More help with 私の日本語テストおねがいします。

[flamingheads]

I've got a Japanese assignment and I think I've gotten everything except this question


Translate these words:
シロイルカ
(Hint: this word includes the colour of the animal) Can you find the kanji for イルカ[/b]

I looked it up and it translated as margin dolphin but I think its a Japanese name for a dolphin like grey dolphin or something that probably has another name in English. Also I can't find the kanji for dolphin. Its not in my dictionary, only dolphin is.

Any help would be good thanks people. :blink:

[eastcoastdrifter]

the kanji for dolphin is 海豚 so says my japanese friend it literally means sea pig no wonder they eat flipper over there haha

[puzzigully]

well, I did watch an episode of initial d, so

8 = hachi
6 = roku

hope this helps

[GAKI86]

sea pig is about right...

[flamingheads]

And now for part 2:


３頭のシロイルカが同時に口から泡の輪（バブルリング）を出すパフォーマンスが人気を集めてい る。

＊３頭　さん／とう　３ animals ( 頭 is the counter for animals)
＊同時　どう／じ　same time
＊泡の輪　あわ／の／わ　a circle of bubbles
＊人気　にん／き　popular
＊集めている　あつめている　to gather, to collect

Kanji exercise:
The five asterisked kanji appear in the first paragraph, as part of a sentence explaining how the performance of the three animals is quite popular. Can you reconstruct that part of the paragraph using the asterisked kanji?[/b]

My grammar is really bad but my guess is:
パフォーマンスが人気を集めていってを３頭のシロイルカが同時に口から泡の輪（バブルリング） を出す。

Anyone actually good at this?

[eastcoastdrifter]

why not just get a japanese friend? or do it yourself or you wont learn a thing

[flamingheads]

Yeah a Japanese friend would be good but I don't have one. Right now I'm totally over it all and just want to pass Japanese so I can pass uni. And its always nice to have someone check your stuff so you get the good marks.

[eastcoastdrifter]

kkk I will find out for you then lol I totally suck at written japanese but I can speak it ok so I will ask my mates

[flamingheads]

Well its due today so I guess I'll just hand in what I've got.

[verm69]

And now for part 2:

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３頭のシロイルカが同時に口から泡の輪（バブルリング）を出すパフォーマンスが人気を集めてい る。

＊３頭　さん／とう　３ animals ( 頭 is the counter for animals)
＊同時　どう／じ　same time
＊泡の輪　あわ／の／わ　a circle of bubbles
＊人気　にん／き　popular
＊集めている　あつめている　to gather, to collect

Kanji exercise:
The five asterisked kanji appear in the first paragraph, as part of a sentence explaining how the performance of the three animals is quite popular. Can you reconstruct that part of the paragraph using the asterisked kanji?[/b]

My grammar is really bad but my guess is:
パフォーマンスが人気を集めていってを３頭のシロイルカが同時に口から泡の輪（バブルリング） を出す。

Anyone actually good at this?
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i asked a jap teacher (i work at a school) and he said your structure is wrong...

thats all i know, as he's a bit hard to understand :lol:

[flamingheads]

Oh well thanks anyway. Noone in class knew what to do either so they all just did something else. I just changed the kanji to hiragana and hope that everyone gets it wrong.

[verm69]

he said that the first part was to go on the end of the sentance, and the end part on the front...

in japanese (and quite a few languages other than english) the action always comes last and the subject always first... or something like that...

[flamingheads]

Thats how it originally was. I guess I'll just see what it says when I get it back.