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I'm learning Japanese (I'm at a very VERY basic level).

Today I learnt 2 syllables, and .

I laughed when I saw them next to each other, then shouted out in a very Japanese voice: " !!"

No, ho!!

It was mildly amusing.

Now, I've got my keyboard set up to automatically correct to hiragana (the Japanese writing system) after about an hours worth of messing about. But the LW system doesn't like Windows' Japanese

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I learnt it in primary school. I think that first syllable, the circle-y one, was in my first name.

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Quote: from Poker Shark at 1:24 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

I learnt it in primary school. I think that first syllable, the circle-y one, was in my first name.

It's "no" so your first name must be something like Giovanno or Norris...?

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Are you completely sure it's "no"?

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Quote: from Poker Shark at 1:30 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Are you completely sure it's "no"?

Yep

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Oh no it wasn't that one. It was the ihh one.

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bahah (:
my cousins learning basic Mandarin at school in NZ
sounds better than my french

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Oishi sou!!!

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Quote: from Telephonique at 12:16 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Oishi sou!!!

Dame! Oishii janai!

Also, OP, learn the kana in order. We all had to, what makes you so special (tongue-in-cheek)?


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Quote: from Shaknbake at 12:58 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Quote: from Telephonique at 12:16 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Oishi sou!!!

Dame! Oishii janai!

Also, OP, learn the kana in order. We all had to, what makes you so special (tongue-in-cheek)?


Lol, that is pretty much all the Japanese I know.  So whatever it is, it looks delicious.


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ho do you think is it harder than chinese?

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Quote: from Shaknbake at 8:58 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Quote: from Telephonique at 12:16 pm on Mar. 7, 2010

Oishi sou!!!

Dame! Oishii janai!

Also, OP, learn the kana in order. We all had to, what makes you so special (tongue-in-cheek)?


I don't know what the correct order is, but the order I've learnt them so far is "k-" syllables, vowels, "s-" syllables, "t-" syllables, "n-" syllables and "h-" syllables.

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Quote: from Nushechka at 7:21 am on Mar. 8, 2010

ho do you think is it harder than chinese?

I think Mandarin is the hardest language, and then English.


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I don't know what the correct order is, but the order I've learnt them so far is "k-" syllables, vowels, "s-" syllables, "t-" syllables, "n-" syllables and "h-" syllables.

A,k,s,t,n,h,m,y,r,w. Keep in mind that not every consonant has a syllable with every vowel and that there are sound changes that can be counterintuitive. (As examples, the y-row has only やya, ゆyu, and よyo, and si, ti, tu and hu are actually しshi ちchi つtsu and ふfu.)


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