Found a good site to chat in 日本語

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Reply #1 - 2013 January 26, 9:30 pm
Saiga Member
Registered: 2011-10-10 Posts: 35

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!

Reply #2 - 2013 January 26, 11:07 pm
vix86 Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2010-01-19 Posts: 1469

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.

Reply #3 - 2013 January 26, 11:07 pm
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

Thanks! This is fun!

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Reply #4 - 2013 January 27, 12:17 am
radical_tyro Member
Registered: 2005-11-19 Posts: 272

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

Reply #5 - 2013 January 27, 12:22 am
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

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

Reply #6 - 2013 January 27, 4:45 am
partner55083777 Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2008-04-23 Posts: 397

There's also チャベリ.

http://www.chaberi.com/

Reply #7 - 2013 January 27, 6:52 am
Rael89 Member
From: new york Registered: 2008-07-26 Posts: 103

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

Reply #8 - 2013 January 27, 7:19 am
Saiga Member
Registered: 2011-10-10 Posts: 35

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.

Reply #9 - 2013 January 27, 7:46 am
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

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)

Reply #10 - 2013 January 27, 7:58 am
Saiga Member
Registered: 2011-10-10 Posts: 35

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.

Last edited by Saiga (2013 January 27, 8:34 am)

Reply #11 - 2013 January 27, 7:42 pm
Oniichan Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2009-02-02 Posts: 269

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.

Reply #12 - 2013 January 27, 7:59 pm
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

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.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2013 January 27, 8:05 pm)

Reply #13 - 2013 January 27, 8:09 pm
Tzadeck Member
From: Kinki Registered: 2009-02-21 Posts: 2484

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).

Reply #14 - 2013 January 27, 11:13 pm
Zgarbas Watchman
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2011-10-09 Posts: 1210 Website

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 >.<?

Reply #15 - 2013 January 28, 12:07 am
netsplitter Member
From: Melbourne Registered: 2008-07-13 Posts: 183

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

Reply #16 - 2013 January 28, 2:44 am
drdunlap Member
From: 水の都 Registered: 2009-06-01 Posts: 364 Website

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. tongue 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!

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