A transcript I had with "Yumi" a computer program online ;-) by all means browse by and say konnijiwa to her ;-)

CONVERSATION START:
Ohayo Gozaimasu!
YOU - ohayo
ME - ohayo! O genki desu ka?
YOU - genki desu
ME - yokatta!
YOU - yokatta ne
ME - hai, yokatta desu ne!
YOU - so desu ne
ME - hmmm...
YOU - humm?
ME - Anata no nihongo wa wakarimasen!
YOU - so desuka
ME - hai, sou desu yo.

Unfortunately I had to ditch the cool ranma background for the time beeing due to the heavy loading but I´ve gotten the drop down menus to work and added loads of links.. Hope someone enjoys :-)

Slang ;-P

First, the way Japanese refer to themselves is different from us. They point to their noses in a gesture that's likely to evoke laughter from us. Whereas we normally point to our chest when referring to ourselves.

A raised pinky refers to one's girlfriend. To make this gesture with a questioning glance would mean, "Are you going out with your girlfriend tonight?"

Via peter payne

More on bodylanguage in japan here ;-)

The sentence "Next year I am going to Canada" translates to "rainen watashi wa kanada ni ikimasu". This could be written entirely in kana:



A Japanese, however, would use kanji where possible:




via the kanjisite

Mutsuo Koga wades through water while wearing traditional Japanese Samurai armour and helmet weighing 33 pounds during the Japanese-style swimming championships in Shuzenji.

Þetta er tilraunasíða fyrir nemendur í Japönsku við háskóla Íslands. Eins og sést er margt eftir ógert ;-)

As you can see I´m having some problems blogging in Icelandic so I guess this blog will be in English as my other one..... this one will though mainly deal with links to japanese sources and of course the regular funny stuff ;-P

Cheers, Gunnella