My trip

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:11 pm

In my school an international languages elective was offered where you learned spanish, french, japanese and some others i think but i didnt want it and i didnt get it lol. I got woodworking!!!

Splodginator · Post by **Splodginator** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:34 am

Well, I think languages are a good elective because:
1) I have to do one anyway,
2) Woodworking, Metalworking or Technical Drawing (collectively called "DT") are compolsury (sp?)
3) The other electives for me were Visual Arts, and I don't draw well, Music, but I'm not a singing type of person, or Drama, which I don't like.

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               *--*         =means one, one person, etc.. forgot the name.

Are you sure you have the names right? I thought they were 'ichi' and 'ni'.[/code]

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:40 am

My school goes to Japan as well, but you've got to pay for most/all of it of course, which means I'm not going. =(

Splodginator wrote:
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              *-----*      =means two. called &#91;i&#93;futa&#91;/i&#93; 



               *--*         =means one, one person, etc.. forgot the name.
Are you sure you have the names right? I thought they were 'ichi' and 'ni'.[/code]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:33 pm

At my school, we have to learn English, French, Spanish, German, and Latin. The latter only word-roots, not so we can speak fluently. I also studied greek for 2 years. In any case, I'd hate having to learn any non Germanic/latin based language like Japanese or such... they just don't make sense.

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:53 pm

i am in junior high when i get to high school i will need to take 2-3 years of language...so if i take one in junior high i will only need one to two years ...

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:23 pm

Arrrrrrrgh! How old t'would ye be, Tony me mate?!

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:48 am

I needed to take french 1 hour daily through grade school, and was required to take 1 semester of french for a period. I took that, and i was done with it. Thats all I has to learn, due to Canada's bilingual state.

Oz · Post by Oz » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:44 pm

Kazer0 wrote:Thats all I has to learn, due to Canada's bilingual state.

you still take english/grammar, hopefully? jk.

and i looked up the ways of countinh in japanese ,and it turns out - we were both right. look:

some guy good at japanese wrote:-chan: Used for someone younger than yourself, often times females as well. (Example: Rei-chan)

-kun: Usually used for a male that you know very well. (Example: Oburi-kun)

-sama: Used for someone of high respect, someone in a higher rank than you perhaps. (Example: Shigeru-sama)

-san: A generic and formal name addition, it works with both genders and all ages.

-sensei: Used for teachers, it works with both genders.

Counting in Japanese

There are two methods of counting in Japanese, most of you have heard the first method I will post, but there's a second that is used quite often but is a prefix.

Example: September, or September the 9th month is Kyuu-gatsu. But 9 yen is yo yen.

Method One:

Ichi: One
Ni: Two
San: Three
Shi: Four
Go: Five
Roku: Six
Shichi: Seven
Hachi: Eight
Kyuu: Nine
Juu: Ten

Method Two:

One: Hito(tsu)
Two: Futa(Tsu)
Three: Mi(Tsu)
Four: Yo(Tsu)
Five: Itsu(Tsu)
Six: Mui(Tsu)
Seven: Nana(Tsu)
Eight: Yo(Tsu)
Nine: Kokono(Tsu)
Ten: Tou(Tsu)

the first methos is the "one, two" that we all know, the second is the "first, second" prefix way of saying things. so, never mind. shame on me. bye...

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:07 pm

Is japanese that cool that everyone wants to take it?

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:24 pm

ya... i know all that stuff... heck, i can even write simple WORDS such as "Konnichiwa" "shit" "damn" and many others and a few simple phrases too!

-Richard-

--happy now Wary Wolf?--

Oz · Post by Oz » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:43 am

so can i. but that's cause i went to japan over the summer, not cause i wanna learn it. i mean, it's cool, but not THAT cool. and btw, aren't those WORDS, not PHRASES?

anyway, p.s.: "hentai" means "pervert". haha. now i know what that means, i just need to find out "lizard love"....

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:00 pm

OOOH, so thats what hentai is lol, not that I ever heard of it before

Post by **wardrich** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:42 pm

wow... hentai has been around for AGES!