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Tuesday 1st May

日本人と日本語を勉強する人…私の新しい日本語のブログはここ「jpblog.pygmygoat.net」にあります。ようこそ！

ここに一日本語のポーストができます。

Don’t worry folks… this is the only 100% Japanese* blog that will appear here! (*except for this bit which makes it no longer 100%)

Written by stu

May 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm

Posted in Japanese

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  1. 非常にニース。

    UKCodeMonkey

    1 May 07 at 2:43 pm

  2. Does 人 mean person as it does in Chinesse??

    Mr Hedgehog

    1 May 07 at 2:49 pm

  3. Extraordinary [town in Southern France], Code Monkey? ;)　I think you want すてきだね。

    Yes, Mr. H, 人 (jin/nin) does mean person. Well spotted.

    stu

    1 May 07 at 2:55 pm

  4. Well, google says すてきだね means Don’t you think? it is cute.
    Extraordinary comes out as 異常.
    I was aiming for very nice! Oh well, that’s what I get for trusting an online translator!

    UKCodeMonkey

    1 May 07 at 3:34 pm

  5. Yup. “Very” and “Extraordinary” are similar… though “非常” is used famously, for example in “非常出口” - emergency exit (or ‘extraordinary exit’).

    As for Nice… it decided you meant the town… ニース is a phonetic spelling, pronounced ‘nee-su’.

    Online translators can be handy… but I think only if you already know the language :)

    stu

    1 May 07 at 3:40 pm

  6. My phrase “すてきだね” (suteki da ne) is:

    すてき - suteki - cute/nice
    だ - da - is
    ね - ne - isn’t it?

    So, a sort of “that’s nice” where you know the reader knows it’s nice and you’re seeking their confirmation. (Who said Japanese was easy!)

    If you know you’re introducing a new fact, you’d say:

    すてき - suteki - cute/nice
    だ - da - is
    よ - yo - y’know

    It’s nice, you know. For example, if you went to a new place where the listener had not been before.

    Compare:

    Bradgate Park is nice, isn’t it?
    Tampere, Finland is nice, y’know?

    Note, the language I’ve used is only suitable for informal use amongst friends.

    I’ll shut up now.

    stu

    1 May 07 at 3:43 pm

  7. ????????

    okay, maybe I should install the japanese font-set….

    Alistair

    1 May 07 at 5:56 pm

  8. Maybe, Alistair.

    stu

    1 May 07 at 7:34 pm

  9. Hey I can read Japanese!!!

    Mr Hedgehog

    2 May 07 at 10:43 am

  10. You can, Mr. H. Good, innit? :)

    stu

    2 May 07 at 10:47 am

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