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Title: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Ninja Spirit on November 28, 2006, 10:06:57 AM
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/fUN.jpg)
Just for fun I made this list writing the names of various rock bands in katakana without looking at a dictionary.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: sunteam_paul on November 28, 2006, 10:10:21 AM
Linkin Park
Queen
Disturbed
The Darkness

I'll let someone else carry on, this is too easy  :P
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Ninja Spirit on November 28, 2006, 11:24:50 AM
Nice!  :shock: I shall make more then :P

I tried freehanding it with my laptop mousepad and it doesn't look as bad as I expected

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/BandJP.jpg)
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Keranu on November 28, 2006, 02:56:38 PM
Well without looking up any katakana charts, I can say off hand that number 2 on the second image is Powerman 5000. :D
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Black Tiger on November 29, 2006, 08:51:54 AM
That's quite the broad range of rock/metal bands. Are they all artists you listen to?

The mouse drawn characters are really well done(even better overall than the hand drawn ones).  :)
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Ninja Spirit on November 29, 2006, 12:48:50 PM
That's quite the broad range of rock/metal bands. Are they all artists you listen to?

The mouse drawn characters are really well done(even better overall than the hand drawn ones).  :)
You rankin' on my handwriting bwoy?!  :x Nah j/k  :dance: :lol:

Had no idea my finger would be that steady,

I'm not strictly a rock person, but most of my classmates listen to that stuff so that's how I know the band names.

Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: sunteam_paul on December 02, 2006, 04:23:02 AM
Bearing in mind I know not much about bands and stuff

1 Radiohead
2 Powerman 5000
3 Teas for Fears
4 Depeche Mode
5 The Chemical Brothers
6 The ? Offspring?
7 ? ENBO-GU?
8 Smash ?
9 Europe
10 Dragon Force
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Ninja Spirit on December 02, 2006, 09:33:17 AM
I made several errors

Tears for Fears

Number 7 is "En Vogue", a long defunct R&B group (songs like "Never never gonna get it")

Number 8 was Smash Mouth

Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: termis on December 02, 2006, 06:30:01 PM
For your handwritten sheet,
roZEzu, like how you had it in the beginning.  actually, ローゼズ, with the stretched out "ro", probably... 
And I'm not sure how you'd pronounce メタッリカ in Japanese.  Shoulda just been メタリカ if I'm not mistaken... 
And STP should've been <テンプル・パイロッツ>.

"Katakanizing" an English word is tricky at best.  The long-sounds throw me off quite a bit.  メタリカ or メタ-リカ? Beats me.

Hey, sorry for being annoying - I know I get annoyed when I see spelling/grammar nazis on the net, but correcting someone's non-native language is okay, right? 

このサイトに日本語ができる人がなかなかいる見たいですね。何人いるかな?
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: sunteam_paul on December 02, 2006, 08:59:54 PM
I would say it's メタリカ as well.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Tatsujin on December 03, 2006, 12:09:37 AM
to check all your band-names correct kana-spelling, just put it into google and check the hits :clap:
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: elnino on December 03, 2006, 12:15:42 AM
to check all your band-names correct kana-spelling, just put it into google and check the hits :clap:

You're the man! :clap:
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Ninja Spirit on December 03, 2006, 02:27:20 AM


Hey, sorry for being annoying - I know I get annoyed when I see spelling/grammar nazis on the net, but correcting someone's non-native language is okay, right? 



Oh no you're not being annoying at all period, after all this is just one of the more narrower ways of getting better is facing talk like that head-on.

In general, is JP impossibly hard to learn with no professional instruction?
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: termis on December 03, 2006, 05:34:47 AM
In general, is JP impossibly hard to learn with no professional instruction?

Well, I only took 2 semesters of it in school, (1 regular, 1 summer session), so all that did was just get my feet wet.

Then about 3 years after that, I ended up working in Japan for a year, and so while I was there, I studied the hell out of the thing on my own time.  So I can hold a conversation now, but I'm still no where near fluent.  So in all, even though I did most of the learning on my own, bear in mind that I had the huge advantage of complete immersion.  Plus I'm a freelance Korean->English translator (I do some Tokyopop stuff, if anyone's into that manga stuff), and since Korean and Japanese language has similar grammar points and words, that also helped me out tons learning Japanese.

To make the long story short, I guess it's possible, but you definitely need interaction with native speakers.  Do some language exchanges.  That's what I'm doing now to keep my Japanese from deteriorating too much.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Joe Redifer on December 08, 2006, 05:41:59 PM
Translate this, mofos:

(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/japanese.jpg)

Sorry it's so blurry, but if I use the flash then everything is completely blown out and can't be seen.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: sunteam_paul on December 09, 2006, 03:03:42 AM
Translate this, mofos:

(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/japanese.jpg)

Sorry it's so blurry, but if I use the flash then everything is completely blown out and can't be seen.


My hovercraft is full of eels.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Joe Redifer on December 09, 2006, 12:00:12 PM
NOOOO!!!!!!  Try again.  Everyone who gets it wrong makes me feel that much more superior.  YOU DON'T WANT MY EGO GROWING TOO MUCH!
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: termis on December 09, 2006, 03:33:08 PM
 :lol:

Mmm...  Something like, "Diarrhea is churning inside my bowels.  I really(?) hate diarrhea."

I learned how to say "diarrhea" (geri) because of this post!  Thanks  :dance:



Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Joe Redifer on December 09, 2006, 03:58:05 PM
Close enough.  Ego deflated.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: guyjin on December 09, 2006, 05:46:53 PM
get a better camera. Some of those kanji, i didn't recognize 'cuz of the blur.
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Joe Redifer on December 09, 2006, 07:43:54 PM
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/japanese2.jpg)
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: esteban on December 10, 2006, 02:53:03 PM
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/japanese2.jpg)
Translation: "Back in the day, if a console didn't come(?) with composite A/V cables, it was teh suck."

Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Tatsujin on December 10, 2006, 03:37:53 PM
Translation: "Back in the day, if a console didn't come(?) with composite A/V cables, it was teh suck."
not even close to that. but teh funny :lol: and a great babel-fake as well :clap:
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: termis on December 11, 2006, 04:37:10 AM
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/japanese2.jpg)

 :lol:

けど、やっぱカメラより直接キーボードで書くほうがもっと読みやすいでしょ。 (そして翻訳機も使えるから・・・)
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Joe Redifer on December 11, 2006, 11:15:20 AM
Yeah, I think that's the point... not to use the translator.  :)
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: Tatsujin on December 11, 2006, 01:31:17 PM
サンピン_テルミス = チェッコル!! :clap:

でも、僕の手書きも悪いんので、何か書く時は、きっとパソコンを使ってるんだよ。 めんどうくせぇなので。
Title: Re: Analyze my katakana? (Fun thread, f/Japanese speakers)
Post by: thewestexit on January 11, 2007, 07:59:00 PM
サンピン_テルミス = チェッコル!! :clap:

でも、僕の手書きも悪いんので、何か書く時は、きっとパソコンを使ってるんだよ。 めんどうくせぇなので。

大学の時代に日本語に専攻したからこちらの手書きはけっこうやりますけど、数年ぐらいにあまり練習しなかったので、漢字の書き方を覚えていない時がよくあって、悔しいことなんです。もちろんコンピューターで書くとはわかりますけどね。