Three questions.

[AnimeBaby112]

I don't know weather this is the right thread for these but....
#1. Does anyone have a list of honorifics like...what would I say after my aunts name or my younger friends?

#2. Does anyone have tips for studying Japanese? remembering or reading.

#3. How would one read Japanese online, mostly hiragana. is this correct? ねこ?

any advice or help would be welcome.

thanks!
Blair.

[Harold]

Originally Posted by AnimeBaby112

I don't know weather this is the right thread for these but....
#1. Does anyone have a list of honorifics like...what would I say after my aunts name or my younger friends?

#2. Does anyone have tips for studying Japanese? remembering or reading.

#3. How would one read Japanese online, mostly hiragana. is this correct? ねこ?

any advice or help would be welcome.

thanks!
Blair.

1) Google this. You'll find more answers than you ever wanted to begin with.
2) Use what you learn. I usually forget the things I don't use pretty often, so I usually have to break down and study them. If you don't use what you learn, you will forget it.
3) I am not sure what you are asking here, but Japanese online can vary on a range from colloquial conversations to professional business articles.

What is correct? If you're trying to write cat in hiragana, then, yes, that's right.

[AnimeBaby112]

oh, sorry, i guess i was not too clear on the reading Japanese online thing. what i was asking was, well, i'm guessing you read japanese in newspapers and stuff like this: someone told me that you read japanese down then to the left, right? then how do you read japanese on the internet? the same way as english? left to right or right to left?

[Keaton421]

Heheh. In everyday life, Japanese is written top to bottom, left to right, just like English.

There are quite a few honorifics, but you'll pick them up as you learn Japanese.

Learn Hiragana and Katakana, then buy Genki I. I must've given this advice a thousand times...

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Keaton421

Heheh. In everyday life, Japanese is written top to bottom, left to right, just like English.

That`s true on the web, and on quick handwritten things...

But I have yet to encounter a book or newspaper written in anything other than top to bottom, right to left.

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

That`s true on the web, and on quick handwritten things...

But I have yet to encounter a book or newspaper written in anything other than top to bottom, right to left.

In my class we write it this way. Top to bottom, yet, she allows us to write left to right, just as long as we know that most things written (like books, newspapers, "manga"), will be written in the fashion that you mentioned. She just prefers we be consistent in our writing. I try to write right to left, but out of instinct and habit, I sometimes write left to right.

[Nyororin]

Right to left horizontal is never seen outside of prewar things... And left to right vertical is also something pretty much never seen.

The safe way to go is left to right horizontal, and right to left vertical.

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Right to left horizontal is never seen outside of prewar things... And left to right vertical is also something pretty much never seen.

The safe way to go is left to right horizontal, and right to left vertical.

That's what I meant. I write vertical, so I write right to left, but sometimes, without realizing it, I might start writing left to right and have to correct myself.