RE: [Dev-C++] WAAAY off topic - does anyone speak Japanese?

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

Thanks very much Paul, that is a big help to me :)   I knew I could count on 
the dev-cpp group.

By the way,
[quote]Hiragana is the set of basic sounds (don't know a better word for it, 
English isn't
my native language either :P)[/quote]

I think you mean "phonetics"

Thanks,
Daniel

>From: "P.D. van Zelst" <pa...@my...>
>Reply-To: <pd...@xs...>
>To: "'Daniel Glenfield'" 
><sp...@ho...>,<dev...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] WAAAY off topic - does anyone speak Japanese?
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:22:35 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>I don't speak Japanese that well, but I'm trying to learn it myself too.
>It's pretty easy in fact. Intonation doesn't have much to do with what the
>words mean (that's in Chinese :P), it's more which sounds you use. You use
>"ka" at the end of a sentence to make it a question, for example. You could
>try having a look at the Pimsleur "Japanese 1" tapes/CDs/mp3s, they're a
>great help to me as well. It does focus on speaking instead of writing, but
>that should be ok (considering the extreme amount of characters they have
>:|). If you want to learn the character sets, you're probably best off 
>first
>learning hiragana and katakana, both consisting of 46 characters. Hiragana
>is the set of basic sounds (don't know a better word for it, English isn't
>my native language either :P), with which you can compose a lot of words
>(apparently that's what kids in Japan learn first as well). Katakana is a
>set of characters used for "loan words"... when they use, for example,
>English words, they write them with this character set (which often 
>produces
>funny sounding words as well).
>These are the character sets (off some anime site I believe, hence the 
>girls
>next to the characters): http://mystgamedev.xs4all.nl/hiragana.jpg and
>http://mystgamedev.xs4all.nl/katakana.jpg .
>And anyone who knows I'm wrong or anything, please correct me :) I mostly
>learn from what others tell me (a lot of my friends are big anime fans, and
>one of them's even studying Japanese at a university, so I pick some things
>up every now and then).
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dev...@li...
>[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Daniel
>Glenfield
>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:28 AM
>To: dev...@li...
>Subject: [Dev-C++] WAAAY off topic - does anyone speak Japanese?
>
>I was thinking about learning Japanese. I always enjoyed learning european
>languages (I'm not great at any of them, French I'm ok at, but I enjoy
>learning snippets) but I was wondering if anyone speaks Japanese, how
>different is it to european langues (I think the softer you speak the words
>mean different things, and there are many types of kanji but I don't know
>why!).
>
>Any good websites that can help me (apart from babel fish on alta vista).
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel
>
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