Japanese

[LLJade]

Hey, does anyon here know how to translate English into Japanese by any chance? There's a part in my Astro Boy fan fic coming up where two of the characters (I'm not saying who) have an arguement in Japanese.

Lauren

[dragon_child888]

Originally posted by LLJade@Jun 23 2004, 01:49 PM
Hey, does anyon here know how to translate English into Japanese by any chance? There's a part in my Astro Boy fan fic coming up where two of the characters (I'm not saying who) have an arguement in Japanese.

Lauren

I can do it manualy, but have you tried babel fish translation?

[LLJade]

Yes, I have. I get kanji rather than the words, so that doesn't exactly help me out much.

Lauren

[fafner]

Originally posted by dragon_child888+Jun 23 2004, 06:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (dragon_child888 @ Jun 23 2004, 06:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--LLJade@Jun 23 2004, 01:49 PM
Hey, does anyon here know how to translate English into Japanese by any chance? There's a part in my Astro Boy fan fic coming up where two of the characters (I'm not saying who) have an arguement in Japanese.

Lauren

I can do it manualy, but have you tried babel fish translation?[/b][/quote]
Babelfish does not give accurate translation. It is only useful to know the global meaning of a text. Do you have already tried to translate a text from a language you know toward another language you know ?

[WorkinClassHero]

Im going to Japan for 6 months on August 31st. So i had to learn a bit of language. I can read and write Hiragana, can do like "man" "mouth" "car" "ricefield" in Kanji. But understanding is a different matter. My Japanese is quite pigeon... Watashi wa Roger Cleverley desu.

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by Danny@Jun 18 2004, 05:29 AM
Ok, For those of you on the board who are more familliar with Japaneese than I am.. what does "Senpei" mean?

A few friends have started calling me that, and altho I have looked it up and have a rough idea of what it may mean I thought I would ask here anyway.

I have "baka" as silly or foolish.
I have "Gomen" as sorry.
I have "arigatu" as thanks.
I hope thats right.

some words are actually starting to find their way into my everyday vocab. I am not too sure if I should get used to "Sempai" or not tho.

According to a footnote in Trigun #1, page 38, sempai means "senior, upperclassman."


BTW, as with Hellsing, this one also reads from right to left.

[adrian _68]

What is the meaning of "Otaku"?

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by adrian _68@Jul 19 2004, 05:41 AM
What is the meaning of "Otaku"?

otaku geek, nerd, enthusiast (col)
otaku your house, your home (pol), you

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

[DrFrag]

Amongst English speakers, otaku generally means a hardcore fan. Like people who dress up as Boba Fett and go to Star Wars conventions are otaku.
In Japan it's more derogatory, like a creepy nerd who never leaves his bedroom and has no social skills.

[tic_tac_astro]

I found this interesting site:

http://www.takase.com/Names/JapaneseWordListA.htm

It shows english to japanese words through the dictionary.
I'm trying to learn, though.