Can someone help me learn Japanese colors/colours? I knew them all once, but i've forgot most/all of them. All I remember is Pinku for pink and Midori is one, but I can't remember what color it is. Please help, i'd love to learn this language.
Help me learn, please
The fact is if you don't use it, you'll lose it. 
Maybe a weekly 5-minute revision??
Maybe a weekly 5-minute revision??
Okay, one thing I don't get is, how could I remember 99 numbers?
Japanese is a dialect of Chinese, so is Korean.
| bartdou wrote: |
| Japanese is a dialect of Chinese, so is Korean. |
The langauges developed seperately, and their writing systems are radically different - One represents morphemes in characters, one represents syllables in characters, and one represents very specific sounds in characters(more than a normal alphabet like Greek or Latin).
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| Okay, one thing I don't get is, how could I remember 99 numbers? |
If Japanese works like any other language with a Base-10 system, you'll only have to memorize every number 1-10, then the changes observed when changing to 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.
In English we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. All of these numbers will be echoed in a recognizeable pattern(eighty-one clearly derives from eight + a modifier to show it is in the 10s position + one).
Japanese Numbers :
1-ichi
2-ni
3-san
4-yon
5-go
6-roku
7-shichi
8-hachi
9-Kyuu
10-Juu
20-nijuu
30-sanjuu
21-nijuuichi
31-sanjuuichi
1998-senkyuuhapyakukyuujuuhachi
-- gambatte kudasai--
1-ichi
2-ni
3-san
4-yon
5-go
6-roku
7-shichi
8-hachi
9-Kyuu
10-Juu
20-nijuu
30-sanjuu
21-nijuuichi
31-sanjuuichi
1998-senkyuuhapyakukyuujuuhachi
-- gambatte kudasai--
I dont think that japanese is a dialect from chinese. although they had similar strokes or characters, but japanese is much much different than of chinese..
| knight_frost wrote: |
| I dont think that japanese is a dialect from chinese. although they had similar strokes or characters, but japanese is much much different than of chinese.. |
It's related, but it's a different language from the same general tree called the Altaic language family, and this tree is very broad considering Chinese itself is considered a group of languages - Mandarin, Wu, et cetera are different enough for classification into languages rather than dialects, and then you have languages like Korean and Japanese added into this mix, though they aren't in the Chinese subgroup.
akai = red
aoi = blue
kiiroi = yellow
kuroi = black
shiroi = white
midori = green
chairo = brown
hairo = gray
murasaki = purple
These are the basic colors in Japanese. the 5 primary colors are listed in their adjectival forms; their respective nominal forms are just the adjectival ones minus the "i" at the end.
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Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects, yet people like to call them languages; Japanese and Korean are languages, yet they are too forcefully linked to Chinese in people's minds.
Japanese is not a dialect of Chinese, neither is Korean. Both of them had their own spoken language before borrowing Chinese characters to invent their own writing systems to match the spoken languages. Sure they borrowed the Chinese characters, but that doesn't mean they are the same language.
Take western languages for example, there are so many similarities between English and say, Spanish or French, but they can't be considered dialects of one another, in fact, English is a Germanic language while the other two are Latin based. The similarities between English and other western languages are not that much fewer than those between Japanese, Korean, and Chinese; it just seems so because of the borrowing of the Chinese characters which make the languages visually similar. But then again, don't most western languages use similar alphabet sets?. So, if you can't make yourself consider the western languages all as dialects, can you do that with the Asian languages?
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and oh:
it's actually:
sen kyuuhyaku kyuujuu hachi
aoi = blue
kiiroi = yellow
kuroi = black
shiroi = white
midori = green
chairo = brown
hairo = gray
murasaki = purple
These are the basic colors in Japanese. the 5 primary colors are listed in their adjectival forms; their respective nominal forms are just the adjectival ones minus the "i" at the end.
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| bartdou wrote: |
| Japanese is a dialect of Chinese, so is Korean. |
Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects, yet people like to call them languages; Japanese and Korean are languages, yet they are too forcefully linked to Chinese in people's minds.
Japanese is not a dialect of Chinese, neither is Korean. Both of them had their own spoken language before borrowing Chinese characters to invent their own writing systems to match the spoken languages. Sure they borrowed the Chinese characters, but that doesn't mean they are the same language.
Take western languages for example, there are so many similarities between English and say, Spanish or French, but they can't be considered dialects of one another, in fact, English is a Germanic language while the other two are Latin based. The similarities between English and other western languages are not that much fewer than those between Japanese, Korean, and Chinese; it just seems so because of the borrowing of the Chinese characters which make the languages visually similar. But then again, don't most western languages use similar alphabet sets?. So, if you can't make yourself consider the western languages all as dialects, can you do that with the Asian languages?
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and oh:
| knight_frost wrote: |
| 1998-senkyuuhapyakukyuujuuhachi
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it's actually:
sen kyuuhyaku kyuujuu hachi
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| Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects, yet people like to call them languages |
Linguists classify different versions umbrella'd under the term Chinese as different languages in the same subfamily, though it is a subject of debate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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| The identification of the varieties of Chinese as "languages" or "dialects" is controversial.[2] As a language family Chinese has nearly 1.2 billion speakers; Mandarin Chinese alone has around 850 million native speakers, outnumbering any other language in the world. |
I guess you can translate this words with a translation tools, can't you? That's the fastest way. I can't believe there's one translation tool can't do that.
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