Is Japanese really that hard...

[uhohs]

nippon is the older more nationalistic/"formal" style.

 

[uhohs]

watakushi ftw. lol.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: uhohs
nippon is the older more nationalistic/"formal" style.

These are actually two different pronunciations of the same word (or combination of two characters) that mean Japan. While they are theoretically interchangeable, it is my impression that they have a slightly different "flavor." Nippon would be used, for example (but not solely), in a military context and is a little more forceful. Nihon would be used, for example (again, not solely) in a historical context. Nippon is more vigorous and Nihon is more gentle. (If I am mistaken about this, Uco will correct me both vigorously and gently.)

 

[uhohs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_and_Nihon

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: uhohs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_and_Nihon

Meh, same as the quote.
What about ga and wa?

 

[DaWhim]

if you think japanese is easy, try chinese?

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
if you think japanese is easy, try chinese?

I will once I finish Japanese and Vietnamese.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: DaWhim
if you think japanese is easy, try chinese?

I will once I finish Japanese and Vietnamese.

lol, I will be waiting for you to make a thread "Chinese really this hard..."

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: DaWhim
if you think japanese is easy, try chinese?

I will once I finish Japanese and Vietnamese.

lol, I will be waiting for you to make a thread "Chinese really this hard..."

How about you take vietnamese.

 

[NGC_604]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
so..you want to learn japanese..

http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/

What's sad, is the stuff in there about the other students...yeah that is entirely true for the classes I was in. There were usually 20-25 people in my classes.

10 were usually anime fanatics who knew how to say the dumbest sh!t in Japanese, but couldn't get higher than a 65% on the tests.

5 were the know-it-alls. They would constantly try to correct the teacher and get owned. Also, they have the nasty habit of asking off the wall questions during lessons in order to look cool as if they are so bored because the mateial we're on is too easy for them.

In Japanese 1, there are usually 10 students or so that are too dumb to keep breating at night, let alone do good in a foreign langauge. They usually fail quizzes and tests on hiragana charts. They are also too stupid to drop the damn class and save themselves the GPA killer.

The rest actually want to learn the language, and surprisingly enough...they do quite well.

 

[Shiizu]

My brother is a junior is h.s and has been taking it for two years without much difficulty.

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: DaWhim
if you think japanese is easy, try chinese?

I will once I finish Japanese and Vietnamese.

lol, I will be waiting for you to make a thread "Chinese really this hard..."

How about you take vietnamese.

take Korean, let's see how well you do
I'm fluent in it suckers!

 

[thirdlegstump]

I'm Japanese and I find it very difficult.

 

[Cooler]

I can barely read Hebrew and thats only ~20 characters.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: jagec
Kancho!

WTF

damn, there is a special name for that? glad it's only japan and korea......

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
Simple sentences (???????????)

ha != wa

Really easy eh

 

[StrangerGuy]

So, if you knew Chinese will it make learning Japanese much easier?