Reading Practice - May 28 2010

[Starry Starry Fright]

This is a self-introduction for an imaginary person, all written in hiragana。 See if you can read what it says.

はじめまして。わたしのなまえはゆきです。じゅうななさいです。せいとです。こうこうさんねんせいです。わたしのかぞくはちちとははといもうととわたしです。ちちはべんごしです。どうぞよろしく。

Just for kicks, here is the same paragraph written out with full kanji. As you can see, it saves a lot of space. Personally, I find the second one much easier to read than the first one these days.

はじめまして。私の名は雪です。十七歳です．生徒です。高校三年生です。私の家族は父と母と妹と私です。父は弁護士です。どうぞよろしく。

Get reading!  

[Fratalizite]

I wanna ask a question!>.<
Is Chinese and Japanese a bit the same?  

[Starry Starry Fright]

limlizette

I wanna ask a question!>.<
Is Chinese and Japanese a bit the same?

In same cases, they are very similar. Hiragana and katakana are only is Japanese, but Japanese kanji are based on an older set of Chinese characters. A lot of Japanese kanji look very similar to Chinese characters, but might have slight differences or slightly different meanings.  

[Fratalizite]

Starry Starry Fright

limlizette

I wanna ask a question!>.<
Is Chinese and Japanese a bit the same?

In same cases, they are very similar. Hiragana and katakana are only is Japanese, but Japanese kanji are based on an older set of Chinese characters. A lot of Japanese kanji look very similar to Chinese characters, but might have slight differences or slightly different meanings.

Oh...I see thanks...so, is 十七歳です mean 17 years old or not? Because I'm Chinese(still learning), so I know how to read...>.<
Hope you understand.. because I'm a bit confusing sometimes..XDD  

[Asano Wakana]

My Onee-chan asked if なめ ought to have been なまえ instead because she said she is pretty sure that 'name' in Japanese is 'namae' but she was wondering if なめ was a modern use of 'namae' or a typo?  

[Starry Starry Fright]

Sakuraoka Yuka

My Onee-chan asked if なめ ought to have been なまえ instead because she said she is pretty sure that 'name' in Japanese is 'namae' but she was wondering if なめ was a modern use of 'namae' or a typo?

Typo. My computer keeps trying to switch back to English halfway through Japanese words. I'll fix it.  

[Starry Starry Fright]

limlizette

Starry Starry Fright

limlizette

I wanna ask a question!>.<
Is Chinese and Japanese a bit the same?

In same cases, they are very similar. Hiragana and katakana are only is Japanese, but Japanese kanji are based on an older set of Chinese characters. A lot of Japanese kanji look very similar to Chinese characters, but might have slight differences or slightly different meanings.

Oh...I see thanks...so, is 十七歳です mean 17 years old or not? Because I'm Chinese(still learning), so I know how to read...>.<
Hope you understand.. because I'm a bit confusing sometimes..XDD

Yes, that chunk of kanji and hiragana means 17 years old.  

[Asano Wakana]

Starry Starry Fright

Sakuraoka Yuka

My Onee-chan asked if なめ ought to have been なまえ instead because she said she is pretty sure that 'name' in Japanese is 'namae' but she was wondering if なめ was a modern use of 'namae' or a typo?

Typo. My computer keeps trying to switch back to English halfway through Japanese words. I'll fix it.

Okay. Thank you.  

[Fratalizite]

Starry Starry Fright

limlizette

Starry Starry Fright

limlizette

I wanna ask a question!>.<
Is Chinese and Japanese a bit the same?

In same cases, they are very similar. Hiragana and katakana are only is Japanese, but Japanese kanji are based on an older set of Chinese characters. A lot of Japanese kanji look very similar to Chinese characters, but might have slight differences or slightly different meanings.

Oh...I see thanks...so, is 十七歳です mean 17 years old or not? Because I'm Chinese(still learning), so I know how to read...>.<
Hope you understand.. because I'm a bit confusing sometimes..XDD

Yes, that chunk of kanji and hiragana means 17 years old.

Thank you very much!!!^-^  

[hisoka-kaminalover12]

はじめまして。わたしのなまえはゆきです。じゅうななさいです。せいとです。こうこうさんえんせいです。わたしのかぞくはちちとははといもうととわたしです。ちちはべんごしです。どうぞよろしく。

hajimemashite. watashi no namae wa yuki desu. jyuu nana sai desu. seito desu. koukou san en sei desu. watashi no kazoku wa chichi to haha to imouto to watashi desu. chichi wa bengoshi desu. douzo yoroshiku.

nice to meet you. my name is yuki. i am 17 years old. i am a student. i am in my third year of highschool. my family is made up of my father, mother, younger sister and me. my father is a lawyer. i hope we get along.

i think i did that right ^^; but is the "en" supposed to be nen?

oh, extra credit. yuki means snow blaugh  

[Starry Starry Fright]

hisoka-kaminalover12

はじめまして。わたしのなまえはゆきです。じゅうななさいです。せいとです。こうこうさんえんせいです。わたしのかぞくはちちとははといもうととわたしです。ちちはべんごしです。どうぞよろしく。

hajimemashite. watashi no namae wa yuki desu. jyuu nana sai desu. seito desu. koukou san en sei desu. watashi no kazoku wa chichi to haha to imouto to watashi desu. chichi wa bengoshi desu. douzo yoroshiku.

nice to meet you. my name is yuki. i am 17 years old. i am a student. i am in my third year of highschool. my family is made up of my father, mother, younger sister and me. my father is a lawyer. i hope we get along.

i think i did that right ^^; but is the "en" supposed to be nen?

oh, extra credit. yuki means snow blaugh

Another typo... that should read "nen". It's fixed now.

Right you are - Yuki does mean snow. It also happens to be the name of the my one Japanese friend - I met him when he came to Canada as an exchange student - so I'll probably be using that name a lot. biggrin  

[Kaze no Namida]

"Nice to meet you. My name is Yuki [note: Yuki is a female because of 私]. I am seventeen years old. I am a (non-college/university) student. I am in my third year of high school. My family is my father, mother, my little sister, and me. My father is a lawyer. I hope we can get along."
Something like that, right?