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Unread 26 Jan 2003, 22:26   #1
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Why. Why does this language have to have 3 alphabets. Why can't it just be easy like english.

God freaking dammit

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I was going to post something here, but the last one I made, directed at the Chinese was edited. If I do it again I'll probably get banned.

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Re: Japanese

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Why. Why does this language have to have 3 alphabets. Why can't it just be easy like english.

God freaking dammit

/me goes back to studying
There's hiragana and katakana with 46 letters each... What's the third? Is the third the Chinese alphabet?
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Re: Re: Japanese

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There's hiragana and katakana with 46 letters each... What's the third? Is the third the Chinese alphabet?
Yes.

With a staggering 800 some characters.

Makes me want to rethink this class.
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There's hiragana and katakana with 46 letters each... What's the third?
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Unread 26 Jan 2003, 23:27   #6
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why bother learning Japanese? Make the lazy bastards learn English
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why bother learning Japanese? Make the lazy bastards learn English
English is a required course in Japan.

I'm learning japanese because I want to. No other reason.
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Re: Re: Re: Japanese

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Yes.

With a staggering 800 some characters.

Makes me want to rethink this class.
far more than a mere 800. and it's trivial, jsut a memory exercise anyway. I like it cos it has les grammar then English... but now I'm onto chinese (mandarin), even less grammar still. It's ace.
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English is a required course in Japan.

I'm learning japanese because I want to. No other reason.
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I've studied German, Spanish, French and Serbo-Croatian as well as the Cyrillic alphabet. I think that is enough for one life. I will leave the Asian language to you young folks.
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Hint hint. If you learn Chinese, you'll read Kanji! 2 for 1!
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Re: Re: Re: Japanese

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Yes.

With a staggering 800 some characters.

Makes me want to rethink this class.
Try Cantonese

I'm learning (slowly) to speak it but don't think I'll ever be able to read it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Japanese

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Try Cantonese

I'm learning (slowly) to speak it but don't think I'll ever be able to read it.
cantonese=mandrin...only spoken differently, dialects (of which there are many in China)...kinda like how scots and english have same written but can't understand each others spoken tongue.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Japanese

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cantonese=mandrin...only spoken differently, dialects (of which there are many in China)...kinda like how scots and english have same written but can't understand each others spoken tongue.
It's a little more than that. They have some characters which Mandarin just doesn't have. They made those up to facilitate their speech in writing. That's why I can't really read some of the HK newspapers despite my fluency in reading both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

FYI, there are 202 dialects in China.
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It's a little more than that. They have some characters which Mandarin just doesn't have. They made those up to facilitate their speech in writing. That's why I can't really read some of the HK newspapers despite my fluency in reading both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

FYI, there are 202 dialects in China.
omg u actually know how many dialects there are in china!!

and didn't know about the character thing...but eh...leaving when your 5 yrs old doesn't exactly promote language growth
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hehheh.

I speak 4 Chinese dialects including Mandarin.

Use teh search function to find my "Chinese food" article. :nerd:
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clearly ur chinese >mine

pitiful handful of mandrin...some other dialects thrown in....ffs...my gr4 cousin beats me
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japanese is a pure comedy language. my friend had one course of it and he doesnt really know anything more than to say something like "my name is blablabla" "how you doing?" etc etc. but it's soooooooooooo funny when he talks it, sounds like he wants to kill meh or sumthn extremely violent, heh.
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I tryed to learn Japanese on the soul basic of I wanted to import anime from japan and watch with out the ****ty dub, subtitles, or fansubs
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japanese is a pure comedy language. my friend had one course of it and he doesnt really know anything more than to say something like "my name is blablabla" "how you doing?" etc etc. but it's soooooooooooo funny when he talks it, sounds like he wants to kill meh or sumthn extremely violent, heh.
no, that's german
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no, that's german
yes i've seen that. it was humorous. but it is japanese that he speaks. i do the german part... and one of my m8s does the estonian part and one other the english part.. it's mildly amusing to go to some pub and start talking with those languages.. the ppl dont really know what they should try to speak to us when we order beer.. 's big fun.
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Re: Japanese

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Why. Why does this language have to have 3 alphabets.
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