Posted by Orphic Okapi on 03.22.2013, 10:28 PM: How long have you been studying Japanese Arren? I've only been at it since I got to Japan like six months ago, so my grasp on the language is still very basic, but being able to interact with Japanese speakers on a daily basis is speeding up the learning process, I think. I am having a lot of fun with it.
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Posted by arren18 on 03.23.2013, 07:06 AM: Nearly three years now! I imagine that you'll be picking it up at a much quicker rate than me though. From September I'll be there studying for a year, so that's when I should be improving the most.
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Posted by Kazegami on 03.23.2013, 09:04 AM:
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Posted by Calforsale on 03.23.2013, 09:47 PM: I'm learning Japanese this semester. Just for this semester though. I wanted to do Korean, but they wouldn't let me do Korean 1 as i have studied Korean before, but Korean 3 is too hard - so i'll start it next semester at Korean 2.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 03.23.2013, 11:04 PM:
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 03.28.2013, 03:46 AM: I think "boku" is being more commonly used by women these days. I could just be in a really informal part of Japan (which I think I am), but I have definitely heard middle school girls using it.
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Posted by arren18 on 03.28.2013, 06:10 AM: Oh, interesting! Where in Japan are you? I've never heard of women using "boku" as really being a common thing, so I'm surprised by that. Maybe I could ask a friend of mine why that would be... In the case of Utena (fictional obviously) it's a part of her whole image, so I wonder what the reasoning would be for middle school girls, and if it's part of some broader trend.
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 03.28.2013, 06:55 AM: I'm living in Kochi Prefecture on Shikoku. It's pretty inaka, and the atmosphere is more relaxed than I was expecting. Most of the Japanese I hear around the office is pretty informal.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 03.28.2013, 12:18 PM: Maybe it's just an "in" thing at the moment? Like years ago when speaking in kansai dialect was all the rage, y'know?
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Posted by husky51 on 05.02.2013, 08:17 PM: OK, I would like input from ALL the Japanese speakers in here...
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 05.02.2013, 08:50 PM: I got nothing. I thought, at first, that she might have done the common thing where you combine two kanji and then pick the pronunciations you like to make a name out of them. For example, if I wanted to name my kid "little star," I would take these two kanji:
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Posted by arren18 on 05.02.2013, 09:32 PM: I got that one reading for 子 (child) is "su", but I think that's a pretty unusual reading. It also doesn't quite fit the meaning. The closest I got with 小 are the Chinese reading "xiao" and Korean "so", which aren't too far from "su". I couldn't get anything appropriate for "he".
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 05.02.2013, 09:52 PM: This got me thinking about how cool Japanese names are. I think 星子 (Hoshiko, star child) would be such a great name for a kid.
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Posted by husky51 on 05.03.2013, 02:14 AM: Well, the baby was born on Jan 13 and I, for one, am not going to burst her bubble and happiness about the name...
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Posted by Roarkiller on 05.03.2013, 03:08 AM: 子彗 or 雛彗. Both read as Su Ei. '彗' is comet, if you can go abstract.
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Posted by arren18 on 05.03.2013, 07:41 AM:
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Posted by arren18 on 06.22.2013, 02:44 PM: Just wondering, how many Japanese speakers/learners do we have on the Tavern? This is a good thread and it would be fun to make greater use of it! (I'll admit that I also want to be able to practise before I go there in September )
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Posted by Kazegami on 06.22.2013, 03:36 PM: Well, there's you, Orphic, Roar, me... NC? I'm not sure if NC's still learning it. FFF, Cal... Saddles? Plenty of us, anyway.
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Posted by husky51 on 06.22.2013, 05:55 PM: Unfortunately, the only Japanese that I know is what I remember from my time in Japan over 40 years ago... (Gawd, that a Lo-o-o--o-o-o-ng time... sigh...)
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Posted by Saddletank on 06.22.2013, 07:11 PM: I know Mush knows a fair bit since she went to Japan. I'm not learning but I do just love hearing it spoken and try to pick up bits and pieces.
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