iKnow I'm Falling Behind...

Well, iknow yelled at me tonight for falling behind - it wanted me to do like, 50 of them!
Fat chance. It's late and i've got to get to bed.
I did 30, and only two words in each were new, some of them dumb numbers/weekdays still.

Today I will forbear a list, as there's little new anyway.

Here's the interesting stuff.

こっち(kocchi) - here
(i need to look up the "there" equivalent...)

開く - hiraku - open

つける(tsukuru) - switch on (to go with kesu- 消す - switch off !)

乾く - kawaku - be thirsty
二つ - futatsu - two things

Here's some I pulled from the example sentences.
The first was from "God, spirit" and other was from "why"
信じる - shinjiru - to believe/trust/have faith (in) (religious word)
泣く - naku - to cry
Tomar v. Tomaru
I have a language confusion I'm trying to sort out.
In español, to take, consume (like medicine) is "tomar"
In 日本語, to stay (overnight) (i.e. in a hotel) is "tomaru"

It makes memorizing 泊まる (tomaru) a pain.

Valentine's Weekend Number Three

V Day. And what a crummy one at that.
Yes, I began a sentence with "and". And you're going to deal with it.

Anyways, so much for getting this in early.

"I love you" transcends all languages.

Love is universal. Love is everywhere. Love has always been, and will always be.
Most Music is about love.

Love is the most desired thing in the world, and the hardest to find.
Love is optional, and yet mandatory.
Love is the light and the dark in the world.
Love is the best feeling ever, and also the worst.
Love is inspirational, and retarding.
Love opens our view to the world. Love blinds us.

Love is what I want and what I hate.

Japanese: Ai shiteru.
愛してる。


Spanish/Portuguese/Latin ?
Te amo.
(Italian is "ti amo".)

Greek?
S' ayapo.

Korean?
Tangsinul sarang ha yo.

French?
Je t'aime.

German?
Ich liebe dich. (I think)

Arabic?
Ana behibak. (to M)
Ana behiBek. (to F)

Chinese?
Wo ie ni.

Hebrew?
Ani ohev at (M to F)
Ani ohev atah (F to M)


Love you guys!



愛

Typing In Any Language!

Well... iKnow didn't yell at me today. It only wanted me to do 30.
Today I have:

着る - kiru - to wear
笑う - warau - to smile
一番 - ichiban - most
授業 - jugyou - class, lesson
週 - shuu - week
and... wait for it... 漢字 - kanji !!!

I "completed" my first kanji, 持つ - motsu - to have


My mom wanted me to look into some French stuff for her, since I was able to find lots of easy Japanese resources. I found a handy trick to typing in any of the romantic languages. For those of you interested, you can set your language bar so it will type any character for French, German, Spanish, etc.

If you know how to open your language bar settings, (right-click start-bar> toolbars> language bar> click triangle on bottom right> settings...) Do so and click add. scroll down to look for the English one already checked and find U.S. - International.

Also, another set of instructions are here: http://www.conted.und.edu/coursedev/span1012006/TypeSpanish.htm

That will give your language bar a second option. If selected, you can type español, français, and deutsch characters that you couldn't otherwise, like ñ, ç, á,é,í,ó,ú, à,è,ì,ò,ù, ä,ë,ï,ö,ü,
You can set shortcuts to switch between language settings, too.

What you do is type with the [~ / `], [" / '], and [^ / (no 6)] keys. It will wait for you to hit space for a regular BUT instead you let go, and then type the letter. For ¡ and ¿ hold RIGHT alt and then press then type the normal ones.

Try pressing everything with right-alt!
numbers and punctuation -¡ ² ³ ¤ € ¼ ½ ¾ ‘ ’ ¥ × « » ¬ ¶ ´ ¿ ç
QWERTYUIOP=äåé®þüúíóö
ASD=áßð L=ø
Z=æ NM=ñµ

Japanese With Other Languages?

I learned a new thing, and possibly a new concept with Japanese.
"German"(the language) is ドイシ語 - doishigo. It's pronounced the same way it is in German, plus "go", for language.

I'm hoping to add to my knowledge of other countries with respect to japan soon.
America is either アメリカ like english, or 米国 / べいこく / beikoku, rice+country. Why they name it that I have no idea.

北米 / ほくべい / hokubei is North America.
南米 / なんべい / nanbei is South America.
中米 / ちゅうべい / chuubei is Central America.
as you might have guessed,
北 (kita) is north, and
南 (minami) is south. Also,
東 (higashi) is east, and
西 (nishi) is west.

Also, 英語 (eigo) is "English", just as 日本語 is "Japanese" and 中国語 (chuugokugo) is "Chinese".