Japanese 101 - Counters - Part I

Counters, they can be very useful in Japanese.
They can make your Japanese sound more natural.
They are also, not that difficult.
I'd go as far as to say the hardest part of Japanese isn't the grammar, but all the Kanji.

This will be lengthy, so I'll split it up.

General Counters
Each one, is "# Thing"

One thing - ひとつ - (一つ)
Two things - ふたつ - (二つ)
Three things - みっつ - (三つ)
Four things - よっつ - (四つ)
Five things - いつつ - (五つ)
Six things - むっつ - (六つ)
Seven things - ななつ - (七つ)
Eight things - やっつ - (八つ)
Nine things - ここのつ - (九つ)
Ten things - とうつ - (十つ)

After ten, you can just use normal numbers ~つ, this goes for any counter.
Unless stated to use normal numbers, or their own special (like below), it follows the numbering pattern of the general counters

The Counters for people is ひと, 人
You only have to use special numbers for the first two, then normal numbers ~ひと for the rest.

One person - ひとり - (一人)
Two People - ふたり - (二人)

The counters for cups and machines use normal numbers
Machines can be, computers, phones, ect. ect.

Machines: ~だい
Cups: ~ばい

Sunday Music 12

The song to start off the day will be,
Nephilim, by Abingdon Boys School.
Used as the Ending Theme of Folklore

Song came out in 2007.
Must of you probably know ABS from Soul Eater, D.Grey-Man, or Darker the Black

Song via youtube below (Not mine):
It's not the... Best quality video...
240p...

Horizon II PV

(Not my Video)

Hm... I never noticed that scar before.
I wonder how he got it.

30 Days left

Happy June everyone.

Just to remind you all, on July 1st most major American ISP's will start policing internet for illegal downloads.

The RIAA seems to want to create a cartel to control the internet, because the US government won't do it for them.

皆さん、気をつけて.

This better get to the supreme court.

Silver Rain

So, today I'd like to direct your attention to something called "Silver Rain".
This is purely interest, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Japanese.

This is a webgame, illustrated by  Koyama Hirokazu from TYPE-MOON.

Link to page here: http://t-walker.jp/sr/
Click on "ゲームを始める" (Start game) to get to the game.

After that, click on , to get to the character creation screen.
You're on your own after that.

This has too many words for my own liking.