Everything posted by Jess♥
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Beginner Japanese
almost. ehm, it uses a normal 'U' and a small 'E' which is most easily typed with the keys 'we' when using a western keyboard and conversion software. Riv, should we split this topic for you? it's becoming less of your blog and more of a language lesson. not that it's a problem for me, it's up to you. edit: I must have bought that book from amazon - http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%B0%8F%E5%AD%A6%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%971006%E2%80%95%E8%AA%AD%E3%81%BF%E6%96%B9%E3%80%81%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E6%96%B9%E3%81%8C%E3%81%99%E3%81%90%E3%82%8F%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8B-%E5%AD%A6%E7%A0%94/dp/4053008255/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318505357&sr=1-2
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Beginner Japanese
not many people are listening to hte words when watching anime though. when subtitles are there, the actual dialogue can become simply noise. I think some people hear intonations and they might pick up on some small phrases like 'yatta!' or 'yurusenai' or something like that, but not actual phrases and dialogue. this is what i'm thinking. but i'm dyslexic so it might be different for others.
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Beginner Japanese
since both are the same kanji, it's no problem to me. but perhaps it could be confusing to others. either way, gold can be considered to be currency anyway, ã? yep. I think the Oxford dictionary has improved a LOT lately. my original dictionary was quite bad and had the japanese words arranged in english alphabet order ... well the latest edition has it in proper japanese order. I have the Oxford Japanese Mini Dictionary (2009) and find it to be quite useful. but it's not the ideal for learning reading. for reading, I use Gakken å°å¦æ¼¢å—1ï¼ï¼ï¼– that is available from ebay as far as I know, that's where i purchased it.
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Beginner Japanese
maybe it's a little too challenging? I always prefer to take baby steps when introducing things. this part is katakana - リュ゠this part is a verb - 怒ã£ãŸ the verb is conjugated and is past tense. ( is it past perfect? something that has already happened. it has completed. like the car has broken. ) durendal, do you think it's ok to include verbs just now? or do you think it might be a bit complicated just yet?
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Beginner Japanese
it's ok, it's what I was talking about. It's a big issue to me because I'm welsh. but to other countries, it's not a big deal at all.
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Beginner Japanese
GAH!!! no. you made the fatal error that I was expressing displeasure about! I am a WELSH person. UEERUZU - wales
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page: Kamen Rider Kuuga Song Lyrics
This is the discussion topic for the wiki article: Kamen Rider Kuuga Song Lyrics
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Beginner Japanese
I don't mind. we'll see if Riv finds it a bit overkill
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Beginner Japanese
yes you've got that part right and yes, boku is definitely masculine, the katakana is not a very common usage because japanese people don't always recognise the term. they would usually use the term イギリス人 or 英国人, much to my dismay. unfortunately it's an all too common issue with other countries. I think his romper suit looks lighter at times because of the aura he gives off. I always pictured it as a soft blue, a little way inbetween deep sky blue and navy blue.
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Crimson's Revived Art
heh heh, I really like how the alternate universe works, you can use similar lines of dialogue as a cheeky nod "you're a fool if you think you can beat me malmot... you drenn!"
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God and the Big Bang
yeah it's purely hypothetical, as there is no human being that could have such a capacity to be able to deal with such a mass of data. we're probably talking about processing power that exceeds the sum brain power of all humans that have lived and died.
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Beginner Japanese
I would assume it is blue like all the other cronos uniforms. are you using a visual comparison? good stuff. here, I believe you are confusing 人 with å…¥. notice this ウェールズ is in katakana. the first symbol is ã¼ã.
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Branding and uniformity
I did a cleanup on the main front page today. I went through our keywords because quit frankly, they were a mess. they were not focused enough and had words like 'blade' 'den-o' etc. which is fine, but when you look at a keyword list and see so many, they need to be more focused. I knocked 'the guyver net' off of the page altogether because that domain has been dead for a while. I've replaced it with 'guyverboard' in deference to our history and in keeping with the forum and how members refer to it. I've also added Project Toku Wiki to the front page as I feel it is definitely deserving of the proper title. I wish to rebrand the wiki by replacing the banner at the top with a Project Toku Wiki banner. I intend to use the armoured legends logo as a base for it. I'm considering whether the news box is working. I may remove it or think of another way for it to work without having to manually update it. any thoughts?
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God and the Big Bang
I believe to know everything about everything, would result in wielding a power over reality, to shape and change anything and everything as one sees fit. to understand all reality so intimately is to be as a god. to understand the concept is different though. to understand the concept of how the ocean works, is easy, to understand every nuance and wave and ripple, is totally different. if I understood every ripple and wave in the ocean, I would know exactly where to dip my toe and at exactly which moment, in order to cause a ripple that would combine the waveforms of an entire ocean surface and cause a massively destructive wave on the other side of the planet. or on the flip-side, if I knew all of that, I would know exactly what slight ripple to cause at the exact moment needed to settle a stormy sea that is threatening to capsize a boat. that may seem impossible, but really it isn't. it is no different from bouncing a snooker ball off 3 cushions into the right pocket. it's logical, just very very complicated.
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Beginner Japanese
ok cool 僕ã¯ã‚¦ã‚§ãƒ¼ãƒ«ã‚ºäººã§ã™ã€‚ yes kanji is very specific, that is why kanji is often used in place of hiragana. there are some cases where hiragana is preferred and that is usually for colloquial terms and slang. it is because the phrase is not necessarily using a literal meaning.
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Beginner Japanese
nope, I said you can think of it as payday simply to remind you of the breakdown of it. it doesn't mean payday, the same way as our sunday doesn't actually mean sun day when we say it. it's just a good way to remember the word. it means today is friday how did you find it? do you want me to give you more challenges?
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Beginner Japanese
you're getting there, you're learning already ! you got 'this day' right or 'today'. your romanisation of the hiragana is not quite there, but good! when you see a small symbol, it is modifying the one before it. so when you wrote kiyo u, it is actually kyou. that would all be written as kyou ha kinyoubi desu. a breakdown of the grammar, kyou is today. kyou ha, means 'concerning' today. kinyoubi is friday. youbi is day. kin is money. so to remember that it's friday think of it as 'payday'. desu means 'is' or 'to be'. I'll let you come up with the answer based on that.
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What live-action series are you watching or have you watched?
yeah kamen rider blade always seemed to have a weird pace. I have tried to watch it about four times. never got past episode 7.
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Beginner Japanese
ok, I'll write it also in hiragana for you. ãょã†ã¯ãんよã†ã³ã§ã™ã€‚ it's odd the kanji not displaying correctly. do you have support for east asian languages installed? it would be in your windows language and regional settings.
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Beginner Japanese
if you like, for a start, would you like to try reading something? you can use as many tools/ books/ reference as you like, but see if you can tell me what this very simple sentence means - 今日ã¯é‡‘曜日ã§ã™ã€‚
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Beginner Japanese
yes. even the title of guyver has both kanji and katakana 強殖装甲ガイãƒãƒ¼ å¼· kyou (kanji) æ®– shoku (kanji) 装 sou (kanji) 甲 kou (kanji) ガ ga (katakana) イ i (katakana) ムba (katakana) ー extender of the last sound. I'm still learning to read japanese. admittedly, I'm pretty good, but not as good as I am at reading english. you don't need to have a teacher, but these days, it is easier to get a teacher. when i started learning, the internet was new and japanese was not very common as a college course etc. my start in learning to read japanese was trying to translate guyver. it's the reason this website and guyver advocacy exists. I learn by talking to my friend in japan and I have various dictionaries. for firefox, get something called rikaichan and get yourself onto twitter and follow some japanese people. there is a member of this forum called lycanthrope bata. he doesn't visit very often but i talk to him often on twitter. it's difficult, but then learning is difficult. when you are challenged, you learn the most. oh to learn grammar, try a program called rosetta stone. maybe you can try the japanese governments site. https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/ that's free, whereas rosetta stone is EXPENSIVE.
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Beginner Japanese
all japanese is written in 'japanese' which comprises of three scripts. all japanese will be written with kanji, hiragana and katakana where appropriate. the only exceptions will be childrens books. do you know what the scripts are for? katakana is used for mostly loanwords, and names. hiragana is used for grammar and particles, verb conjugations and sometimes is used for common terms like greetings etc. Kanji is the meat of it, is used for most stuff along with hiragana to give it it's grammatical context etc. to compare it, you could say CAT is the equivalent to katakana, cat is the equivalent to hiragana and is the equivalent to kanji. lucky for kanji learners, guver is a boy's manga which means it is aimed at young boys who are not fully through school yet. as a result, furigana (small hiragana) are written beside each kanji.
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Japanese Word of the Week
I think I'd need to know some context of the song, but that could be "moon and venus". the first one is correct.
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Kamen Rider Fourze Series Discussion
I think there is a difference though, between feeling generic and being generic. something can be generic but still feel great. I think goukaijer is probably generic in many ways, but it doesn't feel that way to me. fourze is possibly not as generic or more generic than some other series, but the issue at my end is that it feels generic. this could be simply due to lack of other factors that would capture my interest.
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Crimson's Revived Art
i've been enjoying your crimson guyver comoic that you submitted to zeus thunderbolt on DA. I was going to comment on those piceds on DA but i chose to come here and tell you my thoughts about what i thought when i ws reading them. I enjoyed reading them.