As in the title this question is pretty simple, I understand puns are made across many languages but the uniqueness of the Japanese, given they practically natively use both the Japanese scripts and Latin scripts, does anyone know of any puns made in Japanese which only make sense in their non-native script? This idea intrigues me as I don't personally know of any examples of this happening but I strongly suspect it must happen both in Japanese and other languages and would be interested to know whether you guys knew of any.

I am sure there are software descriptions or settings that specify the type of Japanese, it’s just that I’ve never seen it as a US-based consumer.

Examples: Life of Pi (like the movie) or Life of my mother

I want to learn this language since I was kid, I know english, spanish and my main language is portuguese and I'm from Brazil.

I tried to learn Deustch but I gave up because this language is very annoying to learn as a portuguese speaker, because there are a lot of consonants and it is very annoying to pronounciate, the deustch language isn't natural to me as a portuguese speaker, nevertheless the japanese language is very smooth and the phonetics are the same, so I don't need to learn the pronounciation I only need to learn the words and the rules.

However the most difficult part for sure is understanding the Kanji, once they are many and I'll need to associate the pronounciation with the kanji what is very hard because the kanjis are pretty random, words with the same sound but with a completly different kanji.

Then, if I learn the "romanization" I'll at least speak, hear and understand the sounds of each word, however I'll be unable to read and write. I saw that a lot of japaneses don't know the whole kanjis, they only know the most used, so I'll learn only the basic most used kanjis for now.

I can learn 50 words each day I think in one year I"ll be able to speak and hear, however using kanji this thing will be basically impossible to me.

The strong point is that the same sounds I do to speak portuguese I'll do to speak japanese, there are no words like Eichhörnche, Streichholzschachtel or wettbewerbsfähig with a lot of consonants I'm not saying it is impossible to a portuguese speaker but it is in the best case annoying, while japanese the words have the same sounds than portuguese like "kuruma" the same way they say is the way I read and say in portuguese a lot of vowels and you don't need to juggle with your mouth to say the word you want.

thank you

Does anyone know the rōmaji (or even the hiragana/katakana) for this scene? Can’t find it anywhere and I’d really like to know it if possible

I'm going to Japan pretty soon for a month, and well, I pretty much can't speak any Japanese. I'd like to learn to speak and recognise at least some basic common phrases to hopefully make things a bit easier for me and to not be one of those people who just expects everyone to speak english. Trying to learn the written language is going to be pretty much pointless for me given how little time I have and that most of the signage is also in English, so I'm looking for an app (iOS) or something similar that can teach me to speak and recognise some basic phrases and that has the Japanese written out in rōmaji, if anyone can recommend anything? I tried Busuu but only about half of the teaching had the option of seeing the words in rōmaji, so didn't really work for me.

Thanks!

I have different segments I need translated. They might also have lots of typoes

>Anatani oshie rareta michi marumono fukanzen na sonzai naze hikareru

>Kyou wa sukoshi sagatta yaburisutetai, kiai wo koerarezukizu ga fueteku. Furimukeba sutete kita tomodachi toka yume toka. Jiuu wo ubawarete ikiru doushite?

>Kokoro wo kusari de shibarareta ayatsuri ninguo. Watashi wa anata no JEWEL. Motto kagayya-ke rituruke rikuruke! Dare no tame ni ikite no deshou ka. "juben" to ienai mama de. Mou nanimokamo iya ni nari mae no, honto no ai wo kuasai.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I just thought I could get this translated.

[Resolved, thanks!] I'm trying to get a few sentence structures down, and I would appreciate some help. If I wanted to say "A blue pen was inside this drawer yesterday", would it be: Ao pen wa kinoo kono hikidashi no naka ni deshita.

"I drank a lot of beer." would it be: Watashi wa biiru o taskusan nomi mashita.

"Were there many good paintings in that department store?" with the focus on the subject. Ano depaato ni ii e ga deshita ka?

This is all 101 level stuff, but if you could tell me if my translations are grammatically correct, I would appreciate it.

I have a list of 9,000 words in Japanese along with their rōmaji (unfortunately Hepburn romanization). Can I somehow get the kana reliably? I imagine I'll need some library that deals with Japanese morphemes, or at least some API from somewhere.

Basically, I want to know how to write James (ジェームズ) using letters of the English language (I'm think it's called "Rōmaji"?)

I guess kinda like this (I might be wrong though): 歪んだ = "Yuganda" = "Distorted"

and I'm looking for the ??? here: ジェームズ = "???" = "James"

Sorry, I'm way ignorant on the matter, but I guess that's why I'm asking here for help!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

This OC is from the My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia fandom. So quirks are basically superpowers that 80% of has.

Anyway, I just wanted to see what other people think and if she is a Mary Sue

★Tomoka Aizawa★

>"I don’t care if you hate Bakugō, we’re at a school for heroes. And if you can’t save a classmate, then how will you save a stranger?"

■ Name || Tomoka Aizawa

■ Japanese Name || 相澤 朋佳

■ Rōmaji || Aizawa Tomoka

**■ Alias ||**Quirk Thief (盗人)

■ Birthday || July 20 (Cancer)

■ Age || 15

■ Gender || Female

■ Height || 163cm (5′4″)

■ Hair Color || Black

■ Eye Color || Black

■ Blood Type || O-

■ Quirk || Copy and Erase

■ Status || Alive

■ Birthplace || Near Shizuoka Prefecture

■ Family ||

• Shota Aizawa (father)
• Hokuko Take (mother †)

■ Occupation ||

• Student (formerly)
• Villain

■ Affiliation || Aldera Junior High, U.A. High School

■ Team(s) || Nighteye Agency (Formerly), Shie Hassaikai Raid Team (Formerly), Endeavor Agency (Formerly), League of Villains

■ Fighting Style || Binding Cloth, armed melee combat

◣ A b o u t ◥

Tomoka Aizawa (相澤 朋佳 Aizawa Tomoka), also known as Quirk Thief (盗人 Kosei Nusubito) is a student of Class 1-A at U.A. High School who is training to become a Pro Hero.

History

When Tomoka was born, her parents were still very young, so she spent most of her time with nannies. Though her mother died at age seventeen and Tomoka had very few memories of her.

At three, she started spending more time with her father and godfather, Hizashi Yamada.

Sometime later, Tomoka watched as Izuku Midoriya stands up to Katsuki Bakugō, defending another kid. After Tomoka saw this, she would always remember him as one of her biggest motives for becoming a hero.

◣ A p p e a r a n c e ◥

Tomoka is a teenage girl of average height with a skinny figure. She is fair-skinned, and her eyes are pitch black. Her eyes are usually halfway closed and have dark circles under them, giving her a permanently tired look. She has long eyelashes, though the upper ones are most prominent.

She had shoulder-length black hair, which grew down to her chest. She has curtain bangs that were used to hide her face when she felt threatened, though this stopped when she reached high school.

During school, she wears the regular U.A. uniform, which involves a grey dress jacket with green stripes: the thin one below the tick one, two pockets and gold butto

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

I've been trying to learn Japanese for a few months, and have most of the Hiragana and Katakana down. I have two friends who are also trying to learn Japanese and I wanted to print out scripts that are written in Japanese but have the romanji version under it (like, how to pronounce the words correctly)

It would be preferable if the script is from or related to an anime (for instance, K-on or My neighbor totoro) but anything works as long as it isn't too complicated.

thanks!

But that’s comparing apples to oranges