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Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Kudingkingboy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:08 -0000

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Himura Kenshin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:48:47 -0000

Sessha wa Rurouni, de gozaru yo!

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

koichi — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:13:33 -0000

I'm sure there were local 弁s, probably more then than now, but this is
mostly old style talk, rather than a dialect. You won't really hear people
talking like this anymore, unless they're doing it to be funny, or in a
Samurai movie.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

neildingman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:15:20 -0000

This is very interesting article, Koichi. Just to satisfy my inner おたく, the 武士 Japanese is this a local 弁 that was somewhere between 敬語 and common form?

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Tobias — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:44:15 -0000

Wooow ... but what if want to sound like a valley girl /samurai how can I do that? should I end my sentences with でござるする? just joking. Only wanted to thank you Koichi-san, all your help have been priceless! Your articles just make my way to the japanese more interesting.
頑張ってくださいこういち-さん、2011年、明けましておめでとうございます.
or:
頑張ってくださいこういち-どの、2011年、明けましておめでとうでござる (I think it will sound like a Samurai/Transvestite).
May The Lord bless you!.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

RyeoKi_Haruma — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:15:20 -0000

thanks! But what I've heard so far, they use 'sumanai' or 'suman' as a replacement for arigatou i think.. but whatever! Thanks anyway! I've been watching Samurai High School and this is a real help! =D

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

saki — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:55:05 -0000

haha
samurai didnt say 〜まんねん, because it is Osaka's word.
but people who live in osaka dont use that word NOW.
and 心配御無用 is an affirmative sentence. no negative sentence.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Tsubasa — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:58:44 -0000

It is fun to see reactions especially when you use it in front of those who thought that they had mastered the langauge. My friend went bonkers when I talk to her using almost everything here.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Dan-kun — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:50:09 -0000

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

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

jim — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:56:19 -0000

'degozaru' is a plain form/dictionary verb yeah?

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

GJB995 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:55:47 -0000

How are you saposed to remamber when to pronunce the Us or the Os?

Is there a systam or whay?

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Rinji — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:58:24 -0000

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

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Maciel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:10:12 -0000

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

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

S2 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:51:47 -0000

SAMURAI CHAMPLOO!! 0.0

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

mmnessa — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:58:14 -0000

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

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Guest — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:08:11 -0000

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.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

mmnessa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:59:37 -0000

haha! that's hilarious, I think I'll try it

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

mmnessa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:57:57 -0000

no, I'm pretty sure he was talking like an idiot, not like a samurai :P

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

mmnessa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:56:48 -0000

man that website is genius...one of my favorites, the graphics are sick ><

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

S2 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:42:13 -0000

Lol I might use this in everday life

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Lonna — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:43:13 -0000

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....

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Bi-chan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:22:24 -0000

man thank you so much for that website!!!!

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Zane — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:37:39 -0000

Haha, it'd be nice to be able to speak Japanese properly first, but thankyou for the lovely info Koichi :D *Gets out Genki*

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

Fredy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:15:22 -0000

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.

Re: How to Talk Like a Samurai

zattsu-ooru — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:19:31 -0000

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.