More Japanese Translation

The Dude · #1 06-07-2005, 01:02 AM

Okay, I need help with another Japanese phrase. What does Hajimemashite yoroshiku onegaishimasu~! mean?

Also, does anybody know a good Japanese-English translator site? The first four I tried couldn't give me anything for this phrase, and they all donked out on me trying to figure out how to say "hello" as well.

Thanks.

tbach24 · #2 06-07-2005, 01:04 AM

babelfihs by altavista might work, i dunno tho u might need the weird characters they have

The Dude · #3 06-07-2005, 01:05 AM

babelfish is the first site I tried, no dice.

ClassicBob · #4 06-07-2005, 01:08 AM

konichiwa, bitches

rusty JEDI · #5 06-07-2005, 01:50 AM

No idea what the first word means, but its something about shite.

The last two words are something i remember practicing on the plane for when we got off and met the people picking us up. I think it means something like hello pleased to meet you or something like that.

rJ

PokerCat69 · #6 06-07-2005, 02:22 AM

'konichiwa' means hello, or how are you.

mason55 · #7 06-07-2005, 02:23 AM

I'm starting to get curious why you're asking all these questions about Japanese. Planning a Godzilla attack or something?

incognito · #8 06-07-2005, 02:24 AM

Hajime mashite was covered in the other thread. It's something you say when meeting a person for the first time, most often translated as "How do you do?" for some reason I don't understand, having never encountered that phrase in English outside of the Alistair Sims version of A Christmas Carol.

Yoroshiku and onegai shimasu are both used in many different situations, but here you could probably translate the pair as "Pleased to meet you."

There are several different levels of respect in spoken Japanese, depending on whether you're talking to someone you know, someone you don't know, someone who is your superior, etc. Generally you add more and longer words the more polite you're trying to be. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu is very polite, even more polite than dozo yoroshiku.

The Dude · #9 06-07-2005, 02:25 AM

Somebody I recently met and started exchanging emails with spent a year or so in Japan and speaks the language pretty well. I wanted to say "hello," and now I want to know what she is saying back to me. So far all the online translators I've found suck pretty bad at Japanese to English.

mason55 · #10 06-07-2005, 02:26 AM

Oh [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Godzilla was a much more exiciting thought.