Japanese - Ask questions thread

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)?

>It might even debunk jim breen's WWWJDIC
I'm pretty sure that uses the wwwjdic database... no idea what reading it priviledges for the romaji

>>840
>How badly do you think I will fail?
very badly haha, but only because your goal is so high

you might want to look into learning how to write the radicals first (the radicals are often common kanji anyways), or does heisig's method cover that?