Thread: Japanese language learning.

Aneki means elder sister... was the main character a girl??? +__+ Normally you'd only use aneki/aniki to address your elder siblings, but you can also use it in the "frat" context. You know, where everyone is brother and sister and basically one big family. (i.e. among yakuza and other gangsters) From what I understand (from anime/J-dramas), aniki/aneki is used by dominant younger siblings. The "you're older than me but we're equal" type. A tomboyish girl might call her elder brother aniki instead of onii-chan. Whether this really happens in Japanese households nowadays or not, I don't know.

my stepbrother is a japanese, but i dont know a asingle word he's saying,ahahaha

Senpai = senior
Ooatari shite = become very successful; get a big prize
Koosutaa = coaster
Nemureba = If (person) is able to sleep...

Hey thanks for this... It helps alot.... Uhhhhmmm..

I hate to use you as my personal translator but what do these two phrases mean?

ga ika o aishiteru

nori ga oishii

Nori ga oishi = Seaweed is delicious?

(^^)lll

Ga ika o aishiteiru = I love cuttle fish.

Oh! Aya-kun....... That was a good work of you... uuhhhmmm...
How about this???

Sore ga ai deshou???
Koishiteru????
zettai daijoubu da yo....

@ Shodokan: Heh, there are many meanings to nori, but the only one of them that could possibly relate to oishii is seaweed. Like Aya said, nori ga oishii is the seaweed is delicious. And gaika isn't cuttlefish, it's foreign money (gai means foreign, hence gaijin = foreigner). At least, that's the only definition of gaika I know for sure. I looked up a J-E dictionary and apparently gaika also means victory anthem and pyxidium (?????). Though....... it seems weird applying ANY of those definitions to gaika o aishiteiru... I love foreign money/victory anthems/pyxidium??? WTF is pyxidium anyway??? +__+

@ souichiro_arima: LOL. I was reminded of Shimokawa Mikuni's song for a moment... Anyways. "Sorega ai deshou" means "that's love, isn't it?". "Koishiteru" means "falling in love" (different from aishiteru!), and "zettai daijoubudayo" is "definitely OK!".


Ummmm, while I keep rattling on an explaining stuff, I do hope that all of you are actually learning... you know, grammar and stuff, and not just random sentences. Cuz if you keep blabbering random words and phrases you'll just turn into the annoying Japanese kid Shodokan was talking about in his recent thread. The one who kept saying random English words.

Oh, and I promise I'll explain all that I was supposed to "explain later" a.s.a.p! I'm still working on it cuz there's so much to explain. Blehhhh.