Learning Japanese.... Who is into it?

[Caesius]

Well, let's see how many of those I can guess, anyway:

2 "h" sounds

[h] and [x]

2 "d" sounds, 2 "t" sounds

This makes no sense.

3 "th" sounds

[ð] as in "that," [θ] as in "thorn," and [th] (???)

2 "s" sounds

and [z] as in size

2 "k" sounds

I would've guessed [k] and [x] if I hadn't already guessed [x] for h.

2 "r" sounds

There's so many pronunciation of r's in different languages that I'm not even going to bother.

ahyn which is just annoying as hell to pronounce as an English speaker

rofl

It's actually easier than I thought.

Cheeky bastard.

[The Commissar]

Alright, busting out my IPA. These really are what is listed.

The two "h"s, [h] and [ħ}
"d"s, [d] and [dˤ]
"s"s, and [sˤ]
Kh is [x]
ahyn is [ʕ]
"r"s, [r] and [ɣ] (but the latter is romanized as GH)
"th"s, [θ] [ð] and [ðˤ] (ðˤ can also be [zˤ])
"t"s, [t] and [tˤ]
"k"s, [k] and [q]

I forget what else, but this is dragging off topic.

[Bara]

I forget what else, but this is dragging off topic.

We have topics? Since when?

[Gash]

Its new to me too

[The Commissar]

When I started drinking.

So never.

[ever17]

Good thing I can just take classes here because Japanese is one of the standard languages taught at highschool and college AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

あははははははははははははは　ばかがいじんのおに！


But no seriously Japanese is really easy to grasp once you get hiragana and katakana down. Grammer is simple, vocabulary makes sense; the only thing difficult is kanji. So speaking and listening to Japanese is shit-easy once you've taken a couple years of it. Which is good because then you can somewhat successfully be a tourist.

[Mikage-sama]

But complex katakana is one hell hard to learn and to differientiate from other similar looking ones.

[Pimmy]

complex katakana

...what?

And are you referring to stuff like シツソン? Really after a while you learn to tell them apart pretty easy, sometimes simply by context. "himishi"　ヒミシ would be weird but "himitsu" ヒミツ you would know is correct, so it'd register as tsu anyway.

stuff like せ and　サ isn't bad either because Katakana is always "sa" and hiragana is always "se", and you certainly won't see them mixed with characters of the other group.

[Gash]

Its all moon runes to me

[Mikage-sama]

Sorry I meant hiragana I posted that when I was really tired and about to go to bed, so yeah I'm really stupid for saying katakana

[delta]

the only thing difficult is kanji

Yeah and flying is easy too, the only thing that's difficult about it is staying airborne.

[Gash]

the only thing difficult is kanji

Yeah and flying is easy too, the only thing that's difficult about it is staying airborne.

Well that depends.

If you're going for heavier than air flight then yeah. But if you're smart and go for lighter than air flight then you got nothin to worry about once your airborne. Unless you're incredibly stupid and use hydrogen or a shitty bag.

[ever17]

the only thing difficult is kanji

Yeah and flying is easy too, the only thing that's difficult about it is staying airborne.

Actually I'd say landing would be the "kanji" of flying.

[Caesius]

the only thing difficult is kanji

Yeah and flying is easy too, the only thing that's difficult about it is staying airborne.

Well that depends.

If you're going for heavier than air flight then yeah. But if you're smart and go for lighter than air flight then you got nothin to worry about once your airborne. Unless you're incredibly stupid and use hydrogen or a shitty bag.

"Learning Japanese is just like flying an atomic dirigible!"

[Gash]

"Learning Japanese is just like flying an atomic dirigible!"

Shouldn't be too hard. I mean they were designed by and for illiterate peasants

Sorry I mean designed by glorious soviet worker for glorious soviet worker.