Sunday Music 02

Hm... Since it's later, lets have something more... jazzy...

Changing the Sunday Music to 3 songs. Morning, Afternoon, Night.
Missed afternoon today, but I won't forget next week.

This week's night song is "Feel So Good" sang by Nagi, music written by Supercell
It's from the album "Today is a Beautiful Day"

Supercell is a J-Pop group with 11 members.
Know for: This Album. many many vocaloid songs (Love is war, ect.)
Also Huke, one of the members started the Black Rock Shooter franchise
Ryo composes the music

Ah, I'm getting off topic

Song Via youtube below (not my video)

It may just be my ears, but I would advise turning up the volume a little bit.
Nagi = God Tier Voice

Japanese 101 て form

I'll post the basics later. Right now I'm assuming that all of you understand basic Japanese.
I'll share a japanese lesson every weekend

Now then, て Form. I know that the Japanese have another name for it, but I don't know it.

What is the て form?

It's what is used in commands

Here is how you get to the て form.

Japanese verbs are divided into three categories.

1. Group 1 verbs, such as hanashimasu (話します) - To Speak, or kikimasu (聞きます) - To listen

2. Group 2 verbs, such as tabemasu (食べます) - To Eat, or Mimasu (見ます) - To watch. The difference between G2 and G1 verbs, is that G2 is usually ~imasu (~います) or ~emasu (~えます) as ending.

3. Group 3, the irregular verbs, such as shimasu (します) - To do, or kimasu (きます) - To come

To conjugate a G1 verb into the て form, you must first put it into the dictionary form.

Ex. Take kakimasu (書きます) - To write

To change it into the verb form, simply switch the I to a U.

So the Verb form of kakimasu is kaku (書く)

From there, we can put it into the て form.
書って, which would be "Read" as a command
Kakimasu is "To Write" by the way

To conjugate any G1, you must put it into the dictionary form, then follow this chart:

If it is an ~う, ~つ, ~る (~u, tsu, or ru) -  then it becomes ~って (~tte)

If it is an ~む, ~ぶ, ~ぬ (~mu, bu, nu) - then it becomes ~んで (~nde)

If it is a ~く (~ku)                                 - then it becomes ~いて (~ite)

If it is a ~ぐ (~gu)                           　 - then it becomes ~いで (~ide)

If it is a ~す (~su)　                            - then it becomes ~して (~shite)

So kakimasu (書きます) in dictionary is kaku (書く) which goes into the て form as kite (書って)

Hanashimasu (話します)  > Hanasu (話す) > Hanashite (話して)

ect. ect.

To conjugate a G2, it's really easy.

With every G2, just remove the ます and add て.

Since the dictionary form of every G2 is ~る

Ex. 

(tabemasu ) 食べます to (taberu) 食べる to (tabete) 食べて

(mimasu) 見ます to (miru) 見る to (mite) 見て

G3 are irregular. There is no special rule. You just have to remember them. But hey, it's a lot less then Spanish

shimasu - します (to do ます ) > suru - する (do to, dictionary) > shite -  して (do, command)

kimasu - きます (to wear ます) > kuru -  くる (to wear, dictionary) > kite - きて (wear, command)

(there are more then two, these are just the ones I can think up of off the top of my head)

Eventually if you learn enough words, you can work backwards as well.

Oh yeah, if a word is ~teiru (~ている) or ~teimasu (~ています) it means ~ing

so miteimasu (見ています) is watching, or currently watching in the present tense.
-It's the Gerund form of a verb-

Sunday Music 01

Well, the blog description does say Music in it.
So I've decided to share music with you every Sunday (I hope I don't run out)

This week's morning song is a song called Utsusemi by Akiko Shikata.

 

Album Cover

So I first came across this song at this osu! beatmap. I downloaded it, and god it sounded great.

For those of you who don't know who Akiko Shikata is, she probably best known for singing the OP to Umineko no Naku Koro Ni.

For those of you who don't know what Umineko is, google it.

Her compositions tend to be very complex, with many layers of music.
For someone slightly autistic like me, that is a good thing.

Song Via youtube below (not my video)

And it was also used as the ED in the show "Itsuka Tenma No Kuro Usagi"

I don't know what that show is.

Mahoyo

Released in April I think
Slowpoke.
Patch when?

Oh right... 2015....

Anyway, IF I get a new computer over the summer, I'll to a Translate-As-I-Play and release the notes.
If someone does TL it before, I'll still release mine.

Don't expect anything to great.

I'll make a page for updates

Don't expect any updates until at least mid summer. I'll be in Japan for the beginning of summer.

Wolves? What Wolves?
Left Punches Servants.
Right > Middle

Kanji and TL'ing

Kanji, (漢字) one of the three (four if you count romaji) Japanese written　languages. The others being Hiragana (Japanese words) and Katakana (Foreign words in Japanese).

Now Kanji itself is entirely borrowed from the Chinese language. As if a Japanese Man or Woman were to go to China, they would be able to read everything, and that somewhat goes for a Chinese visiting Japan.


Kanji is very important for TL'ing, since it can help us distinguish words apart.


Here's an example, Take two phrases:
Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon (I'll blog about this later if you want an explanation), and Hitagi Senjougahara


The part we are interested in is the Senjou.
Pasted senjou into EUdict, Here is what I get.


Now that doesn't help me at all.
Kyoukai Senjou Horizon, is "Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere" not "Horizon of the Battle's Boundary" as cool as that sounds.


In order to get a better grasp of what the words mean, we have to look at the Kanji.


Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon - 境界線上のホライゾン
Senjougahara Hitagi - 戦場ヶ原 ひたぎ


To isolate the Senjou's, they are:


戦場 and 線上.


If we paste 戦場 into EUdict, Here is what we get. Battleground
If we paste 線上 into EUdict, Here is the English translation, On the line.


Different words, same pronunciation. That's why Kanji is important.




But wait! Rel! if we paste 上 we get this, and I thought the word for 上 is うえ.
Well, in fact, all of those are correct. In Japanese, every Kanji has multiple readings, meanings, and can change based on the words before and after it.


Small wonder Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn.