Saiya

heya, i actually had forgotten my password for jcjp but after getting the email that said you had sent me a message I just kept trying to log in until it worked :O).

I think I found you on facebook... hope its you. There were actually a few with that name but since you are from Senegal I think I got the right one.

Haha I wonder if u got the right one, I didn't receive any friend request from u, reminds me I had a hard time looking for u there xD they kept showing me result of pages about Dragon Ball Saiyans xD

So there is actually a lot of Mouhamed Lo profiles and most seem to be from senegal. Facebook isn't the easiest to find people on.

Yea totally xD how about I look for u? what do I type?

Saiya McHugh

Mitsuketa ^^, it was easy ;)

Pretty sure it's the same as Ji being ジ.

rly but that would sound like jiti or maybe that is right... sigh

Just checked my old hira/kata lessons but I haven't found any zi sound... There's just Ji(じ/ジ).

arigatou mina

"ズィ" according to Wikipedia.

http://www.halcat.com/roomazi/doc/hyouzyunC.html

ah arigatou zogundarsan

Arigatou, genki desu! It has been a long time since I have been in school and it started a few weeks ago. A lot of things like study methods Im having to relearn. I hope once I get the hang of it Ill be able to lvl up my JCJP.

Ki ni shinakute ii yo, JCJP no koto nante...
Academic study's way more efficient, after that you'll be able to lvl up here in no time ;)

I like the new picture, what is it from?

Yo, hisashiburi! ^^
I'd decided to take a break from JCJP for a while... Haven't been around for weeks ^^
How are u and how's class going?

This is "Hiken no Ace", a very cool martyred persona from One Piece...

BTW, I started watching Ao no exorcist and it's awsomely cool, exactly the kind of anime I love ^^, reminds me that I'm still waiting for the rest of your anime list, hope u didn't forget :p

oh shoot i did forget lol, its been a crazy few months lol. Ill compile it soon. Have you seen Sword Art Online... if youve ever played an MMO its the best anime ever /giggle

I'll give it a shot, thx for the info ;)
Hey, about the Sandy stuff, I do hope u've been spared... How was it?

I just watched Episode 1 and it's just WOW! I love it!! It reminds me of Hunter X Hunter but this one is way more similar to a classic MMO...

I hope we can play like that someday (2022 maybe), but with no risk of dying of course ^^

/giggle yeah that would be cool, but I am always a magic user, either a priest or mage style character.. I dont do melee /giggle thats what a meat shield is for HAHA. Im actually on the other side of the country, Washington State so I didnt have any trouble. Thank you for being concerned.

Yakatta na! ^^
Tokoro de, who are u going to vote for?

Yea, it's a pity that magic isn't included...
It was so funny when the game showed their real appearances and half of the cute girls turned out to be guys actually LOL!

Oh I know it was so funny, the one guy looked over and the hot girl was a skinny nerd and he says "you said you were a girl!" and the skinny nerd looks at him and says "you said you were 17!" LOL too funny. I actually think Kirito looks better as his natural self rather than his avatar.

As for politics I voted for Obama... the alternative of course is pretty scary... would send us back to the 1950's and Im not looking forward to that. I hope the American people choose correctly tomorrow but I have little faith in the people of this country...every year Americans get fatter and dumber /sigh

Fatter and dumber LOL!
Well I hope so too, I'd vote Obama cuz I like him, I've like politics much anyway, even my own country :D

Soreyori, how's japanese course going, do you feel like u're making some real progress lately?

Hai, watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi hanashimasu, demo mada jouzo ja arimasen. ii desuyo, nihongo da daisuki desu. Tanoshine! Im on the road to becoming fluent which is great.

Sono choushi da! Sono mama ganbaritsuzukete ne ;)

Congrats Obama! ^^
There must be less dumds than u feared, LOL

LOL yeah thankfully... I slept incredibly well. I was at the gym when they announced it and couldnt help but cheer out loud /giggle.

The baseball(or was it baskerball?) team curse's been broken then ^^
Besides, 2012's been a year of falling presidents but Obama stays in the "Baraque"!
(Word play : Baraque mean House in french LOL)

U're right about Kirito, he really looks better than his avatar...
I wonder if SAO's going to be a long run anime... I wish it could last a little, there's 100 floors after all... Do u have some info about that?

Im so not giving you any spoilers... beg all you want /giggle you won't get anything out of me ;o)

Naraba Google no ojiisan ni kiitemiyou kana hihihi :P

wakarimasen, eiga wo kudasai Medyrius senpai

Eiga?

eigo... gomen nasai

Oh sokka!! :D Baka ore...
Jya, I just said that I'd go ask gramp's Google since u don't want to spoil some info :P

Silly just watch the show, it is worth the wait.

That's right, I was just kidding u know, I'm too lazzy to google that kind of info ^^
But they'd better make it last a little, I think there's much room for adventure in the anime...

Its a great show I just watched ep 19 of Sword Art Online. Its getting a bit more... chick flick... but I still love it!

Yo! ^^
I think I finally understood what u meant by "MORE Chick Flick" lol
But I don't mind it at all, I watch 5 animes at the same time (One ep a day) so it's perfect having one with some romantic content...

Shikashi kirito no yatsu ha... maji de un ga ii yatsu da na...
urayamashii yo na :D

Urayamashii na! ^^
How was the teacher?

otsukaresamadeshita! ganbatte ne!

I had mine yesterday, it was so much fun...! Let's try our best...!

Oh how fun :). Good luck!

@ Medyrius: Sensei seems nice, I was hoping for a male teacher but shes well a she. But she seems like a brilliant professor and I am looking forward to the class. @Natakoes: ganbarimasu!

LOL, personally, I wouldn't mind having a female teacher for any class ^^
Is she a nihonjin?

hai, I just get along better w/ guys is all. I have never had a female best friend that didnt betray me and manipulate me. Guys are easy to understand and associate with.

Ive had three different professors... they were all SO DIFFERENT! All females- all moved from Japan... One married to white man, one unmarried, one married to Japanese man. One was more modern and HOT! one was like a friendly doctor, one was.. just... STRICT!

grats, i'm on my 4th class and it's tough >.<

bang him

Don't be hard on yourself for that ;)
Speaking is not so easy when you don't have enough practice...

Are you learning some grammar by the way?

Haha well it's not like you said you were an expert, so I think you're okay! Speaking it isn't that easy anyway.

lol Zeto has an overactive ego I think /giggle. Yeah, Im learning grammar as much as I can, I am taking that Japanese class starting next month at the local university so I hope it will get better. Id like to study in Japan at some point but I should rly just start with how to have a basic conversation where i dont sound like a blabbering idiot. /grin

I suggest getting into reading. Books and manga aimed at a younger audience use furigana, which is displaying the readings of the various kanji next to them. This way you can concentrate on getting used to syntax.

Get to know some fluent Japanese speakers. Find a website that does language exchange (like Lang-8) and friend some people on Skype. Force yourself to talk to them so your brain makes the connections necessary to speak fluently. You can only learn so much Japanese by reading alone.

I dont trust those types of sites Hyperiant. I tired one and ended up getting nasty mail from middle aged men looking for more than language exchange.

That is a bit troubling. Maybe you should have a cover up profile? :P

Yoku yatta ;)

Thanks for teaching me another great phrase Medyrius senpai ;)

おめでとう＾＾

aa, kimochi!

domo arigatou mina

saiya ga hen.

Hen no ha zeto no hou darou :p
Daitai, naze sonna koto o iu no?

ugh I rly need to catch up, this copy and pasting each word into jisho is so time consuming /giggle

mediriusu: kichigai nazenara to omou, ore ha. dahahaa

Ima nani itta ka sappari wakannai :s

i know what kichigai means it was my characters name in Rift for awhile (recovering mmo player) /giggle I will figure out what you two are saying soon though right now I dont have time to copy and paste got chores to do ;)

saiya no baka.

;( thats not very nice /pout Im a newbie after all. At least Im trying.

at least you understood what I meant. ;p just kidding saiya i'm just fooling around.

okies you are forgiven ;o) I dont think there is an anime fan in the world who doesnt know what baka means /giggle.

i didn't asked for forgiveness anyway, did i? bj?

Kora, saiya o kanben shiro yo, kono baka!

無駄だ so much to learn I never know what Med is saying. It looks like you said, 'saiya's forgiveness is white and thats stupid' lol There are too many words that are spelled the exact same way I feel overwhelmed.

LOL! You traduction is so funny :p
Actually I was telling zeto to give you a break, he seems to enjoy fooling around with you ^^

I used a manly variation of the common expression "Kanben shite (kudasai/kure)" meaning "Gimme a break", it's used kind of often in animes ;)

souka desu, well then thank you Medyrius senpai for being my hero /grin Zeto seems to be a playful confident guy, Ill have to get used to it /giggle

Jisho.org : 彩夜 - さいや - Saiya
Female given name or forename.
It's a very nice name to have ;), poetic! ^^

thank you I am thinking about changing my real name to Saiya. I really like it and have always disliked my real name. Im so glad you like it as well.

I can't imagine your real name being that bad? what is it? unless it's a secret :p

Amy

Yahari, it's actually a pretty nice name you know... ^^
There's the name Ami in my country, sometimes it's written Amy, like yours, but it's pronounced like in french. It's actually a contraction of a longer name : Aminata or Amin'ta.
Never heard anyone complain about it though :p
It's a meaningful name for me cuz the former queen of my heart had it... :)
Maa, if you're going to change for Saiya, that'd be a nice name that you like and that's kanji-writable, which is kind of cool!^^
It may not be a bad idea ;)

Thanks, my name means 'Beloved'. Since I never felt loved at all its sort of a slap in the face. I never liked the sound of it especially with southern US accents it sounds like someone gagging at me. I am sry to hear about the former 'Queen of Your Heart' I meant no disrespect. A lot of ppl tell me they like my real name but it shouldnt matter how they feel about it cause they arent the ones walking around with it everyday lol. Thanks for the chat, its always great to get your input.

Daijoubu da yo, kokoro ha mou naotta kara :)
It's always nice to speak to you too, I'd so like to know more about you, I think you have a very interesting personality ^^

Jya, odaiji ni

arigatou gozaimasu Medyrius senpai, Id like to know more about you as well. Oh I did start watching Bleach again. I forgot just how funny it was /giggle. And I am glad you changed your photo from the mask one. :)

Yea! I'm a fan of Ichigo's dark side but the mask doesn't suit me very well ^^
I hope this pic is ok for you :P

It's a good idea starting watching beach again, I'm sure you won't regret it ;)

/giggle Im trying its a lot of episodes. I could never get into Afro Samurai because it was so um manly LOL. Its suits you though all bad ass and what not without out the psycho LOL!

Funny thing is I haven't watched Afro samurai yet ^^
But I'm a good boy you know, just acting tough most of the time ^^

lol oh rly? Thats funny! Well I watched the first two episodes of Afro Samurai and it was rough and violent. It might have gotten more friendly as it went but it was a bit too much for me. I like more of the girly stuff. Nurarhyon no mago, ao no exorcist, wolfs rain. I like the dark ones from time to time. Like the new one Another, that was creepy cool.

You have an interesting anime list here, I'm picking you some if you don't mind :p
And they're not long at all, piece of cake ^^

Tell me, did you keep count of how many animes have you watched so far?

I wish I had kept count, its a lot though because it takes me a long time to even recall my favorites. I just started Accel World. That ones pretty cool. I also liked Future Diary, that one is dark too. Let me know which ones you come up with.

Yappari, anime nara saiya ga sempai :)
The animes I've watched so far, I think I can count them on the fingers...
What do you mean the one I come up with? Sorry I happen to have trouble with some expressions ^^

Oh let me know, which animes you can think of. What does Yappari mean, I have heard it in anime but cant find a definition of it.

Ah Sokka! ^^
Well the animes that really marked me except for the long-run classics are Claymore and Death Note which I can bet you have watched too ^^
I'm sorry to ask but could you make me a list of all the interesting animes you know of, only when you have time though, no urgency ^^

矢っ張り (やっぱり): also; as I thought; still; in spite of; absolutely; of course.
It's a second pronunciation of the word 矢張り (やはり).

I have a tip for vocab building while watching anime, Use a jisho (www.jisho.org is exellent) and immediately look up the words you hear often enough.
You can happen to forget it but then just look it up over again, once you've got it recorded you won't need a sub for that word ever again ;)

Very good idea. Yeah I have been so busy lately I havent even had time to study Japanese. I log on to write down a few kanji to practice and look up but never have much more time than that. I am training to run a half marathon and Im working full time right now as well. I should have more time starting next week and I should be able to really study more. I will write down some of the animes I really liked and send it to you. Do you have an email address you would like me to use?

Saiya ga maraton o hashiru nante sugoi na! Ganbatte ^^

My email add is msloze@@@gmail.com (anti-spam measure ^^)

;)

「私はリチャードと申しますが、リックと呼ばれています。」or 「～、私をリックと呼んでもいいですよ。」:D

watashi no namae wa zeto hiyasu desu. omae ha watashi wo zeto yobidashi ga dekimasu.

代名詞使いすぎだよ、ゼト。。。

deshou ka? ore no nihonggo no bunpo yoku arimasen yo.

I'm not sure you can use 呼ぶ, since its connotation seems to be literally calling someone and not using a particular name.

I think it Ok actually, in this context it'd have the meaning of naming/designating...
Personally I've heard it many times...

ドクトリーネと呼びな
それを愛と呼んでいい
悪魔と呼ばれた男

私の名前はリチャードですけど、リック私を呼び出すことができます。 is my best guess.

「僕の名前はリチャード、けどリックって呼んでもいいよ/リックって呼んでも構わないよ」

がいいだと、僕は思う

all that stuff is great i hope i dont know any kanji yet so i have no idea. I will start working on pluggin all that stuff into a japanese dictionary as soon as i feel less sick. Thanks for all the responses. The reason I asked was that I am going to be taking Japanese 101 this fall and also I hate my real name and would like to introduce myself and then ask them to call me by the name I want to be called by.

omedetou :)

おめでとうございます

That's perfect for motivation ^^
Keep it up ;)

OMG I just got accepted into a University for the Linguistics program for Fall 2012 /giggles Oh Im so excited and yet scared to death lol.

That's cool! ^^ Happy for you, I'm sure you'll do fine, so shinpai suruna yo ;)
De, which languages are you going to pick?

nihongo, mandarin, korean

Sweet!

arigatou gozaimasu mina

amazing

what is Genki Text Books?

That'S great! I'm thinking I'll order the first book soon. It'd be great to start on the genki textbooks at the same time as college.

Also to answer billy-san's question, they're a series(Hardly a series, two volumes) of textbooks specializing in teaching japanese grammar, though to my understanding they also cover some kanji.

yeah they are nice books, looking forward to reading them again.

Glad to have you has a friend and I look forward to learning japanese with you.

omoshiroi desuyo o.O Sending you an email now.

Thank you for the book Domensan. Its very interesting and I think it could definitely help. The weird thing is that it never gives the translations. So like my favorite in there as I skimmed through the first couple dozen pages was the explanation for 早 はよ. It simply gives the english Early without putting the roomaji in for the nihongo. Still it was Sugoi!!!

Some "explanations" or maybe stories, I guess, are just amazing! Some are meh, but I like book. It is good for people like me, who have trouble remembering kanji. Today was so unproductive day for me. I was "studying" all day and I learned nothing. It's too hot right now. It's 36 degrees Celsius or should I say 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Oh don't melt!!! /giggle. Its 18°C here atm and Im loving it!! Ich Liebe Die as they say in deutsch... not sure how they would say the same phrase in nihongo. Watashi wa sore wo daisuki desu! Maybe? Doesnt seem to hold the same sentiment though does it?

Mein Deutsch ist nich so gut. I had 4 years of german classes in my primary school. I remember nothing.

Hmm.. You know what. You should check japanese mcdonalds website. ROFL

LOL thats where i learned the german for it I can still hear the jingle in my head haha

so i just watched a dozen japanese mcdonald commercials and they all have the english "Im Lovin It" at the end sigh

Oh well.. The Fuuu.. iretruck.. I just remembered something really weird and funny at the same time. I will send you a link.

Welcome to JCJP ;) Ganbarou!

lol i was watching a video lol Temporary lapse of concentration that spiraled out of control lol

AH sokka, you had me worried... Thought you were like... rushing things ^^

Soreyori, let's continue our conversation about bleach here.

Oh you're so lucky, I've never been to things like anime or video game convention... Must be soo cool!
It's too bad Senegalese people aren't very interested into animes... I must be the only guy to watch animes in my town! xD

So you recognized the numbers, did you also recognize the characters they represent? The Gotei 13 captains...

hai, that was back when i was watching the episodes. My favorite number in kanji is four 四 I like the way it looks. My favorite capt in the show episodes 1-104 anyway was of course Toshiro Hitsugaya his Daiguren Hyorinmaru was just awesome. I have no idea what happened after 104 so cant tell if id still like him or not.

I can guarantee you will ;)
Generally I like all the captains but my favorite is Zaraki! lol
I like the way he enjoys fighting and doesn't care about anything else...
But for some reason, you can't just find a picture of him without a mad face, so I'd rather use the kawaii hitsugaya as my profile picture lol

No seriouly, you must continue watching bleach when you have time, if you've enjoyed it to episode 104, I'm sure you'll enjoy the rest...

okies I will start as soon as a finish this last mushy mushy girly anime LOL. I found some cool fan art of zaraki.

ill add the zaraki pix to my photo collection, cant figure out how to add them to the convo outside of forums

hoho nice! A chance they're not too scary cuz you can't remove a pic once you've posted it :P
Must speak to the admin for that...

Is that you on the other picture?

the blue haired chick is me /giggle

Stylish color ;) I like it ^^
You did it for some particular occasion?

No occasion, I call it my mid-life crisis LOL. I had always wanted to do it but always had some reason I told myself I couldnt, I woke up one morning and said to myself that there was no time like the present. Went and did it and loved it. I enjoyed looking on the outside a bit more like I feel on the inside, different.

Waw, sorry for commenting sooo late but your last phrase is so cool that I was like No comment!
I wish I could be that daring ^^

Ganbatte!!
My vocab is at chapter 45.
and my kanji is still at chapter 24.
Memorizing kanji is sure drain a lot of brain power.
Don't worry about it!

Actually they should have separated the user lvl from the lessons level... That way one can take his time in one lesson level without having to worry about user level growing...

I'm at level 4, and my vocabulary is at chapter 27 while my kanji is at chapter 21.

That's what happens when I use practice too much. XD

I personally didn't go into practice mode until I had completed every lesson in my level. It just takes a bit of willpower!

I'm also at level 4, and I haven't even reached chapter 20 for either vocab or kanji. And yeah, it kinda gets tough with the mandatory attendance thing.

Well the attendance isnt mandatory but I like being counted on the calendar. I only do enough of the practice questions lately to get the daily attendance and then I go back to the vocab/kanji quizes.

Yeah, I guess it was my fault for focusing on the practice questions. That's how I got my 120+ combo and leveled up quickly :P

Lol, alright, but I read the comment too late, I already sent you another challenge (little difficult) so I can get my revenge :P

hahaha ok no worries im studying my chapter 2 vocab right now

And in only a day? Wow indeed.

nani? Oh yeah I hit lvl 2 and all the questions were suddenly lvl 2 and i hadnt had time to study them so I lost a lot of matches LOL. Im getting up to speed quickly though so I should be able to accept new challenges soon.

You can leave them pending as long as you want ;)
That's what I do with my kanji subject challenges :D

oh yeah i guess i can, thx

...oops. Yeah, just leave em pending till you feel like it. Though I set it to be pretty easy (aka no kanji).

I've only seen the level 6 challenges, and I was pretty surprised to see kanji that I've never seen in practice. Feel free to challenge me, I don't mind ruining my combo every now and then :P

Yea, it's better if you're the one sending the challenge. That way you can setup the questions to come to the set you feel more comfortable with...
Besides, I think the questions level depend on the sender's level...

oh? okies Ive challenged all the level 1s Ive seen I think... Ill look some more.

I'm pretty sure a lower level can challenge a higher level, but then again I've only ever done challenges on level 6.

I think it's ok if a lower level challenges a higher level, but then the questions are going to be the level of the lower level, and that becomes (may become?) an advantage for the higher level... :s

Actually Saiya just challenged me with level 6 questions... That was strange.

Ah, so I guess questions are different in both sides and actually depend on the levels of each user... Kekkyoku, shimpai iranai tte wake da ^^

i selected lvl 1 but the questions were muzukashii! I guess thats cause it ended up giving me lvl 6 haha

I've just made a little check and it appears that the lvls you can pick depend on the lvl of the person you are trying to challenge.

I think this happened :

1 - Since it was Saiya challenging and since Shairn is lvl6, all lvls were available for Saiya to chose between them (1 to 6).

2 - The max lvl available is always checked by default on every lvl settings in jcjp.

3 - Saiya challenged Shairn and checked lvl1 but forgot to unckeck lvl6 wich was checked by default (maybe didn't notice)

That would explain the fact that both of you had some lvl6 questions...

ahhh souka desu. arigatou Medyrius senpai

WOOT LVL 2 thx for the time attack challenges I lvled yay

challenge accepted.

expect to lose though.

oh im used to it by now /giggle but its ok, im not a sore loser. Ganbarou!!!

Ore ha makete :(
Sugoi ne Saiya-chan! ii speed datta, sore ha ;)

メヂリュス, 俺はお前をちょうせん. 準備してください...

ah not fair Zetosenpai I dont know what that means yet /whine Medyrius translate kudasai /giggle

ください is somewhat the equivalent to "please".

Lol shairn, I think she meant the whole phrase :D
Zeto said he wants me to send him a challenge... It's Alright! ;)

I was wondering... But you never know!

haha yeah I know what kudasai means, bad me for poor use of punctuation lol. I wish I could type hiragana/kanjo like you guys but I dont know how with this regular keyboard.

Are you using windows 7/vista? if so, you can just go into control panel -> region and language -> "keyboards and languages" tab -> press "change keyboards" -> click "add" -> scroll down to "japanese(japan)" -> expand the "keyboard" section and check "Microsoft IME". Save all that and you're done, just press alt+shift to switch over to japanese.

Sugoi! Ill see if I can Im on Windows 8

Woah didn't know Windows 8 was available already *_*

its in Beta ive got it though and its great though im still learning it

med, there seems to be a problem whenever someone challenges me a time attack. as you can see there are two links on your notif when someone challenged you but these two links only leads to the profile of the challenger and my profile respectively. i dunno if this is a bug but whatever i think i'll be the one to challenge you myself.

It happens sometimes that the notification links turn bersek...
But for challenges, that's not a big problem, just use the "Challenge" tab in your profile... There you can accept the pending challenges from other users...

Now that makes it two matches we have, hope I'll win both :P

i just realized this afternoon about that "challenge tab". my my silly me i did not explore very well the jcjp interface.

anyway as for your challenge a while ago i guess i have to learn yet the level 6 kanji for i am still stuck at level 5 (insufficient time reasons, you know, college stuff and i am also learning programming languages at the same time).

Oh I'm studying programming too ^^
Didn't know we had that in common ;)

The challenge I sent you is lvl6 vocab only, no kanji. But take your time, no rush ;)
I'm also going to need some revision of kanji lvl3 before I can take yours :P

What languages are you on right now?

Well, I already gained the foundation in programming on languages such as C++, Java, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, and Visual Basic.

Right now I just got started taking the Android programming course and I heard Ruby and Ocaml is very popular in Japan that's why I'm planning to learn those in the near future.

I'm up for a challenge or two, so let me know when your rear end stops hurting from the prior beatings.

LOL um a tad obtuse haha. yeah Im getting there I was falling behind badly on Kanji which was making it difficult and hadnt had the chance to really study a lot of the lvl 2 vocab. I think Im doing well though, catching up quickly and Im sure Ill be beating you soon /giggle

arigatou gozaimasu Gasurii senpai. I will need all the help I can get. I hope to be taking classes this fall /crosses fingers hopefully I get accepted into the school I was really late applying so who knows.