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Originally Posted by rayearth
Ok, no hard feelings, maybe I sounded a bit harsh at first (this always happens for some reason...). I didn't mean writing romaji lyrics is bad thing, just that lyrics are actually one of the few things that only those who care to buy the CDs instead of downloading mp3s (once again, not pointing at you, but the you-know-who-you-are masses) would get for their money. Sure, anyone who ripped CD could easily just scan the lyrics booklet and upload it somewhere, but at least the majority of these downloaders still won't understand it.
Either way, I SERIOUSLY suggest you go take a Japanese course or something, perhaps you can find one in university or college. Most lyrics only use a handful of words and kanji, I'd say it only takes 4 courses max (starting from the introductary course) for you to understand 80% of listening to songs (so long as you stay away from the rap-like ones) while it takes less (maybe 2 or 3) if you got the lyrics written out in front of you (meaning you only need to know Hiragana, Katakana and how to use a kanji dictionary).
Yeah, that's what I mean by "english pronounciation".
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As I said, I would, but the nearest place I know of is like... over 50 miles. I don't have the money to take a class... and I don't drive. ~.~ XD ME'S AFRAID OF EVERYONE ON THE ROAD. (Seriously. o.o... I'm not a bad driver, it's THEM.)
And hey, you're the person who is giving the Cycling anime person space for their videos aren't you? That or you just have a link to said person's page. O.o... weird either way. Since I went to that page just last night.
I used to have a computer program that teaches some Japanese -.- course it opts to speak in Japanese the whole time it is doing so. (How the heck is THAT supposed to help?) I'll have to see about getting a better program or something... nothing I can do at the moment but continue the way I currently do things.
My theory has always been 'better something than nothing', so I basically operate on that. Like the lyrics on my site, I listened to the words, wrote them down, went through a dictionary to figure out if they were correct and still came up with some missing words, so I just place what I can't figure out in parenthesis and hope someone will help me. (Although if you look, it's not that much I'm missing.
http://tsubomikoneko.com/lyrics.html I was originally only working on the lyrics for a certain anime but the Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito music just... well got to me. It's rare for music to do that. -.- I still need to figure out the Panyo Panyo Digi Charat opening theme's full lyrics.) Oh and yeah, I own the Panyo Panyo Digi Charat single, got it off Ebay. <.< That's not bad is it?
Anyway... yeah. I'm not like 50 or something yet, so I figure maybe someday I'll be able to learn the Japanese language more. But slowly is better than not at all for me.
And although a tad-bit unconventional... I'm gonna state how I ended up memorizing all of the katakana and hiragana charts at one point... >.< I was trying to translate a Japanese manga called Akuma na Eros... or at least get romaji for it which made no sense but would have helped as a start for a translation. O.o...oooy page by page by page... good way to get those little characters in your head.
XD oh and... I hate that too, the whole english pronounciation thing. It's not nice but I used to get on my friend's case about it so much when we were trying to sing songs together. ~_~ I don't know why, none of them could ever learn songs but I'd end up learning the words in less than a week. XD i'm scary perhaps. I do not use hard 'r' s! XD THEY ARE THE DEVIL! I know there are other things involved in that, but that was always the one that ticked me off the most. I've been singing Japanese songs for about 5 years now and have never had any complaints. ^.^ I had a Japanese friend who was singing a Sailor Moon song with me once and she never said anything XDDD and then the other Japanese student in my class (god Choir in 9th grade was cool. I miss high school.) ended up complimenting me on my pronounciation after I had gotten done practicing a song for the talent show we were having. I thought it was so cool. Still do obviously like 5 years after OY! >.< Me shut up and go away now.