Nihongo Everyday

[Elizabeth]

Mou shite imasu. Arigatou. Soshite "osendou" wa Nihon no dentoutekina geijutsu (?) no hitotsu desune. Watashi ni wa chotto taikutsu sou desukedo. Osendou wo narau gakusei wa "deshi" to yobarete imasuka?

 

[Golgo_13]

I'm not sure what "osendou" is. Art of dying (dye - ing)?

"Sadou" is the art of tea ceremony .

In any kind of traditional Japanese art, it is proper to call a disciple formerly accepted (nyumon) for training/skill as "deshi" Someone who does it casually as a hobby would not be a "deshi", however.

Sometimes it also applies to a commercial skill such as saba noodle making by hand, weaving silk, etc. in which training under a master/expert is required.

 

[Elizabeth]

No, I meant the art/craft/tradition of incense mixing....

 

[Golgo_13]

Liz,

I never knew there was such a thing, but I'm sure there is.

Still "Deshi".

The word is uni-sex, so it applies to both men and women.

How'd you learn so much Japanese? Ever lived/traveled there?

 

[Elizabeth]

日本では四ヶ月だけ日本語を勉強しました。でも二回の 滞在、ホームステイ父親が好きになってきました。今は愛情を抑え られないですよ。ちょっと大変ですね。その愛は冷めて しまったら、言葉を学ぶのにも興味を無くしてしまうか もしれません。

 

[Golgo_13]

Liz,

I replied in a private message.

 

[Museigen]

みゆきさん、そのサイトを乗せてくれてありがとうね！
中級日本語は本当に役に立っている。

 

[MShingen]

毎日毎日、日本語で話すことか？ごめん、ここはやっぱ りできないよ！

 

[Golgo_13]

Silly Japanese Puns

I don't know where my original thread went, so I'm putting them back here:


Arumi kan no u'e ni aru mikan

(tangerine on top of the aluminum can)
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First Guy: Omae no otosan unsouya (trucker) ?

Second Guy: Un souya.
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Student: Kono class ni wa Doitsu-jin ga imasu.

Teacher: Doitsu kara kita yatsu wa doitsu ya?
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American: Can you tell me a pun?
Japanese: Pan wa taberu mon yaro?
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First Guy: "Kono, Karajan (famous Austrian conductor pronounced "Karayan") no CD wa kaizokuban (knock-off) yane."

Second Guy: "Nande wakaruno?" (How can you tell?)

First Guy (shaking the case): "Kara yan!" ("It's empty" in Osaka-ben)
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Tori Niku wa Torinikui
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Upon finishing a meal: "Ah, uma katta. Ushi maketa."

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First Guy: "Dokode kanojo to shiri'attano?"
Second Guy: "Koutsuu jiko no genba de."
Frist Guy: "Jaa, Jiko shoukai shitandane?"

 

[Ewok85]

I can only remember one that i was taught;
ふとんが ふっとんだ

The other one that was amusing was
まじで でじま まじでじま (say it quick in the 3 parts)

 

[Narau]

Does the Nihongo every day site still exist? I tried to go to Nihongo Everyday but the page does not exist. Is there a new link perhaps?

 

[Golgo_13]

I can only remember one that i was taught;
ふとんが ふっとんだ

The other one that was amusing was
まじで でじま まじでじま (say it quick in the 3 parts)

The words showed up as weird symbols, so can you please write it out in Romaji?

 

[kai_sethoris]

feh same here Narau, site not comin up

 

[Golgo_13]

I can only remember one that i was taught;
$B$U$H$s$,!!$U$C$H$s$@(B

The other one that was amusing was
$B$^$8$G!!$G$8$^!!$^$8$G$8$^!!(B(say it quick in the 3 parts)

The first one is a good pun: "My Futon blew away"

but the second one doesn't quite make sense. Only word that has a meaning is "majide" and even then it's a slang. I don't know what the other words mean.

 

[cacawate]

Yeah, where'd the site go?

 

[Golgo_13]

I don't know where my original thread went, so I'm putting them back here:


Arumi kan no u'e ni aru mikan

(tangerine on top of the aluminum can)
--------------------------

First Guy: Omae no otosan unsouya (trucker) ?

Second Guy: Un souya.
-----------------------

Student: Kono class ni wa Doitsu-jin ga imasu.

Teacher: Doitsu kara kita yatsu wa doitsu ya?
-----------------------

American: Can you tell me a pun?
Japanese: Pan wa taberu mon yaro?
--------------------------

First Guy: "Kono, Karajan (famous Austrian conductor pronounced "Karayan") no CD wa kaizokuban (knock-off) yane."

Second Guy: "Nande wakaruno?" (How can you tell?)

First Guy (shaking the case): "Kara yan!" ("It's empty" in Osaka-ben)
----------------------

Tori Niku wa Torinikui
---------------------

Upon finishing a meal: "Ah, uma katta. Ushi maketa."

-----------------------

First Guy: "Dokode kanojo to shiri'attano?"
Second Guy: "Koutsuu jiko no genba de."
Frist Guy: "Jaa, Jiko shoukai shitandane?"

"Samui hi ni atsui coffe o nomuto hotto suru"

 

[Golgo_13]

"Samui hi ni atsui coffe o nomuto hotto suru"

Here's another one:


Yamanashi -ken niwa chanto Oukina yama ga arimasuyo!

 

[cacawate]

err, uhhh. So, is it still around?

"I'n jost keedeeng!"
"Aye, dioth mio~"

 

[Golgo_13]

err, uhhh. So, is it still around?

"I'n jost keedeeng!"
"Aye, dioth mio~"

What? The mountain? Where would it go?
Especially since it's Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi-Ken

In case you didn't get the pun, "nashi" means "there is none" and "yama" is mountain. The nashi in Yamanashi-Ken is a homonymn.

 

[Golgo_13]

What I found out yesterday

I always thought "Karaoke" meant "Empty barrel" (kara=empty; oke=wooden barrel) but I was wrong.

The "oke" in Karaoke stands for "oukesutora" or orchestra.

Who'd a thought . . . .

 

[cacawate]

Golgo,
Naw man~. I mean the site; the link's still bad. But for a correction, oukina should be ookina, no? Most likely, I probably missed something in the joke... so I humbly PRE-apologize.

-Jeff (aka back to FFXI)

 

[Golgo_13]

Aasoo. Boku no kanchigai datta.

People use "ou" and "oo" interchangeably. I prefer a single o with a horizontal line over it. I had a post about the pronunciation of "ou" sounds somwhere.

 

[Golgo_13]

Being in Japan recently and seeing a lot of signs at train stations made me recall a sign for a Chinese restaurant I used to see as a child.

The sign used 4 Katakana letters: Ha, Ma, Mu, and Ra written top to bottom in that order. If you do that, you will see that the letters form a face: the Ha sort of looks like the hair or eye brows, Ma the eye, Mu the nose, and Ra the mouth. Try it and see.

 

[cacawate]

ハ
マ
ム
ラ

lol.

 

[PaulTB]

Aasoo. Boku no kanchigai datta.

People use "ou" and "oo" interchangeably.

For certain values of 'people'.

I prefer a single o with a horizontal line over it.

I've come to the conclusion that nobody who uses Hepburn romaji actually uses Hepburn romaji*. So there's no point in 'correcting' people's romaji unless they are using one of the standard Japanese systems.

'o with a horizontal line over it' looks the best, but is a right pain to reproduce in many systems & encodings. I use ou and oo because it's the only way to preserve the distinction between おお and おう. (Which makes it wa-puro romaji ;-)

* What they actually use is mostly Hepburn with whatever takes their fancy from other systems and wa-puro romaji.