LEARN (some) JAPANESE with XESCA

[Xesca]

INTRODUCTION

I want to learn Japanese. I know you do to. I know you might know some Japanese. Whatever. I'm going to pass on my slightly small command of knowledge on this language onto you. (You know I rock your socks oh yes I do).
Table of Contents:
Post 1 - Introduction
Post 2 - Dictionary
Post 3 - Websites
Post 4 - Japanese Lessons
Post 5 - Scans

Chiga nai, you wish to learn (:  

[Xesca]

DICTIONARY

A
A-su: Earth Day. April 22
Aa: Ah, Er, Um. .
Abayo: Crude good-bye. Abayo is to sayonara as kisama is to anata.
Abekku: Together (with someone)
Abunai: Danger, Dangerous, Careful!
Ace o Nerea: Racket of gold.
Achi Kochi: Here and there.
Aenaisago: Tragic death.
Agemasu: Give.
Ah souka: Oh, correct.
Aho: Stupid, idiot, fool.
Ai: Love
Ai Oboete Imasuka: Do you remember the love?
Ai Shiteru: I love you.
Ai ya seitou no dairi toshite, atashi wa Seeraa Maazu yo: For love and justice, I?m Sailor Mars!
Aida: Space, interval, distance
?Aika shika?: Love or death? (*cough* This reminds me of someone. Read manga 5.)
Aiki Jujitsu: Martial arts SIMILAR to Aikido.
Aikido: Martial arts concentrated on defense.
Aikokusentai: Strength of patriotic hit.
Aino: Garden of love.
Aipuriiru Fuuru: Day of innocents, April 1st.
Airen: Husband, spouse
Airon: Iron (like clothes iron)
Aishiteru: I love you.
Aitsuha rival koino chuukanshiken: He?s a rival, the test of his love. (prideshipping?.*twiddles thumbs*)
Ajo: Stupid or fool.
Aka: Red
Akachan: Baby.
Akai: Red (adjective)
Akai Hane no Musha: Spirits/Souls of Red Wings.
Akai Inazuma: Scarlet Ray (magic attack).
Akakitama no saijo: Talented girl of the Red Rock.
Akane: Red Cloud
Akaneniichuan: Something belonging to Akane.
Akari: Light
Akarui: Clear.
Akemi Roppongi: Beauty of red hair
?Akemashite Omedetogozaimasu!: Happy new year!
Akeru: Dawn
Aki: Fall
Aku: Empty, vacant.
Aku ni wa shinenzyo!: ?Dying isn?t easy? or ?your consolation is death?.
Akubi ga deru ze: I?m going to yawn. (sora katana: akubi ga deru ze?.*yawns*)
Akuma: Evil (from a demon)
Akuma ni miirareta megami: The captive goddess of a demon.
?Akuryou taisan!: That the evil spirits disperse!
Alternaverse: AU
Amai: Sweet
Amai sugiru: Too optimistic. (Anzu, anzu, anzu?what will we do with you?)
Amado: wooden doors used to protect the courtyard gardens from storms
Amaki: Sweet
Amano: Blue field.
Amari: It?s not good.
Ame: Rain.
Ameze: Weak.
Ami: ?Friend? or ?Net?.
Ana: Hole.
Anata: You
?Anata, Dare?: who are you?
Anata ga suki desu: You?re the one I love.
?Anata-sama no namae ha?: Your name is?
?Anata wa dare desuka?: Who are you?
Angai: Unwaitable.
Anime: We all know what this is (:
Ankoku: Dark.
Ankoku shiten oh arawaru: Appear, the four princes of darkness have.
Ano: Him/Her..
Ano (o) Etto: Um.
Ano ama: That woman (crass).
Ano bakana yatsu: That idiot.
?Ano henna onna?: That weird girl?
Ano hito: That person.
Ano ko: That girl.
Anshin: Peace of spirit, tranquility.
Anta: You, informal.
?Anta Baka?: That idiot?
Anta ja moene na!: ?It?s not worth it to burn you.? Or ?your fire isn?t ardent.?
?Anta, ningen na no?: Are you human?
Antei: Balance
Anzen: Safe.
Ao: Blue
Aoi: Blue (adjective)
Aoi Tatsumaki: Blue windmill
Aoiki: blue trajectory
Aokitama no yuusha: Hero of the blue rock
Apaato: Department (apartment)
Apricot: Apricot.
Ara: ?Oh God!? ?Huh?? ?Oh!?
Arai: Rude, brusque.
Araku: walk
Arashi: storm.
Arayashiki: The eighth sense
Are: Him/Her
Ari: Have
Arigatai: Great.
Arigato: Thanks.
Arigato gozaimazu: Thank you very much. .
Arigatou gozaimashita: Thank you vey very much.
Arsugawa: Have of the River Shuishi.
Aru: Be, exist
Aruenchin: Argentina.
Asa: Early, morning, dawn.
Asagi: Superficially yellow.
Asakusa: Place in the Taito neighborhood of Tokyo
Asatte: Day before yesterday.
Ashi: leg.
Ashigaru: Lowest-rank samurai.
Ashita: tomorrow.
Ashita made: ?Until tomorrow,? but in context ?reach until tomorrow?
Ashita wa ashita: tomorrow, tomorrow.
Ashuraniichuan: Something belonging to Ashura.
Asobi wa owari da! Koko made da!: The game ended! Up to here you got! (DEATH T!!)
Asobi wa owari da! Nake, sakebe, soshite... Shine!: The game ended! Cry, scream, and then?die! (MORE DEATH T!!)
Assakuki: Pressure (verb).
Atarashi: New.
Ataru: Assure.
Atashi: I, female informal.
Atashi ha Ranko: I?m Ranko
Atashi Haiken: Look at me.
Atashi mou kaeru: I?m going home.
Atashi tte: I am.
Atatakai: Templado
Atemi-waza: Technic of hitting vulnerable zones
Atena no moto ni: Let?s save Atena.
Atogaki: Post Scriptum
Atsui: Hot.
Aware: Attention.
Awase: Kimono of winter
Awase Miso: Fermented soy paste.
Ayakashi: Evil.
Ayashii: Suspicious, dubious, strange.
Ayatsuri: Manipulate.
Ayaushi: Careful.
Azukari-nin: Vigilante of the seppuku ceremony.
Azusa: Tree of Catalpa.

B
Ba: Horse
Baasan: Old woman.
Baba-nuki: Old doncella.
Ba-chan: Grandmother
Baka: Idiot, stupid.
Bakame: Fool.
Bakamon: Idiot.
Bakana: Impossible. It can?t be.
Bakayaro: Stupid cretin, stupid idiot.
Bakemono da: A monster.
Bakeneko: A cat so old it uses a human form to do evil.
Bakudan: Bomb.
Bakufu: Government of Japanese feudal shogunate.
Bakuhatsu: Explosion.
Bakuretsu: Sorceror.
Bakusai Tenketsu: Point of explosion.
Ban: Night.
Bankoku Bikkuri Sho: Electric Ray
Bara: Rose
Bara: Compression of the word ?hara-kiri?.
?Bara no Senshi, Tuxedo Kamen!: The warrior of the rose, Tuxedo Mask!
Bare-no-hara o yomenai: I can?t read in his stomach. (ROFL)
Basho: Place, site.
Basu: Bus.
Beni-shouga: Red ginger pickle.
Benjo: Bathroom.
Bentou: Lunch, lunchbox.
Bessatsu: Special edition.
Bi: Handsome, attractive, incredibly beautiful.
Bi no senshi: The warrior of beauty
Bie Liao: ?Until never? or ?Bye? (chinese).
Biiru: beer.
Bijutsu: art
Bikkuri: surprise
Bimbo: ?Slippery?, ?easy?, or ?coquette?
Bin: Bottle.
Binjin: Beautiful woman.
Biru: Building.
Bishojo: Girls who act masculine.
Bishonen: (Do I need to explain this one?)
Bo: Stick.
?Bochibochi, hajimeru ka nou?: Its getting late, is it time?
Bokken: Wooden kendo sword.
Boku: I, masculine formal (used by younger boys mostly)
Bombori: (no clue)
Bonsai: Small tree.
Bonkotsu: Mediocre/average (insult)
Bonsho: Buddhist temple bell.
Booru-pen: boligraph. (O.o? )
Boshi: Hat.
Botsuban: An altar used to recognize a friend/family member who died
Bu: Martial Arts
Bucho: (I think its police man or gendarme).
Budou: Path of Martial Arts
Buhin: Pieces, parts.
Bujin: Sane, safe, good.
Bujutsu: Technics of the warrior.
Bukkyou: Buddhism.
Bukuju: Flying technic of the Z Warriors.
Bulma: Pants used by girls to do gymnastics.
Bungaku: Literature.
Bunka: Culture, civilizati󮮠
Bunka no Hi: Day of Culture (November 3rd).
Bunno: Inside of.
Bunshin: Multiply.
Bushi: Warrior, samurai.
Bushido: Path of the Warrior. Samurai code of honor
Buta: Pig.
Butaniku: Pig meat.
Butsudan: An altar used to recognize a friend/family member who died
Butsukaru: Crash, collide
Byoin: Hospital, clinic.
Byobu: Paper walls (you know the ones)

DON'T QUOTE THE POST!! domokun

(I will add more once I get around to translating the rest. 3nodding Not to mention, stuff in parentheses are my notes. Yuppers. TTFN)  

[Xesca]

WEBSITES

Google Japanese English ==> Japanese (in kanji/hiragana/katakana)

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC I highly recommend this one.

Your Name in Japanese Fun to write your name in Japanese 3nodding

Online Dictionary - Romaji

Online Dictionary (English - Japanese)

Engrish

{Edited}

Edit: I'm looking at the Engrish as I edit the post, and I can barely breathe for laughing...OMG THIS ROCKS

Another Edit: I've been laughing straight for TWENTY MINUTES!! I haven't laughed this hard since the newspaper called manga characters ambiguously gendered!

Another Edit (20 min since the last one) I have hiccups. Life is not fair. Take a walk on your garden with me. Try Flavono Triple Combination Hi-Tech Chewing Gum ~ Your life happy for refined people. XDD ROFL  

[Xesca]

STUFF FROM MY JAPANESE CLASS

GREETING

Hello - Konnichiwa
Good morning - Ohayougozaimas (ohayou)
Good afternoon - Konnichiwa
Good evening - Konbanwa
Good night - Oyasuminasai (oyasumi)
Good bye - Sayounara (ja ne)
See you - Dewa mata
See you later - Dewa mata kondo (matane)
How are you doing? - Ogenkideska? (genki?)
I'm fine, thank you. - Genkides (genki)
So, so - Maa, maades (maa, maa)
Thank you - Arigatougozaimas (arigatou)
You are welcome - Douitashimashite (tondemonai)

I have a cold - Kaze o hikimashita (kazehiitayo)
I'm tired - Tsukaremashita (tsukareta)
I'm thirsty - Nodo ga kawakimashita (nodo kawaita)
I'm hungry - Onaka ga sukimashita (onaka suitta)

How do you do? - Hajimemashite?
What is your name? - Onamaewa?
My name is ______ - Watashi no namae wa _______ desu.

NUMBERS

1 - Ichi/Hitotsu
2 - Ni/Futatsu
3 - San/Mittsu
4 - Shi/Yottsu
5 - Go/Itsutsu
6 - Loku/Roku/Muttsu
7 - Shichi/Nanatsu
8 - Hachi/Yattsu
9 - Kiyu/Kokonotsu
10 - Jiyu/Tou
11 - Jiyuichi
12 - Jiyuni
13 - Jiyusan
14 - Jiyushi....etc.
20 - Nijiyu
21 - Niyjiyuichi
22 - Nijiyuni
23 - Nijiyusan
24 - Nijiyushi....etc.

NOTE1: When you start reaching double digits, you say the number of tens and then the ones. For example:
34
San - Three
Jiyu - Ten
Shi - four
Three-ten-four
Three tens, then four.
Sanjiyushi.

NOTE2:
40 is NOT shijiyu.
40 is YONJIYU; in which YON is what you must use when saying 'four tens'.
70 is NOT shichijiyu.
70 is NANAJIYU; in which NANA is what you must use when saying 'seven tens'.

NOTE3:
100 = Hyaku. This falls under the same pattern noted in NOTE1.
586 = Gohyakuhachijiyuroku. (gohyaku + hachijiyu + roku).

NOTE4:
1000 = Sen. See NOTE3
2586 = Nisengohyakuhachijiyuroku. (nisen + gohyaku + hachijiyu + roku).

NOTE5:
10,000 = Ichiman. This is a bit different than NOTE3 or NOTE4.
MAN is how you say 10,000, but you must say how many 10,000's you have. That's why 10,00 is ICHIMAN - you have ONE TEN THOUSAND.
Adding to my example:
92586 = kiyumannisengohyakuhachijiyuroku (kiyuman + nisen + gohyaku + hachijiyu + roku).

COLORS

Red: Aka
Red (adj): Akai
Orange: Orange
Yellow: To be rediscovered.
Green: Midori
Blue: Ao
Blue (adj): Aoi
Purple: Murasaki
Black: Kuro
Pink: Momorio
Grey: Hairo
Gold: Kin
Silver: Jin
(to be edited later)

SENTENCE FORMATION

This will be taken very, very, very slowly...
I: Watashi
We: Watashi-tachi
Am/are/is: Wa
Desu: This goes at the end of a sentence describing a state of being.

FOR EXAMPLE:
Watashi wa Xesca desu.
I am Xesca.
Watashi-tachi Kaiba otaku desu.
We are Kaiba fans.

You: Anata
You (plural): Anata-tachi.

Anata wa Sora Katana desu.
You are Sora Katana.
Anata-tachi wa Kaiba otaku desu.
You are Kaiba fans.

TO BE EDITED LATER....AGAIN  

[Xesca]

SCANS
Once I find a scanner.... sweatdrop  

[Sora Katana]

*glower* 'Cescy....

YOU FECKING BIATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SAID YOU'D EMAIL IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And ya just started translating... cry

Edit: Oh, and 'Aa' can also mean yes. Edit. *screw up face and sticks out tongue*

Edit2: You also mispelled weird in '?Ano henna onna?'.

Edit3: A 'bokken' is the wooden kendo sword. You neglected telling it's made of wood. A 'shinai' is the bamboo one.

Edit4: 'Aoi' is blue used as an adjective. 'Ao' is blue.

Edit5: 'Boku'...make mention of the fact it's mostly used by young boys...adults mainly stick to 'watashi,' though they can still use 'boku.'

Edit6: ((Just cuz there are no more typos doesn't mean it can't still be corrected.)) Bo(normally a peasant's weapon) = wooden stick, aho!<----I like how it sounds like 'a*****e.' I insult you in 2 languages w/ 1 word! BWAHAHAHAHAHAheeheeheeheehee! *cough* Feck.

Edit7: 'Aku' also means evil. And, as a suggestion only, why don't you put down the kanji/hiragana along with the romaji? You have the means to do so.

Edit8: Gold is 'kim,' not 'kin.' And it's 'watashi-tachi'wa Kaiba otaku desu.' AND DON'T CALL ME 'OTAKU'!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM, YOU *l#$%&$! Haven't you read the thread explaining that in the a/m/c forum!? Most informative, it was.

I am the official mistake-finder of this thread b/c I am P.O.ed that I didn't get this in email. Either that or I didn't check it. *shrug*  

[Laiyolf]

Friendly Anger. xD  

[Bitchboots]

Im Lily

Friendly Anger. xD

How ironic... xd  

[Sora Katana]

Hai. Watashi wa mukatsuku desu!!!!!!!!! scream

stressed  

[Sora Katana]

Oh, 'n' 'Cescy, I'm in the same nihongo no kurausu as you, so I might be able to help. *shrug*  

[Xesca]

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[jagged1]

woah. calm down. i'm glad she put it in the guild. i know a pathetic amount of Japanese. sweatdrop  

[Sora Katana]

No need, jagged1, she's used to this. *pointed glare to Xesca* Gets it every day. 3nodding

Ya, most of us don't know much JPN. *shrug* But we can learn! The problem with learning it here is that we have no idea of how to pronounce it. *shrug* Then again, I have the same problems with English... sweatdrop  

[Death T-2]

hmm.... Here's a couple good sites.
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/?romaji=&word=&Search=Search
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/
You gotta know your hira with 'em though. wink

Here's a note when translating from Nihongo to English: It should not normally be taken litterally. You'll come up with some really crazy stuff.  

[Fyerluna]

Death T-2

hmm.... Here's a couple good sites.
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/?romaji=&word=&Search=Search
http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/
You gotta know your hira with 'em though. wink

Here's a note when translating from Nihongo to English: It should not normally be taken litterally. You'll come up with some really crazy stuff.

http://www.engrish.com
Which, as far as I know, is full of the weird stuff that you'll come up with. It amuses me so.