Do Japanese have a problem with us?

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Originally Posted by HFX7686

You can use Google translate to translate web pages as well. It works with the Japanese parts of this forum.

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Wow, very cool ^^ I'll have to try that :) Thanks
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Uwa ̄ , hijō ni kūru! Watashi wa tameshite mite yo. Arigatō :D

/Kingfury prays this is the real thing lol ><;

Not really. It can usually give you a rough idea of what someone says, but you definitely do not want to use it to speak to someone.

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Originally Posted by rog

Not really. It can usually give you a rough idea of what someone says, but you definitely do not want to use it to speak to someone.

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Yes, as Rog says, you can read but I wouldn't try replying.

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Originally Posted by rog

Not really. It can usually give you a rough idea of what someone says, but you definitely do not want to use it to speak to someone.

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Aww man :( Understood, but what of the example in my above post? How accurate was that translation? The one about taking turns.

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Originally Posted by kingfury

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Aww man :( Understood, but what of the example in my above post? How accurate was that translation? The one about taking turns.

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Not very, to my knowledge.

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Originally Posted by rog

Not very, to my knowledge.

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Could you provide the proper translation, or another source similar to Google Translate? ^^

Uh, maybe 順番ですよ ? That should get the idea across, but there is probably a better way to say it. I am not very good with japanese.

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Originally Posted by rog

Uh, maybe 順番ですよ ? That should get the idea across, but there is probably a better way to say it. I am not very good with japanese.

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/stagger ^^; Well I don't have a kenji Keyboard so I would need the translation in phonetic terms. :)

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Originally Posted by rog

Uh, maybe 順番ですよ ? That should get the idea across, but there is probably a better way to say it. I am not very good with japanese.

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pluging 順番ですよ ? into Google translate yields, "It is the order?" o.^

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Aww man :( Understood, but what of the example in my above post? How accurate was that translation? The one about taking turns.

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Sorry for mostly romanji, but I don't have japanese text on this comp atm (rebuilt awhile back got lazy getting reinstalling some stuff).

The correct phrase for taking turns is kōtai de suru or: 交代でする

So if you want to be polite you can say something like,

Sumimasen, NM [or ??? or w/e you want for taking turns, for the most part they know what NM means, and if they don't they can easily tell by the rest of the sentence] ga koutai de surimasuka?

Or more proper: Sumimasen, watashitachi wa NM o koutai de surimasuka?

Though you can probably drop the implied "we" (watashitachi) bit as that feels a little "booky".


[edit] just for future reference if you see the lines across a vowel that just means an extension of that vowel sound (as in the "o" in "kōtai") if you can't type that however you can ad a "u" after the vowel to meant the same thing. so koutai = kōtai