenski

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Hoppy bossday tu yuuuu.
Hoppy bossday tu yuuuu.
Hoppy BOSSday deaaaahhh <name>
Hoppy bossday tu yuuuu.

Katakana pronunciation, English words, Japanese singers.

 

Mike Cash

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ハッピーバス停梅雨