Test Yourself - Learn Japanese Together!
 

Each test will take the form of a short dialogue followed by a set of questions. In some cases you may asked to translate the whole dialogue. The answers will be posted underneath the set of questions but in a font colour that you will have to highlight to see.

This is just for fun so there wont be any score to keep track of (unless you want to, ofcourse) and please if any Mods can speak Japanese and notice a mistake on my side, please feel free to edit my posts and correct me so I don't end up teaching bad Japanese!

Obviously the questions will increase in difficulty every time but I'm going to start off in ro-maji so even the kawaiipockysugoi amongst us can join in. I'm aiming for a new question every few days so check back often and discuss!

Any ideas or tips on how I can make this better, PM me or add them below.

Dialogue 1: Introductions. Translate into English as best you can!

Sasaki: Takahashi-san, kochira wa kawamura-san desu. Kawamura-san wa Honda no enjinia desu.
Kawamura: Hajimemashite. Kawamura desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Takahashi: Hajimemashite. Takahashi desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Sasaki: Mr Takahashi, This is Mr Kawamura, He is an engineer from Honda.
Kawamura: Nice to meet you, I'm Kawamura. Be kind to me, as I will be to you.
Takahashi: Nice to meet you, I'm Takahashi. Be kind to me, as I will be to you.

I'll leave at that, short and sweet to start. Just to test the water to let me know if this idea is going to sink or swim..

Ok, this loser will give a shot.

Sasaki: Mr. Takahashi, this is Mr. Kawamura, Mr. Kawamura is an enginner from Honda.
Kawamura: Pleasure to meet you, I'm Kawamura. ----don't know----
Takahashi: Pleasure to meet you, I'm Takahashi. ----don't know----

(PS: Believe it or not, I didn't look at the answers)

Also here's a tip: Don't post the hidden answers underneath the questions. It would be best if you post the questions and when somebody answers them then you tell what they did wrong and correct them.

Not a bad idea, even though it would probably be better to have one of our resident experts writing the questions. I'll wait for them to get harder before I start participating :)

Seriously, this should have its own sticky thread.

I like this.

Engineer at Honda, as in, the cars

Yoroshiku etc. loosely translates to "let's be good to each other", and is used for "nice to meet you". All part of the Hajimemashite line.

This has the potential to be VERY entertaining when the questions get tough :D

Yeah that would be nice but its alot of work thinking of questions. I'd love to play this game myself but you cant when your the one writing the questions. We will see how this catches on.

I think it works better this way when we all discuss the answers, so i wont post them anymore. its like a bit of revision for the more advanced amongst us.

If people really do get sick of it, ill change it.. Im also sick of seeing ro-maji so I'm gonna convert about lesson 3 or 4. Newbies, get studying!

Hiragana and Katakana Practice - Real Kana

”とりはそらにいる。”

"Uh... は is that thing you use like when you're saying 'watashi ha' right? That's all I know..."

Use Japanese writing system if you want to make a useful thread. Romaji should be an additional help for very beginners, not the basic learning tool.
Sasaki: Takahashi-san, kochira wa kawamura-san desu. Kawamura-san wa Honda no enjinia desu.
Kawamura: Hajimemashite. Kawamura desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Takahashi: Hajimemashite. Takahashi desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
It is ok, but this would teach more...
ささきさん：たかはしさん、こちらはかわむらさんです 。かわむらさんはほんだのエンジニアです。
かわむらさん：はじめまして。かわむらです。よろしく おねがいします。
たかはしさん：はじめまして。たかはしです。よろしく おねがいします。

Sorry, but I think for a beginner romaji=signs of very bad laziness. I don't mean use kanji, but the kana should be used.

Hiragana and katakana canned be learned in weeks, so dedicated Japanese students shouldn't need romaji.

If you can't learn hiragana, you're never going to learn Japanese.

"lol i dunno lol i just saw it in a manga once lol"


This one's for you, Shadow




Someone give me a call when we get into the more advanced stuff

おおい！　かなはできますよ！

Trying to be the nice guy for once here and give the newbies a head start. If you wanna be so picky you can take the time out of your life and you can make the dammned questions.

Trying to make JF a better place without the kawaiipockysugoinekodesune people.


Dude, b*tch best be trollin!

Is that 90% french, 10% kawaiipockynekodesu? (could be the other way around too). Cant translate anything full stop?

Could have so much fun with that one, but unfortunatly, theres the rest of JF to tackle yet my friend, muwahaha!