Japanese Help Questions/Translations

[Nisseki]

im learning japanese
still find it very over whelming..
verbs *shiver*
could anyone maybe give me a tip.
like how to pace myself and what to buy

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Nisseki

im learning japanese
still find it very over whelming..
verbs *shiver*
could anyone maybe give me a tip.
like how to pace myself and what to buy

Read through these forums. You will find many answers.

[Diryavi]

I would like to learn how to speak and write Japanese. I want to try to be fluent and to speak it and write it with ease... I will start with a few questions(slow and steady wins the race) then work my way up.

How do you say good day?

How do you say good afternoon?

How do you say good morning?

How do you say good night?

How do you say no thanks and thank you

How do you say hello? Is it konichiwa?

And what dose Moshi Moshi actually means when you use it to answer the phone?

I would like to know how do you say things formally and informal like when your with your friends and your with elders or your boss etc?

And dose suru mean I or my? and what dose the no stand for when you say something like Bakudan no ai? I know bakudan means bomb and ai means love so it's something love bomb. I know okidoki (I know I'm spelling the words wrong,) means clock. So I got some of the words down. I can't wait to read my Cure Magazine that I got from a store called HotTopic. I will be so happy to understand it, when I get good in reading and speaking Japanese!

What helps me to learn is I write lyrics to songs I create or write poems in that language that I'm trying to learn, like I learn some Indonesian words so I put them into a song I learned that gula gula means candy and gula means sweet. I find it easier to do it that way.

I listen allot to Japanese music so I can pick up some of the words, keep them in my head, write it down, then I ask what dose this word means? Then I look it up. And it stays with me forever (sticks like glue) (I Lost my Japanese Dictionary so I need to get a new one.)

How dose Rosetta Stone work? did anyone invest in it and tried it? If anyone did please let me know so in the future I can invest in it and still have someone teach me here too.

"To learn is to teach and to teach is to learn"-Diryavi Something that I thought in my head just now! I don't know if thats been used but if it has sorry that I used it without knowing.

Oh you can pm me or email me at yashayuki@yahoo.com so I can ask (who- ever wants to help me out) more questions if you can stand them.

"If you ask questions you will learn and receive knowledge beyond the ones who don't" That also was just made up by me right at this very second!

Take care!

[sannzoku]

Originally Posted by Diryavi

I would like to learn how to speak and write Japanese. I want to try to be fluent and to speak it and write it with ease... I will start with a few questions(slow and steady wins the race) then work my way up.

How do you say good day?

How do you say good afternoon?

How do you say good morning?

How do you say good night?

How do you say no thanks and thank you

How do you say hello? Is it konichiwa?

And what dose Moshi Moshi actually means when you use it to answer the phone?
Take care!

★How do you say good day?
-- 良い一日

★How do you say good afternoon?
--こんにちは

★How do you say good morning?
--おはようございます

★How do you say good night?
--こんばんは(午後六時以降) After about six in the afternoon

★How do you say no thanks and thank you
--ありがとうございます。/　どういたしまして

★How do you say hello? Is it konichiwa?
--こんにちは

★And what dose Moshi Moshi actually means when you use it to answer the phone?
--〔呼び掛け〕Excuse me.　
もしもしこれはあなたのハンカチではありませんか　
Excuse me, but isn't this your handkerchief?

★I would like to know how do you say things formally and informal like when your with your friends and your with elders or your boss etc?
--very difficult, I could not express in details.

hope these could give u some help

[MMM]

Originally Posted by sannzoku

★How do you say no thanks and thank you
--ありがとうございます。/　どういたしまして

Those mean "Thank you" and "You're welcome".

[SatoriOne]

Originally Posted by Nisseki

im learning japanese
still find it very over whelming..
verbs *shiver*
could anyone maybe give me a tip.
like how to pace myself and what to buy

Get yourself a good dictionary that gives several examples. An electronic dictionary works best but the English/japanese ones are almost always for Japanese speakers so there is a lot of Kanji without the furigana. you could also reference online dictionaries. Eijiro at http://www.alc.co.jp is the best. You can actually type in several words and still come up with examples.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Diryavi

How do you say good day?
How do you say good afternoon?

These are the same thing aren't they? Unless you mean to use "good day" as a parting farewell. Then it depends on formality, how long you are parting for, etc.

In any case, こんにちは　(konnichiwa) (good afternoon, hello)

Originally Posted by Diryavi

How do you say good morning?

おはよう（ございます） (ohayou [gozaimasu])* The [gozaimasu] extends it to be a more formal greeting.

Originally Posted by Diryavi

How do you say good night?

おやすみなさい (oyasuminasai)

Originally Posted by Diryavi

How do you say no thanks and thank you

There are actually a few different ways to say "no thank you". The simplest is けっこうです　（kekkou desu). But context is very important.

Originally Posted by Diryavi

How do you say hello? Is it konichiwa?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Diryavi

And what dose Moshi Moshi actually means when you use it to answer the phone?

Its just how you answer the phone.

Originally Posted by Diryavi

And dose suru mean I or my?

"suru" is the verb for "to do"

Originally Posted by Diryavi

and what dose the no stand for when you say something like Bakudan no ai?

"no" gives possession of the word following to the word proceeding.

Originally Posted by Diryavi

I know okidoki (I know I'm spelling the words wrong,) means clock.

*tokei* is clock. 置時計　(okidokei) is a very specific kind of clock.

Not that I want to be prude, but if you're seriously trying to learn, most of what you're asking here can be found readily online or in a textbook. Especially when it comes to grammar points like "no" and polite/impolite forms.

[masaegu]

Originally Posted by sannzoku

もしもしこれはあなたのハンカチではありませんか　
Excuse me, but isn't this your handkerchief?

Oh please! Who would say that in the 21st century? Not many people did even in the last one-third of the 20th century, either!

People who say もしもし to mean "Excuse me." have pretty much disappeared (passed away!) by now. In fact it was about 20-25 years ago when I last heard it used by an old lady.

I don't think that is something you should be teaching a beginning learner of Japanese.

[Gazetto]

can you tell me what means 'hanasenaidesu'?

[Nagoyankee]

Originally Posted by Gazetto

can you tell me what means 'hanasenaidesu'?

It means "I can't speak (a language)."