>>281
I'm not sure if this sentence would ever not get Japanese people confused. But I think you need to replace that 私は彼らのしっている with 私は彼らが知っているってことを彼らに知ってほしい in the very least for it to make sense.
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Anonymous2011-07-13 1:21
>>282
I'm fairly certain （人）の知っていること （人）が知っていること are interchangeable but it might be better to use が in this situation. However, ってこと or ということ is just a more verbose と in this case.
酔いつぶれちゃったじゃない。
I'm told it means "You passed out" but I thought じゃない was negative, so in my mind I would have thought it meant you DID NOT pass out.
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Anonymous2011-07-17 9:11
>>293
This is something you just have to get used to. じゃない can be used not as a negative. In that context I think of it like english's "You drank so much you passed out didn't you?". It's just using it to exaggerate the point being made.
On message boards, I sometimes see the phrase "胃が痛い". For example, someone typed up a summary of a TV show episode, and someone replied with, "もうこれだけで胃が痛い". Is this like the western meaning where they laugh so hard that their stomach hurts, or is it something else?
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Anonymous2011-07-19 13:45
In words like こう how is the "ou" combination pronounced? Is it devoiced similar to how the u in です is when used by males?
"¿Nos hacemos unas pajillas; pero sin mariconadas. ¡Eh!"
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Anonymous2011-07-23 20:31
>>306
Your getting your literary forms mixed up, but your attempt is better than >>305's shocking attempt.
It would be
英国人はカソリックでは（じゃ）なくて、プロテスタントでした。
or
英国人はカソリックではなく、プロテスタントでありました。
depending on what you were writing.
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Anonymous2011-07-23 21:04
>>309
The difference between those two examples is beyond my level. Ｏｒｚ
What's the difference?
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Anonymous2011-07-23 22:00
I'm looking for material such as books and manga in raw Japanese aimed at elementary schoolers to use as a study aid in reading. Any idea where I can dl some stuff?
Currently just started learning some Japanese, only know about 25 Kanji or so (Don't really know the stroke order for them though), I seem to have a problem with trying to work daily on Japanese, I've read about 10 lessons in Tae Kim and read the first couple lessons in Genki I. I also flipped through Remembering the Kanji and Kanji Damage. I also tried Rosetta stone, but the pace seems a little too slow in Rosetta stone for me..I seem search for good textbooks more than I actually study Japanese
Can anyone recommend me the best learning materials that I should use? Like should I work on Genki I first? or finish all of Tae Kim first? Should I use Kanji Damage or RTK? Or both? Or maybe there's some type of better learning materials that I missed?
Incase it would help, I have a good memory and don't mind fast paced lessons
Thanks in Advance
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Anonymous2011-07-24 3:12
genki I, learn stroke order. practice daily
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Anonymous2011-07-24 18:00
genki II, learn pactice order. smoke daily
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Anonymous2011-07-24 18:35
>>310
the only difference is that じゃ is a casual form of では and であります is a formal/assertive statement of です
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Anonymous2011-07-25 23:44
Would someone mind telling me what 「どうしてもやらないとダメかい？」 means? Break it down for me if you would. It seems to be very informal and way past my level of knowledge, and dictionaries and machine translations aren't helping me figure it out thus far. Figured it was time to ask a human.
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Anonymous2011-07-26 14:05
>>317
どうしても = at any rate, no matter what, certainly
やらない = Negative of yaru (to do)
と = particle indicating here "if or when"
ダメ = no good, useless, bad, wrong
かい = a question particle usually designating the answer can be stated in a "yes" or "no"
There NUMEROUS ways to translate this but the basic idea is:
"At any rate, will it be bad if you don't do it?"
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Anonymous2011-07-27 18:33
I'm looking for PDFs of the Kanji in Context series. /r/ keeps being spammed by porn and I can't find anything on /rs/ or torrents.
Could anyone help please?
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Anonymous2011-07-27 18:34
I'm looking for PDFs of Kanji in Context. I can't find any on the boards or in requests or in torrents.