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スペイン語のggrksの歌詞がすごくラテン仕様になってて面白かったので、日本語に訳してみました。さすがラテン男子は肉食系。

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"Thank you so far" means "We don't need you any more".
Oh, you think I get something wrong? Yes, I know it sounds so weird. But there is some expressions like that in Japanese because Japanese prefer a vague, evasive and noncommittal expression to a straight expression. I think it's a great annoyance for non-native people...

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Kimono, which are the traditional clothes of Japan, have only one pattern. In other words, kimono don't have any other patterns like a sleeveless one, a half sleeved one,  a knee‐length one. But you know Japan has four seasons. Summer is hot and damp, winter is cold. Do you think how Japanese stay on kimono with such different seasons?

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I've heard onomatopoeic words(擬音語) and mimetic words(擬態語) are hard to understand for non-native speakers of Japanese. But mangas are always filled by these kinds of words.

つるつるの肌(tsurutsuru no hada) ; a smooth skin
がさがさの肌(gasagasa no hada) ; a chapped skin
よぼよぼの肌(yoboyobo no hada) ; an aging skin
These green words are onomatopoeic words.

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*First of all* I don't translate literally, I try to take more natural expressions for Japanese or English.

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I got a mail from a friend, and it was written a interesting thing.

By the way, have you seen those Oyabun sketches Himaruya posted on his blog? He seems to be selling the third volume, doesn't he? The question is: How did Japanese fans react to this? The Western Fandom finds this very hilarious and people now call him salesman. I'd like to see ( Read more... )

I told you Japanese has many words of the first person, and each of them sound different on Boyish? Girlish?.
俺(ore) and 僕(boku) sound manly (or boyish), and 私(watashi) sounds womanly(or girlish).

In this way, Japanese has many ways of expressions to tell whether you are like masculine or feminine. On this entry, I wrote about inflection in that ( Read more... )

Japanese is the language that wants to leave it out in any case.

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Japanese has many words of the first person, in a word, many "I".

私（わたし/watashi）、あたし(atashi)、僕（ぼく/boku）、俺（おれ/ore）、自分（じぶん/jibun）、うち(uchi)、わし(washi)、おら(ora)、拙者（せっしゃ/sessha）、小生（しょうせい/shousei）、某（なにがし/nanigashi）、我(われ/ware)、我輩(わがはい/wagahai)、当方(とうほう/touhou)、俺様(おれさま/oresama)……

All these words mean "I"! How creepy!! But it's Japanese XD

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