Today I started studying Japanese together with a friend. We both had studied separately and decided to brush up on our japanese.
In addition to going through my beginner textbook, Japanese for Busy People, I decided that I would augment my studying by watching excessive amounts of anime, listening really carefully to the dialog and taking notes.
Today is the first day of my notes so I don’t know how the format will turn out but hopefully I get this down to something practical.
One of my goals in doing this is to track my progress as well as having a set of notes to look back on
Today’s vocabulary list comes from an anime called Magi
| What I thought I heard | What I really heard | Meaning |
|
tatoe tatoeba |
tatoe (たとえ) tatoeba (たとえば) |
Tatoe means "however", "example". The expression tatoeba means "for example" |
| tonikaku |
tonikaku とにかく |
Anyway generally speaking |
|
soueba? soyeba? |
soieba そういえば |
Come to think of it... Now that you mention it... |
| nanda koko wa |
nanda koko wa なんだここは |
Nanda is an interjection meaning "what" |
| hachimitsu |
hachimitsu はちみつ |
Honey Note: Hachi (はち) means bee. Mitsu (みつ) means nectar. |
| Koko ni iru wa zenbu Toran no muran ningen tachi sa |
Koko ni iru wa zenbu Toran no munou ningen tachi sa ここにいるはぜんぶToranのむのうにんげんたちさ |
Here are all the incompetent humans of Toran |
| Nante hidoi koto |
Nante hidoi koto なんてひどいこと |
How cruel (koto - matter, thing or event) |
| Boku ni mo wakaranai | Boku ni mo wakaranai |
I don't understand either (to me, I also don't undertand) |
|
ochitsuke ochitsuite |
ochitsuke (おちつけ) ochitsuite (おちついて) |
ochitsukeru (おちつける) - to quiet / to calm down I believe ochitsuite is the て form of ochitsukeru |
| Hitotsu onegai da |
Hitotsu onegai da ひとつおねがいだ |
One request Hitotsu means "one" Onegai used as a noun means "request" |