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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6147 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 1 of 5 18 December 2007 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought I had finally found a good japanese radio station, but when I began to listen
to it I realized that I didn't recognize a single sound. Must be the strangest japanese dialect I thought, as I at least had expected to be familiar with the basic intonation of the language. After a while they suddenly switched language to russian. It was a great relief as that proved that my intuition was right - I had previously been listening to chinese radio! Unfortunately, the sense of confusion has not left me yet. I became all stressed up by trying to fit that chinese into my limited knowledge of japanese. Hope I can kill the feeling with some REAL japanese radio. :D Edited by Fasulye on 22 February 2016 at 8:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6176 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 2 of 5 18 December 2007 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Good one! :-)))
This reminds me that when I was making my first steps with Japanese, I had a way of identifying Koreans: if it sounds Japanese but you can't understand a single word, it must be Korean! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6209 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 5 18 December 2007 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
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:) :) :)
You should not be intimidated. In TV or radio I usually recognise these languages, but when I hear them spoken, not always.... This happens, don´t worry, good luck to your Japanese!!!!! ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kewms Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 5 18 December 2007 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me, the key is the verb endings. In Japanese, the verb always comes at the end, and verb endings are very regular. So when you hear sentence after sentence ending in -います、you know it's Japanese.
FYI, I've tagged a bunch of links to Japanese radio stations in my del.icio.us collection: http://del.icio.us/kewms/japanese Katherine 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4925 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 5 of 5 14 February 2016 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Wait... Doesn't Chinese have many words and syllables with l and ng? How could you not recognize that it definitely wasn't Japanese? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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