Tag: japanese

  • Learn a little Japanese, the words for directional reference.

    Learn a little Japanese, the words for directional reference.

    This will be the last post of tonight, well, this is fast approaching morning here; 3 am here, Indian time. And this is going to be on something that is quite close to my heart, if you know me. Japanese language. Last night I was trying to remove all the frivolous likes I had enacted…

  • How to ask some one in Japanese where he lives?

    How to ask some one in Japanese where he lives?

    doko ni asundeimasu ka? that translates ‘exactly as’ where do you live? How does it reads phonetically? You need to know the exact way a hiragana is defined and mapped into a specific form of Roman alphabet making, called Romaji or Hepburn transliteration rule — as far as I know its only the Japanese system…

  • Learn a little Japanese?

    Learn a little Japanese?

    How to read the following in Japanese; a’me (Ind; aa’me, ame as in rAMEn noodles) = rain. In kanji, 雨 (ame; rain) I put ‘ to give you phonetic pauses. o’o’ame = heavy rain ko’sa’me = light rain tsu’yu = rainy season go’u’u = heavy rain yu’u’da’sa = shower ta’i’hu (ta’i’fu’) = typhoon. rain Click…

  • What sort of world I live in?

    What sort of world I live in?

    Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6:29 am UTC + 05:30 shared Japan Culture Agency Inc. (JCA)’s photo. from here (the missing-picture) I can read about 10 kanjis without consulting anywhere .. and recognize the meaning of each one here because I knew them previously (about 20 and includes the radicals)? This leaves only 4/5 maximum…

  • Rule behind forming Japanese (Chinese?) numbers.

    Rule 3: I merged rule 3 into 2 and sub-itemized into i) and ii). Smart? I think necessary. They say “necessity is the mother of invention”. I thought last night, as I was totally ill, by body pain and head ache, and didn’t do much except weeping in pain, “what if, invention is actually a…