Leena

welcome o/

Thank you!

now it just seems that you're a tsundere

and we have all kinds of deres batoto Leena o/

haha I see that! 

Hi Leena, welcome to Batoto!  Hope you have fun around the forums!

 

I don't know where you read that thing about Japanese proficiency, but that's not a requirement in the forums at all.

thank you! uh, I read it in one of the forums here as well, same introduction for new members.. Maybe I just misread it or something. But I am glad its not a requirement. 

hi, leena! welcome~ 

like osakaki said, there's no such requirement here. the only requirements are: follow the forum rules and party 'til you die!~ xD

Lol I will do that! Thank you!

Hi, Leena, welcome to batoto, it's nice to meet you  

Thank you! It's nice to meet you too!

lawlz WELCOME!

I poo every Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and the mysterious day that does not exist. 

Lol I poo every other day.. haha grossed out? Lol

Sup Leena~ Welcome... to your doom Batoto~~

why thank you! hehe

A belated Batoto welcome to you, Leena. Although there are some words and honorifics used on the forums, which are Romanized but not otherwise translated in a lot of manga, they're not hard to get in context on the forums. Recognizing a dozen or two Japanese words/suffixes in romanji, hardly counts as proficiency. There are already 100-200 Japanese loanwords in standard English. If you read manga in English translation, the words on the forums shouldn't be a problem for you.

 

Spoiler

Although the lingua franca of the site is English, people do sometimes play with speaking in other languages. I've plugged more Filipino and Spanish into Google Translate than Japanese or Chinese. (Also some Finnish, Basque, Welsh, Brazilian Portuguese, other western languages and a few snippets of other eastern languages.)  Perhaps that partly balances out the forum word games where native English speakers have an inherent advantage.

 

I've been tempted to start a topic called "Huh what?", where people can quote words, expressions or emoticons used in the forums that are opaque to them and ask for help with definitions and usage. I need it more for text-message slang and emoticons than manga otaku in-group language. Text message shorthand and/or leet-speech look-ups and the urban dictionary have their limits, and specific emoticons are difficult to search. (Google doesn't index emoticons that include punctuation.) Sometimes people are obscure because they're trying to be original or funny.

 

Please enjoy your stay

Thank you! I think I wil enjoy my stay here! Perhaps you can start that topic you want to, anyway people here might like that topic of yours cause it is actually interesting to learn language apart from your mother tongue. Maybe just change the title imo.

asdkzcivmasdfnzxciv.xcvo, oh wait, your don't understand jibberish.  I'm one of the people that floats around this website.  How you doing?  Anyways, just letting you know that you really don't have to be proficient in Japanese (as I'm pretty sure you've already figured that out) to read or goof off and do absolutely nothing (unless someone says something that you don't understand, but there's always google).  Continue enjoying your stay here at Batoto.  We'll all see you around.

 

                                                       -This one guy

 

Thank you! Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont hehe.. Pretty much doing fine and I am glad its not a requirement haha!

Nope, we're not on good terms (google translate). Maybe you could suggest other translator engine or something hehe.

Hello~

 

Welcome to Batoto Leena!

 

Enjoy your stay~

thank you! I wil!

Welcome, how young were you again?

Yeah im a rebel like that

Not telling! hehe thanks! I can see that.

welp, better late than never.

 

Thank you!

have fun

I will!

Late reply....I guess...

Welcome to the Batoto Forums, Leena ~

 

Thank you!.. i guess hehe 

oops. I forgot to warn you. we have a few perverts lurking around here and there. and also, be careful of pedos! The police hasn't confirmed this yet, but I sometimes sense the aura of a pedo around the forums...

 

not that I'm implying anything here. ehehehe :3

hehe yup! I will! Thanks!

thank you!

 

Welcome to Batoto!

 

Thank you!