+- kanji koohii FORUM (http://forum.koohii.com)
+-- Forum: Learning Japanese (http://forum.koohii.com/forum-4.html)
+--- Forum: General discussion (http://forum.koohii.com/forum-8.html)
+--- Thread: internet site that provide native japanese phrase (/thread-1938.html)
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - palmaris_longus - 2008-09-28
Hi, minna
I need your help to find certain site.
Here is some background story. Recently, my girlfriend often sends me japanese sentence that are highly relevant to what she is thinking at the time. She knows I can understand Japanese. As far as I know, so doesn't know even tiny bit about Japanese, but the sentences she sent are all native sounded ones. She said that she got them from some site on the net, but the problem is she won't tell me the address. She even sent me something like this :これまでで最も退屈な休日になるんだろうな. which sound very native to me, and that was exactly what she wanted to tell me at the time. From the timing, it's unlikely that she had some time asking other people who knowledgeable in Japanese to translate it for her, before she sent it to me. She said that the site not only provides Japanese sentences but also other languages'. From all the sentence she sent me, I conclude that the site not only provides some common Japanese sentences, but it could even translate a full sentence, which sounds impossible to me. I wonder if such cool site actually exist. Do you guys happen to know what this site is? Thanks before
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Tobberoth - 2008-09-28
palmaris_longus Wrote:Hi, minnaShe probably has some Japanese person on some chat program. Safe to say, there's no way to machine translate Japanese to an even decent level, at least not between Japanese and English, such a site is thus impossible.
I need your help to find certain site.
Here is some background story. Recently, my girlfriend often sends me japanese sentence that are highly relevant to what she is thinking at the time. She knows I can understand Japanese. As far as I know, so doesn't know even tiny bit about Japanese, but the sentences she sent are all native sounded ones. She said that she got them from some site on the net, but the problem is she won't tell me the address. She even sent me something like this :これまでで最も退屈な休日になるんだろうな. which sound very native to me, and that was exactly what she wanted to tell me at the time. From the timing, it's unlikely that she had some time asking other people who knowledgeable in Japanese to translate it for her, before she sent it to me. She said that the site not only provides Japanese sentences but also other languages'. From all the sentence she sent me, I conclude that the site not only provides some common Japanese sentences, but it could even translate a full sentence, which sounds impossible to me. I wonder if such cool site actually exist. Do you guys happen to know what this site is? Thanks before
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - palmaris_longus - 2008-09-28
now she start to send me Korean and French. There must be one
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - mentat_kgs - 2008-09-28
Your girlfriend is a genious, sorry to inform you that.
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Jarvik7 - 2008-09-28
So your conversations with your girlfriend are just her pasting stuff from a website in various languages (none of which she speaks) all day?
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - palmaris_longus - 2008-09-28
Thank you. but some one who made this site is the one who actually genius :
http://www.howtosayin.com.
yay, i finally found it! try it! it's incridibbly awesome
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - alyks - 2008-09-28
I'm speechless. What the...?
I think it uses google translator, maybe:
http://www.howtosayin.com/about.php
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Jarvik7 - 2008-09-28
Yeah it's probably using a translator, because this isn't natural speech at all:
私はあなたとのセックスが欲しい
It's also exactly what google translate puts out.
-edit-
hahaha, this doesn't even make sense:
私ドントだけで死ぬことを望む (I don't want to die alone)
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - playadom - 2008-09-28
Question about this:
Is 地獄に落ちる a natural Japanese idiom?
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Jarvik7 - 2008-09-28
That is more "to go to hell" rather than "go to hell". It needs the imperative conjugation.
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - playadom - 2008-09-28
Jarvik7 Wrote:That is more "to go to hell" rather than "go to hell". It needs the imperative conjugation.True, but disregarding that, a literal translation would be 地獄に行け or maybe 地獄へ行け。 Is using 落ちろ rather than 行け natural Japanese usage?
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Serge - 2008-09-28
Jarvik7 Wrote:-edit-Awesome, that merits being on a t-shirt.
hahaha, this doesn't even make sense:
私ドントだけで死ぬことを望む (I don't want to die alone)
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Jarvik7 - 2008-09-28
playadom Wrote:True, but disregarding that, a literal translation would be 地獄に行け or maybe 地獄へ行け。 Is using 落ちろ rather than 行け natural Japanese usage?Yes
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - alantin - 2008-09-29
It translates like shit when it comes to more complex sentences.. =P
I tried it "English <--> Finnish" as well as "English --> Japanese". =P
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Jarvik7 - 2008-09-29
alantin Wrote:It translates like shit when it comes to more complex sentences.. =PSeeing as 90% of the JP sentences don't even make sense let alone approach natural Japanese, I'd say it translates like shit regardless of source sentence complexity.
I tried it "English <--> Finnish" as well as "English --> Japanese". =P
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Squintox - 2008-09-29
Jarvik7 Wrote:私はあなたとのセックスが欲しいLOL xD
I spilt coke all over my keyboard xD
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - nac_est - 2008-09-29
Hahaha! I did a little experiment. I started with the sentence "I fear I'm going to puke" and then translated it to Italian, then Japanese, then english again. I did it a few times, and the sentence kept getting crazier. When I stopped it had become "Back to the topic Lim"...
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Katsuo - 2008-09-29
I sometimes use the Excite site for a quick J-E translation.
I particularly liked its translation of this sentence from the Tanuki database:
年上の人の注意は、すなおに聞こう
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - penne - 2008-09-29
Katsuo Wrote:I sometimes use the Excite site for a quick J-E translation.Haha this is too funny
I particularly liked its translation of this sentence from the Tanuki database:
年上の人の注意は、すなおに聞こう
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Nukemarine - 2008-09-29
nac_est Wrote:Hahaha! I did a little experiment. I started with the sentence "I fear I'm going to puke" and then translated it to Italian, then Japanese, then english again. I did it a few times, and the sentence kept getting crazier. When I stopped it had become "Back to the topic Lim"...Ah, the internet translator version of the "telephone" game.
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - hknamida - 2008-09-29
「私はすべての上に唇を感じてほしい」
I especially like the "all over" ---> ｢すべての上｣ part.
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - alantin - 2008-09-29
Now you can just amuse yourself for hours with the telephone game without the need of other people's participation! ^^
:lol:
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - Tobberoth - 2008-09-29
Like I said, machine translation of Japanese is impossible. Which is good because that makes sure what we're doing here on this site isn't in vain
I recommend people who are learning korean to try machine translation between japanese and korean though. It's fully comprehensible, most of the time.
internet site that provide native japanese phrase - albion - 2008-09-29
Ahah, I like that.
私はあなたに恋を作りたい
私はあなたが私の美しい王子チャーミングな愛 (the last part sounds like a song title)
Youreハンサム (that's what you get when you don't even write the English properly)
ジェシカと思うあなたはとても美しいアイダホのような方が良いことを知る
ジェシカはsluty雌犬です (and its sequel, ジェシカはsluty娼婦です)
Strange how it can come up with a few that actually make sense (and aren't just single words). I assume these were submitted by someone other than Babelfish.
あなたがいなくて寂しいです