Hi! I am a long-time lurker. Anyway I thought you guys might like this site I found. http://dollars-bbs.org

The password is "baccano". And about halfway down the chatroom there are Japanese boards. Anyone who has seen the anime Durarara will know what its about.

It's pretty good for testing how fast you are at processing japanese. Unfortunately I am not quite able to keep up at my current level, but I'm sure some of you guys might like it.

Thanks!

Its an English site so you'd likely be chatting with people in Japanese that are learning Japanese meaning you are risking picking up bad habits/mistakes from other learners.

Thanks! This is fun!

thanks. i was just looking for something like this the other night. i had one particularly exciting chat.

vix86, the dyurarara chat is full of real Japanese people.

There's also チャベリ.

http://www.chaberi.com/

If only we could get a Japanese version of Tinychat or the old Yahoo live.

vix86 Wrote:Its an English site so you'd likely be chatting with people in Japanese that are learning Japanese meaning you are risking picking up bad habits/mistakes from other learners.

Well I suppose that could be the case now that I've posted this here. But really you can't be sure that any of the "Japanese" people on ANY chat site are really Japanese.
However, I think that the pluses out number the minuses, If only for learning informal/slang Japanese.

I learned that everybody says こん〜. And here I am looking uncool saying こんにちは.

Are you sure that's actually used by Japanese people. The only slang off konnichiwa that I've heard if is ウィース( I might've spelled this wrong)

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Are you sure that's actually used by Japanese people. The only slang off konnichiwa that I've heard if is ウィース( I might've spelled this wrong)

It's most likely used only on internet chat boards. But after going into 3 or 4 japanese chatrooms, that was how they all introduced themselves.

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Are you sure that's actually used by Japanese people. The only slang off konnichiwa that I've heard if is ウィース( I might've spelled this wrong)

There's also こんちゃ and ちわっす.

ウィース is one I haven't heard before unless you mean おっす? I hear it lot at a local karaoke club, usually when someone enters (sort of a 'hello' between peers).

There's also the homonym おっす, which is a contraction of おはようございます (sort of like あざっす, いっさっせ, etc.) This seems closer in meaning to　こんにちは.

no it's wisssu for sure. there's also chissu
ちーす｣と｢うぃーす
well I know these two are used in real life conversation for sure but i've never heard of the others so i guess those are only used in internet/chatrooms. I can't imagine somebody saying こんちゃ or chiwasu out loud in front of people... it just sounds embarrassing.

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:no it's wisssu for sure. there's also chissu
ちーす｣と｢うぃーす
well I know these two are used in real life conversation for sure but i've never heard of the others so i guess those are only used in internet/chatrooms. I can't imagine somebody saying こんちゃ or chiwasu out loud in front of people... it just sounds embarrassing.

Doesn't うぃーす come from おっす, not こんにちは?

ちーす does come from こんにちは (I think it comes from the sort of slang っす that gets added sometimes to a slurred こんにちは).

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こんちゃ is a thing?
How does Japanese manage to accidentally have so many inappropriate words from so many languages in their vocab >.<?

Japanese text-based chatroulette-y type thing: http://chatpad.jp/

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:no it's wisssu for sure. there's also chissu
ちーす｣と｢うぃーす
well I know these two are used in real life conversation for sure but i've never heard of the others so i guess those are only used in internet/chatrooms. I can't imagine somebody saying こんちゃ or chiwasu out loud in front of people... it just sounds embarrassing.

こんちゃ sounds more like こんぃちゎ when spoken. I don't think it sounds embarrassing..?
I get ちわす from time to time as well. Try saying it manly and less pronounced. Since they're products of lazy mouths they aren't meant to be pronounced clearly.

But.. I'm not sure that "studying" how words get shortened and destroyed is the best way to sound natural. Listen and copy!