Japanese colloquial expression　どちらへ　dochirahe “How are you?” also has correct kanji plus okurigana equivalent　何方へ　which, just to compare, sustains very little use:

1.　何方へ【どちらへ】　dochirahe “How are you?” =　何方【どちら】　dochira as seen here in both kanji & hiragana “which way?” +　へ　he directional attachment “to” but only represented in phonetic kana and not ideographic kanji form.

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”ご機嫌いかがですか？”

...Sorry. I had to make it big enough to make the kanji readable.

今日のご機嫌はです友のショーンさんどうも有難う。

For I also like to distinguish more elaborate kanji symbols thus in order to get a very heightened, really traditional effect.

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what about ogenki desu ka??? —-i like to use romaji better.

...i know slang is popular now in Japanese. but i only know the basic phrases i learned in Japanese I. i wish Sean would teach me some more.

Since you decided to take Japanese in school, I think I’ve taught you enough to get through the year.

今日のご機嫌はです友のショーンさんどうも有難う。

kyō no gokigen wa desu tomo no Shōn-san dōmo arigatō.

“I’m in good spirits today, dear friend Sean, thank you very much!”

That’s good to know.

I wouldn’t like to see an angry silver back.

Japanese colloquial expression　どちらへ　dochirahe “How are you?” also has correct kanji plus okurigana equivalent　何方へ　which, just to compare, sustains very little use:

1.　何方へ【どちらへ】　dochirahe “How are you?” =　何方【どちら】　dochira as seen here in both kanji & hiragana “which way?” +　へ　he directional attachment “to” but only represented in phonetic kana and not ideographic kanji form.

2.　何方【どちら】　dochira “which way?” =　何方【どっち】　docchi also meaning “which way” but with hiragana sokuon　っ　placed just before full mora　ち　chi and so doubling any consonant phoneme immediately to follow　っち　cchi “way” +　ら　ra pluralizing suffix here to indicate general area or location “(a)round, about”

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wow…i could learn more from this than those worksheet’s they gave me at school! lol.

Japanese colloquial expression　どちらへ　dochirahe “How are you?” also has correct kanji plus okurigana equivalent　何方へ　which, just to compare, sustains very little use:

1.　何方へ【どちらへ】　dochirahe “How are you?” =　何方【どちら】　dochira as seen here in both kanji & hiragana “which way?” +　へ　he directional attachment “to” but only represented in phonetic kana and not ideographic kanji form.

2.　何方【どちら】　dochira “which way?” =　何方【どっち】　docchi also meaning “which way” but with hiragana sokuon　っ　placed just before full mora　ち　chi and so doubling any consonant phoneme immediately to follow　っち　cchi “way” +　ら　ra pluralizing suffix here to indicate general area or location “(a)round, about”

3.　何方【どっち】　docchi “which way” =　何【ど】　do for convenience sake v. infra +　方【かた】　kata “direction, way” which perhaps through vocalic k(a)ta syncope and phonetic /t > tʃ/ palatalization, straightaway to follow grammatical analogy with some Japanese i-form adjective or verb, duly becomes conjectural /ktʃi/ derivate just before obstruent /k > t(ʃ)/ assimilation: hence integral orthographic component　っち　/ttʃi/ cchi once again meaning “way” so that. . .

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i didn’t know there were other ways to say “how are you?” in Japanese.

is there a phrase for “what’s up?” too?

i wish i knew more!

Thus popular yet informal　何が在った、何が有った【なにかあった】　nanika atta can literally mean interrogative “something was” but in our true, idiomatic metaphrase: “What’s up?”

shiro - 13 January 2009 07:37 PM

wow…i could learn more from this than those worksheet’s they gave me at school! lol.

I don’t suppose you’ll need to learn Japanese. I wouldn’t think they teach foreign language at homeschool. Or am I mistaken?

unfortunately.

they teach english…