Basically I thought it would be interesting to see how many people out there can speak or write in Japanese. Also if they had any good translators or cool online sites that they found that really helped them out. Right now I'm taking classes at school and also studying by myself. I know all of the Hiragana, parts of and soon the whole Katakana, and zero Kanji.

Anyway hope some people find this thread, and post any words that you think would be cool for drivers to know.

Untengijutsu - driving skill
hetana untenshu- a bad driver
Fujiwara Tofu- Tak's sponsor lol

Maybe later I'll post some of the books that I have.

 

:reserved for later:

 

super kawaii.

I can speak little.

 

i use this

 

That's awesome!! Good link!!

 

im trying to learn katakana but its taking a while...hopefully after that it will make it easier for hiragana...i wish i had japanese classes at my school..

 

lol, if anything I would learn them in the reverse order, but either way is fine. You'll notice that katakana is more blocklike than the hiragana. It's like cursive vs. print for a very rough comparison. Some of the symbols are completely different some are very similar. Can't make anything to easy now... And yeah decent japanese classes are hard to come by, most colleges have japanese but some are just like learning videos which sucks to learn from. Same as almost all high schools. Not enough students take Japanese so they just buy video learning tapes.

 

wut's this say?

 

(1st kanji) chan wo (2nd kanji) tsute imasu.

Assuming the 1st and 2nd is a name, and considering that i don't think tsute is right or know what the means if it is, It's like "John-chan (first four symbols) wo (direct object marker- a particle making john the one who is having a orgasim) Jill(2nd kanji) tsute(no idea) imasu (to go).

So following that logic "John is "going" using Jill. Only thing that i'm sure about is that the first kanji is probably a name, imasu means to go refrencing to an orgasim, and wo or o marks who is.

Unfortunetly I don't have my Japanese-English dictionary so i can't check to see if tsute is a word.

 

uhh... and that means what exactly? In English... hehehe, thanks for the effort.