Language @4-ch

Bonjour! I learned that in French they avoir un espace avant les signes de ponctuation, I was wondering if the last word came at the end of a line, would the punctuation mark come onto the next line or would you put the word with the question mark together on the next line? C'est pour un ami. Merci!

Do this :

this is the end of the sentence !

Don't do this :

this is the end of the sentence
!

And if the first choice isn't possible then

Do this :

this is the end of the
sentence !

They also put spaces around their « quotation marks » , which looks somewhat offputting.

>>3 Merci beaucoup pour your help, I managed to find l'answer for the game I was working on in 2019! Je aussi had to look up >>4 back then so merci for your advice too!

Don't they follow that weird rule of spacing before the punctuation like this !

>>6 Yes that was the entire point of the thread, whether to use a non-breaking space there

Allright, im only taking half a year of japanese, which is extremly fun and rather easy (realitivly easy) but when im done with this year i wish to progress, so far we are at quarter, and we've learned the basics of Hiragana, weve brushed a bit on kanji charecters, and ive studied them a bit on my own time (i plan on taking japanese in college, so next fall =/ Anywhos, would the lessons on about.com work well? they seem to follow the order of learning simple stuff then applying the simple stuff to harder sentances and such.

The thing that I find hard is translation part, I can remeber simple phrases and such, "Kon-nichiwa, hajime mashite?" But how do they translate over to english, like notebook = NOOTO, but how would you go around translating the japenese charecters to make sence in english...seems like a daunting task =/

also my teacher is a faggot and wont let me get an A in the class, its stayed at a B+ 89% for this entire year T___T

oh, almost forgot, my teacher just says, THATS HOW IT WORKS IN JAPANESE, without any explanation on why it works that way or how it got that way

I like to think of different languages, especially Japanese and English, in terms of races in Starcraft. The overall purpose is the same (in this case, communication), but the more you try to break it down into individual units, the less similar they are. There's really not a one-to-one conversion for every word, since some things cover more than one word (or fractions of one) when translated. You just sort of have to work with what's there. Expose yourself to the language as much as you can...that's how you learned your first language, with all its inconsistencies.

And get both hiragana and katakana deeply engraved into your brain as soon as you can. The more they're reflexes to you, the better off you'll be. Do not, under any circumstances, put it off. Trust me.

Also, see if you can find some good japanese learning books and other resources on the internets. About.com is okay, but there's a lot of better stuff. In any case, having the same thing explained a few different ways will help you learn it from a more round perspective.

Find people to practice with. Preferably including at least one native speaker.

allright, thanks for responding, ive got a few sources, and i figure i can just use skype or some shit to find a actual native speaker...i do know a girl who goes to japan every now and then (shes got grand-parents down that way) and she can speak it rather well....also that Starcraft simile works great, that cleared up some confusion, thanks!

I learn Japanese with a friend from Japan, he constantly corrected me that I even thought that I could not learn the language. Hiroghama is a easy in comparison with many spelling words. Once he was so indignant that he gave me a laser engraved with hirogam !!! It's in my head that he settles that he ordered the engraving of these guys https://polarengraving.com/ just because he's sick of my disgusting reading and pronunciation.

Watch anime with subtitres it helps

watch arime* wirrf* subtitres it herrps*

Watch Arniemay. Get to the chopper ahhahaahahahhahahahahahahaha

who needs books or listening to more correct use of the language in conversations when ive got anime B)

Is there anybody who learns or knows Dutch? If there is, I'll be joyful to understand why he/she studies so unpopular tongue.

Why unpopular?
I'm learning it because just because it's nice :-)

>tongue

The dutch people will speak to you in english even if you know the language

>>6
See also: Literally every other non-natively English speaking European people that have lost their internal sense of identity under the locus of the Eternal Anglo's transnational melting pot.

v: redness

When I went to the Netherlands, if we asked a local for help they'd say "Are you English?" and when we say "no no we're Scottish" they'd totally change, all smiles and say "Ah, okay then, welcome, how can I help you?". This also happened to me in France and Spain

dus zijn er hier nog wat verdwaalde nederlanders?

"Learning these 9 languages could lead to higher-paying jobs in Britain" "9 languages which will help you earn more in Britain" German, Arabic, French, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Mandarin Chinese. http://uk.businessinsider.com/9-languages-which-will-help-you-earn-more-in-britain-2016-9

it takes a lot of time though..

"though" (O.O)

>>1

>Britain
>Arabic
>Spanish
>Chinese

the absolute state of britbongistan~