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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:43 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:44 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:45 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:47 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:49 am
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ROーMAJI vs HIRAGANA vs KATAKANA (the final set of hiragana and katakana characters are created by shrinking "ya" - "yu" - "yo" and adding it to another character) (and yes, all these sets of 2 characters are considdered "JUST ONE CHARACTER" - called a "glide" )
KYA = きゃ = キャ KYU = きゅ = キュ KYO = きょ = キョ
SHA = しゃ = シャ SHU = しゅ = シュ SHO = しょ = ショ
CHA = ちゃ = チャ CHU = ちゅ = チュ CHO = ちょ = チョ
NYA = にゃ = ニャ NYU = にゅ = ニュ NYO = にょ = ニョ
HYA = ひゃ = ヒャ HYU = ひゅ = ヒュ HYO = ひょ = ヒョ
MYA = みゃ = ミャ MYU = みゅ = ミュ MYO = みょ = ミョ
RYA = りゃ = リャ RYU = りゅ = リュ RYO = りょ = リョ
GYA = ぎゃ = ギャ GYU = ぎゅ = ギュ GYO = ぎょ = ギョ
JA = じゃ = ジャ JU = じゅ = ジュ JO = じょ = ジョ
BYA = びゃ = ビャ BYU = びゅ = ビュ BYO = びょ = ビョ
PYA = ぴゃ = ピャ PYU = ぴゅ = ピュ PYO = ぴょ = ピョ
EXPLANATION THAT I WAS GIVEN FROM SOMEONE ELSE!!! small... ya, yu and yo... are used for the standard "glides" However, "glides" are to be treated as stand-alone sounds, not as two separate sounds やゃ ゆゅ よょ
Small o, e, i, u and a are non-standard They're only used in informal writing to denote trailing vowels and the end of words or onomatopeia おぉ えぇ いぃ うぅ あぁ
Small wa is only used in the rare kwa or gwa わゎ
The small tsu doubles the following consonant and is completely different ぢゅ is a single vowel/chroneme, but in "matte kudasai" (please wait), which would be "まって ください", the small tsu represent a chroneme alone In other words, you pronounce it "ma-t[more or less a pause before the rest of the word]-te kudasai" "ma-t-te ku-da-sa-i" つっ
NOTE ー THERE ARE MOST LIKELY EVEN MORE RARE CHARACTERS THAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT V.V
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:07 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:08 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:09 am
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Time to study すうじ! (suuji)=(numbers)
いち = ichi = one に = ni = two さん = san = three よん = yon = four ご = go = five
ろく = roku = six しち = shichi = seven はち = hachi = eight きゅう = kyuu = nine じゅう = juu = ten
When refering to YEN (en) - You might see... "go en", "juu en" - (that's five yen and ten yen) That would be ごえん or ゴエン and じゅうえん or ジュウエン In kanji, it's 五円 and 十円 which is what you're most likely to see.
However with years (nen) it's telling the number of the year, not how many years there are. So "san nen" and "shichi nen" (that's year three and year seven) That would be さんねん or サンネン and しちねん or シチネン In kanji, it's 三年 and 七年 which is what you're most likely to see. (note that "shichi nen" is pronounced "shchi nen" with the first "i" sound dropped) (japanese has a tendency of dropping some of the sounds when spoken as a sentence)
じゅういち = juuichi = eleven じゅうに = juuni = twelve じゅうさん = juusan = thirteen じゅうよん = juuyon = fourteen じゅうご = juugo = fifteen
Notice that we're just adding "ten" to the start to add it together, this works only up to "nineteen" For example...
じゅうろく = juuroku = sixteen じゅうしち = juushichi = seventeen じゅうはち = juuhachi = eighteen じゅうきゅう = juukyuu = nineteen
Once after nineteen, you must count the number of tens before adding the final numbers. For example...
にじゅう = nijuu = twenty さんじゅう = sanjuu = thirty よんじゅう = yonjuu = fourty ごじゅう = gojuu = fifty ろくじゅう = rokujuu = sixty ななじゅう = nanajuu = seventy はちじゅう = hachijuu = eighty きゅうじゅう = kyuujuu = ninety
Note that seventy is NOT "shichijuu" - that's because some of the numbers have different ways of saying them. And some even use both ways depending on the dialect. For example... four = "yon", "shi", or "yo" seven = "shichi", or "nana" nine = "kyuu", or "ku"
That means that you can use either... juuyon -or- juushi juushichi -or- juunana juukyuu -or- juuku
Doing it like this means that you are using "counters" - "ten" is a counter that has to be counted before the rest can be added. For example, if you wanted to say "fifty-five" - it would sound like this... ごじゅうご (gojuugo) A hundred and a thousand are other counters...
ひゃく = hyaku = hundred せん = sen = thousand
Though some counters are changed slightly as you count, for example...
さんびゃく = sanbyaku = three hundred ろっぴゃく = roppyaku = six hundred はっぴゃく = happyaku = eight hundred さんぜん = sanzen = three thousand はっせん = hassen = eight thousand
The higher up counters are...
いちまん = ichiman = ten thousand じゅうまん = juuman = hundred thousand ひゃくまん = hyakuman = million せんまん = senman = ten million いちおく = ichioku = hundred million
Never assume what a number will be, by simply grouping all the digits between the apostrophes. For example...
285,719 = nijuuhachiman gosen nanahyaku juu kyu = にじゅうはちまん ごせん ななひゃく じゅう きゅ
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:10 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:11 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:12 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:13 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:14 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:15 am
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