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OyasumiTwilight 12-15-2008 12:49 PM

help me on this one *o*
 
what's this? :D
ペラペラ

semakaisha 12-15-2008 12:55 PM

pera pera/this is how it is read/ it means for example perapera shaberimasu - someone speaks fluently, speaks a lot. sth like that. probably iot depends on the context.

OyasumiTwilight 12-15-2008 01:02 PM

uhhh thankyou very much.

the phrase is
イタリア?
なんで日本語ペラペラ?

I think it's like italy? what do you speak japanese but I coudln't get the last part :rheart:

chryuop 12-15-2008 01:22 PM

I can try it, but I would wait for a better translation from someone more competent :)
Italy? Why you speak Japanese so smoothly? (still makes no sense in my head tho...maybe coz there is a part of text missing...)

P.S. A curiosity for who doesn't know it. Italia is not only the way it is called in Japanese, but it also the way we Italian say Italy in our language :)

semakaisha 12-15-2008 01:37 PM

it is not what it is why.. nande=doushite which means why. :) u r welcome

OyasumiTwilight 12-19-2008 07:36 PM

I was confused about the difference between "dating" and "going out with". How do you said it when you went out with somebody the day before but you mean you dated that person.

"Yestarday I dated a guy"
and
"Yestarday I went out with a guy"

...may they sound like the same thing?

CaptainThunder 12-19-2008 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OyasumiTwilight (Post 647935)
I was confused about the difference between "dating" and "going out with". How do you said it when you went out with somebody the day before but you mean you dated that person.

"Yestarday I dated a guy"
and
"Yestarday I went out with a guy"

...may they sound like the same thing?

"Dated" is a long-term action, like "I am dating him". "I went out yesterday" would be more correct than "I dated yesterday".

Nagoyankee 12-20-2008 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chryuop (Post 645389)
I can try it, but I would wait for a better translation from someone more competent :)
Italy? Why you speak Japanese so smoothly? (still makes no sense in my head tho...maybe coz there is a part of text missing...)

It makes perfect sense. Nothing is missing.

When reading Japanese, Japanese learners tend to look for the words that won't be and shouldn't be in naturally-written (or -spoken) Japanese. That is like me saying "Where are the godd**** particles?" while looking at an English sentence. I won't find any.

You will seldom find a "you" as I hope you have already noticed by now. You won't find the verb "to speak", either, because there is only one thing in the world that you can do ペラペラ and that is to speak a foreign language.

SSJup81 12-20-2008 08:29 AM

Wow, so that's what pera-pera meant. I saw an episode of Azumanga Daioh, and the English teacher (Yukari) was talking to a foreigner who needed help with directions or something. Her friend, who doesn't know any English, was only hearing, "pera pera pera pera" from both. That explains a lot.


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