Japanese

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Talking about what something is 3 Expanding on this 4 Talking about hobbies 5 Talking about what you have 6 Inspector N's Section

Introduction

Japanese is a language, spoken by the Japanese. Japanese is the best language on the planet for many reasons. One of the main ones is that all the awesome people such as Konata, Haruhi, Osaka, Chiaki and Kagami speak it!

It uses three alphabets- Kanji, borrowed from China, Hiragana, for native Japanese words and Katakana, for foreign loanwords.

N will now proceed to teach you.

Or not. Okay Java, you can do this.

Talking about what something is

One of the basic sentence structures of Japanese is A wa B desu, which you can translate as A is B. An example would be Nighthood wa baka desu, which means Nighthood is stupid.

Note: Desu is pronounced "dess"

Expanding on this

To talk about yourself you would use Watashi, which I think roughly translates to "I" eg Watashi wa kawaii desu Watashi is, in practice rarely used in Japan. Often Watashi wa is dropped from the beginning of the sentence, so to say what something is you can often get away with baka desu If you are male you can use boku wa in place of Watashi wa. Don't ask why- you just can.

You can say what something isn't by replacing "desu" with "ja arimasen" or "ja nai". I think "ja nai" is slightly stronger.

To talk about others you use Anata, which translates to you. You'd add the question particle ka to the end of the sentence. Think of ka as the Japanese equivilent of ? e.g.

Anata wa Kawaii desu ka?

Would mean "are you cute?"

Talking about hobbies

If you go to Japan you might meet some Japanese people who will most likely have hobbies. Hobby is shumi in Japanese, I think. To ask someone what their hobby is you could say "Anata no shumi wa nan desu ka?". This translates as "Your hobby is what?" Obviously if someone asked you you'd reply "pasokon" gruffly before adding "Shoppingu" purely because it has pingu in it and pingu is win.

The word for "like" is "suki" though it is pronounced "s'ki"

Japan has quite a rigid social structure based on age. You should refer to older people or me as sempai and younger people or nighthood as kohai

Talking about what you have

imasu comes from the verb iru. It's translation is to have and to be/exist. imasu is only used to describe animate objects, such as people or animals.

Here's an example of its usage

watashi wa ani ga imasu

ani = older brother

Inspector N's Section

To talk Japanese is quite hard as you have to learn alot but to get along with weeaboo fan language there's only a few things you need to know!

• Desu = Use desu anywhere and everywhere!
• Kawaii = Use to describe all that's good/cute!
• Nande = Why??
• Asobitai!! = Wanna play!
• Rucky Staru = Lucky Star ( The best anime)
• Konata = Konata
• Baka = idiot

Here is an example

OMG kawaii desu!!! ^_^_^__^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^