he's raising his left arm, not the right. also, when in class, how many students give you 'the' salute while raising their hands?
i see you're a kewl guy blogging for our benefit but please man, learn the nuances of the hail hitler!
Ok so MDMA in moderation has been rated safer then binge drinking by British Scientists. It got rated 18th most dangerous drug, while alcohol is a high 5th spot... makes you wonder how out of touch the japanese govt is...
Hate to burst your bubble Sam, but all the sounds end in a vowel except 'n'. They do NOT have a 'T' sound, they have 'と'. If you say that Hiragana character, to an English speaker it will sound like the word toe. So when they say a foreign word or a loanword with hard consonant, they pick the closest Hiragana sound, usually preceded by a small 'っ' (tsu) to indicate a stress. So "Hot Guy" becomes "はっと がい" pronounced hawt-toe gai (if written, more likely "ハット ガイ" since it's foreign.
whoever wrote this article fails and needs to take a japanese class before saying anything. there is a T in japanese
you see this?
ta chi tsu te to. that's the Ta line. Note the T.
It's not that there isn't the equivalent of a letter t in Japanese, it's just that Japanese tends to function in a consonant-vowel structure. So there isn't a t- sound by itself, only with vowels following. Ta ti tu te to. It's misleading to imply there's no t sound at all with well-known Japanese people named Yoot Saito. I mean, look at the name Takashi, or Takahashi. Lots of Ts. Fun story, though.
A good list, you've covered some of the ones I get all the time.
My wife is threatening to make a book of all the mistakes I make as a foreigner. It probably all started when I told her, "真理ーちゃん きらい です" instead of "真理ーちゃん きれい です".
I believe the title of the anime is in katakana.. so they might literally mean eating souls. Each weapon in the show needs to eat 100 souls (99 evil human, 1 witch) before it can be turned into a deathscythe.
It's a pretty good anime, Studio bones is one of my favorites *thumbs up*
文化財を落書き等で損壊すると法により罰せられます
ぶん・か・ざい を らく・が・き とう で そん・かい する と ほう に より ばつ せられます
Damaging cultural property (through graffiti or other means) is a crime under the law.