A little Japanese Help, Please

[Aria]

Ok, really quick. How do you say "I started traveling when I was two" in Japanese? I just don't know how to put "when I was two" in there. I don't need anything crazy complicated, and I don't want ppl saying "well, it's kinda awkward that way, you should say it more like "blahilghaghe", it's more sophisticated. I dont' want sophisticated, I want....Japanese 2 level. Talk like you're 10. :-P Thanks everyone.

[yakamashii]

二才の頃
nisai no koro (ni)

二才の時
nisai no toki (ni)

[DragonSama]

I have a quick (ok not so quick) question.

Can anyone translate this?

Ii ne kaisei jan kumo hitotsu nai yo
Makka na taiyou kimi wo shirai yo
Ato wa orera shidai kyou wa dakishimetai
Namiuchigiwa no atsui ketsui
Koushi enkyuuji sanagara no toushi
Demo dairitsu wa 9(kyu)rin ore no SHON ni SORRY
Masa ni katari i tsugareru SUTO-RI-
Hitori de asobu no wa kon'ya de owari?

* Shanghai HANI- to hamabe shakou DANSU
Mitsumebbanashi tamannee megami
Shanghai HANI- to EIJIAN RANDEVU
Yosete wa kaesu shitagokoro to MORARU

Boku, kimi no koto yoku shiranai keredo
nanika tokimeitemasu

Yo takumi na wajutsu kanojo wo honrou
Bousei honnou kusuguru TO-KU
Kore ga ore no risouzou
Demo risou wa risou mata "yasashisou" de owarisou
Iyaiya kon'ya koso wa GET
SEISHI wo kaketa masa ni kettou
Ima ga shun oretachi no seishun
"Shimatte ikou!!" kiai juubun

* repeat

** Nanika junai ja nai? nante ne
Sokka sorya muri da yo na.
Datte sou boku, kimi no koto
yoku shiranai keredo nanika tokimeitemasu

* repeat
** repeat

I know it's the lyrics to Shanghai Honey by Orange Range. The only reason I am asking this is my wife heard the song when I was listening the Keiichi net radio and wants to know what it says since she is from Shanghai. Thanks!

[Pierrot le Fou]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22shanghai+honey%22+%22orange+range%22+lyrics+t ranslation&btnG=Google+Search

Alternatively, you could post the lyrics in Japanese, so that we actually have half a chance at knowing what's being said. Alternatively, you could just dismiss Orange Range as a bunch of thieving musicians with little or no originality. Any of the above would work. Preferrably not option 2.

[Sbabbari]

err...

??2???????...
Watashi ga nisai datta toki ni...

2????...
Nisai no toki...


Why does my Japanese never show up??

Shanghai Honey*:

Isn't this weather great? There isn't one cloud
The deep red sun, I want to know you
Later I'll have my chance, I want to hold you today
A passionate decision on the beach
Just like the fighting spirits of the Koushien finals
But my batting average is 9 rin, Jon is sorry
Surely I'll succeed in telling you my story
Are my days of doing nothing by myself over tonight?

On the beach I socially dance, with a Shanghai honey
Having been staring at her, I can't contain myself around this goddess
Having an asian randezvous with a Shanghai honey
My motives and morals are restless

I don't know you very well, but my heart's really pounding

Yo a clever conversation, make fun of her
A talk tickling her with maternal instinct
That's my ideal figure
But my ideals are my ideals, and it seems that this will again end in "you seem nice"
No way, tonight for sure I'm going to get it
I've dropped my restraint, and now it's a duel!
Now is the season, the springtime of our lives
"Let's do it!!", I'm full of fighting spirit

On the beach I socially dance, with a Shanghai honey
Having been staring at her, I can't contain myself around this goddess
Having an asian randezvous with a Shanghai honey
My motives and morals are restless

Is this true love? Yeah right
Yeah, that's impossible.
But yes, I don't
Know you that well, but my heart's really pounding

On the beach I socially dance, with a Shanghai honey
Having been staring at her, I can't contain myself around this goddess
Having an asian randezvous with a Shanghai honey
My motives and morals are restless

I'm not sure if this is true love
Yes, it is
But yes, I don't
Know you that well, but my heart's really pounding


* http://mognet.net/artisttranslation.php?id=864&translation=english


Edit- Even Japanese people have a hard time understanding Orange Range as they are from Okinawa and use a lot of that dialect and probably have accents. They performed at a branch of the university I teach at in Tokyo recently and I was asking some people (Japanese 19-23 yr. olds) what they thought and the majority said they liked em but had no idea what they said.

[Aria]

Thanks a lot everyone for the help. :-P


Sbabbari: Yeah, my professor was just talking about Okinawa today. She said she went there 20 years ago, and was like "oh no, now you know I'm more than 20!!", but yeah, then she said that she could talk with people in standard japanese, but when like...two natives would talk to each other, she'd be like "...what?".

[OaklandZoo]

I know it's the lyrics to Shanghai Honey by Orange Range. The only reason I am asking this is my wife heard the song when I was listening the Keiichi net radio and wants to know what it says since she is from Shanghai. Thanks!

The lyrics has nothing to do with Shanghai. It's a song about field trips, well, Shugaku-ryoko to be precise. It's like a senior field trip type of things at junior high and high schools. They were just talking about it at Music Station the other week. Don't ask why it has Shanghai in its title if it has nothing to do with it, it just doesn't. But considering these are Japanese people who made the song, it's somewhat understandable that they'd do something random like this.

[Crowley]

Which reminds me. Does anyone have any j-pop recommendations that are actually any good? My friend keeps thrusting earphones into my ears and subjecting me to, I have to be honest, music that makes me weep with pain. If I can find a common ground with something we both like, I can save our friendship ;)

[OaklandZoo]

A bit old, but Sakurazaka by Fukuyama Masaharu is pretty damn good. Actually it seems like any song with "sakura" in it is good.

[Pierrot le Fou]

...

Urufuls.

ウルフルズ in Japanese.

Enjoy.

ばんざい！！！

君を好きで良かった
このままずっとずっと死ぬまでハッピー

ばんざい！！！

君を会えてよかった
このままずっとずっと
ラララ二人で。。。

[DragonSama]

Thanks for the help on this. Whenever my wife hears the word Shanghai her ears always perk up and she gets really interested in what is going on. She's pretty proud to be from there.

You have no idea how mad she was when I told her what the phrase "I've been shanghaied" meant. :worried:

[Faumdano]

Which reminds me. Does anyone have any j-pop recommendations that are actually any good? My friend keeps thrusting earphones into my ears and subjecting me to, I have to be honest, music that makes me weep with pain. If I can find a common ground with something we both like, I can save our friendship ;)

For Jpopy-esque stuff,

Utada Hikaru's newish single (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8619856744187378688&q=utada) is decent
The brilliant green's stuff (http://www.youtube.com/w/angel-song-%7Eivu-no-kane%7E?v=XeuAzXhZQMg&search=angel%20song) is pretty good
Tommy's stuff is... well it's (http://www.youtube.com/w/Tommy-February6---Lonely-in-Gorgeous-%5BLIVE%5D?v=3alXrUbhfTk&search=February6)the way it is on purpose, I hope

*shrug* A good majority of it will melt your brain (http://www.youtube.com/w/Ai-no-imi-wo-oshiete?v=M6TT2cqnujo&search=double%20u) and choke you with syrupy lyrics, but there is some good stuff out there.

[satoharu]

Which reminds me. Does anyone have any j-pop recommendations that are actually any good? My friend keeps thrusting earphones into my ears and subjecting me to, I have to be honest, music that makes me weep with pain. If I can find a common ground with something we both like, I can save our friendship ;)
Well, what kinds of music do you like? (And what kinds have you already tried as far as J-Pop goes that you know you don't like?) I can probably come up with a decent chunk of material once I know those two things...only because I don't want to go suggest things that'll only end up being *worse* for you. :dj: