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A Little Japanese On our site, we sometimes use words such as: nani, kuso, baka, chibi, and mirai. Well, this is a small dictionary that tells you what those things say on our site. kuso - pretty much translates to 'crud', 'darn' or even a 'damn'. nani - "What the..." or just "What?" shine - die baka - used to call someone stupid, or an idiot chibi - little mirai - future san - a suffix added to an elders' name to show respect Example: Piccolo-san sama - a suffix added to someone who is higher than anyone else, a lord, god, prince, etc etc. Example: Kami-sama shenlong - dragon; also is the Japanese name of the 'Eternal Dragon'. senshi - warrior or warriors sensei - master manga - Japanese comic book anime - 'animation': a Japanese cartoon kawaii - a noun which means 'cute' gomen - 'sorry' ki - a word which refers to the energy inside of everyone otaku - a big fan of something Now that you understand a few words, you need to know how to pronounce them. This area shows you how you pronounce all of the vowls in the Japanese language. note: this is the basic stuff, if you really want a real lesson on Japanese, go get a real teacher a - 'aw' ; like the word 'father' i - the the long 'e' sound ; as in the word 'hero' o - the long 'o' sound ; as in 'boat' or 'moe' u - the short 'u' sound ; 'Gokou' e - the long 'a' sound ; sounds like 'May' or 'okay' This is cool, thanks to this little thing, you can see how your name in pronounced in Japanese! Check it out! Your Name: