2007-10-24, 22:35 | Link #1061 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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This is probably your best source for Shinto (wasn't able to find much online in the way of romanized prayer) .... You might hit the religious section of the bookstore and look for Shinto or Buddhist chants ... or ask at your local buddhist temple for some phonetic scripts (tell them its for class).
http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/index.htm The last link may be a good jumping point to find a prayer or chant. Item: Shinto Norito: A Book of Prayers Author: Introduction and translation by Ann Llewellyn Evans; foreword by Yukitaka Yamamoto Price: CDN $25.00 Publisher: Tenchi Press/Trafford Publishing
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2007-10-25, 05:34 | Link #1062 |
Clannad Preacher
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In my fantasy dreamworld called Clannad
Age: 30
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thanks for the links
i need some help with the language bar. i have XP SP 2, and i have the button(s) for the language bar clicked- but no language bar. i right clicked my taskbar and looked at the possible toolbars, but the language bar wouldnt show up. also, 90% of the time, it wont type in japanese for anything out of word processor when i do ctrl+shift+2 (what i have it set to change to japanese.) can anybody help me get the bar working?
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2007-10-25, 05:50 | Link #1063 |
Dansa med oss
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Near Cincinnati, OH, but actually in Kentucky
Age: 36
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It does this for me sometimes, too. I eventually gave up maintaining the language bar and i now switch to hiragana input by means of left alt+shift to go to Japanese and then left alt+~ to switch input modes. I think you might be skipping that second step.
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2007-10-25, 11:14 | Link #1064 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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In both Win2K and in XP, the language bar is both flaky and refuses to retain the settings I give it. Great idea, but they simply didn't finish the thing.
If someone has any clues on how to get the damned function to remember that I want to have it default to hiragana+no_conversion, I'd be appreciative.
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2007-10-25, 11:36 | Link #1065 |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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The 米 of 米国 comes from the phonetic kanji used for America in the Edo/Meiji era: 亜米利加. (Western placenames had their names transliterated into kanji, and usually the first character was used as a shorthand for it, hence 英吉利(Igirisu, England) became 英国. In the case of America, 亜 was already used for 亜細亜 Asia, so the second character was used. These have almost all fallen out of common use, replaced by katakana.)
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2007-10-25, 15:21 | Link #1066 | |
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The thing would be much easier if it had any sort of documentation somewhere, but I never found it.
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2007-10-25, 18:34 | Link #1067 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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aye, I figured out the 'per-program' issue... but every time I start it up after closing it, it has forgotten all my preferences. There may be a registry ick that can be twiddled.... but like you say, no docs.
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2007-11-01, 06:14 | Link #1068 |
Clannad Preacher
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In my fantasy dreamworld called Clannad
Age: 30
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benefit 1 to knowing japanese- telling your teachers "watashi no baka" means "i am smart' :P
little update for me, havent been able to study much because of school, but my times freeing up so ill get off my lazy behind and start learning katakana.
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2007-11-01, 06:35 | Link #1069 |
Evil Little Pixie
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I've discovered a great way to increase Japanese reading speed -- Japanese karaoke!!! It's a real challenge for me to be able to read fast enough to sing any normal to high-speed songs, but it's fun and I'm finding that I'm slowly getting faster and faster at it.
(...Of course, I've also gotten better at finding and picking the songs despite the massive amounts of kanjified names. I can find and select at least five songs in under thirty seconds now... And I usually do. ) |
2007-11-02, 09:37 | Link #1071 |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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ouuu okay kewl..this may help me too.and i was wondering if there is anyone who knows fluently in jap or is japanese..can u please help me translate this in english?thanks.
aisaretai demo aisou to shinai??? what does that mean in english? hopefully its nothing silly or funni =D |
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