Katakana

[MrGiggles]

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I can't figure mine out. I'm bad at this.

[jamuko]

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I'm sorry, Squeek. Blame the English language.

Hehehe. I guess you'd have no way of knowing, except from assumption since names ending in "ko" tend to be female (Haruko, Kyoko, Yuuko, etc.)... which is a pretty good assumption indeed.

As for the m/n thing... I don't know what the official rules are, but I know Afro's right about them replacing "m"s with "n"s sometimes, like コンピューター (konpyuutaa = computer). You can usually just play it by ear, and using one just sounds better than the other.

スクイ一句

Haha... did you really have a character with a kanji at the end like that? My kanji knowledge is rather limited, but according to Babelfish, that kanji means "phrase"... making your name sound right, but mean "Squee Phrase". XD Which is actually pretty funny since it kind of makes sense in a way.

I think スクィーック　sounded best (which is basically "Sukuiikku" like you signed it). The little ッ makes the "k"-sound harder, and the little ィ just smooths out the "kui"-sound so it's more like one syllable instead of two.

Q, I think you were right.

MrGiggles, I'd say it's ミスターギッグルス (misutaa giggurusu). I guess. Maybe you could use an extended 'a' sound for the "Giggles" part instead, but it sounds weird (Mr. Giggers XD ).

This is fun. I like this stuff too much.

私はジャムコです。日本語が大～好きです！！

[Squeek]

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Yeah, that one looks like it. I think the crazy Kanji one is the second character I made without your help.

I shall never do that again.

~Squeek

[jewpinthethird]

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The Q is right = ザ・キュー or simply キュー

[QreepyBORIS]

Anyone wanna give me the Katakana to "What is the Asian Civilization homework?" please?

[jewpinthethird]

ワット・イズ・ザ・アジアのホームワーク？

[Bursurk_Lurk]

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My ファッキング・インタネット name is ジューパン.

My host family called me オ・ザック！

ジューパン = The Jewish pan

according to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ XD

[QreepyBORIS]

ワット・イズ・ザ・アジアのホームワーク？

English transliteration, please? :P

[Bursurk_Lurk]

ワット・イズ・ザ・アジアのホームワーク？

English transliteration, please? :P

Watt is the Asian homework

according to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ once again

I can't read japanese letters, so I use that site to translate lmao

[jamuko]

ワット・イズ・ザ・アジアのホームワーク？

English transliteration, please? :P

"Watto izu za ajia no ho-muwa-ku?"

What is the Asia's homework? XD Kinda weird mixing Japanese and English grammar together in there.

Edit: Oh, "Asian". I see what you did there. Shouldn't it have been ノ instead of の, in that case? Or maybe just... ン?

[Tokzic]

I think "takasuke" is much more accurate than "tokkujikku". Or is there some rule I'm missing?

I really have to learn katakana if I want to continue drawing manga...

[Varia]

Drawing manga has nothing to do with being able to speak Japanese. You are, after all, American.

[Tokzic]

Drawing manga has nothing to do with being able to speak Japanese. You are, after all, American.

Canadian, actually.

And it's more the fact that I deal with Japanese people on a regular basis when it comes to manga, am being constantly bombarded with the suggestion to publish in Japan before North America, and am just interested in the language. I'm not the typical Japanese fanboy, mind you, but it's probably going to be of more use to me then French. Crazy Quebecois.

[Afrobean]

Canadians are technically American.

PS takujiku is what I'd say for yours... based on the spelling it sounds NOTHING like takasuke. Firstly, if the desired sound has no ending vowel sound, it's always ended in a "u" sound unless it's a ta or da sound, in which case it's to or do. Secondly, the ji sound in Japanese is much closer to something like "zee" than you'd think. The Japanese ji is not a hard J sound if you know whata I mean. Thirdly, I wish I would have had room for independent study Japanese this year... I feel like I'm going to forget it all.

[Tokzic]

To me, "Tokzic" is "Toxic". It sounds the same if you say it at a quick, casual speed.

Plus I only spelled it that way because "Toxic" was taken in the first place and numbers are for people like bob102983849.

P.S.: No, I'm not a Britney Spears fan.