User talk:Nesnad/sandbox/Greetings
Greeting people isn't that hard. It just depends on what time of day it is. In the morning Johnny would say:
| Johnny |
おはようございます 
|
| Good morning |
Now lets time travel into the future a little bit. In the afternoon Mary would say...
| Mary |
| こんにちは
|
| Good afternoon (hello) |
| *** WARNING: は is special and pronounced |
| like a WA sound. Also, don't fall into the |
| bad habit of saying KAN for the start. |
| Its KON. OK. Go back to using non-English |
| letters to read Japanese. |
Yawn... it's getting late, did we get in the time machine again? It's evening!
| Johnny |
| こんばんは
|
| Good evening |
| *** Same WARNING as the one above. |
Nice. But what about if Johnny and Mary meet and they want to know how each other are doing? Pretty easy, let's listen in.
| Johnny |
| げんきですか？
|
| Are you OK? |
| Mary |
| はい、げんきです.
|
| Yes, I'm fine. |
| ～ Language note of interest! ～ |
| げんき literally means something like base of your spirit/mood so people |
| speaking Japanese are asking if you have vigor or energy or something. |
| But "Are you vigorous? Yes, I am." just doesn't translate right! |
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