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I was looking up the on readings for 人. The on readings I found were : ジン、 ニン I understand the 1st one, jin. The 2nd reading is what I don't understand. I know ニ is ni, but I can't figure out what to do with ン. According to Wikipedia it means ( n [n] [m] [ŋ] before stop consonants ), but I...

Yep, I bought it for a dollar on Amazon. I also have a little Remembering the kana book that I got for cheap.

So far, the Japanese I've learned the more simple uses of NI such as direction marking and such. I thought I would study more about it and ni seems to be much more complicated that I had originally thought. I read that you are suppose to use Ni to mark an indirect object when it proceeds the...

I was listening to a Japanese Audio course and I came across something that somewhat confuses me. mearii san ni wa mijikai desu. (the lesson translates to it's short for Mary. I understand everything in the sentence perfectly except for the use of ni after Mary's name. I don't really...

This is a sentence from 1/2 summer. The sentence just doesn't make sense to me. The guy just arrived in town and he gets on the bus to go to the INN. A girl from the inn is on the bus. She looks at him and say ah... in a happy girl sort of way. This is part of the protagonists inner monologue...

that helps... I don't think Japanese is hard, it's just that there is so damn much to learn and remember.

I've used Pimsleur Japanese. I did the first 30 lessons and got through the first 15 lessons of level 2. Pimsleur is great for learning the correct way to pronounce things. The only thing, Pimsleur doesn't explain grammar at all so after I finished level one, I could say a lot of words and...

Every few months I take a shot at translating Sakuranbo Syndrome but it's still over my head. Can someone help me out with one section. The link is below and it's the top left corner. I posted the link just in case in the first sentence I messed up and mixed up the tsu in the 1st sentence and...

Hi guys... Would aritai mean that you want something to exist? I've never seen ari with the tai suffix in my short Japanese career. This is the sentence I pulled it out from. It's an old visual novel from 2002/ I captured a couple of screens of text using a hook program and thorough I would...

Thanks, that's the 1st page and a half. Later I'll post more of it. So far this one has been super easy.

I'm just going to keep this thread going with my translation questions instead of making new threads.... I got a new untranslated version of yuri himi I will work on it for practice. I have a lot of fun trying to translate and I also love comics about girls love, it's just a win win situation...

I've been studying Japanese for about 2 years now. The 1st year, I just learned kana and mainly listened to lots of audio courses is my car, but this past year I got really serious and studied grammar as well as kanji. I feel like I have a good foundation and I make an effort to learn new kanji...

Since I've been studying Japanese, I have run across many words that I struggle with. Most notably are words with R(s) in them. For example "kaeritai desu" or "かえりたい です" , when the girl on the pimsleur CD pronounces this, it sounds like she is saying the letter D instead of R. So should I...

Hey thanks for the reply. You gave me some good help that will help me in the future as well. Here some more of the description just for context reference. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that shiro could be a name of someone or some thing. In my studies so far, I haven't spent much...

I feel like Im at a stand still. I've been attempting some translation for practice but almost every sentence I attempt, there is always something that doesn't make sense to me. I need help with the following sentence. しろはずっと待っていた。 This is what I got. shiro wa zutto matte ita white been...

I've come up with a better way to ask my above 1st question. When I learn a new kanji, what all should I memorize. There is no way I can memorize all the kun, on, and english meanings for each kanji, it's just too much material. So what exactly are the most important parts to learn? Thanks...

Hi everyone, I have 2 questions regarding studying kanji. I've already tried to find the answers on my own with little luck. 1st question: Each Kanji character has an ON and a KUN reading. Sometimes there can be many different readings for a character. I use http://jisho.org as my source for...

I'm learning Japanese and it's been a major undertaking on it's on. I couldn't imagine learning Chinese along side it. They may share a lot of the same kanji characters but as far as I can tell, they are used differently and and the meanings aren't usually the same. Japanese also has 2...

It's me again. We should just start a new sub-board titled help Jeffrey with his Japanese Studies. Anyway, I've been studying Tim's Japanese Grammar guide and the one thing that's causing me grief is wondering if I'm pronouncing the conjugation's and particles correctly. Does any one know of a...

Thanks for the help as always!