I heard it in a song and a dude is singing it. Does that mean hes feminine? gay?
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Anonymous2011-01-29 21:39
>>681
You'll notice that Japanese copulae in general have no particular meaning. The most common copulae 「だ」 and its distal form 「です」 are linguistically thought of as predicating a sentence by connecting the subject with its predicate, though if you've spent anytime with Japanese you'll know that there is no difference in English meaning between 本社の部長はあほです、本社の文長はあほだ、or 本社の部長はあほである. Feminine copulae such as 「なの」 accomplish the same goal as 「です」 or 「だ」 but are primarily used by females or indicate female speech.
I can't say whether its "normal" for males to use 「なの」 but I seldom hear it. More likely, its the auxiliaries 「なのだ」 or 「なのです」, which are used across gender.
「なの」has no specific meaning in English. 「の」 can be thought of as a word that adds emphasis or explanation, though it is used in other purposes, as well. It becomes 「なの」after nouns and certain adjectives.
Sometimes men will say 「なん」instead of 「なの」to sound less girly, which is just a shortened form.
If you're talking about music, though, lyrics don't always follow speech conventions.
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Anonymous2011-02-01 9:23
Are there any recommended guides or books for learning the language? I don't wish to learn to speak it, by the way, only reading is necessary. What should I learn first, hiragana or katakana? I have no prior experience with the language, by the way.
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Anonymous2011-02-01 11:48
hey guys, i wanna learn japanese through reading japanese light novels and other reading materials, can anyone recommend me some sites or books for references?
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Anonymous2011-02-01 14:31
hey guys, i wanna learn japanese through reading japanese light novels and other reading materials, can anyone recommend me some sites or books for references?
Hi /lang/. I've just finished Heisig's RTK and RTKana and I'm wondering where to go from there. I haven't got the patience for the lack of vocabulary in Pimsleur despite barely knowing how to speak any Japanese, so I'm thinking of just picking up sentences and running with them as Khatzumoto recommends over at AJATT.
Where's the best place to start learning sentences? The Core2000/6000k packs, or should I just start watching videos and reading news?
>>693
I recommend fapping to some hentai for a few years in your mom's basement
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Anonymous2011-02-07 20:09
>>694
Mum doesn't have a basement. I'm not much of a fan of the anime part of the culture in general, but I'll be happy to move back into the darkest bedroom and oblige with the rest of your advice if you think it'll help my study.
I'm trying anki after mnemosyne. I have a question - how do I disable card layout in downloaded decks?
Here's situation:
I downloaded Japanese Core 2000, made new card layout
because I didn't want to see sentences in question
I created layout that I want to use(it displays only kanji on question and full information on answer, e.g. "法律"), in Model Properties I even disabled Reading and Dictation models,
but it still shows me 法律 -- 新しい法律が出来た in review and by F2 it still displays "Template used by fact: reading(current)". And when I manually change layout in this F2 menu to "MyJC2KLayout" it does nothing.
>>701
The authorities thought that simplified Kanjis would make it easier to read and write Japanese.
They even tried to do away with all Kanjis but didn't succeeded.
BTW, people would use 国 when they wrote 國, even before the authorities authorized 国.
(I don't know the reason why it was 玉, though.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_script_reform
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Anonymous2011-02-10 2:31
Do japanese use simplified chinese writing? Like 话 instead of 話?
Why is everything bad in japanese connected with 女？
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Anonymous2011-02-10 16:55
>>704
I've never seen the use of Simplified Chinese characters in Japanese. I don't know Chinese, but I instantly recognise when I'm looking at Simplified Chinese because those characters are strange to me.
No, actually, everything bad in Japanese is not connected with women.
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Anonymous2011-02-10 20:16
Does anyone know some good podcasts, TV shows, youtube channels, etc where they talk like normal people? I don't feel like I get worthwhile practice out of perfectly enunciated lesson or cartoon talk any more.
>>715
Hmmm. What's the difference between 要りません and 必要はない？
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Anonymous2011-02-14 0:26
>>716
Very nuanced. The difference between "need" as to compensate for a deficiency and "need" as in an imperative or something required.
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Anonymous2011-02-14 0:29
>>717
So, if you didn't have a car but didn't "need" one BECAUSE everything was so close, I'd recommend 要る. However, if, because everything was so close, the need of a car was not required, I'd recommend 必要.
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Anonymous2011-02-14 0:33
>>718
I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the help.
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Anonymous2011-02-14 1:55
ひちりいみかにみい
i really hate to bother you guys, but what does/could this mean?
it was on something i got for valentines day.