Learn Japanese with Advertisements: Pachinko

Posted on 15. Jun, 2006 @ 1:08 am by in Language Views: 492

Let’s learn Japanese with stupid advertisements!

The blue text in the middle…

あなたの「したい」はここにある

パチンコ　＆　スロット

anatono “shitai” ha kokoniaru

pachinko & slot

“what you want to do”, is right here.

I dunno… I don’t really wanna do Pachinko and Slot Machines…
Now for the warning label in the lower left. How maniac is this? We’re reading the fine print… in Japanese! Rock on!

Translation:

18歳未満の方のご入場はお断りしております。

18sai miman no kata no gonyuujyou ha o kotowari shiteorimasu.

(We will) Deny entry to people under 18 years of age.

駅構内•車内の「携帯電話のご利用マナー」にご協力ください。

eki kounai • syanai no “keitai denwa no goriyou manaa” ni gokyouryoku kudasai
Please cooperate with the “cell phone usage manners” when inside the train or car.

- Harvey

BTW, how many people reading this site are studying Japanese? I wonder if these language introductions are of any interest.

  • http://digitalian.blogspot.com Jacke

    I just finished my first year of Japanology, so to me it’s quite interesting. Apart from the wonky translations… (構内 and 社内 I get as “within the premises” and “within the company”.)

    And personally I would prefer a Hepburn variant for transliteration.

  • Roger

    nihongo ga wakarimasen.

    Jackie- the “shanai” on the poster is not the same character you used, and you ignored the “eki” kanji on the poster. Why?

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    You know, I didn’t even mention the big black title on top. The あってよかった thing written 逢って好かった。

    I have never seen 良かった written with that 好き Kanji. What’s up with that?

    I think it is 嫌がらせ。

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Hey. What is a Hepburn varient for transliteration?

  • http://digitalian.blogspot.com Jacke

    Because I just copy-pasted the “shanai” from the post. And then in a failed attempt at logic I ignored the “eki” since I didn’t see how it fit together with pachinko. Hope my response satisfied you rogerino.

    You could probably find more at wikipedia, but the Hepburn romanization styles emphasize more how the words sound when read, ie. は as a particle becomes “wa”, しゃ becomes “sha”, etc.

  • http://digitalian.blogspot.com Jacke

    Hm. That last comment got fudged up. I shouldn’t try to use html at 3 am, I guess.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com Harvey

    I see, thanks for the hepburn explaination.

    I never did much with roomaji in my studies, so it’s all funky and 適当。

    Where were you copy pasting roomaji in to get translations? All the online dictionaries I am familar with work with Japanese text.

    This is cool. I wonder how many other people on this blog study Japanese…

  • Jakal

    i just started studying it.
    or rather i have been on and off for about a year. more off than on till recently.
    and my classes start in a couple months.

  • Karth!

    Yo!
    i can read hiragana!! letz see how much i can remember once am out of Nippon!
    BTW u know any good “interactive” sites to learn this amazing language??

  • Roger

    Jackie, try using “Rikai.com” and go directly from the kanji to English. Romaji will just screw you up, as it is ambiguous (sha is 社 and 車).
    The transliteration style Harvey is using is basically typed Japanese, and how actual Japanese people would write it.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Actually as I was studying Japanese, my teachers went straight to Hiragana and Katakana, and never once had us memorize any proper form of roomaji.

    I understand why not, it would create the same kinds of problems that Japanese who learn language like French or Spanish in Katakana have.

    Because of that though, it took me forever to learn how to input characters like づ (typed: du, pronounced like zu) and katakana contraptions like ウィ (typed: wi, pronounced ui, like French ‘Oui’)

    As for online places to learn Japanese… I honestly… Don’t… Know! I’ll do some research on that. For Chinese I know plenty…

  • Shuming

    haha, good idea to learn Japanese.
    If I go to Japan again, I would open my eyes on anything.
    Hah, Harvey. I think if you were in China, all the pics would be Chinese.

  • http://digitalian.blogspot.com Jacke

    “try using “Rikai.com” and go directly from the kanji to English. Romaji will just screw you up, as it is ambiguous (sha is 社 and 車)”

    That’s what I did. Either it was changed afterwards or FF somehow mysteriously displayed the wrong kanji. (Btw, you keep misspelling my nick.)

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