Hey Native speakers! Come and help us!

You must be.

Must be what?

ＷＯＲＫ

you must be work thejob.

You're annoying me 24/7.
How do you say 24/7.

24 hours and 7 days?

>>862
Thank you, Magibon!

Twenty-four seven

>>881
Thanks

>>880
Is 862 Magibon? Are you sure?

I watched her speak Japanese in her first vlog!!
I love it!! Keep up the work!! Keep going!!!

>>857
I would say "The building is located 2km from the Tokyo station."
(And if the station's name is "Tokyo station", I'd omit "the".)

Hi, I am wondering where is the best place to find info on traveling to Japan?

Hi, I am wondering where is the best place to find info on traveling to Japan?

>>884
Thank you.
I thought I could never get any answers.

>>885
I liked the Time Out guide to Tokyo; the Lonely Planet books are also
pretty good.

>>887
どう致しまして.

piss off

Welcome back, merkin!

we don't need thickheads here

>>891 go back to http://academy5.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1121001818/l50

What's the Japanese equivalent of "LOL"? (other than wwww.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vawxVewuUA&mode=related&search=
What sounds do native speakers hear?
Can you hear the "tottanokayo" sounds?

Stop to wank! Shut up! Build a chat thread ASAP!

>>895
This thread seems to be dead. Use it for a while, why don't we?
http://academy5.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1169067008/l50

>>894
It sounds like 'touttanokaiyo' to me. (And sounds like a man's voice
that's been very heavily compressed, and/or cut off around 6000Hz.)
I have no idea how people hear it as "A I I".

To me, it sounds "Day-I-I" spoken by a kid.

>>897
Interesting. Some say English speakers would never hear the T sounds
in it because several people from English speaking countries can't in the clip,
but they were wrong. We know perfectly well you are from America!
Anyway, if you are interested, check this out. There's another clip
in which you can hear the same voice but at slower rates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETRPDBLH3Y&mode=related&search=

You can possibly have the same wierd experience as mine, a kid's voice
changes into a grown-up male's.

>>898
Give it another try! When you hear the T sound, the high-pitched kid's voice
will go down a little.

900

I looove this video!! Yeah!!
Sushi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlcgq-U5js

oh yeah!!!!
suck nipples!!!
lick assholes!!!!! oh yeah baby!!!
my wet pussy!!! oh oh!!!

>>902
OH OH OH
OH YEAH OH YEAH OH YEAH
I DID IT THREE TIMES YESTERDAY!
DOES IT FEEL GOOD?

Kyoto

What is the name of the temple that has a modern art inspired garden?
I think it's on the east side of town.

No, it’s not a museum. The building itself is traditional, and I’m
pretty sure it’s a Buddhist temple. I remember taking a bus a ways,
so it isn’t right in town.

It is no place as famous as Ginkakuji, Kinkakuji, or Kiyomizu.
It is a more modest place than those. It is a Zen temple, but
the garden is not a traditional Zen garden like Ryoanji. Instead,
I remember the forms (moss, rocks) in a geometric pattern.
Think Kandinsky, rather than the organic forms of
a traditional Zen garden.

I have tried search engines and also simply leafing
through guidebooks and websites on Kyoto,
but I’ve had no luck.

>>904
Is this the one? Tofukuji.
The descriprition says that the garden's geometrical design might have been
inspired by the Kandinsky's art.
http://www.tofukuji.jp/keidai/hojo.html
http://www.mediawars.ne.jp/~tanimura/a_map/form/kyoto/kyoto_garden/toufukuzi_hozyou.html

>>899
Wow! That video explains perfectly why some people hear it as A-I-I.
(I couldn't understand what they were saying in Japanese, but the
linguistics stuff made lots of sense.) What was the comment the guy
made at the end about something in German?

I suspect that one of the reasons I didn't have any problem recognizing
what the word was supposed to be was _because_ I can't speak Japanese
very well - I still have a lot of difficulty pronouncing the vowels
correctly. (Compare the vowel charts for Japanese and English if you're
bored.)

merkin is dead.

Eureka! That’s it! Thanks!

Please correct the following sentence I made.

Romaji is mainly used for foreigners and in logo of company or something.

>>909
Romaji is mainly used for foreigners and in company logos.

>>910
Thanks

Please dictate what they say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTAxinylaQ

"Hey Native speakers! Come and help us"？

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>>906
Hey merkin - if you still have that link that explains the A-I-I thing, can you link me to it? For some reason when I try to read a past page, it gives me an error or stop of some sort.

>>914
Here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vawxVewuUA&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETRPDBLH3Y&mode=related&search=

>>912
It's the same old shit about "The Japanese are so evil and backwards, the Koreans are nothing but good and wonderful; the Japanese want to erase history. You can't rape and pillage our grandmothers."

e: 結果発表！！ / lovelovemiffyusagi引用
Hello!えびすさん。
> 英検準１級対策と平行してのボキャ増強と話題のキム本でもやってみようかななんて考えてます。

本屋さんで見たことがあります。かなり有名みたいですね。でも、どんな
本だったかすっかり忘れてしまいました･･･。英検も頑張ってくださいね。
私もはるか後方からえびすさんのあとを追っていきま〜す。

> >Bon courage!･･･とフランス語で言ってみたり。(*^。^*)
> う〜む、わ、わ、分からんワ・・・『頑張って』って意味かな？

You guessed right!(^O^)そうで〜す。って、昨日覚えた単語を
使ってみただけだから間違ってたらすみません。。。

それではお互い頑張りましょうっ！
Let's move on! Look ahead to the future!!
　　　　　　　　　　　by NOVAレッスンで覚えた文章(笑)
No.815 - 2007/02/06(Tue) 15:21:22

>>916
The video gave me the creeps.
What do you think about it?

You know, I wonder if anyone realises that China and Korea are
just using the Japanese history incident as part of nationalist
movements. Nothing keeps people occupied from things like human
rights atrocities, poverty and crime like blaming another race of
people.
I think all history should be made public, but do you honestly
think that China and Japan will suddenly stop if Japan admits
to its wartime atrocities? If anything, the mobs in those
two countries will just carry on even more. The past is the past.
You can go on blaming other countries for the way things have turned out,
or you can unite and get on with your lives. Japan picked itself up
after the war and became a major world player. Maybe that's why
it shits them so?

X = "...think that China and Japan will suddenly stop if Japan admits..."
O = "...think that China and Korea will suddenly stop if Japan admits..."

Sorry... >:(

My guess is that their education has left a negative imprint on them.
Imagine a situation where you are taught to hate someone when you are
a child. You will hate him/her without any doubt, easily brainwashed.
But we should remember, not all of South Koreans are like them.
Some hate Japan, and others may not. Why? Because some of us don't like
Korea, but it's only a part of the population. So, personally,
all we can do about racists that exist in both Japan and South Korea
is leave them alone. I hope many S.Koreans think along the same way.

Can you tell me what "psht" stands for? I have absolutely no idea..

hi everyone hahaha joking u mother fuckers hahaha!!!!!!

"psht" is a dismissive sound.

"You like to eat unko? Psht, yeah, right."