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**Trotoleterm** · 06-06-2008, 10:55 AM

Hmmm. I've picked up quite a bit of Japanese over the years - I took it in school for a while, too - to the point where I have said something in Japanese and had the person respond as if I knew the language (in the dojo, mind).

This sounds like a real difficult language! I just wanted to be able to say "Hi, Mrs. Shin!" and "thank you, goodbye." Sounds like it's a lot more complicated than I thought. I'll see if I can remember "hi" and "thanks."

One of my dojomates, a Korean, taught me only one word, "chingu" for "friend." We taught our toddler children to say it to each other.

06-06-2008, 10:55 AM	#29
Trotoleterm Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 415 Senior Member	Hmmm. I've picked up quite a bit of Japanese over the years - I took it in school for a while, too - to the point where I have said something in Japanese and had the person respond as if I knew the language (in the dojo, mind). This sounds like a real difficult language! I just wanted to be able to say "Hi, Mrs. Shin!" and "thank you, goodbye." Sounds like it's a lot more complicated than I thought. I'll see if I can remember "hi" and "thanks." One of my dojomates, a Korean, taught me only one word, "chingu" for "friend." We taught our toddler children to say it to each other.
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