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Usagi Tsukino

Nukora

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After learning the Japanese word for "moon" today, it finally occurred to me why Sailor Moon's last name was Tsukino. It means "of the moon".

 

Also today, I went through some Kanji with no intention of memorizing any (except the numbers 1-3 because they're easy). And now, I keep picturing the Kanji when translating into Japanese, but forget the pronunciation/Hiragana/Katakana. Examples of this are 日 (hi)[day] and the numbers.

 

You know what annoys me about Kanji? It's perfectly fine when some Hiragana and Katakana are the same. Less letters to learn. But when a Kanji is identical to a Hiragana/Katakana, and the two aren't even pronounced the same, it's tough. Like the Kanji for "mouth" looks a lot like the Katakana "ro".

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Hahli Husky

Rabbit of the moon, yeah. :lol: I think in the english translation of the manga they dub her "Bunny." She goes by so many names ... Serena not being my favorite, since seeing that name makes me think of Terri Hawkes squealing "OOOHHH DARIEN! OOHHHH!"

 

Japanese will spin you right round like that. Many people are determined that, apart from english, it's the hardest language to learn.

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Nukora

Maybe if you have to write in their symbols (namely, Kanji; the others aren't hard). But with Romaji I'd say it's fairly easy. Sure, the verbs have some freakish mutations (which would be conjugations in any other language but I call these mutations. :P ), but the grammar is elsewise rather simple.

 

And at least the pronunciation has a standard to it. >>

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