anata: you can also mean "dear" between husband and wife
baka: fool
bishounen: a young good looking guy
bishoujo: a young good looking girl
chibi: small
chotto: just a little
daijoubu: I'm okay, I'm fine
dare: who
doko: where
doushite: why
gaijin: foreigner
genki: full of energy
gomen: sorry
hai: yes, I understand
hontou: really, truthfully
iie: no, that is incorrect
ittekimasu: I'm off (said when leaving home)
Learn Japanese,
and how to pronounce it correctly. The language is phonetic, so each letter is pronounced only one way, each time, and there are no silent letters although slurring of words (as often happens) might make it sound that way.
Use the following guide for pronunciation:
vowel sounds: a = "ah" e = "eh" i = "ee" o = "oh" u = "oo"
when two vowels are next to each other, their sounds are pronounced one after the other. So the word "ai" would sound like "ahee"
double letters are pronounced with the same sound, twice as long. So the word "ii" would sound like "eeee"
when NOT followed by a vowel, "n" is its own sound. So the word "genki" would be pronounced "gehnkee"
