English / Japanese language group? 英語/日本語のグループか。

Hello! I would like to start a group for people to learn English and Japanese. We could meet for an hour every week or every second week. Is anyone else interested?

こんにちは! 英語及び日本語を学び私は人々のためのグループを始めることを望む。私達は1 時間会うことができるあらゆる週かあらゆる第2 週。他のだれでも興味を起こさせられるか。

(Apologies for the poor translation. I'm using Babelfish.

Hi Hiro,
Wonderful idea! But I thought you were a Japanese-American or something, looking at your builds and products

Let me suggest a translation as the machine translation actually doesn't make sense at all;



上の投稿の訳：
こんにちは。英語と日本語を勉強したい人のためのグループを設立しようと考えているのですが、興味のある人はいらっしゃいますか？　毎週あるいは隔週、１時間ほど集まって勉強するという形態を考えてます。

You can always find someone to try out your Japanese at Ama-No-Iwato (see my Picks), which is a temporary hangout (or quarantine ) for Japanese speaking players. Currently many of us are busy building in the new JP grid, but I'm sure there are many who'd be interested in your idea. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Well, I'm certainly interested. I crammed a fair bit of japanese earlier this year, but too much of it has been dribbling out of my head because I have no real opportunity to use it.
Timezones could be an issue.

Hi, Yeah I'm interested in meeting up and learning some Japanese. IM me in game

I'm interested too

Hey..me too.

Seeing as I'm moving back to Tokyo I better start cramming

Finally! a place to learn more! Just in time too, my brain is shrinking. Looking forward to catching this

Watashi mo!

IM me with meeting time, onegaishimasu.

Sladezor, Chie, Wheel, Hiro, my friends!
Woo this would be a blast!

I am helping Chie build stuff in new JP grid, and I look forward to learn more.
Count me in!

elka-chan n_n" heehee

Count me in!!!

Im taking japanese 2 this semester and I could definitly use some japanese conversation experience. I'll be happy to hhelp someone practice english n exchange.

my computer can input japanese ???

できますよ。チャットやIMでは問題ありませんが、ノートカードやスクリプトエディタでは日本語を扱えないようです。この問題は修正中だそうです。
The in-world chat/IM can handle Japanese characters OK, but notecard/script editor can't. Makiko Linden told me they are working on it.

マックの場合は、何もしなくてもオッケーです。私はATOKですが問題ないです。（このフォーラムに投稿する場合のブラウザは、SafariじゃなくてFirefoxがおすすめ）
If you're on a Mac, there should be no problem. Simply enable a Japanese Input Method in your System Preference and type away (But use Firefox instead of Safari when posting in the forums as Safari sucks at handling two-byte charsets.)

WinのひとはUnicodeフォントをインストールしないといけないらしいです。日本語Wikiをご参照ください。
http://www4.atwiki.jp/secondlife/pages/18.html

Otherwise, follow Bond's advice in another thread;

Arial unicode fonts can be downloaded at Sourceforge;
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vietunicode/Aruniupd.exe?download
Non-exe version can be found here;
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/Mplayer/contrib/font/arialuni.ttf.bz2

I have no idea about the Linux client

日本語がちゃんと表示されるかテストしたければ、いつでもIMしてください。

funny thing... those question marks WERE japanese charachters. interesting how the became question marks... I was using safari

Mm, did you remember to tell Safari that you were dealing with UTF-8 (Unicode), instead of ISO-8859-1 (Default for most computers distributed in the USA -- en_US)?


The above-quoted text should be in Japanese.
You may have to turn off any sort of auto-detect features of your browser to get it to behave -- I had to tell Firefox, "YOU IDIOT! Unicode. Not Western. UNICODE." before I could preview with anything beyond keyboard vomit and question marks.

I would love to learn japanese as well. I have made some efforts into learning it recently, but would like some more help. I think a group would be fine.

Also it seems to me like somone might find a niche as a japanense tutor in SL. I think the potential for SL as a language learning tool could be very interesting. In any case If somone wants to help out I am interested.

Also it would be nice to talk to people about modern Japanses trends, in style, lifestyle and fashion.

I'd be interested in such a group... I've taken enough years of Japanese classes that I really should be good enough for conversation by now (not saying I am... but we'll see). Anyway, if anything's happening with this just let me know.

If anybody is serious about organizing a group to learn japanese (or english as a language exchange) IM me inworld when im online(i get a lot and cant check my email), or post here in the forum. I can teach beginner through advanced (pre-undergraduate) Japanese but do not have the time to organize a decent project at the moment...

Would be happy to collaborate though ^^....

Shane G.

I'm getting started in finishing learning Japanese. It's been a hobby, starting to learn, for the last few years and since I'm getting ready to actually visit I thought I'd better finally learn.
It'd be goodly to find and talk to people who actually speak it, beyond my teacher.

watashi mo

My japanese skills are not great. I soaked up hiragana and katakana, and a couple hundred kanji (for meanings at least), plus assorted vocabulary and grammar. Short of exchanging a few words here and there with folks whose online time only barely intersects with mine though, I've not had an opportunity to use it, and I fear that it's all dribbling out the bottom of my skull. Suddenly, while I look at hiragana, I'm having to sound it out again, and there are huge gaps in my vocuabulary, and I'm starting to forget how to conjugate desu O_o

We've obviously not managed much of a get-together time, but perhaps we can link up a bit. Someone I can IM/talk to in hiragana or romaji just for the sake of practise, to try to get me up to about a decent first grade level would be nice. I hardly know enough words for a conversation, though, so I'd have to learn as I went.

Considering I'm working on some scripted products for Japanes/English use (like darumas and mankei nekos and auto-omikuji...) I should learn a bit more Japanese, no?

Hi there,

Did anyone create an actual group in SL? I would love to join, and meet up when I have a chance. I speak Japanese to a moderate degree (I have a lot of speaking experience but my vocabulary is still pretty lacking) but I hopefully know enough to help out beginners. For the last 4 years, I've spent almost half my time in Japan (and half in US). In fact, I'm in Sapporo in Hokkaido right now It's a lovely city

Also, I just got one of my Japanese friends to sign-up but he doesnt have a clue about SL still, so I'm sure he'd be interested in meeting up with lots of Japanese speaking people.

I heard a couple of people mention the JP grid. Is this a whole separated grid? Or a bunch of islands/mainland sims on the regular grid? I'd love to check it out.

じゃ、またね。つまらない仕事に戻らないと。。。。。

白黒

Hi Shirokuro

Your friend may find Japan Newbie's Club (I'm not sure if this is the exact name) useful. There are a lot of Japanese players willing to help in that group, including me. There is also a group called SL Japan which has a lot more non-Japanese speaking members (http://sljapan.nm.land.to/).

As for the JP grid, it's not actually a seperate grid but an island of 6 sims to which only the project members have access for now. I believe it will be open to everyone in October.

...Sheesh, am I the only Japanese who's checking this forum?

Snakekiss Noir also has two Japanese sims where people can buy (japanese-style) houses and do merchant activity, etc. I have momentarily forgotten the names. The snow one is cooler.

*Edit: The snow Japan sim is "Orelle." Still can't think of the other one.

Hey, if you do decide on a time and place, let me know about this. My kana skills are shot, and I remember only bits and pieces. The culture thing is a good idea too. Maybe we can set up a separate group for designers/builders or those just interested at a seperate time? Just a little gohan for thought.

jaa ne

Sorry, I've been very busy getting together the SL Community Convention. In a few weeks I'll be far less busy and I'd like to start chatting with some folks