and I switched it back into English. (ahhh... the relief!)
It wasn't so bad. I could muddle my way through most of it, but I did manage to mark my entire spam mail folder as legitimate and move it to my inbox. Oops.
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This shows how much I need to renew my study of Japanese. I could read a little bit of that, but not tons.
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Way to go on taking the plunge! Don't stop now, it can leave you just as fast as it took you to cram it all in!
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Hey, don't steal my thunder by pointing out that katakana is like cheating and that it says some obvious things (like arigatou gozaimasu). Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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I'm sure I have no idea what you are talking about *adjusts glasses and strokes goatee in a contemplative pose*. Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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Hey, I "study Russian" by having my gmail in Russian. It's been going rather well, I think. I still need to experiment before I find my outbox and such. It does help though.
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I used to think I knew how to "study a language." I had never studied a character-based language.
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that's better than me. my idea of "studying" welsh is googling an online translator and writing down random phrases. ex.: What's up?: beth y dy i fyny
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quote:Originally posted by happysmiley: that's better than me. my idea of "studying" welsh is googling an online translator and writing down random phrases. ex.: What's up?: beth y dy i fyny
Ble mae car Dafydd? Mae car Dafydd yn yr afon. Stori drist iawn.
Yes, that's an actual example of some Welsh I learned in class.
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Ditto for me & Chinese, Zev - I love it. I'm like "I have no idea how to say this, but this says child... love.... body... use..."
The best was when I was writing a thank you card for a Taiwanese friend and I wanted to write "thank you" in Chinese so I called my friend Jenny who is Chinese and speaks English but not Japanese and she described the characters to use - "First, you say say, then body, then inch." It came out right, I think.
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quote:Originally posted by pfresh85: Hey, don't steal my thunder by pointing out that katakana is like cheating and that it says some obvious things (like arigatou gozaimasu).
Hehe. I can't read a single Japanese character, but even I know what "arigatou gozaimasu" means from watching anime.
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