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Someone please help here - luke9t - 2014-01-18

http://i40.tinypic.com/33l1fo7.png

Please can you translate what sasuke says in both speech bubbles?

Thanks in advance to anybody.

Someone please help here - tokyostyle - 2014-01-18

Everything there is basically first semester Japanese. What exactly are you having trouble understanding?

I'm feeling pretty lazy, but I'll at least throw you the Google Translate because it's *almost* correct.

Here's the grammar used, now improved with Tae Kim links.

それはいい ＝ XはYです。 Genki Chapter 1 (Tae Kim)
どうやって = Genki Chapter 10 (Tae Kim)
もう一つ = Basic Counting (Tae Kim)

Someone please help here - ファブリス - 2014-01-18

Quote:thx for the response. bless you
I think OP meant to thank you but hit reply on the subscribe topic email Wink

Someone please help here - tokyostyle - 2014-01-18

ファブリス Wrote:
Quote:thx for the response. bless you
I think OP meant to thank you but hit reply on the subscribe topic email Wink
Doh, which means he probably didn't see my edit adding the grammar references ... I guess that's lazy karma payback!

Someone please help here - Xanpakuto - 2014-01-19

tokyostyle Wrote:I'm feeling pretty lazy, but I'll at least throw you the Google Translate because it's *almost* correct.
I recommend this site instead of Google Translate if you want to go that far.

http://translate.weblio.jp

Someone please help here - raharney - 2014-01-20

tokyostyle Wrote:Everything there is basically first semester Japanese. What exactly are you having trouble understanding?

I'm feeling pretty lazy, but I'll at least throw you the Google Translate because it's *almost* correct.

Edit: Got very slightly less lazy.

それはいい ＝ XはYです。 Genki Chapter 1
どうやって = Genki Chapter 10
もう一つ = Basic Counting (See Tae Kim on Counting)
Wow, you're such a charmer.
So how would you translate it then. Let's hear you.

Someone please help here - Tzadeck - 2014-01-20

raharney Wrote:Wow, you're such a charmer.
So how would you translate it then. Let's hear you.
Cool story bro

Someone please help here - raharney - 2014-01-20

Tzadeck Wrote:
raharney Wrote:Wow, you're such a charmer.
So how would you translate it then. Let's hear you.
Cool story bro
OK. And then what does she say in reply in the second frame?

Someone please help here - Vempele - 2014-01-20

Original sideways text: !? (as a single character)
tokyostyle's transcription: ?!

Just to confirm: when reading right-to-left, punctuation like this should also be read right-to-left?

Someone please help here - tokyostyle - 2014-01-20

Vempele Wrote:Original sideways text: !? (as a single character)
tokyostyle's transcription: ?!

Just to confirm, when reading right-to-left, punctuation like this should also be read right-to-left?
It's just a typo on my part.

I also added a period after それはいい because without context that made the most sense.

raharney Wrote:Wow, you're such a charmer.
Since this is a site for learning Japanese I didn't really feel like he was putting in an appropriate amount of effort into learning Japanese. I wasn't being dismissive because he can't understand it, but because it doesn't seem like he was trying very hard.

If you put it into a translator you do get the meaning out. Furthermore if you have honestly studied Japanese you'll have studied 100% of the grammar within the first Genki textbook.

raharney Wrote:So how would you translate it then. Let's hear you.
Something like:

"Yeah, man, I'm totally like down with that and stuff! Can you tell me like how you use actually use an izanagi? It sounds pretty complicated."

"Wait, what ... I need another one first? No one told me that!? LOOK INTO MY BROODING EYES!"

Someone please help here - ファブリス - 2014-01-20

I don't know why it's such a biggie when people ask for a simple translation like that.

It can always be a starting point to discuss various ways that you'd translate the sentence and related grammar points.

Someone please help here - ファブリス - 2014-01-20

I created a new sticky thread for all such requests.

It's pretty healthy I think for a language forum to have such requests.

From here on all such requests are welcome, but should be posted/will be moved to the sticky.

Translations requests thread
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11498