Hmm... I don't know. I feel really weird trying to speak like a samurai. I'm even using a deep raspy voice. I can't do it haha.
[ps] Some-what unrelated to the article but I thought you'd find this interesting. Looks like the globalization of otakus are starting to show up outside of Japan. I know there are many that watch anime etc, but I never knew they actually had places to just sit and watch anime. Plus the poor pronunciation of one of the guys in the video might give you a good laugh. Wotas/Otaku.... *sigh*
They have little movies made in flash (maybe) illustrating all sides of the Japanese grammar. It makes everything clear and easy to understand, in other wods, great for learning the language.
Bi-chan
· 1 year ago
man thank you so much for that website!!!!
mmnessa
· 1 year ago
man that website is genius...one of my favorites, the graphics are sick ><
buratto
· 1 year ago
no prob. i know it really is helpful, and its not cool to keep such cool knowledge away from people. the graphics and the accent crack me up all the time too. with this, a good dictionary, and some japanese newspapers and film, one can get pretty good at japanese i think, just by one's self.
mmnessa
· 1 year ago
You're right! I'm sooo sending the link to everyone I know (who's learning Japanese), I don't think there's anyone who'll look at me in the face and tell me they can't use it. Thanks a lot! :P
Nanci
· 1 year ago
I've heard utsuke before, probably in one of my asian dramas. But thank you, I'm writing this down and plan to 'show off' my new japanese speaking abilities to one of the Japanese exchange students I know, should be fun.
Hana
· 1 year ago
Hana Yori Dango perhaps? I think Doumyouji Tsukasa used it a few times...
mmnessa
· 1 year ago
no, I'm pretty sure he was talking like an idiot, not like a samurai :P
Eevee
· 1 year ago
I like the utsuke as well. It rolls off the tongue, though when calling someone an idiot shouldn't it have a slightly harsher tone to it? But, that's just me. Also makes me imagine a samurai saying the 'tsu' like he's spitting. xD Tough and mean-like.
Jason
· 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this. I think that the historical aspects of any language are fascinating. It pleases me to see people trying to return to their roots. The global cultural amalgamation we are currently seeing is a real pity.
Wow, I don't think I could do that...even if it was still popular when I went there. Iunno if it would be polite in me going along with their trends, or if they would think "omg you stupid gaijin, your silly inconcerderate use of my heritage offends me. be gone!" I might be going to Kansai Gaidai next year in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. Has anyone by chance been there? ^^;
Michelle
· 1 year ago
I have exactly no clue what "Baka" or "Utsuke" means, but I do like the idea of Japan following their old traditions instead of the ones America "planted" in them. I'm American, mind you. But I hate how all the other countries were (or are) being forced to be like us. I would like to travel to some place foreign and not see a McDonalds. The world would be boring if we all see the same thing.
P.S Thanks for posting this info Koichi (my world history teacher will find this very interesting) ^-^
クリス
· 1 year ago
I blame it all on globalization. The borders of countries will some day disappear and this cross country frenzy will spread world wide.
zattsu-ooru
· 1 year ago
You need not worry. Before globalization finds any ultimate applicability all will go boom. Either by the annihilation of our actual race and its surroundings or by a destruction of true severity. A destruction where both sides(because there are always two sides) suffer that is. Absolution will not apply. Because the Destroy will take action. And after all that, the others of us, what is left of us or what comes in new, will take another course by the Create. After all that, if we don't do anything before that is. Ja.
クリス
· 1 year ago
Way to be optimistic.
zattsu-ooru
· 1 year ago
Yeah, sorry for the biblicallity of all that but i was in mind blur mode at the time... I don't see it as pessimistic , nonetheless. If anything i state that the terror of an actual, realised globalization will not be. I even say that there is a choise for us to actually act.Pessimism would be to think we can't act. Logic would be to think that we won't act right Nevertheless, it's true that both cases, either total globalization or destruction of such scale, sound bleak. But, blame biblicallity for all that. It's actually a simpler order of things.
Fredy
· 1 year ago
I just remembered something from this movie. I did a TOK project on this film. Haha. It was about how history gets portrayed differently in the media. I remember one of my favorite lines from the film:
"The shame is unbareable! I request permission to end my life!"
I used it all last year. Haha.
mmnessa
· 1 year ago
haha! that's hilarious, I think I'll try it
Zane
· 1 year ago
Haha, it'd be nice to be able to speak Japanese properly first, but thankyou for the lovely info Koichi :D *Gets out Genki*
Lonna
· 1 year ago
Wow, that's really cool. Never going to use it but like Shakespear it is good to know so you don't look like the retard out of the group....
Sougen02
· 1 year ago
Lol I might use this in everday life
Sougen02
· 1 year ago
SAMURAI CHAMPLOO!! 0.0
Maciel
· 1 year ago
what about ninja talk koichi, didnt u want to learn japanese to become a ninja?? just kidding but that would be cool ifthey had a language too
Arlen
· 6 months ago
I also hear using おる instead of いる (esp. when referring to oneself) is a great idea, especially given it's typically used in polite form these days (so say 拙者は＜X＞しておる instead of 。。。しています, and you get instant samurai appeal).
Rinji
· 6 months ago
I find this very interesting, but at the same time, I dont have much use for it unless pull a Mulan and decide to be a female diguised a samurai.
Surely there's special forms used by entertainers and maybe geisha? I never hear about those, unless maybe they don't exist (yeah, right).
P.S. Yes I know my name is male. I do it to annoiy Japanophiles. Just like my tree named Mr. Bonsai-san. *brainplodes* XD
GJB995
· 4 months ago
How are you saposed to remamber when to pronunce the Us or the Os?
Is there a systam or whay?
jim
· 2 months ago
'degozaru' is a plain form/dictionary verb yeah?
Dan-kun
· 1 month ago
Nice. I actually knew quite a few of these already... but i didn't know "utsuke" or the verb form "mannen"... and a few other stuff... so thanks for that!!
Anyway, this will come very in handy whenever the guys at my gakkou decide to put together a "jidai geki" sort of play hehe... xD
All Comments
it rolls of easier!
-girishajin
i loved アキハバラ@DEEP...haha "yyyyooouusu!" haha
Hmm... I don't know. I feel really weird trying to speak like a samurai. I'm even using a deep raspy voice. I can't do it haha.
[ps] Some-what unrelated to the article but I thought you'd find this interesting. Looks like the globalization of otakus are starting to show up outside of Japan. I know there are many that watch anime etc, but I never knew they actually had places to just sit and watch anime. Plus the poor pronunciation of one of the guys in the video might give you a good laugh. Wotas/Otaku.... *sigh*
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XJkLJwnSnno
Watch this video after you've seen the first:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ONBjeAjjjGo
Oh, and since I am here, here is an AMAZING site i found for learning japanese: http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghom...
They have little movies made in flash (maybe) illustrating all sides of the Japanese grammar. It makes everything clear and easy to understand, in other wods, great for learning the language.
Akihabara@DEEP!!
Akihabara@DEEP!!
I might be going to Kansai Gaidai next year in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. Has anyone by chance been there? ^^;
P.S
Thanks for posting this info Koichi (my world history teacher will find this very interesting) ^-^
Either by the annihilation of our actual race and its surroundings or by a destruction of true severity. A destruction where both sides(because there are always two sides) suffer that is. Absolution will not apply. Because the Destroy will take action. And after all that, the others of us, what is left of us or what comes in new, will take another course by the Create. After all that, if we don't do anything before that is. Ja.
"The shame is unbareable! I request permission to end my life!"
I used it all last year. Haha.
Surely there's special forms used by entertainers and maybe geisha?
I never hear about those, unless maybe they don't exist (yeah, right).
P.S. Yes I know my name is male. I do it to annoiy Japanophiles. Just like my tree named Mr. Bonsai-san. *brainplodes* XD
Is there a systam or whay?
Anyway, this will come very in handy whenever the guys at my gakkou decide to put together a "jidai geki" sort of play hehe... xD