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

[P.D. v. Z. <pa...@my...>]

That would be it :) Couldn't find the right word :) It's frustrating... I've
been pretty good at English for years and years (was always ahead of my
class, always got A's on my tests), and I keep coming across things I still
don't know... just had a technical English test... was pretty hard :)
 

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From: dev...@li...
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Glenfield
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:54 PM
To: pd...@xs...; dev...@li...
Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] WAAAY off topic - does anyone speak Japanese?

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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