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01-13-2007, 03:34 PM
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I downloaded this program : Befor you know it 3.6 in japanese, and I've found it very usefull. It helps learning words very fast and it's fun! lol The only thing i don't get is the difference between Hiragana and Katagana. I don't know a lot about kanji either, what is difference between those three ? Anyway in the program I can write the words in Hiragana but most of the times it is not the good one and they say you can change it into Katagana. I don't understand why use one or the other. Hope you understand my question lol, it's a bit messy =P. 
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01-13-2007, 04:32 PM
Katakana is used only to spell out foreign words.
i.e. ルレストラン Resutoran Restuarant Hiragana is used to spell everything else (all Japanese words). Katakana can, however, be used to emphasize a word that's normally in Hiragana (it would be the equivalent to an italics in English). Kanji is used in writing so that the meaning of the sentence in hiragana isn't mistaken for something completely different since a lot of words look the same. i.e. かえる Kaeru Frog, or: to go home (verb) When speaking, you can tell the difference because of the intonation of the word (The "frog" kaeru is spoken with a rising intonation, the "to go home" kaeru has a falling intonation). However, in writing, there is nothing to tell you what intonation is being used, and thus there is kanji. 蛙 Kaeru Frog 帰る Kaeru To go home Does this help?
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01-13-2007, 05:25 PM
thank you =)
I understand now! So I guess kanji is used more than Hiragan since it tells us the exact word? I am learning hiragana right now, and I find kanji difficult since it changes depending on the word o_O.
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01-13-2007, 07:01 PM
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01-15-2007, 02:06 AM
Hi ^^, I was just writing out some little conversations in japanese like i do to practice lol, and i was wondering if i'd used correct grammar in these sentences? Something about their structure seemed wrong to me, it could just be me, though...
Hai, kata no namae wa Aya de, sore wa shounen no namae wa Niide desu. Kono denwa wa Hiroki-san no desu. Sou desu. Nihon mo fuyu wa samui desu. Aa, ano hito wa Hiro desu. Kare no kawaii desu ne? Watashi wa shirimasen. Kare mo isogashii deshou. Sakura-chan, ano hito wa watashi-tachi no sensei desu ka?
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01-15-2007, 05:02 AM
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hai, kata no namae wa Aya desu.(desu would be more polite then de) ano shounen no namae wa Niide desu. Hiroko-san wa denwa ni aru Sou desu. Nihon no fuyu mo samui desu Aa, ano hito wa Hiro desu. Kare wa kawaii desu ne? "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer."
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01-15-2007, 05:05 AM
I think this is a really good idea. I'm mainly working on kanji right now. =]
does anyone have any good tips on how to remember kanji? for example, i usually remember watashi as "one tree moo" haha does that make me lame? yeah probably.  Back in those days, I didn't really know how to love anyone... but I wanted to much to be loved. It breaks my heart to think about it. If I'd only been more mature back then, and realized what your weaknesses were... would things have been different now?
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01-15-2007, 05:11 AM
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here is a simple example Take ta which is Rice patty 田 Then take riki which is strength 力 Put them together and what do you have？ 男Otoko (Rice patty strength ) Man is the strength of the rice patty This is a very simple example but i can explain lots of kanji Moku, Rin, and Mori are a another good example Moku 木 tree Rin 林 woods and Mori 森forest "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer."
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01-15-2007, 06:28 AM
Also some Kanjis look like the thing there trying to explain
ona (woman) Looks a little like a woman Facing Left the point on the *Fist stroke looks like a breast 女 (* く *) and the rest is a stick figure body. haha is mother. This Kanji looks like two naked breasts 母 which defends mother as the giver of life. "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer."
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01-15-2007, 06:31 AM
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Back in those days, I didn't really know how to love anyone... but I wanted to much to be loved. It breaks my heart to think about it. If I'd only been more mature back then, and realized what your weaknesses were... would things have been different now?
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