User talk:Shinjitsu

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Good luck! --Panic 22:58, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you! --Shinjitsu 09:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Kana Lessons
The reasons I removed the links is that they fit the scope of wikiversity better and indeed the kana page on wikiversity does include links to the various games.--Balloonguy 19:34, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Mini-tutorial lesson
Hi! Thank you so much for your work on the mini-lesson. I am trying to learn Japanese but had trouble because what I was given from my teacher was all in Roma n ji. You will never know how much I really appreciate your efforts. Is Japanese your mother tongue?

Just curious, how many languages do you know?

Best regards, Iman
 * Hi Iman,
 * First of all, no problem at all, daijoubu desu! It's kind of fun doing it and I can also repeat some of the old material. Secondly, this needs to be said, it is not Romanji, but rōmaji. You are not the first one, in fact this is a common mistake that I see all over the internet, unfortunately. So, from now on, please write rōmaji or roomaji (in kana: ローマじ, see, there is no n!). If you do want to use a western word, then it's "romanization".
 * But, I pretent to know it all, I have to be honoust with you, Japanese is not my mother tongue, and I don't even speak it fluently. I do have a Japanese girlfriend and have been studying Japanese for a couple of years now. I saw the effort to make some mini tutorial here in WikiBooks, but also noticed that besides the difficult to read layout, that there were many mistakes. So my hands began to itch... ;-)
 * Anyway, Nihongo o ganbatte! Good luck! (Btw, my mother tongue is Dutch, so I might make some mistakes in English sometimes). Shinjitsu 19:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * P.S.: If you need some tips as how to write Japanese on WikiBooks, read this: Contributor's_Guide

Oh, btw, I also have a question for you. Did you write this sentence: "Oaidekite arigataku omoimasu."??? I was really curious where you got that from. I found it a strange sentence and spoke about this with my girlfriend. She laughed and actually said this is the kind of Japanese that a peasant would use to the Shōgun in the Shogunate era... Haha... So I am rather curious where on earth you picked it up! Btw, I removed the sentence and replaced it with "Douzo yoroshiku o-negai shimasu". Much easier and definately much more common. Regards! Shinjitsu 19:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Shinjitsu, ben je ernstig? Ik heb nooit dat geweten! Dat past aan erg goed! Ik spreek maar 'n klein beetje Nederlands hoewel ben ik geen Nederlander. Ik ben van Hong Kong afkomst maar sedert 2002 heb ik in Amerika gewoont... ja! Waar kom jij vandaan in Nederland?


 * umm... ten opzichte van "Oaidekite arigataku omoimasu", ik denk dat de oorspronkelijke uitdrukking was "Oaidekite ureshi desu"... het is mogelijk dat 'n fout was gemaakt, maar ben ik zeker dat "Oaidekite ureshi desu" is niet verkeerd...


 * Mooi blijf!
 * Iman


 * Wow, careful with those on-line translators! ;-) They do generate a bunch of nonsense too! I think I do understand though. I'll better answer in English...
 * Hong Kong is cool. Have been there many times and I love it there! Especially the food! Oishii desu ne! Where I am from? I am from the city of Maastricht (in the south, close to Belgium and Germany), but now I live about 30 km west of Amsterdam. How come you learned (some) Dutch?
 * Oh, btw, why don't you create an account with Wikibooks? It's easy, it's free... Regards, 真実 - Shinjitsu To my Talk page! 06:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I was wondering did the Dutch make sense to you? I did not really use a translator but I am still an amateur in Dutch. Hope that didn't bother you too much! I learned Dutch primarily from my friend who lived in the Netherlands in Venlo but is now in America.
 * I am going to create an account right after this post, my account name will be Iman0613.


 * Haha, no man, it didn't bother me at all. It was just funny, because it looks exactly as if you had run it through an on-line translator... Sorry, I hope I didn't offend you with this? I did understand it, but it is really a "weird" Dutch. Especially the "Mooi blijf!" Where did you get that? Literally it means "Nice, stay!" (like talking to a dog, haha!, don't worry, I am not offended). Anyway, your Dutch is still a lot better than my Cantonese! ;-)
 * What does the 0613 stand for in your account name??? Btw, you can sign your messages with ~ (or simply click the signature button above the text block). It automatically generates your account name and the date and time of the post... In the preferences you can change the format of your name, as I have done, to make it look nicer and more "professional" (I've already been around on Wikipedia (under a different name) for a while). Regards, 真実 - Shinjitsu To my Talk page! 06:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your uitlegging! About the mooi blijf, my Afrikaner friend always signs off with mooi bly meaning stay nice, so I thought this also applies in Dutch... now I see that Afrikaans have diverged quite a bit from Dutch since the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie first landed in Zuid-Afrika!
 * the 0613 in my username stands for my birthday, which is June 13. About the "Oaidekite arigataku omoimasu", I had first put down "Oaidekite ureshi desu" originally, but I think that the latter is more correct than the former. I can try to help with your Cantonese if you want though!
 * Sorry to get completely off-topic on the Japanese wikibook deelpagina, but would you mind suggesting me what my message in Dutch would have looked like if it is in good Dutch? I would appreciate it a lot! :)
 * Have a nice day! Iman0613 16:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, now I see. Yes, "Afrikaans" (as it is called) is a bit different from Dutch, but as long as they (and us) speak slowly, we can understand eachother for about 80-90%. I've been to South Africa a couple of times, but usually help myself with English. They speak too fast in Afrikaans to really understand it fully. Reading Afrikaans is no problem, that is 99% understandable. Just looks funny to us Dutchies.
 * I would love to speak Mandarin (instead of Cantonese), but I am already too busy with Japanese to learn more languages. Also Russian is still on my list. I need to live 300 years to do everything I want in my life! ;-)
 * Oaidekite ureshii desu is still very formal (I believe ureshii is with two i's in this case). Not bad, but it's a lot more easy to say "(Douzo) yoroshiku onegai shimasu." This sure is formal enough and easier to pronounce and remember. Almost every Japanese schoolbook/course uses this phrase, so as they say, "do as the Romans do".
 * About the Dutch part you wrote, you want me to write it in good Dutch. Okay:
 * Shinjitsu, meen je dat serieus? Ik heb nooit dat geweten! (Grammatically correct, but in this case better: Dat wist ik niet!) Je past je goed aan! Ik spreek maar 'n klein beetje Nederlands hoewel ik geen Nederlander ben. Ik kom uit Hongkong, maar woon sinds 2002 in Amerika... Ja! Waar kom jij vandaan in Nederland?
 * Umm... Met betrekking tot "Oaidekite arigataku omoimasu": ik denk dat de oorspronkelijke uitdrukking "Oaidekite ureshii desu" was... het is mogelijk dat 'n fout was gemaakt, maar ik ben er zeker van dat "Oaidekite ureshii desu" niet verkeerd is...
 * Groeten! (->This is quite informal, like English: "Regards!" It's okay to fellow Wikipedians (Wikibookians?) for example. If you want to be more formal, write: "Met vriendelijke groet, Iman" This is similar to "Yours sincerely, Iman".)
 * Iman
 * Something like that... Groeten! 真実 - Shinjitsu To my Talk page! 16:38, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Wikibook discussion
Hi Shinjitsu,

I just added a comment on Talk:Japanese which I wanted to draw your attention to as you've been involved in this book. --Swift (talk) 14:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery late reaction (year and half, mwoah...), but I haven't been active here anymore. Was very busy having a kid in 2008. That absorbs quite a lot of time (and money I might add to that!). Anyway, I agree it was quite a mess back then. Don't know what came out of it now, will have a look at it later (in another year and a half? ;-) ). Regards, 真実 - Shinjitsu To my Talk page! 01:42, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * No worries, and congratulations on having had a child! For catching up on the latest developments, you can read the introduction or the talk page. In a nutshell, the book went from being an attempt at a linear course to a collection of modules. These were categorised on the contents page and duplicate topics were merged. A whole truckload of pages were subsequently deleted. Not much is happening right now. --Swift (talk) 14:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)