っぽいA very large part of Japanese grammar is all about word endings.A very useful word ending for the learner of Japanese is the ending “ppoi” – the p here being repeated to represent a stop, as an English speaker does with the phrase “top p... ...full story at Japan Visitor
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Top 20 Anime Openings and/or Endings (part 3) »
YouTube video As usual, I don't own all of the anime, songs, blah,blah,blah. Enjoy!
List of openings/endings:
Inuyasha op 4
Sailor Moon SuperS ending 2
Tokyo Mew Mew ending
Tokyo Mew Mew op |
| 01 May 08 |
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Japanese Word Endings: ppoi » Japan Visitor っぽいA very large part of Japanese grammar is all about word endings.A very useful word ending for the learner of Japanese is the ending "ppoi"the p here being repeated to represent a stop, as an English speaker doeswith the phrase "top price".ppoi h... |
| 01 May 08 |
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Honorific Prefixes in Japanese » Japan Visitor お／ごLast week we talked about some word endings, which are very important in Japanese.Today, we will look at prefixes, in particular the honorifics "o" and "go."Using the noun fish, a simple example is お魚 (o-sakana). A literal translatio... |
| 11 Aug 08 |
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It ain't too bad being a joshi or a danshi » Japan Times For a long time I couldn't pronounce the word otoko (男, man) without slightly blushing; I didn't much like the word in English either, but in Japanese it sounded a little vulgar and what women of my grandmother's generation would call hashitanai (は... |
| 30 Mar 08 |
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Speaking of the Japanese people » Japan Times Brad Glosserman's March 24 article, "Japan peers into the abyss," was interesting and well written, but the enjoyment I derived from reading it was significantly hampered by the repeated misuse of the word "Japanese." Read the full story . . . |
| 02 Aug 08 |
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Katakana stigmatizes conditions » Japan Times In his July 22 article, "Katakana makes Japanese trendy and accessible," Roger Pulvers notes that "Sometimes a foreign katakana word or phrase enters Japanese to replace a perfectly good native equivalent. This makes something appear more attractive and... |
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