TheImmigrantSong
日本はいちばん!
- 4 Dec 2006
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This reliance on me is getting nowhere fast...How about do what you can this time and I'll step in with whatever needs to make it presentable to get you in this place, a deal eh ?
Konnichiwa, watashi no namae wa Justin D*** desu. :
Watashi wa ju-roku sai to shibuya nippon ni sun de imasu. kyonen amerika kara nippon ni kimashita. :
Soshite ichinen nihongo wo benkyoushite imasu.:
Watashi wa nihongo wo manabu koto wo tottemo tanoshinde iru node, watashi wa koko, Kemei Gakuen de benkyou shitai desu.:
Watashi wa, ima kayotteiru gakkoude yorimo, kokodeno houga, yori ookuno koto wo manaberu to omoimasu.:
Watashi no shumi wa ongakou to gitaa desu.:
Watashi wa Prince aisu hokke chimu no menba mo, Shin Yokohama de.:
Suimasen, watashi no nihongo wa heta desu, demo ganbarimasu!:
Honestly ? It is a very good effort for a first year student (Ichinen kan nihongo wo benkyou shite iru gakusei...) but you are absolutely going to have to simplify. There are still a lot of mistakes in the way things are strung togehter that you are probably not have time now to correct and/or relearn. Just keep in mind, until you're confident otherwise, that whatever can be broken into two or more shorter sentences, go ahead and do it.Ah! No! haha, I just didn't post what I had. Naturally I have written down my own version of things I would like to say during the interview. I just like to check it with you, but how are you supposed to know that if I don't post it? Sorry! Here is what I have so far, I looked up some words and checked the grammer but am still not so sure. There ARE some things in which I cannot even begin to know how to translate, but here is what I have.
Konnichiwa, watashi no namae wa Justin D*** desu. Watashi wa ju-roku sai to shibuya nippon ni sun de imasu. kyonen amerika kara nippon ni kimashita. Soshite ichinen nihongo wo benkyoushite imasu. Watashi wa nihongo wo manabu koto wo tottemo tanoshinde iru node, watashi wa koko, Kemei Gakuen de benkyou shitai desu. Watashi wa, ima kayotteiru gakkoude yorimo, kokodeno houga, yori ookuno koto wo manaberu to omoimasu. Watashi no shumi wa ongakou to gitaa desu. Watashi wa Prince aisu hokke chimu no menba mo, Shin Yokohama de. Suimasen, watashi no nihongo wa heta desu, demo ganbarimasu!
Thats it so far! I still need to touch it up, and learn a few more things! Sorry, I am in the states now, this computer has no kana or kanji, demo boku wa hachi getsu ju-ninichi nippon ni kaerimsau! So what do you think?
Hi there
I know that..
「彼を後悔させる」 means to "make him regret it"
and that 「彼を後悔させてくれ」 or 「彼を後悔させてやってくれ」 - make him regret it for me..
But I seem to be having some trouble forming the setence, "Let me make him regret it". Or for that matter, "Let me make him happy".
How would you say that? Would the answer be simpler than I think?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I am only going to translate what you want to say in its context.Hi Elizabeth.
Yes, that is what I mean.
An example of the context would be, say in a conflict, a pupil says to his master, "There is no need for you do get your hands dirty, let me be the one to beat him up (let me be the one to make him regret it)".
Or a bully just beat up your best friend. So you say to the bully in dramatic fashion, "Allow me to make you regret what you have just done".
Now that I have typed it up, it may seem more natural to say "You're gonna pay for that!" or something to that effect, but for the sake of learning grammar, I would like to clarify the sentence "Let me make you regret it".
Thank you.
彼はどこに住んでいるっけ, this is not right.A few questions;
-っけ as in でしたっか. What are the rules involving this things usage? Does it have to be past tense? Can you say something like:
彼はどこに住んでいるっけ? (Where is it that he lives again?)
Question two:
When using a word like らしい to talk about things you have seen/heard/are probably the case, how do you use the past tense? For example, I was on the phone with someone, and I want to say, in describing her during the call, that she seemed confused. My instinct is to say:
頭が混乱していたらしいです。
Is this right?
Thank you. That was a fun read. He sounds like a very cool guy.
So I guess you've confirmed the second one yourself, already ?That the picture is of the two pleasant friends that particularly enjoy talking with him day to day about those kinds of things.
He seems/appears to be honest judging his reputation based primarily on the testimony & perceptions of others.彼は正直者らしい。 I suppose he is an honest man.
"He seems/appears to be honest judging his reputation based primarily on the testimony & perceptions of others. " Yes and another way of saying this is 彼は正直者らしい。 "he seems to be an honest man" . But in this case that I was thinkingHe seems/appears to be honest judging his reputation based primarily on the testimony & perceptions of others.
正直者のようだ
He gives the appearance/seems/appears to be honest based on personal assessment of the person's speech or behavior OR information obtained from secondhand sources.
Yo da /mitai is generally preferred of the two for "state of mind" descriptions/opinions such as "seems confused."
Very valid points. I wasn't not implying either that was the only way that よう worked or that there wasn't any overlap among how you can expect to see these sentence endings (+ そう) in real conversation. Of course there is a lot. The lines along which the breakdowns come tend to be quite context dependent, though, which is why I attempted to give a sense of one contrast. And I also need a break so I'll stop going on so until we have another example.ようだ、みたい Should not only be used for describing a persons state of mind, like I said in my earlier post the different time to use them can be really confusing, but that being said ようだ、みたい, らしい are pretty much useable in most scenarios.
My fault, I was in a rush and I didn't explain what I was intending to say. As with everything written and spoken don't always translate the same way and to make things even more difficult, the way something is said can affect the meaning. I will try to stick more to the direct translation, if I can remember!Very valid points. I wasn't not implying either that was the only way that よう worked or that there wasn't any overlap among how you can expect to see these sentence endings (+ そう) in real conversation. Of course there is a lot. The lines along which the breakdowns come tend to be quite context dependent, though, which is why I attempted to give a sense of one contrast. And I also need a break so I'll stop going on so until we have another example.
言葉なので絶対的なルールではありません。
To and ya are only for nouns and noun phrases."16 sai desu. Shibuya ni sun de imasu." Can I make these two short sentences flow a little better? I obviously was using "to" incorrectly, and I kinda knew that because it is not like "and" in english. But I do not know any other linking particals other than "ya" and I know that is not correct.
The above sentence by itself is simple, but you need to give me the whole situation/conversation to correctly identify exactly who he is referring to. Can you copy and past a little more of the conversation ?Hello
The passage below is taken from a conversation on a message board discussing how well accepted female gamers are in society. The speaker is expressing his opinion that guys are generally interested when girls bring up the topic of video games.
However, in this particular sentence, I can't understand "who" in particular the speaker is referring to.
私は昔、複雑なゲームが分からないという事で、
ノートにマップ書いたり、一緒にプレーしたりして、
なんか雰囲気が「良い感じ」になった、という子が2人います
What does the above mean?
If the sentence was simply, "私は昔、複雑なゲームが分からな(かった)", I would take it to mean, "In the past, I didn't know how to play complex games".
Would anyone be able to clear this up? Thanks a lot.
Using "子", does not necessarily mean he is referring to girls, but this is why I need more information, as he could be referring to two people and him being one of them, you would really have to ask the poster what he was thinking. It was him who was not good at complex games ,but the people who he played with had a good atmosphere that came about after playing with this person or persons. I get the feeling that that person/persons helped him play complex games .What confuses me about the sentence is well… the rest of it. Especially the part "という子が2人います". Does the speaker mean that these 2 people (using the word "子", I assume the people he is referring to are girls) are the ones who didn't know how to play complex games?
That is a very good observation, although text books serve there purpose, if you spoke like that in conversation you would sound like a robot.P.S. An observation I have made though, is that the spoken language is almost completely different to what is learnt through the textbooks!
P.P.S And this probably isn't my place to ask, but it seems that a very active member, undretide hasn't been around recently. She has been very helpful in the past. Thank you
What does this mean?:
既存にありがとう。
天敵In the reihō of some of the dōjō of the martial art I study, I have heard the word "do ryoko" (or with "ō" instead of any of the three "o", or maybe a double "k" in rōmaji...).
Nobody could have told me what it means, however, lest be how it is properly written in rōmaji. I didn't even started thinking about kanji!
Now I have looked this up on the internet, and I might have gotten a sollution.
On a site in the Portuguese language it says "empenho". I know that "nh" is spoken "ny" (like "piranha" should be pronounced "piranya") and that this "nh" in Spanish is "ñ". So I grabbed my Spanish dictionary (yes, I know, quite a quest) and I found that "empeño" means either "obligation", "duty", "pawn" (as in "pawn broker"), "preseverence".
Now I have lots of completely different meanings, combined with lots of possible ways of writing it correctly in rōmaji.
I have searched for a while for this needle in a haystack, with only one little result, being "道力行".
What do you guys think of this? Does any of you KNOW what "do(u) ryok(k)o(u)" might be, when you know it means "empenho" in Portuguese or "empeño" in Spanish... thus the whole list in English...?
The discussion on らしい ようだ etc up above--I've gotta admit, it confuses me. Is there a website that deals well when do use which of the various you, mitai, rashii, sou terms? Quite a weak point of mine at the moment.
That really makes sense!The teacher is probably saying doryoku. 努力 どりょく This word means something like 'effort.'