[khul]

to moushimasu - is i'm called
yonde kudasai - is call me

[sweetsmile]

akira53 and khul, thank you ^^

[InfiniteTime]

how do you type "princess" like in a goodbye way. sincerely princess or yours truely?

something like that. thanks!

[chickyl3aby]

How do you say.... "You're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning." Or something along those lines? I want to say it to my boyfriend thanks!

Oh and does あなたに　会いたい mean I miss you or does it only mean I want to meet you?

[nuwera]

あなたに　会いたい

It means I want to meet you

--angel

[preciousprincess]

みんなさん～！こんにちは～！＾＾
あたしはリサです。中国人です～十五さいです。ラスベガスに住んでいます～ｗｗ
ここ二年生です～！
どぞよろしく～！

[Everyone ! Hello !
I am Risa. I'm Chinese, 15 years old. I live in Vegas ~ "ww" = equivalent to LOL わらう (warau) is to laugh.
second year in high school.]

Haha ～ Anyone know how to say "my japanese is really crappy." LOL ?

[theanonymousafro]

Haha ～ Anyone know how to say "my japanese is really crappy." LOL ?

Wouldn't you just say 私の日本語はほんとうに悪(わる)いです

but I guess if you wanted to use a slight curse then it'll be like　私の日本語はくそだ

[kiyomiX]

みんなさん～！こんにちは～！＾＾
あたしはリサです。中国人です～十五さいです。ラスベガスに住んでいます～ｗｗ
ここ二年生です～！
どぞよろしく～！

[Everyone ! Hello !
I am Risa. I'm Chinese, 15 years old. I live in Vegas ~ "ww" = equivalent to LOL わらう (warau) is to laugh.
second year in high school.]

Haha ～ Anyone know how to say "my japanese is really crappy." LOL ?

えええ～
私もラスベガスに住んでいます！
リサさん、学校の名前は何ですか？
私は東清美〔アズマ・キヨミ）です。 (nickname: アズキーちゃん～）
大学二年生です。
私の日本語はメッチャ悪いです。

i'm half-Taiwanese, 1/4 Japanese, and 1/4 Chinese...that's why my japanese sucks like a mofo...lol.

[Melitus]

are there a trick to kanji?

Or is it purely memorization?

How long does it take to reach basic kanji skills? I can't read kanji at all....

[Tamago86]

Oh and does あなたに　会いたい mean I miss you or does it only mean I want to meet you?

It can mean both I want to meet you and I miss you..If it's a friend or someone you've met before then most likely it means I miss you..it's the same thing in Korean too (saying I want to see you for I miss you)

are there a trick to kanji?

Or is it purely memorization?

Basically just memorization...I guess how long you take depends what you consider basic kanji..Most first year beginner Japanese college courses cover a few hundred. There is also something called jouyou ("common use") kanji which are all the kanji that the Japanese government says you need to learn to be able to survive in Japan, and there's 1945 of them (listed here if you want to see http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jouyoukanji.html ). I'd say a knowledge of 500-1000 will cover the basics, and depending how much you study and how apt you are at memorizing it could take anywhere from half a year to a year or more..took me around 4 years before I could read newspapers and books without a dictionary (but that goes beyond jouyou kanji) remember slow and steady is better than trying to do it fast and burning out then forgetting everything

[khul]

There's a blog regarding this that rings true to me. Check out the part 2 as well.

http://www.japanesejapanese.com/index.php/...ing-kanji-pt-1/

Basically, there is a trick once you get some of the simple ones out of the way. I would say learning from context and learning the kanji to words you already know to be the most important.

[flycrazily]

can someone translate this for me =DDD

""hikari no moto yami wa unmare
shinjitsu wa itsuwari ni yureru kokoro o tsukisasu(s/p)
fureta yoru o koorasete mo
yume to iu yokubou no kage o
yobitsudeukeruu""

[maharu.]

How do you say.... "You're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning."

毎朝起きるとき、一番最初に考えるのはあなたのことだよ。

(mai asa okiru toki, ichiban saisho ni kangaeru no wa anata no koto da yo)

I'm pretty bad lol. its more like- "Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I think about is you."

Sorry if theres any mistakes. I can speak it but when it comes to writing, lol bad grammar.

[15;;1/2]

Romanize and translate please Thank you~

まるで失敗するとこがありえないかのように振舞ってください。

[twinkle_l0ve]

^ "marude shippaisurutokoga arienaika noyouni furumatte kudasai"
im not sure exactly on this translation, but im pretty sure its along the lines of:
"it is quite impossible to fail so please behave" ????? lol sorry im baaaaad

[SeLcaQueen]

whAT is happy vaLentines in japanese??

[SeLcaQueen]

-doubLe post-

[Nana]

^ I think it would just be 'ハッピー バレンタイン' (Happii Barentain).

Can someone translate a recipe for me? I kinda get the idea but I can't even follow English recipes properly so I wanna be a 100% sure. >>HERE<<
I think I understand how to make the dough (cake) but I'm not sure about the cream/frosting that the cakes supposed to be covered with.

DOMO!

[chickyl3aby]

毎朝起きるとき、一番最初に考えるのはあなたのことだよ。

(mai asa okiru toki, ichiban saisho ni kangaeru no wa anata no koto da yo)

I'm pretty bad lol. its more like- "Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I think about is you."

Sorry if theres any mistakes. I can speak it but when it comes to writing, lol bad grammar.

ありがとう

[understanding_fiction]

\xAD\xF4(￣口￣)

question: what's that emoticon supposed to mean?
i get the whole face part, but what's the \xAD\xF4 supposed to be?