I want to study ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!! (95)

1 Name: ZAPANESE : 2008-02-16 16:47 ID:5aV8CtP4

I'm a Japanese.
I seriously want to be able to speak ,write and read like Native American.

Please teach me English, my teachers.

46 Name: 19 : 2008-02-24 13:33 ID:FaY8IM/X

It seems some people are thinking you're a troll (someone who's trying to fool everyone), hence the YHBT (You Have Been Trolled). >>44 was just pointing out >>43 is not the real ZAPANESE/you (the tripcodes don't even match).

Anyhow, you could read a Harry Potter. I think you'd learn more that way than with hiphop music (which mainly uses slang), but the most important thing is just to surround yourself in the language in some way. Talking on the internet is a good way to do this too... this site is a bit too dead to learn much from, though.

47 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-24 15:50 ID:Heaven

To be honest I don't care if this guy is a troll, this troll isn't even funny enough to give anyone major 'butt hurt'. I'm still willing to help.

48 Name: ZAPANESE!md9bgi/FuQ : 2008-02-24 22:11 ID:3LANegPW

>>45

GTFO, CLOAN!!

49 Name: 19 : 2008-02-24 22:16 ID:FaY8IM/X

Now I remember why 4-ch sucks...

50 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-25 15:43 ID:Heaven

Well, Harry Potter books are for children. I wonder if children's books are better suited to foreigners, because they're less likely to contain strange vocabulary and long sentences.

On the other hand, most of the things that happen in Harry Potter books don't exist. And how many Japanese-English dictionaries have basilisks in them?

But I agree that reading genuine English text is helpful. The textbook for the "French in Action" video course has lots of clips of French literature at the end of every chapter.

51 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-25 21:19 ID:Heaven

>>49
Is it the internet slung?

52 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-02-29 05:22 ID:6ZbpszhB

Sorry for delay of my response. I made a journey to play snowboard to Nagano,Japan. By the way,what's the difference between trip and journey?
>>46
Is anyone thinking me as a troll? In short, am I thought I'm not a Japanese by anyone in this thread?
>>47
I'm sorry for that I'm not funny ;_;
>>48
Your tripcode is different from >>1's. ;) I am real ZAPANESE!
>>49
Is it due to me?
>>50
Okay...I'll seach the book be suited to reading for me, Being refer to your advice ;).

53 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-29 10:25 ID:33N4QEcD

jour·ney Pronunciation[jur-nee] noun, plural -neys, *verb, *-neyed, -ney·ing.
–noun

  1. a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.

54 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-29 12:58 ID:Heaven

People don't really journey in our current society, it's more a word you hear in period movies and drama.

55 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-29 12:59 ID:Heaven

Oh, except people still use it sarcastically. For instance sometimes I hear someone say "I'm making a journey to the Seven Eleven, you want anything?"

56 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-01 13:39 ID:mqZZpt6R

Journeys are usually longer and go father than trips. For example, you would take a month-long journey to Antarctica, while you would take a day-long trip to the beach.

57 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-02 02:59 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>53,56
That is to say,to going further, I should use journey, to going shorter, I should use trip, isn't it?
>>54-55
Thank you ;). I understood it.

58 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-03 11:38 ID:BnMDgvUM

>>57 That is correct.

59 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-03 19:00 ID:Heaven

>>57 "Journey" also implies that it's important, or that there's a goal, or that there's an adventure involved.

Also, "Journey" is the most awesome band of the 1980s.

60 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-04 22:50 ID:yFT62eeE

>>59
Wheel in the sky keeps on burning~
But yeah, what >>59 said is right. A journey is of importance, a trip is just kinda going somewhere.
The heroic party journeyed to the castle of the evil overlord.
The group of friends took a trip to the arcade.

61 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-04 22:52 ID:yFT62eeE

>>60
Also, I forgot to mention. Journey can be a verb, but trip means something else as a verb. Something akin to stumbling. Like, "I tripped on the computer's power cable and fell on my face".

62 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-05 19:29 ID:P9YOeOAl

>>61

Also:

"I'M TRIPPIN' BALLS."

63 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-06 03:42 ID:33N4QEcD

>>62
That's colloquial usage of the word "Trippin". We should teach formal language and not slang.

64 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-06 04:48 ID:JpVQivF7

Man, English has way too many idioms.

65 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-06 12:31 ID:MZnAf9S+

You can say that again.

66 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-06 15:46 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>59
To study English is Journey for me. like this?
>>60,61
Oh, thank you!
I'll try to use it if I'll get a oppotunity to make essays ;)
>>62,63
Trippin' means tripping, isn't it?
>>64
I remember it ;)
>>65
Say what?

67 Name: I'M THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE : 2008-03-06 17:00 ID:Heaven

>>66
59 - Yes.
62,63 - Yes. (But change "isn't it" to "doesn't it", because it's short for "doesn't it mean 'tripping'?")

68 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-06 17:59 ID:Heaven

it should be added, though, that "trippin'" and more particularly the phrase "trippin' balls" can mean an experience with psychadelic drugs (e.g. LSD).

69 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-07 02:53 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>67
Oh, I mistook it. Thank you for your correction.
>>68

Now, I have a question. Should I fill out(in?) the phrase "sage" as a Link?

70 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-07 03:03 ID:6ZbpszhB

Sorry, I posted >>69 on my way to make the sentence. To >>68, I wanted to write following sentence.

Thank you for your response ;) But, is that phrase used in everyday conversation? I wonder that it isn't "psychadelic" but "psychedelic", because my dictionary doesn't have such a word XD

71 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-07 03:40 ID:hjMdLMb8

>>70
Google corrects "psychadelic" to "psychedelic", so I'd say so.

72 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-08 16:54 ID:O31EJFxw

IN SOVIET RUSSIA
ENGLISH STUDIES YOU

73 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-09 02:29 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>71
Thank you.
>>72
What do you mean?

74 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-09 02:53 ID:33N4QEcD

75 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-10 05:35 ID:SaiqBJ33

>>70
I personally don't use the word "trippin'", quiter frankly I've never been in a situation where I've had to use it.

>>73
What >>72 said was an example of a Russian Reversal which you can find out about in the link posted by >>74.

>>69
Sage is typed in the Link field when you do not want to bump the thread to the top of the list. Most people use sage when they have nothing positive to contribute or when replying to a thread started by a troll.

76 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-10 10:04 ID:Heaven

>>75
[trippin'] Me neither, I always call it high. Man, am I high. I am so high, I feel like I could pluck a kite out of the sky.

77 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-10 20:24 ID:Heaven

Hello. Can you practice my Japanese, please? I'll be waiting for you at the Japanese board, on the thread "I'd like someone to come and practice my Japanese, please." I'll teach you how to pronounce the l, r, and v sounds!

78 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-11 12:01 ID:Heaven

That bit in Colorful is helpful for practicing the l and r sounds.

79 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-11 12:19 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>74
Oh, now, I understood what >>72 said. Thank you =)
>>75
Thank you. The rule about "sage" in 4-ch is similar to that of 2-ch.
>>77
Of course!

80 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-11 14:27 ID:Heaven

STFU already.

81 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-11 16:31 ID:Heaven

>>80
NO U

82 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-12 02:17 ID:4oMl4oiK

(^。^)y-.。o○

83 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-13 05:16 ID:6ZbpszhB

>>80
Do you mean "Shut the f**k up"?
>>82
(´盆`)

84 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-13 12:24 ID:+vB7I3Pu

Zapanese, I suggest you go outside and take hidden pictures up Japanese little girls' skirts and post them here. This is the best way to study English.

85 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-13 14:07 ID:Heaven

YHBT!

86 Name: jesus : 2008-03-13 18:20 ID:1Jaer4Lj

lol

87 Name: ZAPANESE!ZnBI2EKkq. : 2008-03-14 01:42 ID:Ep7EIi77

>>84
No! I'm not a "Hentai".

88 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-14 20:55 ID:Heaven

Hi, Zapanese. I'm the host of the thread "I'd like someone to come and practice my Japanese, please." I'm still practicing my Japanese. Would you come back to the thread, please?

89 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-15 00:18 ID:Heaven

>>85
Nobody cares, this troll obviously isn't trying hard enough....what's wrong with throwing a few crumbs? That way if it isn't a troll we'd actually be helping and if it is....the troll can whet his beak.

90 Name: I'M THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE : 2008-03-19 18:55 ID:Heaven

In English, we don't call people "hentai". We call pornography in anime and manga "hentai", even if that doesn't make sense in Japanese.

There are a lot of "false friend" words that work that way. Whenever we import a word, it has to mean something a little different from a word we already have.

91 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-26 07:14 ID:fExdy82X

Please stop by the troll booth before crossing the bridge.

92 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-26 23:26 ID:Heaven

>write and read like Native American.

I lol'd

93 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-27 10:39 ID:Heaven

>>91
It's obvious this guy is a fail troll. I don't know any japanese person who would type "Zapanese", "I'm not a hentai", and other shit in English.

>>92
Me too.

94 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-27 10:40 ID:Heaven

>>93

>It's obvious this guy is a fail troll. I don't know any japanese person who would type "Zapanese", "I'm not a hentai", and other shit in English.

To add on to that. Who cares it's not hurting anybody and this troll knows he is shit at it.

95 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-28 00:06 ID:Heaven

>troll

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

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