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Japanese Thread!

Angel

Angel

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OK. So, I'm slowly but surely learning Japanese. My friend KevinK is a great speaker of the language. Since the super enormous derailing thread is no longer, I would like to start a thread, [where anyone can join] putting into practice all that we learn! Everyone is welcome!

Akemashiteomedetōgozaimasu!
Happy New Year!
 
Whoa...I was actually thinking of starting a thread just like this. I'm totally serious.

Since I'm on the West Coast, I have to say, "Yoi o-toshi o" for another 35 minutes. Thereafter I can say, "Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!"
 
I don't know Japanese but I like a music video shot in Japan by a group who played a song "Chicken Payback" I thought it was funny. I also liked a Japanese game show called Silent Library.....I only liked the original one with the big black guy on as a guest(he spoke Japanese)....all the other Silent Library ones are just cheap copies and vulgar.....but the original was really funny
 
Angel said:
Please translate :)
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Literally it's something like "Please extend continued favors to me in this coming year", but it's used as a stock response to someone who wishes you a new year, as in "Akemashite omedetō gozaimasu".
 
Very close. "Tsukareru" (or the past tense form tsukareta) is actually a verb, so does not need the copula desu at the end of the sentence to "verbalize" it. You can just say, "Tsukareta" or the polite equivalent "tsukaremashita".

I remember seeing a samurai movie, I think it was the great Toshiro Mifune who started the movie by saying to his friend "Tsukareta" after they hit the crest of a hill on horseback.
 
KevinK said:
Very close. "Tsukareru" (or the past tense form tsukareta) is actually a verb, so does not need the copula desu at the end of the sentence to "verbalize" it. You can just say, "Tsukareta" or the polite equivalent "tsukaremashita".

I remember seeing a samurai movie, I think it was the great Toshiro Mifune who started the movie by saying to his friend "Tsukareta" after they hit the crest of a hill on horseback.
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Thanks! :D
 
Dou itashimashite! (You're welcome). A well-known mnemonic for this phrase is, "Don't touch my mustache".
 
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