Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.
To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?
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Anonymous2008-01-24 2:44
>>760
sentence is a little confusing for me but..
あの頃= that time
and considering that time can't be from the future, I can see where he got past, i guess.
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Anonymous2008-01-24 4:23
When kanji have other readings over them, like in katakana, they want you to read the katakana version instead of the kanji version, right? Is this called 当て字? Anyways, what's the point of it? To give it like two meanings or some kind of joke?
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Anonymous2008-01-24 4:28
>>762
me again, let me make it a bit clearer. I'll take a line from what I read. This is from the 4th novel of zero no tsukaima, zero is like a title the person has, but it's an insult. Kyomu is what the kanji reading is, and it's a magic type.
「いやぁ、こんどの『虚無《ゼロ》』はブリミル・ヴァルトリの百倍こええやね」
So which way am I supposed to read this? This is someone speaking, so I don't see how the other person could get it in a conversation as you can only use both..
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Anonymous2008-01-24 4:29
can't*...
dammit it's late and my mind is falling apart, along with my messages
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Anonymous2008-01-24 21:32
Ok, so I know katakana and hiragana. But I only know 10-15 words in japanese. How do I increase my vocabulary?
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Anonymous2008-01-24 22:27
>>765
buy a text book, intended for schools, do every lesson in it.
buy the text book the next level up, do every lessson in it.
repeat
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Anonymous2008-01-24 23:42
What does "bii-men no saisho no kyoku" mean?
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Anonymous2008-01-25 0:11
Whats the use of '～んです’？
As in whats the difference between something like:
家に帰るんですか
家に帰るか
when do guys use the particle わ? I know that there's a similar one for girls only, but it can also be used by guys too, in example, I just heard a guy say, "もう少し寝るわ"
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Anonymous2008-01-28 19:34
>>776
wa indicates emotion or admiration
mostly a girl thing
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Anonymous2008-01-28 20:01
>>749
Can anyone expand on this some more? It's still confusing the shit out of me. Looking at it, literally it says "Yoroshiku [meh] That time's that guy"
It's backwards. "あいつのあの頃によろしくと” "Yoroshiku that guy's past".. what the fuck it's still confusing. Fuck yoroshiku.
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Anonymous2008-01-28 21:21
>>778
from my understanding it's saying
"give my regards to his former self"
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>Also, will this forum help me with English from Japanese.
I'm Japanese but rarely if ever come to /lang/. Futaba probably won't help you, but 2ch has a dedicated board to English learners, where I think you can exchange languages. With that being said, I think you'd better go other serious forums for language learners.
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Anonymous2008-01-31 14:44
>>798
omg u r japanese
sou desu moshi-moshi
genki ka? watashi wa kira desu