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Me neither |3

"Artdecade! It's Zangoose Day!"

"Oh, it is, isn't it."

"What is a Zangoose?"

This translation was much appreciated.

Thanks for translating. ^_^

僕にも

やっぱりこれ↑

It's a former pokemon. But the japanese have taken a liking to the character so much it kind of has become more than that.

One has to wonder why they latched on to that particular one...

i think one reason is because zangoo sounds like thank you???

Sankyuu? Well, they do love their puns... I really loved Niku Day a while back ;P

"former" pokemon?

he looks like a pokemon david bowie

I'm proud of myself because I can read a lot of that! XD

You're one cute roo!

Naturally this made me google zangoose. :I

I'm prepared for zangoose flood.

You better be careful with this... or folks are gonna ask you to translate shit XD

I wouldn't have thought your name would be Japanified to "Addekedo". Is the "t" in your name silent? o.o

In fact I think it would be more correct "アートデケード/Ātodekēdo"...

i used kana most that accurately depict the pronunciation rather than the spelling
like, in american english, a T at the end of a word is of a glottalization [ʔ], we don't really say "ar - teh," we say "arʔ"
so when you say artdecade it sounds more like "arʔ - dekeʔ"

Hmm, it seems right...

I thought how a Japanese would have translated that name (for example they translate "card" in "カート/kādo"), but I'm not American or English, so I can't know how exactly it is pronounced.

that's true, i'm sure aatodekeido would be how a japanese person would interpret the name because it makes the most sense just looking at the letters and using correct diction
but of course, how it's spelled and how it's said are often very different! :)

Yeah, you're right ^_^

Especially in languages like English or French, because other languages like Italian or Japanese don't have that "problem". That is also why it's kinda difficult for us to pronounce English words correctly (I'm Italian, by the way), because they're not written like they're pronounced, for us...

ah veramente??! anche studio l'italiano ma al momento focalizzo sul giapponese per i ragioni di business
ma vera, l'italiano e' molto facile leggere e' pronunciare. ma la grammatica... un incubo!!! la grammatica giapponese e' un sogno!

oops, i mean "leggere e pronunciare" haha

Wow, il tuo italiano è davvero buono :D Complimenti!
Anch'io spero di imparare bene il giapponese un giorno, ma per ora so solo i kana, qualche kanji e qualche frase ^_^
How many other languages do you know? My two main foreign languages are English and Spanish, but I'm really interested in many other different languages.

grazie! i can speak so-so italian and english (and beginner's japanese). although i focus more on reading and writing for both italian and japanese, rather than actual speaking. even though i write like an idiot on the internet, i am fairly proficient in english. i love language! your english is excellent!!

Prego ^_^

And thank you! I guess I'm not the stereotypical Italian after all (usually Italians don't understand English even if we study it since primary school... -_-)

So, is English your first language?

yeah, i'm american, so of course i'm surrounded by english, but i've gone out of my way to try to be good at it, learn lots of uncommon words, study old english and read classic english literature, that sort of stuff. i really enjoy study and language so my motivation was out of interest.
the stereotype here is that americans are pretty dumb and speak bad english. i wouldn't say americans are very much dumber than any other group of people, but i would agree that the proficiency level of the average person is 'basic.'

I see... It's always easier and pleasant when you study something you're really interested in

Well, luckily 'stereotype' doesn't correspond to 'reality' most of the time. Of course some people, American or not, could be very dumb and short-minded, but they're also everywhere else... u_u

i commented below on why i chose this spelling :)

above, rather!

私も知らない :P

今天是猫鼬斩节吗？太棒啦！

I do believe you should continue making comics in this style. I really like it =3

thanks! i will prob make more, i need lots of practice constructing sentences

As long as there's enough kanji for me to be able to guess the meaning or someone provides a rough translation in comments, then I'm set.

But overall, I really like the simplistic style of this particular comic.

You practicing writing is helping me to practice reading. Please do more of these.

Zangoose is a chubster

Hehe, that adds to our cuteness. XD

どうしてこれを日本語作った？　もう、「DECADE」なら、デケードのほうがいいですね？

haha i don't understand any of this, i just started studying like a month ago

Feel free to hit me up if you wanna practice. ^.^

word! i'm still in the 'it takes 10 minutes to construct a sentence' phase hahah

It gets easier with practice, trust me.

well your japanese is better than mine....*breaks out his rosetta stone and begins to study*

if im corretct, that kani in the last pannel is used in context for "Nani" or "nan" to complete the question x Nandesuka?

yahh

yay! nihongo fag knowledge!

*raises hand* :<
I just inked my zangoose day pic last night, it's the largest damn piece I've done so far!

*high fives you* Zangoose brother!

hahaa cool!

Ad-sama! Arigatou gozaimasu!

You can't speak Japanese and not know what a Zangoose is. Unpossible!

I always get zangeese confused with geoducks.

Super cute facial expression in 2nd panel!

I like the other "days" more, because they tend to be less of a stretch than "san kyu" to "zan gu." They just read wittier.

Very nice. Though, I found the transition from short form in the first panel to long form in the last one to be a bit odd. Also, wouldn't the short form of そうですね be そうね? At least that's what my professor has us do @_@

well as a guy it's more natural for me to use short form and throw around a lot of da, especially on the internet or in a comic
da isn't really exactly the short form of desu either, they're similar but still kind of different, you can't always just replace da with desu to me more casual
like, it's totally improper grammar and weird sounding to say 'daka' you can't say that, you have to say 'desuka'

Well, da is sort of the short form for desu, but mostly when using things such as と思います but the ka is sort of unnecessary when using short form. You can actually just say ザングースは何？ In spoken Japanese, there would simply be an upward inflection there.

word i'm not learning to speak, just to read and write
i have native speaking tutors that help me so i am going to take their advice on these matters!

I have native speakers teaching me as well, lol. But it's all good. Perhaps there are still some differences between written and spoken that I'm not aware of yet :O

there's also tons of regional dialects!

True! I always forget those exist. Not to mention changes of the language over time, such as slang becoming regular talk and such. I always find those changes to be interesting.

Heh, I saw this on Pixiv. When it comes to odd terms that that, always a safe bet to pixiv it and see what it brings up. You're surprisingly popular there, most of the artists I watch there don't get much in the way of commentary.

ha well i mostly get comments on the latest comics where i'm studying japanese
though i do get a lot of PMs! it's a reason i wanted to study japanese, to talk with japanese comic and furry fans. comics and cartoons are so popular there!

I mostly use Google translator to navigate my way through Pixiv, it's good for figuring out tags, but anything more in-depth like a conversation is going to come out wonky after translation. It'd be pretty nice to learn the language, at best all I can do is recognize common tags that I search for, and understand a few things that I hear spoken.

Well it's nice to know that artists are appreciated there, I was concerned by the lack of comments I've been seeing. I really should comment more, but I don't want to come off as rude for only being able to type in English, or as a terribly illiterate person for using a translator that would get the grammar and structure all wrong.

I took two semesters of Japanese.


I can read 1/3 of this image.

it's a very different language!!

I still regret not taking Spanish, but I have such a boner for big cities, Tokyo's lure couldn't stop me from attempting to learn the language.

I still haven't been to Tokyo.

i'd like to visit japan but i want to go to okinawa!

okinawa is beaut and has weird food!!

all the porn starlets are from there somehow. and pop stars

the culture seems very different, less formal, more ebullient (i love that word)

何だろうかな。。。

ZANGOOSE DAY??

Hahaha, cute dialogue XD

I'm happy that my Japanese is advanced enough that I don't have to translate it. XD

Not only was this adorable, i was able to read it. Yay!

ザングースは世界一のポケモンです

hahaa 僕はディジモン好む. ガブモンは可愛いだ X]

貴方の作品が大好きです。オンラインで無料で読むことが出来るけど出来るほど買います。僕は絶対に大ファンです。そういえばディジモンを観たことがありません.

I've got everything except the first word...

僕の名前

so, what are yuo using for practicing and learning?

i'm teaching myself using various online resources
mostly i am learning vocab and kanji at the moment, so i just take a photo of something like a face or a kitchen and write everything on it over and over (using manga studio). i'm also doing simple beginner's grammar.
for kanji i use jisho.org and for grammar i use guidetojapanese.org
i still haven't found a good list of prepositions yet, one that shows how they are used in various sentences

Somebody likes to browse Pixiv. ;3

スゴー！お前は上手に成った・・・日本語の勉強頑張ってね！

Aaaaa-dekedo

dommoh arigutoo mistr roboto

third panel made me lol, i figured everyone here knew what a zangoose was whether or not they watched pokemon, theres enough porn of it everywhere...

heheh i actually did know who he was, i was just kidding
most of my jokes are 'playing the idiot' :)

ah ok =3