IkuAki- はい、ひさしぶりねぇ！　東京はどうでしたか。　楽しだった？？ tell me all about it!! : D

yes, the translation was correct. I actually had a typo in the last part by forgetting "i" at the end of tanoshii ...so good job on getting it despite that ^_^

Ohhh awesome!! 私はあきはばらに行きたいです！イクアキさんはよくしゃしんをとりましたか。

その食べものはおいしそ！
ハハッ！！　「行く」はえいごで「go」です。　そして、ひらがなで「いく」です。 You should learn it!! Iku is in your username.
And btw when i said 行きたいです it means I want to go.

Ah lol ok and I will post here so you will not double post xD
mm :3 yeahhh.. Iku is go. Go in japanese means 5 lol so that is a different thing. xD And if you hear iku yo it means "i'm going" or "we're going" ... and may or may not imply that they want the other person or people to come with them, probably based on prior plans.

About Akihabara.. well yeah I honestly was very, very close to going but we never actually did but I didn't inform my relatives of that before they planned most of our trip. xD;; But I was in Tokyo station and went to Disneyland. I will be sure to go with my hubby after we get married (: Sometimes on anniversaries maybe. It is in both of our interests.

Ah yeah ^_^ I am not sure about the prices since Atsuko (family) paid for us, but I had a lot of fun in the.. well.. nearly 3 days I spent wandering around there. Be cautious of your feet getting sore if you go to Disneyland. Well, actually. Yeah there is Disneyland and Disneysea so you can see both if you want and have money + time. :)

As for the translations, the first and last sentences you got it right on. ^_^ The ones you had trouble understanding, i will say this:
ツ is tsu, and so this is small tsu: ッ. I meant more like, there was a pause after ハハ as it ended sharply.
Also, yes you got the general idea for the other thing I was saying.... 行く is pronounced いく so I was unsure if you knew that since you didn't remember the kanji when i used 行きたい.
えいごで means "using English" so the whole sentence would be....??

lastly, yes I did use は and normally it would be "ha" but it is actually the particle "wa" as well. The only other particle that you would type differently than the pronunciation is へ, for which you would type "he" but it is "e"...
I hope that helps, whether it was that you were tired or that you had not known that before.

じゃぁ、今日お元気ですか。

Ohh I mean wandering around Disneyland and Disneysea.
Day 1- Narita to Chiba
day 2- Kyoto
day 3- Kyoto
day 4- Kyoto
day 5- Utsunomiya
day 6- Tokyo
day 7- Tokyo
day 8- Tokyo
day 9- Utsunomiya
day 10- Utsunomiya to Narita

Ah yeah. XD Lol. Just missing one part for that to make sense.. Using English "Iku" means to go. Or you could say. "Iku" is "to go" when you use English. Usually I just remember that you can use it to mean "in (suchsuch language)" and it works fine. Like "Supeingo de" would mean "In Spanish" or "Furansugo de" is "In French".

Okayyy well yeah "o" particle is actually (w)o because you can use the "w" with it or take it off to your personal preference. But when typing, do keep in mind that there is already "o" as お　or オ.

Yes ^__^ good translation. 私も元気です。

はい、おねがいします！

Wha? Uhh yeah, actually you can use "wo" and "o" interchangeably XD Just as long as you remember that they are the same particle. You would use the same character を and choose whether you would say that as "wo" or "o". If you are talking about using お　and を interchangeably, you are right- that does not work. But the particle を can really be said either way and it doesn't matter. =)

And actually, yeah it was good ^_^ We were actually wanting to go for a month but my mom decided that she was going to have us only go for less than 2 weeks because of the time share schedule she was forcing on us ... Because, well, at the time my brother and I were forced to go with our mom or dad, whichever one had their turn for that time, and in summer we would either do it 2 weeks at a time or 3 weeks at a time but my mom was scared about us going out of the country with our dad because she doesn't trust him. I don't quite frankly either but he knows that if anything happened then there would be a big marker called "First time they went out of country" or "Japan trip" for when he might have blood on his hands, no matter how serious. So it turned out good.

こんばんは！わたしのなまえいくとです。あなたのなんですか。
にじゅうにさいです。なんさいですか。
にほんごをべんきょうしています。Not sure if I said that right.
わかります。。。すこし。。。 Kind of just threw that in there... xP
りんごといちごがだいすきです！
やさいがきらいです。。。

That's all I could come up with! xP!! I kept drawing blanks and I wanted to come up with sentences on my own/remember phrases; so I did it without going back and checking to see if they were correct or not. xP Go easy on me!

Dang. :drool: So cool that you got to spend 2 weeks there...
Sorry about the family situation, but 2 weeks in Japan is still ... :drool:
And thankfully it turned out good. :D

Sorry. xD

Ok so, I still need to update as this is a work in progress, but I was starting to make a page of vital things to know when learning Japanese. It's pretty plain but it's a start. I haven't gotten to most of this in my lessons yet as it takes time to create each one, but I thought i should make this as an overview of some major points to know.

Sure, if you want I'll try to go easy on you. xD First off, good job overall on those sentences. I would personally say a few suggestions. And I also had a question.
Did you mean to say your name is Ikuto? Because I have always called you Ikuaki.. lol just was a bit confused.

yes, you said all of that correctly. =)

This is correct except that I am assuming that that is not all that you love so a better particle to use instead of と would be や because と is for complete lists while や is for incomplete lists. In case you haven't heard of や before, let me explain.

If you only had a few bucks on you and literally all you bought was ice cream and a sandwich then you would express that as such:
アイスクリームとサンドを買いました。　（買いました　＝　かいました, bought）

However, if you were to express that you are wearing a shirt and pants, among other things (such as socks and under clothes, for example), but you didn't want to say each little thing, then you would use や as such:
シャツやパンツを着ます。　（着ます　＝　きます, to wear）

The difference between the two is that with と you say each item, while with や you don't feel like being so tedious so you only say a few.

This works for a sentence as well except that, something I learned in Japanese class was that が puts emphasis on words such as bolding it would. Now, with positive things that would be okay, but with negative things that is not encouraged. That is why if you hear like, ではありますん it is not でがありません. That can be a general rule too, if you say きらい、だいきらい or anything with ない in it, use は instead. =)

Edit- ません counts as negative too xD

oh awesome :3 yes, if you want to you can check for errors. ^_^ The website is still a work in progress but I am sure that I have overlooked some things in coding. It is very easy to do when you have a wide array of pages. xP
Hmm yeah i was considering not using kanji there but then I thought, those ones are very simple.. it might not matter too much. I didn't use kanji for everything I knew that I could for the reason that some are more complicated. Should I put a key of simple ones then? Or.. idk.. because I have no idea how to do furigana when I am typing, especially when the characters turn into things like &14239; after I save them xO

Ok lol. Hi Ikuto : p
ahh yeah, I can see why you got that. Hmm well only thing I can think of that lets you ignore another particle is like.. everywhere that you are not sure whether or not to use へ or に, you can use に because へ is only for a place and not for a time or event like に is. One instance where knowing this helped me was when I was not sure whether えいが was a movie or movie theatre. I just used に because i was not sure.

yes, that is right on :3
(object)はほしくないです。
(object)がほしいです。

good job!! X3

OK! >w< Awesome! :3
Ahh yeah idk how many kanji to do, but I will at least do the ones I included, and prolly some from Japanese 1 and 2 in high school. That sound good? You can review them for ones you don't know as well. And I have already explained what kanji is when I introduced 何, but I suppose i can link to that for those who didn't catch on. : o Yeah?

Ok lol well I won't spoil your lesson too much but let me know if they don't go over any of this: how to say specific hour, half hour, minute.. All I will tell you right now about that is:
Just attach に to the time/event/place and you are all set. Eh well, that is except where it is the place of action, where you would use で. But all of the others, use に.
Secondly, AM is ごぜん; PM is ごご. To remember these attach them to the beginning of the time when you practice so it is familiar. It looks like this.... ごごごじ which is my favorite and means 5 PM**(white text)

せんしゅうまつ私はちちとSAFEWAYでリサイクリをしました。　(The translator I use if i need help is registering pop can/soda can differently than I want.. it is taking pop as a verb and can as a verb sooo yeah >.< that is what I recycled though.)
それから、SAFEWAYのなかでスタバのおちゃをのみました。　おいしかったです。=)

oki doki ^_^
anooo yeah sorry lol. That is probably partly because I wrote my post except for a little tiny bit and then accidentally searched something on this tab instead of using another one. I went back, but my post was gone (and unposted). So i tried to remember what I said but it was a tad bit harder to come up with it the second time for some reason though. For the time thing, you will likely learn how to say the specific times, but what I meant is like... If you wanted to say 6:30 PM you would say ごご６時半 which specifies AM or PM, specific hour number, and lastly half hour. And then of course there is another kanji for minute. I don't really use second but it is there too. =)

Oh lol. I just memorized those ones because like, they go in groups. xD I will give you the literal translations though in case you don't know them.
行って来ます　（いってきます）- I am going and coming back. Notice the kanji 行 and 来, go and come. When you say a few verbs in the same sentence, it is normal to change one of them to て form, which in this case, itte comes first and it is in te form. And then kimasu is in plain form and they are just said together. Plain forms of both of these words are: いきます and きます.

いってらっしゃい is saying.. Please go and come back. That is why they are said together. Usually it is like this:
Person leaving: 「いってきます！」
Person staying: 「いってらっしゃい！」

As far as ただいま, if you want to you can think of "tada" as like... 'tadaaa" I'm home. XD Like, some people make a big show out of it lol in proclaiming so. : p Otherwise it might help to realize that 今　（いま） means right now. So they say that right when they are home.

Before I learned おかえりなさい I learned かえり, the root part of the phrase. The お in front is for respect, and the なさい part is an ending that, I am not sure the exact translation. It is a bit hard to translate but it makes "return" into "welcome home"- for returning.. because they were obviously away. かえり is return.. well the normal verb style is to say かえります. Idk how much that helps. I am trying but it is a bit hard as I just memorized them but I hope that helps some.

Mm yeah. =) I actually meant to say リサイクル instead of リサイクリ lol xD ^_^ good job on the translations : D やった！　よかったです。 And yes, ちち is "my dad". I just wasn't sure whether or not you knew the kanji 父 so I used hiragana.

Ahh yeah, well you worded it well. =) Hmm yeah it wasn't specifically green tea. It was tea. But that is the same word so it's okay. xD I forgot what kind at the time lol. I'm glad it was fun for you. =) You wanna say something in Japanese then?

おしごとは何ですか。　好きですか。

Thank you for what? : o
Ok! Kanji :3
一　（いち）　one ・　一つ（ひとつ）　one general object ・　一人　（ひとり） 1 person
二　（に）　two ・　二つ（ふたつ）　two general objects ・　二人　（ふたり） 2 people
三　（さん）　three ・　三つ　（みっつ）　three general objects ・　三人　　（さんにん） 3 people
四　（よん、し）　four ・　四つ　（よっつ）　four general objects ・　四人　（よにん） 4 people
五　（ご）　five ・　五つ　（いつつ）　five general objects ・　五人　（ごにん） 5 people
六　（ろく）　six ・　六つ　（むっつ）　six general objects ・　六人　（ろくにん) 6 people
七　（なな、しち）　seven ・　七つ　（ななつ）　seven general objects ・　七人　（ななにん） 7 people
八　（はち）　eight ・　八つ　（やっつ）　eight general objects ・　八人　（はちにん） 8 people
九　（きゅう、く）　nine ・　九つ　（ここのつ）　nine general objects ・　九人　（きゅうにん） 9 people
十　（じゅう）　ten ・　十　（とお）*not typo / ten general obejcts ・　十人　（じゅうにん） 10 people

ご家族　（ごかぞく）　other person's family ・　家族　（かぞく） family
お父さん　（おとうさん）　father ・　父　（ちち）
お母さん　（おかあさん）　mother ・　母　（はは）
お兄さん　（おにいさん）　older brother ・　兄　（あに）
お姉さん　（おねえさん）　older sister ・　姉　（あね）
弟さん　（おとうとさん）　younger brother ・　弟　（おとうと）
妹さん　（いもうとさん）　younger sister ・　妹　（いもうと）

To explain this whole family section, the ones where it is GOkazoku or OkaaSAN for example, it is giving respect. You want to give respect for other people's family, so that is when you use those words. However, it is still appropriate to call your own mother or father or sibling or what have you by the respectful terms when you are talking to them. Like, i call my dad おとうさん when I am speaking to him, while if I am talking -about- him to someone else I call him ちち. =) I hope that helps ^_^

日　（にち、に、ひ、び） sun, day (used in Sunday)
月　（げつ、がつ、つき） moon, month (used in Monday)
火　（か、ひ） fire (used in Tuesday)
水　（すい、みず） water (used in Wednesday)
木　（もく、き） tree (used in Thursday)
金　（きん、かね） gold, money (used in Friday)
土　（ど、つち） ground, soil (used in Saturday)
曜　（よう） in 日曜日　（にちようび） luminary day of the week

As for tea, well it is true that there are specific ways to say certain types of tea. But tea in general is お茶　（おちゃ） as well as being green tea. It works like that in several instances. To say meat, it is にく but that is also beef because it is the main kind. To say bird it is とり, but it also means chicken because that is the main kind. =) At the time I didn't remember what type of tea I drank so I simplified it all by using お茶 instead. ^_^

あぁ、そうですか。　いいですね　＾＿＾　そのしごとはたのしいですか。　まいにちしている？