Comments on: Premium Lesson #5 - SS1: Queued Up For a Crêpe

by: david

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:03:20 +0000

by: スコット

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:30:31 +0000

マーキーさん、クレープがおいしいそ！ロシアのクレープが同様だ。

by: マーキースター

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:14:45 +0000

by the way guys, there is a small crêpe stand in 品川駅.
i passed by so i snapped a photo of the menu for you guys. sorry about the glare and not sure why it turned out so small, but i think you get the point.

by: スコット

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:24:56 +0000

今はお腹がすいた

クレープを食べない？

by: JapanesePod101.com

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:05:19 +0000

actually, 煙草 isn’t 英読み. that kind of word is called 当て字。

by: watermen

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:13:02 +0000

I think the word 煙草 is a typical word with 英読み. Actually I think this kind of combination is cool.

by: maxiewawa

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:08:12 +0000

The 英読み that Marky mentions is one of the coolest things about the Japanese language. That’s why I suggested マーキー星 with an 英読み reading of マーキースター。One example: I was watching the film Fight Club with Japanese subtitles, and “Project Mayhem” was translated as something like 乱暴計画, with プロジェクト　メイヘン in furigana.

Leave it to the Japanese to combine Chinese characters with English readings to make such a cool way of writing things. I’m doing my best to introduce 英読み to the Asian mainland, but no Chinese speakers seem to think it’s a good idea.

I’m with Abrassart too, in an ideal world, Japanese would have many other languages’ words, but I guess we’re stuck with English!

Finally, I’d like to point out that Japanese is giving words back to English too though. Walkman, 1-up/power-up are of Japanese origin, aren’t they? Anime is definitely of Japanese origin, but not many people realise that it’s short for “animation”.

by: Abrassart

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:55:56 +0000

For me, the katakanisation of foreign words is just another fascinating aspcets of japanese language. I just wished they were a little bit less English words, and a little bit more of every other language in the world. But that’s the way things are for the moment, and it’s nothing specific to Japan (French is also under English invasion right now).

by: デボン

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:16:51 +0000

Yeah I used to not like katakana but it’s pretty easy to read now however I agree with Marky 100%, I’d much rather know the japanese word…. or maybe both.

by: スコット

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:06:14 +0000

I’m with ya Kitty-chan. I like katakana because I know it perfectly now!