Japanese

[nestlekwik]

Re: Japanese

Is there seriously no Japanese word for "classical"? Or do they just use a Japanization of the English word to differentiate between western classical music and their equivalent form of classical music.

My teacher does use a Japanese word for classical but I can't think of what it is at this moment. I know it's just using katakana to sound it out similar to the English word, so there may be different words to differentiate between the hemispheres.

[Belgarion]

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As far as that's concerned, 古典, 'koten' literally means 'classical' or 'classic', but I'm not quite sure how they would differentiate between the use of that or the katakana word.

EDIT: So 古典音楽, 'koten ongaku', means more or less the same thing as クラシック音楽, or 'kurashikku ongaku'.

[pokelda]

Re: Japanese

I don't really know much about this but i believe koten is referring to classical Japanese rather than classical European

[jimerax]

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Classic is 古典 if it is directly translated, but if you want to say classical music(music like orchestral music/symphony), クラシック音楽 fits better than 古典音楽.

[SethSquall]

Re: Japanese

So anyway,

なにがすきですか？

[Dimitri13]

Re: Japanese

So again, if we were talking about a specific subject like sports or food, you could ask that, but if you just said that out of the blue, we don't know what you're talking about.

[imagirlami]

Re: Japanese

Wow, a foreign language thread?!

Haha, this site has too much.

>.<

RAOR

[SethSquall]

Re: Japanese

So again, if we were talking about a specific subject like sports or food, you could ask that, but if you just said that out of the blue, we don't know what you're talking about.

Oh so you couldn't just ask it as in "what are you guys into?" sort of thing?

[lord_carbo]

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Is there seriously no Japanese word for "classical"? Or do they just use a Japanization of the English word to differentiate between western classical music and their equivalent form of classical music.

Rikaichan and Tangorin confirm クラシック音楽 for "classical music," obviously referring to Western, and "クラシック" for simply classical.

For more specification:

バロック音楽 - Baroque Music
ロマン派音楽 - Romantic Music

edit: o ok so basically I'm really late on the ball

[SethSquall]

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I thought I posted this lol. Guess not。

なんのたべものがすきですか？

Hopefully "what food do you like?" Anyone feel free to answer.

[Dimitri13]

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You really don't need the nan. the ka implies a qiuestion. It actually looks kinda weird with the nan.

[Aoryu]

Re: Japanese

So, quick question, is there a difference between the katakana ha and the kanji for hachi??

[Nyokou]

Re: Japanese

The ha for katakana has a straight, second stroke.

On the other hand, the kanji for hachi has a curvier second stroke, if that makes sense.