The Japanese Language Help Thread

[narcFiddler]

Sorry, I just want to learn , maybe emails could work....

[Zekurom]

フシギの園生にようこそ！

I made this sentence to mean "Welcome to Bulbagarden" or "Welcome to the Mysterious Garden". Does it make sense?

Or does "園生" refer to the life in the garden instead of the garden itself?

[make_it_worse]

Sorry, I just want to learn , maybe emails could work....

I agree with that..
But please Zekurom, help us how to learn your language, please give at least the best you can so we can speak all your language..
although you Japaneses have the "accents" of the languages..
i just depend on this thread to learn japanese...

ok cut..
hmm, writing words with katakana and Hiragana can change the meaning of the words??? or Kanjis too?

[Zekurom]

I agree with that..
But please Zekurom, help us how to learn your language, please give at least the best you can so we can speak all your language..

But I'm not Japanese -_-'

[Taras Bulba]

フシギの園生にようこそ！

I made this sentence to mean "Welcome to Bulbagarden" or "Welcome to the Mysterious Garden". Does it make sense?

Or does "園生" refer to the life in the garden instead of the garden itself?

It means "garden" from what sources I could find, but with an emphasis on trees. Also, I think names should be shorter; don't have "X no Y" when you could have "XY." I'm trying a compound word combining both "strange" and "garden":

怪庭
かいてい
kaitei
(neologism I just made up from 怪, strange, and 庭, garden.)

Bonus: the second kanji is often pronounced "niwa." Niwa is the name of the wiki alliance that Bulbapedia founded— which, in fact, they named for the "garden" in Bulbagarden.

[make_it_worse]

But I'm not Japanese -_-'

then let's help each other. hehe sorry, i thought you was because you write kanjis all the time...

[D-ryukei]

フシギの園生にようこそ！

I made this sentence to mean "Welcome to Bulbagarden" or "Welcome to the Mysterious Garden". Does it make sense?

Or does "園生" refer to the life in the garden instead of the garden itself?

I'm Japanese native but didn't know the word 園生sonou. Then, I found the word in my Japanese-Japanese dictionary, which said "equivalent to the word 園sono."
園sono is a little poetic but common word meaning "garden" or "park".
So, it will be better if you use 園 instead of 園生, then the sentence will be "フシギの園にようこそ！" It sounds very natural for Japanese.

By the way, this sentence is interesting! Because "fushigi" has double meanings; "fushigi-dane"(Balbasaur in Japanse) and "fushigi"(mysterious). This kind of double meaning is also used in Japanse traditional poetry.

[D-ryukei]

then let's help each other. hehe sorry, i thought you was because you write kanjis all the time...

I am Japanese native but poor in English (especially in informal expression). I sometimes come here, so if I come here and understand your comments, I will answer in the view of native sense.

[D-ryukei]

I was wondering about a translation for this comic for Hyatt.

The transliteration I currently have:

Gureru

Buneary: Pikachuusama~ Shinou Riigu de wa Mimiroru seiippai ouen shimasuu~
Pikachu: Omae no chiakosu daikaikyaku ga ore no shouri no hoshi sa

Buneary: Arayada koko wa doko? Pokemon Riigu wa?
?: Ha? Mou kaeri no fune yo

Buneary?: A~n!! Mou gureteyaru-!!
Dawn: Mimiroru!!

Dawn: Aaaaakoitsu gureyagatta!!

Checking the manga, I'll translate the words.


Buneary:Pikachu-sama, I'll cheer you a lot in the Shinou Reague~
Pikachu:Your sexily spread legs in the cheer-coss skirt will be great help in winning (great energy to win)!

(Shinou Reague had passed, without Buneary cheering) *probably

Buneary:OMG, where's here? What's going on about the Pokemon Rreague?
?:What? We're already on the ship of going back.

Buneary?:Ahhh~!! I'll go wrong~(I'll become delinquent~!!)
Dawn:Buneary!!

(Buneary "gone wrong"/"become Croagunk"; Japanse word for the former "GUREru" and the latter "GUREgguru"; it's a double-meaning joke)
Dawn:Ahhh, it's "gone wrong/become Croagunk"!!


It's funny(^^)

[Kthleen]

Thank you kindly.

Pikachu:Your sexily spread legs in the cheer-coss skirt will be great help in winning (great energy to win)!

Buneary:(Shinou Reague had passed, without Buneary cheering) *probably

Ah, that's probably why it wasn't making sense.

Buneary?:Ahhh~!! I'll go wrong~(I'll become delinquent~!!)

"Become delinquent".... I see.

[make_it_worse]

hey d ryukei... welcome back..
hmm, i like to know how to express the "in, on, at, to" in jap..
ok example..
I go to the station...

[Zekurom]

I'm Japanese native but didn't know the word 園生sonou. Then, I found the word in my Japanese-Japanese dictionary, which said "equivalent to the word 園sono."
園sono is a little poetic but common word meaning "garden" or "park".
So, it will be better if you use 園 instead of 園生, then the sentence will be "フシギの園にようこそ！" It sounds very natural for Japanese.

By the way, this sentence is interesting! Because "fushigi" has double meanings; "fushigi-dane"(Balbasaur in Japanse) and "fushigi"(mysterious). This kind of double meaning is also used in Japanse traditional poetry.

So basically, just drop the 生 and I should be good?

Awesome, let me just fix up that post...

What do you think about Taras Bulba's advice to drop the "no"? That would make it into フシギ園 or フシギソノ.

[D-ryukei]

So basically, just drop the 生 and I should be good?

Awesome, let me just fix up that post...

What do you think about Taras Bulba's advice to drop the "no"? That would make it into フシギ園 or フシギソノ.

Yes, you should just drop the 生, without dropping the "no".

The form of "フシギ園" can be misunderstood as "フシギエン"(FUSHIGI-park/FUSHIGI-garden), which sounds like a name of a park, when 園 is read with on-yomi(音読み) to be エン.
And, if "フシギ園" is read correctly as "fushigi-sono", native speakers will think "'no' has gone somewhere".

[D-ryukei]

hey d ryukei... welcome back..
hmm, i like to know how to express the "in, on, at, to" in jap..
ok example..
I go to the station...

I'm sorry for my absence!

well, I'll answer.
"I go to the station." is "watashi-wa gakkou-NI ikimasu."
"to + (place)" is "(place) + ni" in Japanse.

But the relation between English "in, on, at, to" and Japanese "ni, de, he, etc." is very complex. So, if you have more example sentences, plese ask me again.^^

[Zekurom]

The form of "フシギ園" can be misunderstood as "フシギエン"(FUSHIGI-park/FUSHIGI-garden), which sounds like a name of a park, when 園 is read with on-yomi(音読み) to be エン.

Actually, that "fushigi-en" form might work too. I was just looking for the word "garden".