Help talk:Japanese

message: Slight change of wording and I added a little to the pronounciation. The way it was written before wasn't of much use as it didn't actually indicate some of the pronounciations but rather referred to them. The IPA guide is completely useless if you're not a linguist (I'm rather well versed in linguistics and I still can't look at IPA) but I'm still having trouble explaining pronounciation for gutteral stops (double consonants) and syllabic /n/ when followed by a vowel (a la 万円 man'en). Appreciate input for those 2 cases.  freshgavin TALK   05:11, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard the small tsu pronounced in different ways, e.g. やっと "ya-ato" like it was written *やあと, even though that doesn't seem to be the textbook way to do it. Okay, that was in a song, but still... Shinobu 19:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's only in music that they pronounce it that way. Just try to produce a gutteral stop at the top of your lungs (in rhythm with music) and you'll see why.    freshgavin TALK    16:24, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I don't want to be bothered with IPA if I don't have to.  Most western hemisphere readers are familiar with the vowels of Spanish, and most Europeans are familiar with those of Italian, and if you can use those sounds, getting it right is just a matter of altering your accent a bit. Unfree (talk) 20:53, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewording

message: The example images are using a mincho font while the page CSS sets a gothic font so even if you have Japanese set up correctly the text and the image won't match. --Doc aberdeen 23:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example images of how the characters should look like 

message: I'd like to see this article say something about the use of furigana in Wikipedia. In the English language article on the topic, it is achieved by the use of HTML tables. Michiganotaku 00:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia talk: Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). ムーカオズルール(Talk to Moo) 04:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of furigana in Wikipedia 

message: The page claims that installation is required to display Japanese text on Ubuntu, however I could view the Japanese text perfectly after a clean install.
:Not only that but they don't have sudo on that command.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.252.48.81 (talk) 04:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Installation on Ubuntu 

message: Coming here from Sailor Uranus, I was curious about a Japanese name with an apostrophe in it: Ten'ō Haruka. There's no information on this page as to what that apostrophe does or represents. 91.107.146.1 (talk) 21:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mentioned under the Help:Japanese#Moraic n section. Basically it's to distinguish Tenō てのう (pronounced as: TE-NOH) from Ten'ō てんおう (for example 天応, which means "Ten'ō era") (pronounced as: TEN-OH). I hope this helps. - Io Katai (talk) 04:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apostrophe? 

message: Since I lack abilities to add japanese names (obviously because the PC won't let me translate English to Japanese), here are the articles that must be improved by Japanese users:
*MotorStorm (though it released in US and EU as well, placing a Japanese name for this article is vital to improve this article)
*Excite Truck (the same as Excitebike, except truck is torakku in japanese)
*Ridge Racer 7
*Burnout Paradise (japanese players are seen driving around during Freeburn)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.45.52.142 (talk) 00:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Improvements (Request)