Your favorite expressions/words in Japanese?

ladyfaile wrote: very close to christmas actually LOL never thought of that
kurisumasu

Gahahaha*just realized it too* :p

I have noticed recently the japanese word for milk is really similar...but I forgot right now >_<

yuki=snow
kaze=wind
arashi= storm

I had to rewrite right now...so the last one I forgot -.-

ladyfaile wrote: cow's milk = ぎゅうにゅう (gyuunyuu)
but i think they usually just say ミルク (miruku) which is just a borrowed english word

Oh thanks for your help! :) I think it was miruku ミルク
Btw where do you get the japanese kanji´s,katakana,hiragana from? Is there any site on the web with them?
Because I want to practice using them....

ah i had posted it in the resources thread. here you go :)

here are instructions on how to change your keyboard to Japanese, it's pretty neat. you type in romaji and it converts to either hiragana katana or kanji. if you hit spacebar while the word is still underlined it shows you different ways of writing it. then when you want to go back to　english just hit shift+alt. no download, it's all built into windows (there are mac instructions as well). it also has instructions to download Japanese and other language fonts if you haven't done that yet. the site has other resources as well.
http://www.coscom.co.jp/learnjapanes...ejapanese.html


or if it's too much trouble or seems too complicated you can use a virtual keyboard to type in hiragana and then just copy and paste into wherever you want to post it.. http://www.linguanaut.com/japanese_keyboard.htm

Baka! ^^'
Doushite; because you can say it in so many ways c:
Doushite, Dou-shi-te, Dou-sh'-te >.<

And I like this part of 'Eien' by Yusaku Kiyama;
だから君に今日は言うよ　永遠の愛を誓うよ
dakara kimi ni kyou wa iu yo eien no ai o chikau yo
Therefore I say to you today, I promise eternal love

Mine is "Are?" (="eh?"). I absolutely adore when some funny characters say it (like Nakatsu in Hana Kimi for example :p).

Chotto matte kudasai~!
Sumimasen!
Daijoubu desu.
Iie~! D:

nande? - Why... miru - watch.. Desu - It is.. <3 Eien - Eternity.. That is some obvious faves for me.. ^^,

oh and I can't forget　バカじゃないの！which i playfully use with the students in my jap class :P