Be careful with kimi, it doesn't REALLY mean "buddy", but saying something like "na, kimi!" would probably come out something like "Hey, buddy!" in the right context, like, if you know the person in the first place kimi is an interesting word, it's usage has changed qui...

Sarah is the same in Japanese, you silly little thing you. Of course, it gets run through the Japanese phonetic system and pops out "seera"　セーラ (or "sara" サラ　depending on how you pronounce it in English)

Desu wrote:Well, maybe I'm just good at languages.

I found it easy. My Japanese teacher said it was.

The basics are pretty easy, any idiot can pick it up. We're talking about REAL Japanese

Also, take note of what dreams said (seriously made me lol)

Thats not a bad translation of kimi, but it's a bit LESS slangy than that I can't say I know much in the way of this kind of stuff, mostly because it doesn't come up in class, I don't think I have heard many Japanese people use any and that Japanese language by nature drops pro nouns left right and ...

It's hard, it's really hard. Starting from scratch, if you want to speak Japanese to a level in which you can work and live in Japan, I would say maybe about 4 or so years of study (say, at a university or something), and thats if you take it seriously and put a lot of effort in. I kind of get annoy...

I think the best way to do it is basically in reverse of what you are doing. That is, search through existing Japanese names untill you find one that has the same meaning as a name you want.

Then simply pop your windows CD into your computer

Hey Geishaboy, do you ever hear anyone use "dachi" in Japan? It's the title of a harmless anime song I have, and I learned it was just short for "tomodachi". But when I look it up on Space Alc, it's translated much like the slang word in question in this thread. Just wondered......

Captain Unohana wrote:

Inuyasha1416 wrote:baby i dont knw any languages i wanna knw sumthin otha tha english

lol yea i can tell, and not even thats very good lol

Don't be mean

But I do encourage everyone here to try and use proper English at all times

No, I highly doubt that would ever happen in a Japanese translation. The Japanese have a separate word for nig***, and it's not the same as and word for colour

Well, you can simply say "ike!"　行け！ which literally means "Go!" or "leave!", it's strong, and rude, and a little offensive, but it's not a swear word as such. I would recommend using this over any other variations. 消えうせる "kieusero!" or simply　うせろ "usero&q...

Obsolete in the way that they aren't actually used anymore at all is my understanding, the only time I have seen them is in a really old Japanese dictionary at a second hand book store

-kun is informal between friends. It is traditionally a male term, but things continue to modernize between the genders in Japan, so it wouldn't be impossible to hear -kun at the end of a girl's name. (Although she might be tomboyish.) Most commonly you will find a superior in an employment setting...

Sorry, it actually says in the forum rules that you shouldn't expect anyone to be your personal tutor

You should start out learning Hiragana and Katakana first though

Very good work Haruko

This year level 3, yes?

couldn't it be kokoro no kizu? Eh? kokoro no kizu 心の傷 - "A injury to the heart and soul" pfffff... sorry about that! i learn japanese by myself here and i do that sometimes... ==PP but one more thing and sorry if im wrong again, but isn't the adjective ''ii''? Sorry, im without my japanes...