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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:41 pm

Okay wasabi was obviously bored... This is a thread dedicated to learning Kanji. You know... that Japanese "pictures that stand for words" stuff?

First off... In order for you to learn kanji at ALL, you're going to need to learn a little basic Japanese. (For those of you who know it, goodie for you. For those of you who THINK you know it, stay and learn and for those of you who are just learning, SIT YOUR a** DOWN AND DON'T GO NOWHERES.)

THE LESSON OF HELL- A Crash Course in Modern Japanese
For these lessons, wasabi sensei shall be typing japanese in ENGLISH letters. This is called ROOMAJI. (no not ROO-maji. The ROO is pronounced more like "row", the MA is just "mah" and JI is "gee"... you'll get it eventually)

Japanese have two types of "alphabet"s that consist of 46 letters apiece.

The first is called HIRAGANA. This is mainly used for writing "authentic" japanese words like NEKO (cat) or MADO (door). Goodie for you wasabi made a chart.
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The second is called KATAKANA. This is used mainly for sound effects (those silly little creepy floaty words in your comics like "bang" or "boom" or "squish") or foreign words like DOKI DOKI (heart-beating noise) or RAMEN (yes... ramen is a foreign word).
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And here is a chart that will help you pronounce it all. It makes no difference if the katakana and the hiragana look different, when you pronounce it it sounds the same. there are also no Cs in japanese but some weirdos can't pronounce the words without them so i put um in there. rolleyes
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That concludes our hiragana and katakana learning portion. Next up is putting these together to make WORDS!! eek

By the way... in case you didn't notice, JAPANESE IS READ RIGHT TO LEFT WHEN IT'S UP ND dOWN! but since wasabi sensei is nice, he'll be writing left to right horizontally. aren't you lucky? blaugh

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:47 pm

Sometimes while typing in roomaji, there will be double vowel letters like in the word roomaji itself, or in other words like SUKII (skiing) or OOKII (big). There isn't much difference in the pronunciation- just a little more emphasis on the double letter part. For example, in the word SUKII, the II (pronounced like EE) is said a little longer than if you had just said SUKI (to like). In OOKII, the emphasis would be on the OO and the II ("OH" and "EE").

Some other times there are double consonants like in the words IPPIKI (one animal), ROKKA (locker), or ZASSHI (Magazine). These words are said with a "hiccup". For example, IPPIKI would be pronounced IP-PI-KI. At the end of the IP part, you would say the PI part right afterwards. The tow consonants in a row would sound something like someone was hiccuping. (ROk-KA, ZASH-SHI)

Still other times there are words with O endings that have a U at the end like TOU (ten round objects) or the name SOUJIRO (My little cousin's name). Depending on the word, the U could be pretty much ignored or it could be pronounced with the O sound of the word (TOU- TOO- "TOW"). Of course, sometimes it's just pronounced as U. (like SOUJIRO- SOU-JI-RO) We won't be seeing much of this so goodie for you. xd

Next Lesson: ZOMG IT'S KANJIII! heart

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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:51 pm

Here's the Kanji that every 3 year old in japan knows. THEIR NUMBERS.

The Red at the TOP is THE KANJI ITSELF. Right under it is the ROOMAJI, as well as the english meaning. Under that in skinny Red letters is how to write it in japanese. 3nodding

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Next Lesson: Making Numbers Bigger Than TEN! eek

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:13 am

rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:05 pm

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rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

question yes i drew them myself. i thought it would be fun. surprised it's also verrry tedious. gonk and what about 6 years of kanji? eek I'll only put some up there like once every few days or something. work ya know. xp

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:25 pm

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rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

question yes i drew them myself. i thought it would be fun. surprised it's also verrry tedious. gonk and what about 6 years of kanji? eek I'll only put some up there like once every few days or something. work ya know. xp

shall i assist with scanned pictures of calligraphy done by mio surprised

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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:27 pm

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rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

question yes i drew them myself. i thought it would be fun. surprised it's also verrry tedious. gonk and what about 6 years of kanji? eek I'll only put some up there like once every few days or something. work ya know. xp

shall i assist with scanned pictures of calligraphy done by mio surprised

why bother with scanning? just use paint. xd

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:04 am

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rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

question yes i drew them myself. i thought it would be fun. surprised it's also verrry tedious. gonk and what about 6 years of kanji? eek I'll only put some up there like once every few days or something. work ya know. xp

shall i assist with scanned pictures of calligraphy done by mio surprised

why bother with scanning? just use paint. xd

because calligraphy is so much funner when you paint it, or use permanet marker whee

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:04 pm

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rofl rofl rofl did you draw those yourself????? xd that's genious!!! lol ganbatte!!!

eek wait, are you going to try to teach all of the little children all 6 years of kanji?

question yes i drew them myself. i thought it would be fun. surprised it's also verrry tedious. gonk and what about 6 years of kanji? eek I'll only put some up there like once every few days or something. work ya know. xp

shall i assist with scanned pictures of calligraphy done by mio surprised

why bother with scanning? just use paint. xd

because calligraphy is so much funner when you paint it, or use permanet marker whee

so odd. rolleyes

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:45 pm

Update!

Greetings students! Today, we'll be learning about NUMBERS BIGGER THAN 10!! whee

First off, Double digit numbers like fifty, forty-three and sixty nine aren't made just by putting a 5 with a zero afer it like like american numbers. talk2hand FIFTY is read as FIVE TEN TIMES. So in order to get 50, you have to put a FIVE in FRONT of a TEN. In other words, put the FIVE kanji in front of the TEN kanji. Grats! you've just made 50! The same is similar for other numbers like 43. For these, it's read as FOUR TEN TIMES PLUS THREE. So make your FORTY kanji. then put a three after it! Simple right? blaugh

But what if you reversed it? eek Like putting a TEN BEFORE THE FIVE?? eek In that case, it would be read as TEN plus FIVE making FIFTEEN. eek Amazing ne? blaugh

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Here's somemore kanji to make you smile. 100, 1000 and 10000!! 4laugh hooray numbers! to make numbers like 30000 and 500, it's the same thing as making TENS. Put the DIGIT kanji in front of the NUMBER kanji to make the number! (ex. 5 kanji+ 1000 kanji=5000)
to make any weird number (456 for example), you would just take the number apart reading 456 as 400+50+6 and make the kanji from there. as a result, the number would be a lot longer than just writing out the numbers themselves but at least you'd know how to srite the kanji! (most japanese just write the number...lots easier)

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That's all for today~ ta ta!

Next Lesson: COUNTERS!!! eek

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