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Japanese for Ham QSOs -- Part 2
Those of you who have been bravely trying out your Japanese on
hapless JAs will want to go beyond the few phrases I gave you in
the December issue of Ye Olde Rf Output. Remember, place equal
stress on each syllable. I mark long syllables by doubling the
final vowel. Where I believe the Hepburn transliteration could be
misleading, I have placed a similar sounding english sound in
brackets. For example shi[she]. This means that everytime you see
the transliteration shi you will pronounce it as "she".
Your can improve your Japanese pronunciation by getting used to
hearing the language. Tune in the Radio Japan International
broadcast in Japanese on 5.960 MHz every night at 9 PM EST and
listen for awhile. You will soon be able to pick out the syllabic
units I am separating with dashes here. Notice the equal stress on
each syllable. You will also hear changes in pitch within words.
Don't worry about this pitch accent in Japanese; only rarely does
it change the meaning of a word.
Radio Japan also broadcasts a Japanese language lesson during
the last ten or fifteen minutes of the hour-long English language
broadcast which begins at 10 PM on 5.960 MHz. Listening to spoken
Japanese as you begin to study Japanese is very helpful. There is
nothing worse than learning bad pronunciation and then working
hard later on to repair the damage.
There was a misprint in the first Japanese phrase on page 5 of
the December issue of Ye Olde Rf Output.
To-te-mo ta-no-shi[she] QSO o do-mo a-ri-ga-to go-zai-ma-shi-
ta. Thank you for a very enjoyable QSO.
You don't need to master this pronunciation guide to produce
recognizable Japanese, since Japanese pronunciation is very easy.
But at least take a look at it. This guide will help you pronounce
Japanese more accurately.
Brief Pronunciation Guide
a [as al in calm but shorter] ka sa [sah] ta
i [as e in set] ki [key] shi [she] chi [chee]
u [as oo in soon but shorter] ku su [sue] tsu [ts lights]
e [as in set] ke [kay] se [say] te [tay]
o [as aw in law but shorter] ko so to
na ha ma ya ra [short la]
ni hi [he] mi ri [short lee]
nu hu mu yu ru [short lou]
ne [nay] he [hey] me [may but shorter] re [short lay]
no ho mo yo ro [short low]
Su-mi-ma-sen ga (QRM) (QRN) (ni-hon-go ga heta) kara (QTH) (na-mae)
ga wa-ka-ri-ma-sen-de-shi-ta. I'm sorry, but because of (QRM)
(QRN) (my poor Japanese) I didn't get your (QTH) (name).
Moo i-chi-do ku-da-sai. Please repeat one more time.
QSL kaa-do wa bu-roo ni tsu-ji-tte o-ku-ri-ma-su. I will send you
the QSL card via the bureau.
Kyoo wa (ii) (a-tsu-i) (su-zu-shi) (sa-mu-i) ten-ki desu. The
weather is (fine) (hot) (cool) (cold) today.
Yu-ki ga fu-ri-ma-shi-ta kara ko-do-mo-ta-chi wa tai-hen yo-ro-ko-
bi-ma-shi-ta. The children are very happy because snow fell.
Ri-gu wa (Kenwood) (Icom) (Ya-e-su) (etc.) desu.
Numbers in Japanese
1 i-chi 2 ni 3 san 4 yon 5 go 6 ro-ku
7 shi-chi 8 ha-chi 9 kyu 10 juu 11 juu-i-chi
12 juu-ni 13 juu-san 20 ni-juu 21 ni-juu-i-chi
30 san-juu 40 yon-juu 50 go-juu 60 ro-ku juu 70 shi-chi-juu
80 ha-chi juu 90 kyuu-juu 100 hya-ku 135 hya-ku san-juu-go
200 ni-hya-ku 300 san-hya-ku 1000 sen 10,000 man
1,000,000 hya-ku man
Cardinals
(Things) 1 hi-to-tsu 2 fu-ta-tsu 3 mi-ttsu 4 yo-ttsu
(People) 1 hi-to-ri 2 fu-ta-ri 4 san-nin 4 yon-nin etc.
(Time -- o'clock) 1 i-chi-ji 2 ni-ji 3 san-ji
4 yo-ji 5 go-ji 6 ro-ku ji 7 shi-chi ji
8 ha-chi-ji 9 ku-ji 10 juu-ji 11 juu-i-chi-ji
12 juu-ni-ji
I-ma a-me-ri-ka no hi-ga-shi kai-gan de wa go-go no ro-ku-ji de-
su. It is now 6 PM on the east coast of the USA.
I-ma ni-hon de wa (a-sa) (go-zen) no ha-chi-ji san-juu ni fun. In
Japan it is now 8:32 (AM) (in the morning).
A-me-ri-ka jin no he-ta ni-hon-go no ha-tsu-on o ki-ki-ma-shi-ta-
ka-ra [Tono]-san no mi-mi ga i-tai de-su ka? U-re-shi-te ku-da-sai.
Do your ears hurt from listening to an American's awful Japanese
pronunciation? Please forgive me.
Kyoo wa hi[he]-joo ni sa-mu-i ten-ki de-su. On-do wa re-i ka juu
do ku-rai desu. It is very cold today. The temperature is about
10 degrees (Celsius) below zero.
You should be starting to get a feel for Japanese sentence
structure. The basic word order is subject-object-predicate. Often
the subject is understood and omitted. The particle "wa" marks the
subject. "De-su" at the end of the subject is a form of the verb
"to be". "No" means of, "ka-ra" means from. Hang in there. Soon you
will be able to compose your own Japanese sentences.
73 de Dave WA1LBP
contact: WA1LBP@N4QQ