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don't get boned on not writing the "you" character for the day of the week. A fair enough number of japanese people just write the "you" part in hiragana, especially elementary school students who just can't fit that many marks in a small space yet.
Hitori, futari, sannin indio, yonin, gonin, rokunin indio, nananin, hachinin, kyunin indio, Ju -someting- indio! Lol Couldn't remember the rest. Your awsome angelkiller.
Those words you posted in Kanji are they always shown in kanji? Like what would you most likely see them as in Japan?
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EDIT - corrected the "kun" reading of earth which was posted incorrectly

I would guess that all of those words would be written in Kanji 98% of the time -- all of the characters are learned by Japanese students in the first year of elementary school (except the "you" for day of the week, a second grade character), so even picture books will write the characters, though often with furigana for the exceptions so that kids will learn to say "futsuka" instead of "ni-nichi." You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone older than 7 who couldn't read them.

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heya everybody whee word? I've been uber busy with school and stuff @_@ *is at school right now*
Hey dudes and dudettes, I had my Japanese class last night, didn't learn anything really new. Touched the -te form that verbs take, but didn't get into it. We're getting into the next Monday, so I'll make a post on that. Sounds a little confusing.
Yah! Jap class! Too bad I don't have time at school to fit that in.... sweatdrop
Kyo wa watashi no tanjobi desu!! Jukyu sai desu.
[Today is my birthday! I am 19 years old.]


Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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お誕生日 おめでとうごうざいます!
おたんじょうび おめでとうごうざいます!
o-tanjyoubi omedetou gouzaimasu!
Happy Birthday!

PS: recognize the last character in "tanjyoubi?" It's the sun character, for day!

The second character is worth remembering as well. It's 生, which means life, raw, birth, and a host of other related ideas.
生 - SEI, SHOU (JYOU), nama, i-kiru, u-mu, u-mareru, ha-eru

That's a lot of readings! The most important ones are "SEI," which appears in words like gaku-SEI (student), SEI-katsu (life), and dou-kyuu-SEI (classmate -- see gozen's previous post on jukugo)

nama, which means "raw," or most importantly, beer off the tap (just walk into the bar and ask for a "nama biiru"

i-kiru, which literally means "to live" in the sense of "exist." I believe this is the "ikiru" you can hear at the beginning of Kenshin OVA1 "Shinta, ikite...ikite," (Shinta, live!) but I'm going from memory on that one.

and "u-mareru," which means "to be born" (amerika ni umaremashita - i was born in the USA)
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for extra info: u-mu means "to bear," but it's a transitive verb which you probably won't use in everyday conversation much. It shares readings but not usage with 産む (umu), which is the "u-mu" used in sentences like "I bore a child."

ha-eru means to grow (like, there are flowers growing behind my house).

The character for TAN is a more difficult, middle school character. It doesn't appear in many words besides "tanjyoubi" so you can get away with not really knowing it -- when you see some character + 生日 just remember it's probably TAN. It means "born," but I believe always appears in those elusive "jukugo" kanji compounds gozen was talking about a few days ago.
My boyfriend is doing his presentation on Japanese food/resturants on Monday. So I will get him to send me a copy of his essay to post some interesting facts. He told me about how theres hundreds of different types of resturants.

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A picture my friend took while visiting Japan. She said that alot of places had displays like this with fake food that looked so real.
*drools at display* fooooood! domokun *munch munch* eek xp not food! gonk

お誕生日 おめでとうごうざいました!
otanjobi omedeto gozaimashita!
hehe =3 Happy belated birthday hitomi-chan! *GLOMP* I like your new hairstyle by the way =3 very cute
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*drools at display* fooooood! domokun *munch munch* eek xp not food! gonk

お誕生日 おめでとうごうざいました!
otanjobi omedeto gozaimashita!
hehe =3 Happy belated birthday hitomi-chan! *GLOMP* I like your new hairstyle by the way =3 very cute

3nodding Arigatou!!!

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