Does anybody know how to get a free downloadable Japanese Character Font?


Anyway, Just wondering: How do the Chinese sing? They have a tonal language already with 10 tones. So instead of singing "Liberty, Liberty, Liberty,", they could be singing "Mosquito, Spring, Liberty". Do they put tones in tones, or what?


And people from India! they give me the creeps! sounds like birds trying to talk, because the girls sing in these REALLY high Pitches. Strange,...

I know if you go to download.com you can download a Japanese word processor that contains a number of Japanese fonts. I think it's called NJStar or something like that.

Err...no comment on the singing thing though. :lol:

Thanx!:smile::cloud::wolf::star:

(lol, foreign singing's pretty strange,....)

Ahhhhh! *screams* I stink when it comes to Vb code and tags and stuff like that (though it <I>is</I> kinda fun).

edit:

*growls* O_o, there i go again! it's Vb, not HTML!

P.s
If "not" is underlined up there, than I'll be satisfied.



Sorry,

*growls* O_o, there i go again! it's Vb, not HTML!

P.s
If "not" is underlined up there, than I'll be satisfied.



Sorry,

Wooooo!! NJStar is beautiful and I love it! ;)

Yes it's pretty nifty, it even comes with a dictionary. :)

NJStar... As far as dictionaries go, I prefer the one in JWPce (http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html), myself. (Although I prefer JWPce over NJStar for general use as well, for various other reasons.) The dictionary in JWPce seems to be more intuitive. For instance, try looking up 潰れた (tsubureta) in NJStar. I get 0 results. In NJStar, it seems that the word you look up has to be in its root form. In JWPce, you can look up 潰れた (tsubureta) and 潰れる (tsubureru) will be the first result. Granted, that's not terribly important, provided one is familiar enough with verb roots and tenses and such, but for the lazy such as myself... Additionally, the NJStar dictionary does not seem to be as comprehensive as JWPce's (which uses this one (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html), actually). If I search for anything with 夜 in it (I mean that I put just "夜" in the search bar), I get about 20 results in NJStar and 340 in JWPce. But maybe it's just the words I look up (I use it mostly for picking apart JRock lyrics).

And if you're looking for Japanese fonts, this directory (http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/japan.html) is teh awesome (though some of the sites containing the fonts are in Japanese, so if you're looking for fonts in order to read Japanese pages...you might have a bit of a problem).

singing in chinese? well, isn't singing just singing... tones just have to do with how you stress the syllable. don't think it has much to do with pitch. so it wouldn't make much difference. and remember. there are different types of chinese... i mean lots of dialects... i tihnk mandarin has only 4 tones but cantonese has like 6 to 9... and it isn't just chinese that has tones. most asian languages have rising and falling tones to accomodate shorter words or a bigger vocabulary. (that's why thai has like 44 consonants, 18 vowels, and 6 diphthongs) and roman/euro languages, on the other hand, only have about 2. basically doesn't make that much of a difference to me though.

aah. i love how english has very little tones... :D really easy to follow. thank god it was my first language... except i hate how messed up english grammar is (mainly because it mixes latin and german... which probably have different ways of dealing with grammar)... boy can it get confusing if it's not your first language...

my family speaks tagalog, which is what most people call filipino. it's not really a tonal language... it got really umm romanized... cool language tho... really cool. like malay-spanish kinda.

man i wanna learn japanese...

And people from India! they give me the creeps!
yikes... better rephase that.. might stir up some trouble on a nice board... lol


PS: check omniglot on google to find more on tons of languages.

hmm, when it's your language, it doesn't matter, you just know, it's just different sounds :P

As far the people from India, I know what you are saying but then again, some caucasian people give me the creeps too so it's not a racial thing really, you just have to get out there more and meet more people ;)

lol. i live in canada, andi used to live in a part of canada where there were almost no caucasians (well, each class had around 3 caucasians... most likely polish, italian or portuguese)! i moved farther out of innercity, and there are no more ethnics... lol. strange eh? (eh comes naturally not really a canadian thing. not all canadians say eh contrary to belief)

and i think indian movies are great. this movie called badshaah is so funny... the singing in high pitches is most likely how the movie's sound was made. either deliberatley or bad quality. some songs can ring in the ears :)

I will admit, I find some Indian pop music disturbing...but I also find Japanese and American pop music disturbing at times.

I love the 5.6.7.8's who did 2 songs in Kill Bill
but the one song I could download on kazaa was whoo whoo and all they sang was... yea...

weird

chinese singng(sorry if it's borin but I like stuff to be in a list. I think it's easier to keep track :) )
1) If you sing Manderin/PTH (same dialect) there are 4 tones. they sing notes, but you alter some of the tones to be sang more easily
2) If you sing Cantonese (7 tones) you do the tone before you sing.. well, no but it's hard to explain... you have to listen to know. Have any more questions about China? I live there, by the way.......(it's true)