Likes Likes:  0
Results 1 to 13 of 13

Thread: Aisatsu

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Apr 2001
    Location
    Hiroshima, Japan.
    Posts
    2,550
    Likes (received)
    151

    Default Aisatsu

    Hello Everybody,

    I have been following and contributing to this forum for a few years now. The forum has not had a moderator so far, but I have long thought that it could do with a little tidying up and also be put to more creative use.

    Most of the discussions here so far have been about the Japanese language, but I would like to start some discussions in the Japanese.

    By way of self-introduction, I have been living here in Japan since 1980 and have been teaching at Hiroshima University all this time. From teaching English (though I still do this), I have moved to the Graduate School of Social Sciences, where I teach Comparative Culture and Rhetoric to Japanese company employees and government officials who want to continue their education. As for the martial arts, I have a 6th dan in aikido and teach the art in a small dojo, with two colleagues. They are a husband and wife, both German. Werner is an archaeologist specialising in early Japanese culture, while Carolin is my colleague in the university.

    Kore kara yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.
    Peter Goldsbury,
    Forum Administrator,
    Hiroshima, Japan

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Location
    Philadelphia, PA
    Posts
    219
    Likes (received)
    2

    Default Hajimemashite, Goldsbury Sensei. Yoroshiku Onegai shimasu.

    Sumimasen - Watakushi wa Nihongo ga totemo (?) sukoshi hanashimasu. I am learning and trying to use what little I've picked up (I am only now formally learning the language). This is also an opportunity to say "hello" and thank you for the wonderful insights you've given me and many budo students over the years through your writings, etc.

    Can you occasionally post, in 日本語, simple phrases concerning Hiroshima? Many know the name of the place, and a small part of the history, but I'd love to learn about it IN 日本語.

    Domo arigato gozaimashita, Goldsbury Sensei!

    Carlos ( カルロス )
    E. Carlos Estrella, Jr.

    The strength of a man is not measured in how much he can lift, how many he can fight or how much he can endure, but in his capacity to admit his limitations and learn to successfully circumvent them.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    May 2003
    Location
    Minnesota
    Posts
    660
    Likes (received)
    1

    Default

    こんにちは!

    はじめまして Goldsbury-せんえい! *れい*

    And, if you do write in Japanese, could you please write it in hiragana?(And not too many hard words also?) I can't read kanji yet. I only know a couple. どうも ありがとう ございます!
    Carolyn Hall


  4. #4
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Location
    SF Bay Area
    Posts
    155
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default

    Thanks for stepping up, Peter. Seems there are only a few of us that frequent this forum at the moment, but nice to have someone oversee it!

    “ú–{Œê‚ðŠw‚ñ‚Å‚¢‚éŠF‚³‚ñ‚Ö?A
    —ç‹V?³‚µ‚¢“ú–{Œê‚ðPeter‚³‚ñ‚©‚ç?K‚Á‚Ä‚©‚ç?Aˆ«‚¢Œ¾—t‚È‚Ç‚Ì•Ï‚È“ú–{Œê‚à’m‚肽‚¯‚ê‚Î?A–l‚É‚à•·‚¢‚Ä‚_‚¾‚ ³‚¢?B?i?Î?j‚æ‚낵‚_?I

    ƒ}ƒCƒPƒ‹
    - Michael Bland

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Apr 2001
    Location
    Hiroshima, Japan.
    Posts
    2,550
    Likes (received)
    151

    Default

    Matt, Carolyn,

    It is best if you do not separate the words when writing in Japanese. You have to become used to reading whole blocks of text and working out the word divisions as you go along. After a while it becomes easy.

    Best regards,
    Peter Goldsbury,
    Forum Administrator,
    Hiroshima, Japan

  6. #6
    Troll Basher Guest

    Default

    ‚¨‚¢?I
    ŠFŒ³‹C‚©?H
    ‰´‚̓Zƒ‹ƒQƒC?@ƒfƒJƒ`ƒ“ƒR‚¾‚¼?B (joke)
    “ú–{‚É?Z‚ñ‚Å‚éŠO?l:
    ŽOŒŽ‚Ì•?“¹ƒZƒ~ƒi?s‚«‚Ü‚·‚©?H

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Location
    SF Bay Area
    Posts
    155
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default

    Hi Peter.

    How did I end up as the thread starter on a thread you started? *smile* And now my post looks retarded replying to you with no original message. *smile* That's OK. It would certainly be a valid perception.

    As for the Japanese, I use a Japanese OS WinXP machine, a Japanese version of IE (6.1 maybe?) and the font encoding is set to Japanese Auto-detect.

    On e-budo I see a lot of problems with Japanese fonts! Some characters don't seem to go through well.
    - Michael Bland

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Apr 2001
    Location
    Hiroshima, Japan.
    Posts
    2,550
    Likes (received)
    151

    Default

    Originally posted by Michael Bland
    Hi Peter.

    How did I end up as the thread starter on a thread you started? *smile* And now my post looks retarded replying to you with no original message. *smile* That's OK. It would certainly be a valid perception.

    As for the Japanese, I use a Japanese OS WinXP machine, a Japanese version of IE (6.1 maybe?) and the font encoding is set to Japanese Auto-detect.

    On e-budo I see a lot of problems with Japanese fonts! Some characters don't seem to go through well.
    After I spilt the thread, I realised that your own post should have been kept in the Aisatsu thread. Apologies. I am planning another split in the forum: into an English language area and a Japanese language area.

    Yes, it seems that your setup is the same as mine. I have a Mac G5 also and the problems with Safari seem to be the same on E-Budo.

    Best regards,

    PAG
    Peter Goldsbury,
    Forum Administrator,
    Hiroshima, Japan

  9. #9
    Nanami Guest

    Default please don't make me write in KANJI?c

    Great opportunity for me to brush up my Japanese!

    I went to school in Japan for 5 years.
    When I was growing up we moved all over the world, leaving us kids speaking to each other in all mixed-up language of our own.

    Now my brother and I live in US, sis just moved to Indonesia from Germany, dad & mom are in Hong Kong for next 2 years - I don't even know if anyone can understand us when we speak to each other.

    “ú–{Œê?i‚É‚Ù‚ñ‚²?j‚Í?A‚Ü‚¾“ǂ߂邵˜b‚¹‚Ü‚·?B
    I can still read & speak in Japanese! (well, kinda)
    ‚½‚¾Š¿Žš?i‚©‚ñ‚¶?j‚ª?c•¶Žš•ÏŠ·?i‚à‚¶‚Ö‚ñ‚©‚ñ?j‚Í‚Å‚«‚邯‚Ç?A?‘‚¯‚Ü‚¹‚ñ?B
    But I can't spell correct KANJI anymore.
    Typing, yes (well?csorta), writing NO.
    Without KANJI converter I'm hopeless.

    ‚»‚ê‚É—¬?sŒê?i‚è‚イ‚±‚¤‚²?j‚âƒlƒbƒgŒê?A‚º‚ñ‚º‚ñ‚í‚©‚ç‚È‚¢‚Å‚·?B

    Writing KANJI is hard, but it's even harder to decipher slang people use these days.
    Terms used in internet are the worst!
    Oh, I gave up on understanding my younger Japanese cousins & friends already.
    They e-mail me often but half the time I have no clue what they are writng about

  10. #10
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    13
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default

    こんにちは!

    ゴルドスブラリー先生、この討議を始めてどうもありがとうございました。日本語を練習する所の必要がございますね。そして、敬語が上手にならなければなりませんから、敬語をお使いしますね。

    御紹介いたします。武道をいたしますので、日本語と接触がたくさんござって、三年前に日本語の勉強をお始めしました。今SOASのロンドン大学で日本語の二年生でございます。武道なら、六年間剣道しておりますが、 三年間だけ居合道と杖道しております。

    間違いがあれば、御直しになっていただけませんか。

    And here’s a rough translation in eigo:

    Thank you, Professor Goldsbury, for starting this discussion. There needs to be a place to practice Japanese. Then, because I need to improve my keigo (extra-polite Japanese), I’ll use it.

    I’ll write an introduction. Because of Budo, I had a lot of contact with Japanese and I started studying it three years ago. Now, I’m a second-year student of Japanese at SOAS, University of London. As for Budo, I’ve been practicing Kendo for six years but Iaido and Jodo for only three years.

    If I've made any mistakes, please correct them.

    これからよろしくおねがいいたします。
    Jack Ketch

  11. #11
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Helsinki, Finland
    Posts
    36
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default Hajimemashite!

    Hajimemashite, minasan!

    e-budo de kana wo dekinai kara rômaji wo tsukaimasu, gomennasai..

    Atashi wa Herushinkidaigaku (Helsinki University) no yonensei de, nihonkenkyû wo benkyoshiteimasu. Iwayuru, nihongo mo, rekishi mo, bungaku mo... Sono naka ni wa jibun no senmon wa chûsei no shûkyô de, chûsei no rekishi ni mo kyômi ga mochiron arimasu. Kotoshi wa, Furansu no Inaruko (Inalco) ni ryûgaku shiteimasu.

    Budô nara, Musô Shinden Ryû iaidô desu.

    Nihongo de mada heta dakara, machigai ga aru hazu desu. Gomen... Korekara yoroshiku onegaishimasu! *rei*

    Adapted translation follows:
    I'm a 4th year student at Helsinki University, dept. of Japanese studies. I'm specializing in medieval religion (late Heian to Kamakura, though I´d like to learn more about Muromachi too...), and have deep interest in medieval history (might have something to do with the rise of the warrior class... ). This year I'm studying in France at Inalco as an Erasmus student.

    My budô is MSR iai, which I've been doing more or less actively the last 3,5 years.

    Cheers,
    Laeticia Söderman

    "No ma'am, talking to your plants is a completely healthy habit to have, research even shows that they grow better when you talk to them. However, when they start not only talking back to you... but telling you to kill the neighbors cat, then there might be a problem." -Vera

  12. #12
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
    Posts
    42
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default 初めてでしょうか

    皆さん、おはようございます。平成13年(西暦2001年)4月から日本に住んでいます。最初は四国の高知県と愛媛県だったけど、今は福岡県の北九州市が長いんです。イギリス系二・三世カナダ人の私と朝鮮系三世の 在日韓国人の妻に去年娘が生まれています。宜しくお願い致します。

    Good morning everyone from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. I've been residing in this country since April of 2001. At first I was in Kochi, then Ehime in Shikoku, but now I've been in Kitakyushu for quite a while. I'm second- or third-generation English Canadian despite my Irish name, and my wife is third-generation Korean in Japan from when it was one country. . . Last year our daughter was born. Please accept my regards.
    Sean Fogarty

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Oct 2000
    Location
    PA
    Posts
    78
    Likes (received)
    0

    Default

    Arigato gozaimasu.

    This should help force me to keep up my practice.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •