for my own use..

[beanside]

Though if anyone has suggestions on other good sites...

http://www.iej.uem.br/rank.htm

http://www.docoja.com:8080/kanji/keykanj?dbname=kokug&keyword=sex&stype=-1&dbmess=10

http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Cpl_H.T.W_Ashington/html/japanese_words.htm

Comments

[lomer.livejournal.com]

Just for clarification, what sorts of information are you looking for? I can definitely see that this story will deal with Japanese culture, but I'm not sure exactly what kind of nuggets of info you want. *g* I'd love to help though! I love hunting for into.

[beanside.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. They were a little squirley, weren't they?

I'm looking for Japanese language (phonetic pronunciations),
plus, some culture. I'm looking at a weirdass futuristic romance that happened to pop into my brain during a migraine flare that had me up in the wee hours of the morning.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can find!

[niccy07.livejournal.com]

sorry, I'm not sure what your looking for. Japanese military references?

[beanside.livejournal.com]

More Japanese phonetic language.


*shrug* Those were some f-ed up references weren't they?

[niccy07.livejournal.com]

haha. Just a little- funny thing is I think I would have been more useful with the military refrences.

I'll see what I can find.

[pineapplejack.livejournal.com]

delurks. i spent some months studying/living in Japan.

if you want a decent Japanese language site (e.g. dictionary, kanji/character dictionary, names/places, etc.) www.nihongoresources.com is not bad and it gives links to other Japanese language sites.

for a random pop cultural site www.pinktentacle.com is pretty fun (and despite the name, it is not a porn site). there are so many Japanese cultural sites out there, that you might have to be a little bit more specific in what you want.

in terms of pronoucing Japanese, it's pretty easy as words are generally pronouced the way they are transliterated/romanised. um, so the way you say a mora (smallest unit of sound, similar to a syllable e.g. society = shakai = sha-ka-i = 3 moras) or a letter will generally not change regardless of its context. I hope that made sense.

for example, you want to ask what is your name - お名前は何ですか[tranlitered into: onamae ha nan desu ka]
it's pronouced as oh-na-mah-eh wa [this is a special character, it is generally spoken as 'ha', but in other caes as 'wa'] na-n de-su [most ppl tend to slur 'su' so de-su becomes des] ka.

I hope this helps, and hasn't made it more confusing.