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Speak Japanese Online - Japanese Anime (part 2: Japanese Poetry)

What better way to keep you motivated to learn to speak Japanese online than by watching Japanese anime or reading Manga. It is movies such as Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell and its sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, based on a Japanese cyberpunk manga created by Shirow Masamune, that make learning Japanese interesting and worth your perserverence to learn to speak Japanese online. The following clip is one of the most beautiful opening scenes to an anime movie I have ever seen, not to mention, the powerful music composed by Kenji Kawai and voices that accompany the song "Kugutsuuta Ura Mite Chiru."



English Translation of Lyrics:

Even the moon will not shine every day, every night
Scaly thrushes cry on the sadness
I turned and looked back, but the flower looks like they’d fallen out
As if the feeling of solitude has faded away

Gods gathers forward the next world, the day breaks, and scaly thrushes cry
A blossom has desire to satisfy and pray to God earnestly
I should grieve over myself at this-time life,
the dream has gone. Left my grudge and gone...

Here are the lyrics in rōmaji and just to remind us of what rōmaji is, to quote Wikipedia: "The romanization of Japanese or rōmaji is the use of the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language. Japanese is normally written in logographic characters borrowed from Chinese (kanji) and syllabic scripts (kana). The romanization of Japanese is done in any context where Japanese text is targeted at those who do not know the language, such as for names on street signs and passports, and in dictionaries and textbooks for foreign learners of the language. The word "rōmaji" is sometimes incorrectly transliterated as romanji or rōmanji."

In Rōmaji:

Hitohi hitoyo ni tsuki wa erazu tomo
Kanashimi ni nuetori naku
Waga kaeri misuredo hana wa chirinubeshi
Nagusamuru kokoro wa kenuru ga gotoku

Aratayo ni kamutsudo hite yo wa ake nuretori naku
Sakuhana wa kami ni koinoru
Ikeru yo ni agami kanashi mo ime wa kenu
Ime wa kenu uramite chiru

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