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Remember; At the most japanese words you don't speak the u!

Greetings

Good Morning - Ohayou Gozaimasu
Hello - Konnichiwa
Good Evening - Konbanwa
Good Night - Oyasumi

Most used words at the manga szene

Cute - Kawaii
Hentai - Pervert
Seinen - Books, Mangas, etc. for adult ones
Shojo - Girl
Shonen - Boy
Yaoi - Love between boys
Yuri - Love between girls
Baka - Idiot
Ecchi - Umm... Mangas where you see sometimes a person with less or no clothes but nothing pervert (like Chobits)

International Words

News - Nyuusu
Juice - Juusu
Sweater - Seetaa
Shampoo - Shanpuu
Online - Onrain
Personal Computer: PC - Parsonaru Kaonyuuta: Parsokon (Aiii...Persocom)
Aircondition - Eaakondishon: Eakon
Television - Terebijon
Supermarket - Suupaa Maaketto: Suupaa

Sentences

Is that like this? - Sou des(u)ka?
It is like this. - Sou des(u)ne.
True? - Hontou?
Oooooh! - Eeeeee!
What? - Are?
How cool! - Sugoi!
Not true! Uso!
That is good. - Iiides(u)ne.
Jummy! - Oishii!
Ĩm...Well... - Eeto...
Hmm. - Unn.

Descriptions

That is a school. - Kore ha gakkou desu.
That is a door. - Kore ha doa desu.
That is a tree. - Kore ha ki desu.
That are glasses. Kore ha magane desu.
That is a bag. Kore ha baggu desu.
I am a student. - Watashi ha gakusai desu.
You are the reader. - Anata ha dokusha desu.

Two different words are existing for be. Why two different ones? For persons it is "Iru" or "Imasu" and for things (and plants) they are "Aru" or "Arimasu".

What you choose is depend on with who are you speaking - For the beginning you should use only "Imasu" or "Arimasu", that is neutral and polite and you can swallow the u again.

We are at the no-theatre. - Watashitachi ha nougakudon ha nougakudon ni imasu.

Count is a bit complicated at japanese; You speak the number-kanji at two different kind. Are that only the numbers, you use "Ichi, Ni, San" (therefore On-Yomi) etc,, but if you mean things, than you count "Hitotsu, Futatsu, Mitsu" (Kun-Yomi) etc., people are count most times with "Hitori, Futari" etc.. That is all not really logic, that means just learning helps (^ ^).

One - Ichi - Hitotsu
Two - Ni - Futatsu
Three - San - Mittsu
Four - Shi or Yon - Yottsu
Five - Go - Itsutsu
Six - Roku - Muttsu
Seven - Shichi or Nana -Nanatsu
Eight - Hachi - Yattsu
Nine - Kyuu - Kokonotsu
Teen - Juu - Too

If you count special things (Leafes, cups etc), then you need a countword. How you read the number in front of it, isn't most times to explain logic. There is only one thing who helps: Let your inner Mr. Number free and try! Count! Try! BWAHAHAHAHA!

There is cheat-version:

Just point at the things, you want, and let them say at Kun-Yomi, how much you want. That is not fine but it works.

One human - Hitori
Three apples - Ringo sanko
Two humans - Futari
Five birds - Tori gowa
Six books - Hon rokusatsu
Seven cups of tea - Chawan nanahai
Teen kanji-cards - Kanjikaado juumai

Japanese Emoticons

They are often used at the web. Kanji was when it was born look a little bit like this...

(^ ^) - Smiling
(T _ T) - Crying
(._.?) - I don't understand this
M (_ _) M - Deep bow
((=^_^=)) - Doraemon!
(>_<)(>_<) - Head shaking
V(^ ^)V - Peace
(^ ^)/ - Bye bye!

What is that? - Kore ha nani desuka?
That is a konbu. - Kore ha konbu desu.
It this jummy? - Oishiidesuka?

Japanese is like briks. A correct sentence is look like this:

Subject + verb

What are you doing? - Ima, naniwo shimasuka?
We learn! - Watashitachi ha benkyoushimasu!
What do you learn? - Naniwo benkyoushimasuka?
We are learning japanese! - Nihongowo benkyoushimasu!
What do you do now? - Ima, naniwo shimasuka?
I eat a ice. - Aisukuriimuwo tabemasu.
It is raining. - Ame ha furimasu.
I read a magazine. - Sasshi wo yomimasu.

"No" and say always please and thank you.

My ice. - Watashi no aisukuriimu.

Most times it is used by womans and childs . Then it sounds explaining and tender.

I buy a little one. - Watashi ha chiisaino kaimasu.
Because I wanna go on the toilet... - Toire ni ikitaino...
Please come this way. - Douzo, kochira he.
I want this, please. - Kore wo onegaishimasu.
Thank you very much! - Doumo arigato gozaimashita!
Thank you. - Ookin. (This is just used at Kyoto)

To say yes and no could be really easy - but it isn't! Verbs and adjectivs change their form, if you wanna say no. "Sou desu" becomes "Sou deha arimasen".Verbs with the neutral polite "-masu" at the end change to "-masen".

Hot today, not true? - Atsui desune?
Today it is not hot. Kyou ha atsukunai desu.
That is a trap. - Otoshiane desu.

Now a lection about the superlative. Everything here is about increasing and compare. If you wanna make something to the best, write just a "Ichiban" (direct translation: Number one) in front of the adjectiv

Subject Ha
+
Ichiban
+
Adjectiv
+
Desu.

If you wanna increase something more careful, it works with words like "very" or "not so", how the ones who are direct writen in front of the adjectiv too.

Subject Ha
+
Taihen/Takusan
+
Adjectiv
+
Desu.

Where is the next koban? - Ichiban chikai koban?
Right! - Migi!
Left! - Hidari!

Japanese: SENPAI - English: FELLOW
Japanese: ALIGATHO - English: THANKS
inu=dog
chan=say after a name for 'cute' ex.. Zoie-chan
san=Mister
sin=Mrs.

*sits reading posts* .....interesting who new a langwage like this was easier to get then english?