Any question?
I'm wondering about the use of 半 and especially 半芸, seen in expressions/names like 半農半芸, 半林半芸, or 半工半芸. I'm guessing the meaning is similar to 半醒半睡 (half awake and half asleep), but idiomatic.
The specific sentences I'm trying to understand are:「当該スレの職人たちにリスペクトを。おいらではその半芸にもいたりませんでした。」
What would 半芸 refer to in that context?
I can't read this:
http://kei.iichan.net/sand/src/1243353558380.png
Is it "くこどんろーの計かな？"?
>>425
That looks about right, any chance someone could help me out with this phrase?
変人同士
if the context helps, it's a scene between members of the genshiken, refering to the relationship between sasahara and ogiue.
>>426
Thanks, but what does it mean?
What's a "くこどんろー"?
>駆虎呑狼の計（くこどんろうのけい）
>魏の参謀である荀イクが考案した計略で劉備と呂布との仲を絶つ為に「二虎競食の計」に続いて曹操に献策した。
>>423
Bump for an answer to this. Could the sentences be translated as "Respect to the artists in the thread about this. I'm not even half as good as them."
That is, can 半芸 be read simply as "half as artistic/skilled"?
>>431
半芸 is a little strange word.
But given the context, I'm pretty sure your guessing is right.
I think he was overwhelmed by the skills of other artists, and admitted their works were much grater than his.
半農半芸, 半林半芸,半醒半睡 are also unfamiliar words.
∧＿∧ In this thread, you can talk English with each other.
( ・ω・) Let's drink tea together and chat about this and that.
（つ旦0 Ramble, communicate, have fun!
と＿)__) The native speakers will bring the cookies.
>>435
As the blog's entry said, they are taking preventive measures against minors' tabaco purchase, but I never heard of any equivalent stories about vending machines that sell beer and other alchol.
Sad incidents are happening around Japan regarding the introduction of Taspo, age-verification cards. As the blog entry says, vending machines with the face recognition function is very rare now, so Taspo card is the only measure to prevent minors from buying cigaret on vending machines. All vending machines except the ones with face recognition system have Taspo reader. The problem is that the regstration for a Taspo card is bothersome, which includes filing out a form.
So not many smokers have made their own Taspo card. That means they buy cigarret at a convenient store. Small mom-and-pop stores that sell cigarret rely their sales on from vending machine so lots of these small business are going bankrupcy.
>>436
I think it's unfortunate that the Japanese life is "too busy" to fill out a form, even if it means more convenient access to things they would buy anyway. And it is good morals to support independent stores.
You not only have to fill out a form but also you have to take it with your ID such as a driver's liscence to somewhere to get
a Taspo card for vending machine perchase.
I'm a smoker myself (not smoke much) but I don't know where I have to bring the form to to get a Taspo card and where I can get a form for that matter. Maybe because I'm always thinking about quit smoking so I don't care about gettind my Taspo card much. Convenience stores are everywhere so you can buy cigarett even if you don't have your Taspo card.
Maybe I should start a new thread for this? I have been interested to know good Japanese movies. I have a cult bias. I watched "Blue Spring" ("Aoi haru") this weekend, and I thought it was very interesting. I'm also looking into getting Wild Zero. Does anyone else have any recommendations?
>>439
Have you watched Pornostar? It's the first film by the director of Blue Spring. It has plenty of flaws, but I think in some ways that makes it more interesting to watch, and the good stuff about it is really very good.
If you're into these kind of movies one thing I'd really like to recommend is going through Tsukamoto Shinya's filmography (from Tetsuo to Viral, anway). It's fascinating to watch the way his style and themes develop and change, maybe more so than with any other director I've come across. If you'd rather not focus on one director like that you should at least watch Tetsuo, if you haven't already.
I could go on forever recommending stuff really, but to mention just a few across a bit of a range, there's Electric Dragon 80,000 V, Miike Takashi's Graveyard of Honour (the original is pretty good too, but Miike's is amazing), Ranpo Noir, Branded to Kill, and Tsuito no Zawameki. I don't know if you'll get that last one without spending a lot or using Share but it's more than worth a try.
Since we're talking about movies at the moment, anybody know of a good martial arts film that doesn't include the silly over-the-top flying leaps (a la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)?
Many girls all over the world today see Korean guys as romantic, manly, smart, and sexy.
Sure, that's all perfectly correct.
Korean guys treat girls gently and nicely, meaning they are romantic.
Korean guys go through a hard-studying experience, meaning they are quite smart.
Korean guys train themselves both mentally and phisically, meaning they are manly and sexy.
Those elements of Korean guys are appealing to girls all around the world.
In addition, Korean guys are enjoying their popularity thanks to Korean Wave.
Korean Wave gives girls all over the world a chance to see Korean guys on TV and the Internet.
Those girls started to worship Korean guys since the Wave caught attention from the world media.
Now quite a number of girls are dreaming of finding a Korean guy as their boyfriend/husband.
We have to admit that Korean guys are most competitive under the current circumstance everywhere in this world.
We should be proud of it!! :)
Can I ask a question here?
I wanna post about a regulation is discussing in Japan on Wakachan.
It's concerned with Anime, Manga and so on.
Which board should I post this regulation on?
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あけおめ
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depopulating notice board?
記念しよう
記念だ！
難しいだけど、頑張ります。
日本の外来語はスイーツやシューズのようにちゃんと複数形になっているものと、
コミックやフードのように本来複数形で用いるべきなのに単数形になっているものとが、渾然一体となっているけど、これは外国人の目にはどう映るのだろう？
ぼくは日本人なんだけど逆に質問です
ネイティブのアメリカ人のチャットの会話で
「hello hi are you」っていう挨拶を見たんですけど
これはわざと言っているんですか？流行語？
>>64
ただのタイプミスじゃないだろうか
このスレの外国人の人たちは日本のどういうものに興味があり、
どんな情報を知りたいのかな？
Learn Japanese
金玉儿は外人っぽい気がする
日本人は自国語について深く考えない
つーかもしそうなら上手いな日本語
難しいですね
manga anime...
i can speak english a little.
Yo, so your a Japanese Otaku eh.
I am currently learning your language.
It is very difficult and I feel like a snail right now.
Oh and don't listen to what these guys say about otaku's being a loser. I'm a average otaku myself.
What I would define as a loser might be the NEETs who stay at home and do nothing to contribute to society.
hi there
any japanese are not here?
i have some question
>>16
The worst chan site in existence
>>17
You call yourself "otaku" without being Japanese, making you look retarded, and then call NEETs losers, while most of them are more closely connected to Japan than you? derp
>>20
I am not completely Japanese, but I have some of their blood in me. I'm mostly Chinese though. I'm sorry if I sounded harsh on the NEETs, but I its just what I think of them. I'm very open to any opposition who proves otherwise that NEETs have more contribution to society. As I said before, my definition for what I would think are losers (might) be the NEETs. I'm not certain. If my accusation offends you 20, then I would take my words back.
However, lets stop talking about depression stuff and focus on what this thread was originally about: communicating with real Japanese people.
I actually have a question for a Japanese native,
I want to know more about how the Japanese view otaku, NEETs, and Hikimoris.>>22
What is your obsension with "contribution to society"? You only live once, why waste it "contributing" when you can do what you want? Sure, that can be "contribution to society", but "contributors" always complain that others aren't "contributing".
I'm also not offended by your accusation, I'm merely dissapointed by the fact that one persons' truth should be another persons' truth.
I'm more dissapointed by the fact that you appear to be overly joyed and love to circle jerk over your "small amount of Japanese blood". Maybe you think that makes you look more knowledgeable towards other people about the subject called Japan, but all it mainly does is make you look like a little child from gaia or some other random anime forum who whishes to be Japanese.
About you wanting to know more about how the Japanese view otaku, NEETs and hikikomoris, maybe you should look up some actual literature about them. It might actually give you a little bit of insight into the world of otaku and hikikomoris, since you can only find these in Japan. Way to be interested in something but being too lazy and stupid to look for it yourself.
>>23
Ok so I may sound arrogant, and a Japanese wanna be but at heart I do love their culture. Me being asian doesn't qualify me over anyone else who takes interest in their culture.I admit that I love both anime and japanese video games. Which I think qualifies anybody to be a otaku, even though I'm not Japanese. It's just a simpler way of categorizing.
It would seem that the op who started this has ceased to keep this post up.
So I see no reason to continue this.
Again I apologize for the way I may sound to you but its just my opinion, nothing more.
Otaku is just a word. As much as I think non-Japanese who call themselves otaku are faggots (even Japanese who call themselves otaku, it's like a white person calling himself a nerd), it's still just a word. Bag or コバン、it's the same thing. It's just the Japanese word for something we know in our own culture already.
I started learning Japanese three years ago, but I was forced to stop after two months. Now I want to try again; what resources should I use? I still remember some basics, I'm pretty confident with kana, and know some basic kanji, but I wouldn't mind starting from scratch. Some exercises to revise the material would be nice, too.
Kanjidicks and Tae Kim's grammar guide. Damn web 2.0 bullshit everywhere.
there are no way to get skills easily..
i say myself everyday.
頑張ってね☆
自分を売る
>>1
日本の聡を曝すな
Hello, I am English speaker. I noticed in this board there's many japanese people. Why do japanese people browse 4-ch? I thought 2-ch.net was popular in japan. If I knew japanese I would be browsing 2-ch because there's so many posters. 4-ch is slower. I'm curious, why post here?
Some of them are probably trolls who've been IP banned from 2ch.
なんでこうなるの？Please translation.>>2-10
2006.09.07
■ イラクのフセイン元大統領が米同時多発テロに直接関与していたと思うかとの質問に対しては、「思う」が４３％
http://www.cnn.co.jp/usa/CNN200609070002.html
(cache)http://megalodon.jp/?url=http://www.cnn.co.jp/usa/CNN200609070002.html&date=20060912165222 (EUC-JP)
http://sports2.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/iraq/1146841615/128
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むかしのnews
2004/06/17
『イラク関与の証拠ない 同時テロで調査報告書』
http://sports2.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/iraq/1055666940/436-437
(cache)http://megalodon.jp/?url=http://sports2.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/iraq/1055666940/436-437&date=20061026221212
ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙早版ヘッドライン（4日付）
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090304-00000070-reu-int
★米サブプライム問題の発火点の一つとなったカントリーワイド・フィナンシャルの元幹部ら、破たんした銀行から
政府が引き取った住宅ローンを格安で買い取り、巨額の利益獲得を狙う。「放火した家から残骸をかき集め、売りさばく
ような行為」との批判も。
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米兵の婦女暴行事件、被害者が証言撤回 フィリピン
http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0323/TKY200903230335.html
2009年3月23日23時36分
【マニラ＝松井健】フィリピンで０５年に起きた米海兵隊員による婦女暴行事件で、被害にあったとされるフィリピン人
女性が証言を事実上撤回し、波紋を広げている。この事件を機に身柄引き渡しをめぐる米軍地位協定の見直し論が起きて
いただけに、論議の行方に影響を与えそうだ。
地元メディアがニコールと呼ぶ女性は０５年１１月、ルソン島に合同軍事演習に来ていた米海兵隊員に暴行されたと訴え、
地裁は０６年１２月に最長禁固４０年の判決を出した。「合意の上」と主張する米兵は控訴し、審理が続いている。
ところが、ニコールが婦女暴行だったことを撤回するような内容の宣誓供述書を提出し、米兵から１０万ペソ（約２１万円）
の示談金を受け取ったうえ、渡米していたことが１７日に明らかになった。
イスラエルでグリーンラインを教科書で教えていないと言うのは本当ですか?
↓グリーンライン入り地図
http://www.news.janjan.jp/world/0612/0612307364/img/photo10.jpg
＜米財政赤字＞過去最悪９６兆円…０９会計年度上半期
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090411-00000028-mai-bus_all
【ワシントン斉藤信宏】米財務省は１０日、０９会計年度（０８年１０月〜０９年９月）上半期６カ月間の財政赤字の
合計が９５６７億９９００万ドル（約９６兆円）にのぼり、過去最悪を記録したと発表した。赤字幅は昨年度上半期比で
約３倍となった。景気対策で大幅に支出が膨らむ一方で、景気悪化に伴う税収の落ち込みが続き、財政の悪化に歯止めが
かからなくなっていることを裏付けた。
財務省によると、３月の財政赤字は１９２２億７３００万ドルで、前年同月比約４倍に膨らんだ。
３月の歳出は同４１．５％増の３２１２億３０００万ドル、歳入は同２７．９％減の１２８９億５７００万ドルだった。
オバマ米大統領は、２月に議会に提出した１０会計年度の予算教書の中で、０９年度の財政赤字について、米国の
国内総生産（ＧＤＰ）比で１２．３％にあたる１兆７５２０億ドル規模に達するとの見通しを示している。しかし、
＜イラク＞米軍基地で兵士が発砲、同僚５人死亡
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090512-00000015-mai-int
【カイロ支局】イラク・バグダッドの米軍基地で１１日、米兵１人が他の米兵に発砲し、５人が死亡した。
ＡＰ通信などが米軍当局者の話として報じた。
現場は、バグダッド国際空港そばにある「キャンプ・リバティー」で、同日午後２時ごろに起きたとみられる。
容疑者の兵士は身柄を拘束されたという。動機など詳細は不明。
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