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Thread: The Japanese Lyrics Thread! 日本語歌詞スレ Post: RE: The Japanese Lyrics Thread! 日本語歌詞スレ Cool idea for a thread, risu_! And yeah, I also like 人にやさしく, although my first exposure to it wasn't the original version, but the opening to the anime Rolling Girls: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 18 | 1,526 | 2016-04-08, 1:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Help with Kansai ben transcription Post: RE: Help with Kansai ben transcription Here's how I heard it: Matsumoto: 世の中本当不思議なことが一杯ありますから Hamada: そうだよね、お前を含めて Matsumoto: はてな、違う、そのクエスチョンって思うこといっぱいあるでしょ。ペットショップ行ったんですけど、ペットショップ夜にどうなってるか知ってるか？ Hamada: 知らんよそんな Matsumoto: （ま、だ〜れもおらん？）、犬と... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 3 | 565 | 2016-04-08, 12:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Kobun (Classical Japanese) Resources? Post: RE: Kobun (Classical Japanese) Resources? I learned the basics of Classical Japanese grammar from a Russian book so I'm afraid I can't really recommend any basic resources, but I do know a couple supplementary ones: http://kobun.weblio.jp/ P... |
vonPeterhof | Learning resources | 3 | 570 | 2016-03-19, 1:37 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" vix86 Wrote:Well the webster dictionary has about 500,000 entries but if you google around some people claim that English has about 1 million words, but that probably includes some truly archaic words... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 52 | 4,361 | 2016-02-12, 3:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" (2016-02-11, 8:09 pm)vix86 Wrote: English has probably one of the largest vocabularies of any language out there due to the assimilation of other languages. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, bu... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 52 | 4,361 | 2016-02-12, 12:20 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" Just to give a very clear counterexample to the idea that keigo is about familiarity and not politeness - open any article on the Japanese Wikipedia, or on any news website other than NHK. They are, b... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 52 | 4,361 | 2016-02-11, 4:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" (2016-02-08, 11:47 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: And just in case you're wondering, there is, yes, just as much regional variance in Japan, or at least I'm convinced that there is. I've had a few differ... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 52 | 4,361 | 2016-02-09, 4:36 am | ||
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Thread: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only) Post: RE: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only) (2016-01-15, 8:04 pm)Ash_S Wrote: 「うるさいっちゃ！！」って言われても「かわいいーーー」ってなるだけで怒られてる気が全くしないというかｗｗｗ 伝統的な福岡弁ではい形容詞は「か」形容詞になるので、多分その例はちょっと混ざっているかもしれません。まあ、「うるさかばい！！」も結構かわいいと思いますww でも、福岡県のヤクザのせいで他の地域の日本人にとっては福岡弁の... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 237 | 101,195 | 2016-01-16, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: Learning the Korean language Post: RE: Korean Learners? I guess I'm learning Korean, although I'm not really focusing on it for now. I try to do one TTMIK grammar lesson per week (currently near the end of unit 5) and gradually un-suspend sentences from Ev... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 13 | 1,183 | 2015-11-26, 2:43 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: RE: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) @Digix Wow, just wow. I know there's no non-condescending way of saying this, but, like, are you for real? If you're trolling, then congrats, you really got people going there! On the off chance you'r... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,101 | 2015-11-25, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) tetsueda Wrote:Even if this far fetched reform was done I can guarantee that things would still be published in the old orthography due to market pressure. Yeah, there's also this. I have a copy of 山の... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,101 | 2015-10-28, 5:25 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Raulsen Wrote:The only way I could see the removal of Kanji "working" (even if it wasn't necessarily supported from a cultural standpoint) would be to introduce a system of "spelling" to help distingu... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,101 | 2015-10-28, 4:32 am | ||
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Thread: What is your third language (L3)? Post: What is your third language (L3)? Zgarbas Wrote:Japanese is my L3 proficiency-wise and L5 chronologically. There is no other language that I managed to be as stable with, though :(. I'm pretty sure that's how it was for me as well - I... |
vonPeterhof | Off topic | 19 | 2,920 | 2015-09-16, 8:33 am | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. poblequadrat Wrote:That's why there used to be some confusion between "sh" and "h" in traditional accents (note that Japanese "h" isn't exactly like English "h" either. Again, it's sorta closer to the... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,404 | 2015-09-08, 7:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. Tzadeck Wrote:vonPeterhof Wrote:I did say "normally"; probably should have made it clearer that by that I meant "when speaking the local dialect". Devoicing of "u" and "i" between voiceless consonants... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,404 | 2015-09-08, 5:31 am | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. Tzadeck Wrote:vonPeterhof Wrote:as you probably know, here in Osaka normally no vowels get devoiced. Huh? Plenty of vowels get devoiced in Osaka. I did say "normally"; probably should have made it cl... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,404 | 2015-09-07, 5:36 am | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. yudantaiteki Wrote:But actually the consonant there is not the same as the "sh" of English, and in the case of しつ both the "i" vowel and the "u" vowel are going to be clipped or elided. So it comes ou... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,404 | 2015-09-06, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Any guides on etiquette? Post: Any guides on etiquette? poblequadrat Wrote:...and he also says things such as "unlike English the length of vowels can make a difference in meaning", which makes me wonder if he writes his books on "shits of paper"... The st... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 10 | 2,020 | 2015-08-07, 9:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Place names like 浪速っこ．． Post: Place names like 浪速っこ．． That's pretty cool, I had no idea there were other such names besides 江戸っ子. Thanks, kapalama! The only remotely relevant thing I can add is that there's a Japanese-subbed version of 12 (a Russian re... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 10 | 1,458 | 2015-07-29, 6:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Difference ノ and 丿 Post: Difference ノ and 丿 ノ is just the katakana "no". I'm assuming that the "parts" section was supposed to display 丿 instead (in fact, the page for 丿 also shows the katakana ノ as a part). In Japanese the 丿 is actually referr... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 1 | 879 | 2015-07-28, 6:36 pm | ||
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Thread: HTLAL is/might be dead Post: HTLAL is/might be dead It's back up. |
vonPeterhof | Off topic | 8 | 2,034 | 2015-07-21, 8:36 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Language school Tokyo and writing kanji Post: Japanese Language school Tokyo and writing kanji I'm studying at an advanced course in a language school in Osaka right now. As you can see from the other responses school policies may differ, but in my school there's no problem with using electroni... |
vonPeterhof | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 5 | 1,768 | 2015-07-14, 8:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Why was this glossed with furigana? Post: Why was this glossed with furigana? tetsueda Wrote:I've even seen 昨夜 with furigana in the same book with 轢かれる without. It could be justified for 昨夜, since it has two legit readings with differing levels of formality (ゆうべ and さくや), so th... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,132 | 2015-07-02, 1:22 am | ||
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Thread: inquiry Post: inquiry Judging by this answer, some sort of distinction used to be made between 全て and 総て (and also 凡て) based on the origins of their kanji, but nowadays they're for all intents and purposes the same word, a... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 5 | 975 | 2015-06-24, 5:10 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for an example of a "flippable" compound... Post: Looking for an example of a "flippable" compound..... There's also 凸凹（でこぼこ） and 凹凸（おうとつ）, although this might be cheating a bit, since they mean exactly the same thing. anotherjohn Wrote:Also found a wtf homophone: 将棋 = 娼妓 :lol: That is pretty funny, al... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 16 | 1,842 | 2015-06-16, 1:32 am | ||
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Thread: Anime's Movie Post: Anime's Movie jimeux Wrote:Paprika is worth checking out. As well as everything else by Satoshi Kon (Bokusenou mentioned Tokyo Godfathers). Other then that I second most of the recommendations given here (haven't... |
vonPeterhof | General discussion | 8 | 1,325 | 2015-06-10, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: satire in Japan Post: satire in Japan Zgarbas Wrote:Feminism in Japan was a thing way before its time. Read feminist literature of the 1930s and it casually mentions what Western feminism only started saying in the 1970s. Unfortunately, T... |
vonPeterhof | Off topic | 54 | 7,321 | 2015-05-16, 2:50 am | ||
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Thread: satire in Japan Post: satire in Japan Weird that a discussion of satire in Japan has gone for so long without a single mention of Yatta! Although to be fair, back when this song first became "a thing" most viewers in the West probably jus... |
vonPeterhof | Off topic | 54 | 7,321 | 2015-05-14, 8:10 am | ||
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Thread: は Vs. が Post: は Vs. が Quote:Nominative hon ga the book ... Vocative hon yo! O book! FTFY. If you're gonna shoehorn Japanese into an Indo-European case system, you gotta do it all the way ;) E... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,566 | 2015-05-03, 10:06 am | ||
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Thread: Different pronounciation for same spelled words Post: Different pronounciation for same spelled words I don't think we're looking at the same Rikaisama here, because in mine the second check box under the "Dictionaries" tab says "Hide (X)-rated entries" :D Edit: Oh, I see now, my Rikaisama is still V... |
vonPeterhof | The Japanese language | 8 | 1,199 | 2015-04-11, 3:31 am | ||
