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telini
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a few questions^^

Postby telini » February 4th, 2007 8:47 pm

Hajimemashite. Watashi wa patorkku desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu

I know my firstname in nihongo: patorikku
but how do I say my lastname "rohrer"?

I begun to study the Hiragana with your Kana Recognition Practice. I realy love it, expecially the sound, but its a litle bit unpractically to type in the romaji by hand. I found this kana trainer, which allows to simply klick the romaji. But there is no sound :( And there are missing the kana pa ba da za ga aso. and the rya mya pya aso.. Are they somehow special?

And a litle queston to the Hepburn romaji: why is ふ transkripted as "fu"?

domo arigato

Oyasuminasai :)

PS: Im from switzerland, so please forgive my bad english(and japanese^^)
PPS: Watashi wa "Switzerland"-jin desu. how do I say this right?

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Re: a few questions^^

Postby Psy » February 4th, 2007 10:33 pm

telini wrote:Hajimemashite. Watashi wa patorkku desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu

douzo yoroshiku. :)

I know my firstname in nihongo: patorikku
but how do I say my lastname "rohrer"?

I'm not sure what the correct pronunciation is, but I'll guess "rooreru."

And there are missing the kana pa ba da za ga aso. and the rya mya pya aso.. Are they somehow special?

I don't know what "aso" is, but as for the others, they are voiced versions of other kana, marked with two dashes (called ten-ten or dakuten).
pa = ぱ/パ (ha with a circle)
ba = ば/バ (ha with dakuten)
da = だ/ダ (ta with dakuten)
za = ざ/ザ (sa with dakuten)

And a litle queston to the Hepburn romaji: why is ふ transkripted as "fu"?

Because the actual sound is somewhere between "fu" and "hu." Like saying a breathy "who" but a little shorter.

PPS: Watashi wa "Switzerland"-jin desu. how do I say this right?

watashi wa suisu-jin desu.

Cheers!

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Postby telini » February 5th, 2007 8:41 pm

thanks you very much for the fast reply

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Postby telini » February 8th, 2007 9:19 pm

hm.. doublepost^^

well, I'm a bit confused about the hiraganas again :oops:

じ - ぢ
ず - づ
じゃ - ぢゃ
じゅ - ぢゅ
じょ - ぢょ

is there a rule wenn to use witch of them?

and an other thing I want to ask: there is used a short つ to double consonants, isnt it?

Are there other special kanas?

kanbanwa europe
ohayo nippon
konnichiwa amerika

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Postby Tom » February 8th, 2007 10:00 pm

telini wrote:じ - ぢ
ず - づ
じゃ - ぢゃ
じゅ - ぢゅ
じょ - ぢょ

is there a rule wenn to use witch of them?

Like "ch" and "tch," "tio" and "sho," etc. in English, they sound the same sometimes, but you use them according to the spelling of the words.

telini wrote:and an other thing I want to ask: there is used a short つ to double consonants, isnt it?

Are there other special kanas?

Yes: がんばて, for example, is ganbatte. Other than the small や, ゆ, and よ you listed above, the first five sounds (ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ) are used in katakana words to mimic the foreign pronunciation.
By the way, I made it to Japan

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Postby telini » February 10th, 2007 7:46 pm

ありがとう

I still dont get completely trought all of this, but at least the kana arent still
insignificant letters to me :wink:

さよなら

パトリック ロオレル

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Postby telini » February 17th, 2007 7:33 pm

ただいま (I guess this isnt used in the internet, but I dont know an other word to say "I am back" ^^)

Im a bit embrassed, but I'd love to get some feedback about my written hiragana.

I was just practicing with online tools, so I dont know if I make some faults

Be hard, I need your criticism to improve my skill^^


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どもありがとございました


てりいにちゃん

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Postby Psy » February 18th, 2007 6:11 am

From what I hear ただいま isn't strictly correct in this situation, but everyone (even Japanese) use it anyway. All of your handwriting is clearly readable, but since you said to be strict, so here I go:

--The top stroke in the first few う's on the top row are a bit long and curved. The 4th one in from the left is more the proportion you're looking for.
--The left stroke in い is too straight.
--や the short top stroke should be a line parallel to the long one.
--As a note, your ふ looks a little different from what I'm used to seeing, but I think it's kinda cool looking. ;)

I think you might be worrying too much, because again all of it is clear and easy to read.

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Postby telini » February 19th, 2007 2:45 pm

万歳 万歳 万歳
arigatou psy-san Image
Im so glade that they are clearly readable Image

I will try to fix those you have noted and also try a few variations out
hm.. but first, Im now really inspired to learn how to write the katakana Image

またね

てりいにちゃん

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