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lillithium

Japanese quiz - idiom phrases part I

Jan 04, 2009 20:52

Here's a little quiz for those who are interested in Japanese.

One of the many interesting characteristics of Japanese is that there are many idiomatic expressions that use body parts to infer their meanings. For example: 口[くち]に合[あ]う（kuchi ni au） - to match one's mouth - means to suit one's taste (of food). Another example: the phrase 目[め]が高[ ( Read more... )

poll, japanese

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catsintheattic January 4 2009, 13:13:56 UTC

That was fun!

I'm looking forward to the answers and the second part. :-)

lillithium January 4 2009, 13:26:21 UTC

So glad to hear that you enjoyed! I was worried that the quiz was a bit too long.

ldybastet January 4 2009, 13:45:30 UTC

I always enjoy your quizzes, even if I have to guess wildly (and get most of them wrong). :D They're fun, and this one was definitely one that gave me a bit of a headache! ;)

lillithium January 4 2009, 14:04:02 UTC

I'm glad that you enjoyed. It took me a bit of time to format this one.

Idiomatic phrases give me headache, too! I've spent so much time learning the language and still don't know some of them.

Answers coming up tomorrow. :-)

waterbird January 4 2009, 15:21:02 UTC

That was fun, random guessing and all! It will be interesting to see how we did. I'm especially interested in the ones we all seem to have agreed on. Thanks for putting this together!

lillithium January 5 2009, 01:08:31 UTC

You're welcome. I got to learn/revise some of these phrases too!

Will post the answers tonight!

kamapon January 4 2009, 15:29:56 UTC

I'm doing it now!! I can't wait to go there in March! ^0^

lillithium January 5 2009, 01:09:40 UTC

Hope you enjoyed the quiz! Have you reserved your flight yet? :-)

kamapon January 5 2009, 06:41:09 UTC

YES!!! and my Hotel as well! I'l be there on March 4th and I'm leaving on March 14th=D

Is there any chance we could meet?^^

And the quiz is REALLY interesting, really, you should do some kind of list about this. and you know, I've got a Japanese comm, that t's in Spanish but it'd be very useful, it's called benkyo_benkyo if you wanna check (although, as I said it's in Spanish....^^u

lillithium January 5 2009, 07:27:43 UTC

We sure can meet! Let's email each other in mid Feb then! :-D

Thanks for letting me know about the comm. I can't read Spanish though so I'm afraid I can't do much about :-(

BTW, I don't mean to be impolite or to show off or anything, but the Japanese "welcome" at the info page of the comm should be "いらっしゃいませ" (the っ is missing)

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moia January 4 2009, 16:32:39 UTC

That was fun, but quite difficult. :) I'm glad I don't have to learn all this by heart. Do you miss teaching? Just a little bit? :)

lillithium January 5 2009, 01:15:30 UTC

Yeah I find them difficult too. Even though I've been learning the language forever I still don't know many of them.

Yes I miss teaching - it's unfortunate that I'm not good at it, or else I would have tried to find a teaching job.