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Comment by Bernard Cleary on December 5, 2009 at 10:50am

It's "hiiroo", i.e.,"Hero."

Comment by David Paul Appell on December 5, 2009 at 10:10am

Konichi wa! Can anyone help me in transliterating a song name? Thanks!!!

ヒーロー

Comment by Antony John Paul Hathaway on October 14, 2009 at 5:32pm

I studied both at Durham Uni in England, some 16 years ago, and tho' my Chinese is way rusty, my Japanese is still very fluent. I agree Jose, Chinese grammar is easy, and once you get beyond hanzi, not too difficult to pronounce. Lived in Japan for many years but now back in the UK, finding it difficult to keep it up. Living in the country is really the only way to go

Comment by José Balido on October 14, 2009 at 12:55pm

That's why I stopped... 'twas hard to handle Chinese & Japanese at the same time. People don't realize how easy Chinese is, once you get past the writing system.

Comment by Bernard Cleary on October 14, 2009 at 12:17pm

I have not tried Rosetta Stone. I took a semester of Japanese at UW in 1990, and two years of weekend classes at a school affiliated with a Buddhist temple in San Francisco--3 hours weekly on Saturday mornings. Learned quite a lot, but I hardly use it, so it's very rusty. I found it maddeningly complicated after Chinese!

Comment by José Balido on October 14, 2009 at 12:10pm

Wish I'd studied more Japanese! Anybody ever try one of those Rosetta Stone language learning software things? They're quite expensive, but if they're as good as they say...........

Comment by Bernard Cleary on October 14, 2009 at 11:44am

やった！簡単ですね！どうも！

Comment by Antony John Paul Hathaway on October 14, 2009 at 11:30am

Just press the space bar!

Comment by Bernard Cleary on October 14, 2009 at 11:17am

I am having trouble configuring the Windows IME for Japanese (XP operating system). I've got it installed, but when I type, I only get hiragana, and don't know how to get the pop up choice menus to choose the appropriate Kanji. Anyone know how?

Comment by Bernard Cleary on October 14, 2009 at 10:15am

Never mind. Just googled it: "What's new." So it looks like it literally means "is there (any)thing that has changed"...maa ne!

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