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# I still want to learn japanese.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:44, archived)
# Ma Mi
Mu


Me Mo

Lesson 1
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:46, archived)
# And what does that mean?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:49, archived)
# Nothing
it is a layer of their syllabary.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:22, archived)
# What? WHAT?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:27, archived)
# It's a piece of piss.
Honest. After 2 terms, I could count up to 100.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:49, archived)
# I can say Watashi wa Mu desu, and that's about it.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:50, archived)
# You mean watashi no namae wa Winnie desu.
*claims smartarse points*
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:56, archived)
# In all the places I've seen it it's just watashi wa *blank* desu.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:58, archived)
# You've been
misinformed.

Boku no namae wa MU desu


is tha way to go.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:20, archived)
# :( How can I learn Japanese?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:23, archived)
# Go to Japan
Or get a decent teacher who knows more than me. (and I'm pretty good.) Find an Aussie who knows all the grammar (Hah! there is very little) if all else fails, ask me for a job in Japan. I'll sort it out.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:32, archived)
# Well the grammar is (what grammar)
but don't count on it being easy.

(They have a million different words for numbers)
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:51, archived)
# I can still count up to 100 in spanish.
Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, sies, seite, ocho, nueve, deiz, once, doce, trethe, catorthe, quince, diezisies, diesiseite, diesiocho, diezinueve, viente, viente uno...
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 2:57, archived)
# My spelling's gone to shit though.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:00, archived)
# Don't believe you
(joke. you don't have to count all the way)
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:02, archived)
# after that it's just like in english, except they put an "and" in the middle after thirty.
So if you know the tens going up you can count all the way.

trienta y tres, cuarenta y quatro, cinquenta y cinco...
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:04, archived)
# I recall being told
that "shi" is the formally correct word for "4", only it's not widely used cos "shi" also means "death". So they generally say "yon" instead.

More than once, I wondered whether watashi-no-sensei was just making this shit up as she went along.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:08, archived)
# But
They have counting words for flat things, cylindrical things, bottle shaped things, etc.

total nightmare.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:16, archived)
# This is why I want to learn japanese. I want in on the batshit crazy.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:20, archived)
# See above
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 3:37, archived)