Talk'n In Romaji
 

Hey everyone! This is a thread for beginner Japanese learners to talk in either Romaji or Kana. What I mean by that is that you can write in Romaji if you don't know how to write in/read Kana or you can write in Kana if you know how to read/write it. Also if you can please provide an English translation under the Kana for the people who can't read it. So...just talk about anything here from Apa-to's to nattou!

I don't like this idea. It makes peope rely on romaji too much O.O

Japanese isn't hard to get on your computer - it's already there, you just have to set it up =P

+1
I'm on a psp at the moment though, but japanese is simple to get on here, now to learn to use it. =p

Yeah but some people are too lazy to install it. :P

I don't like this idea either. I'm trying to learn/memorize kanji, etc., whenever I can. and test myself to see if I recognize any kanji/letters/words.

Kanji is probably the most hardest thing to learn. Thousands of kanji to remember just to read the paper.

Then make this a kana thread, perhaps? So people learning kana can use and read it?

Worth a shot. It can't get worse right? :P

That's a good compromise.

Done ;)
:D

Ee... Konbanwa! O genki desu ka?

genki desu
kodomotachi wa genki desu ka???
FUAHAHAHAH!

cool. :) ....

I still have to learn any form of Japanese! :D
But I enabled the japanese characters on my psp just now. :D

(it should be Ogenki)

げんきです。　ありがとう。あなたわ？
genki desu. arigato. anata wa?

I'm good. thanks. and you? (I hope that's right)

nani kore!!!?!?!? anata wa watashi no tomodachi desuka??? anata wa kane mochi desuka??

So Desu!!

Dakara, anata wa watashi no Kanejo!!!

am I your friend?

am I rich?

therefore, I am your (don't know this word)

Is that even close to correct?

I feel dumb. Whats the difference between Romaji and Kana?

How about you try to type/read english sentences in katakana? That's how I learned to read hiragana/katakana :vsign:

Like this...
ヘロ！　マイ　ナメ　イス　ダミアン。

kana is Hiragana and Katakana characters, and Romaji is just roman letters (abc's) used instead of the characters :P it's pretty much spelling out the way you would say it instead of using characters

How do you install the characters?? I'm willing to do it :) i just don't know how to :D

There is a thread on this forum here:
http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...ge-help/21099-[guide]-read-write-japanese-your-windows-xp-pc.html
on how to do it on windows XP, i don't know about vista though

Edit: Ok so the link doesn't work properly on these forums because of the square brackets in the URL, so just go to the Japanese language help part of the forum and its a sticky thread in there.

Just remember you'll need a windows XP disc, unless anybody knows how to install it without one.

Tadaima!
Ee...koko wa boku no uchi janai...
Tonikaku, konbanwa!

(Note: Not a translation)

Is it a good sign that I can read that and *almost* understand it, based entirely on watching far too many subtitled anime? Eep..

(Attempt at translation)

I'm back!
Um...here I am but no one's here...
Anyway, good evening!

*winces for the responses*

ok so there is kanji, hiragana and katakana? 3 symbol alphabets?

In a nutshell.... (hopefully your computer can see asian fonts)

Kana letters (of both hiragana and katakana) represent only one syllable.
ex. ま　　　ち　,　　マ　　　チ　　 ("ma" and "chi" in hiragana and katakana)

Hiragana is used to spell out japanese words or for connecting particles between kanji.

Katakana is used for names or foreign words that aren't from the japanese language.

Kanji is a pictograph type font, where normally each individual kanji symbol represents a single word or thing.

Romanji is easily explained as the english alphabet font. What you're reading now are romanji characters.

I'll use an example to help ya. (if you can see them on your computer)

kanji ---- hiragana ----- katakana --- romanji
本　　　　　　　　 ほん　　　　　　　　 ホン　　　　　 hon

Let me just say two things...

One: romaji is a counter-intuitive and just overall bad way to learn Japanese. I can give many reasons why romaji sucks, but I'll save us all time and just say LEARN KANA/KANJI! If you're diligent, you can learn kana in as little as two weeks. Given that, there's no reason to complain about not being able to use romaji. Even if you don't know any kanji, you can write to other Japanese beginners using just kana.

Two: STOP USING "ANATA"! Anata is used rarely by Japanese people in regular speech. It sounds out of place in 95% of the sentences made by Japanese beginners.

Seconded. 100%

1. Actually, I thought it was agreed within the first few posts that this was to be a Kana thread. Maybe the title should be changed?

2. Romaji is probably also used by those who learn to speak before they write, so don't ignorantly judge someone just by the fact they don't know kana yet.

I'd say something in kana, but this is a school computer, and it'd rather not mess around with it's settings and attempt to enable it -_-'

Ok well then someone has to start... :mtongue:

あきまして　おめでとう　ございます！

２００８　すき　です　か？　

すばらし　と　思いました　よ！

I cant see anyone else disagreeing with me apart from those who can't do kana.. typing in kana is very different from reading and writing, plus, it doesnt make you sound clever if you can only write かわいい...

２００８ねんはよいてたのしかったです。　なにをしま したか？

You've got the gist of it :P
What I said was:
I'm back!
Hmm...but this isn't my house... (Tadaima is used when entering a house after you've left and are welcome)
Anyways, good evening!

Please :) Change it to "Talk'n the Talk" or something along those lines.

I know how to write in kana. I'm not an otaku, have never even tasted pocky, and I completely disagree with you.

Ee... 私は今年はいい子になりたい

よいて？ <- whats this? i coudn't find it in any dictionary or anything so i'm guessing you mean よくて　from いい/よい？ Figured i would just ask instead of spending ages looking around dictionaries etc.

ぼくも　２００８ねん　は　たのしかった　と　おもう 、そして　ちょっと　おそい　んだけど　あけまして　 おめでとう！

今はあまり行われている
いいですね.

lol np, kinda confused me for a second there though :p

その　Tシャツ　は　とても　おもしろい　よ！

Thankyou sir, I'm glad someone appreciates my sense of humour :D

It is indeed an interesting shirt. I fell like giving it to one of my friends... :P