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hiramekiyuri

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:23 pm


Ah, alright ^_^ thanks.
I guess I need more practice using the particles 'ga' and 'wa'
PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:33 am


Hello everyone! :]
I don't quite know where to put this...but can someone correct this for me?
It's a post in a Japanese blog I've made and I know it's riddled with errors. xD


カリフォルニアに火災を死にます。煙も死にますよ。o(^▽^)o

私はとても嬉です。 部屋の窓をあけました。今はあついじゃありませんから。

It's supposed to say:

"Fires are dying in California. The smoke is dying too.
I am very happy! I opened my window. Now it's not hot."

Lol...it sounds really awkward because I know so very little Japanese.
So, I have to make do with what I know.

Happy 4th of July to everyone here, btw. ;D
And if you're not American and you don't care...
Just have a happy day. ^_^ Lol.

Kurezi


T.A.S.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:43 pm


hiramekiyuri-san, me too! Particles are so awfully tricky! 3nodding
PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:02 pm


I still get confused with ha, ga, ni and wo... razz

De is for transportation, right?
To is and...

Bah... I need to practice. T-T

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:44 pm


As far as I understand, wa marks the topic... for example, "yasai wa" pretty much means "as for vegetables" or "let's talk about vegetables" or anything like that.

O/wo marks the direct object, or the thing that the verb is being done to. For example, "yasai o tabemasu" means "(something) eats vegetables".

To is and, simple as that razz

De indicates the location of something, similar to "at" or "in". So "yasai de" would mean "in a vegetable".

Ni indicates direction, similar to "to". For example, "yasai ni ikimasu" means "(something) goes to the vegetables".

And there's some more, too... like "he" can replace "ni" in most instances, and "ka" can mean "or". I don't totally get ga yet, though sweatdrop Learning particles is hard, especially when you never learned about subjects/topics/objects in a sentence in school stare
PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:56 pm


Saika Kitera Bejiita
Lady Mira of Azure Sky
Konnichi wa...watashi da Arison desu.(Did I say that right?)

Good afternoon...my name is Allison

PS--and I don't know how to say much else yet... xp I'm a real beginner!


It's "watashi wa". "da" is something totally different... I just learned that (actually I just took a test in which that was part of the grammar I was supposed to write) and I'm in Japanese II. >_>;


I thought it was

私の名前はアリソンです。

Which would be 'wa' and not 'da'?

k a n a g u s u k u


Kurezi

PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:49 am


S p u r t z _
Saika Kitera Bejiita
Lady Mira of Azure Sky
Konnichi wa...watashi da Arison desu.(Did I say that right?)

Good afternoon...my name is Allison

PS--and I don't know how to say much else yet... xp I'm a real beginner!


It's "watashi wa". "da" is something totally different... I just learned that (actually I just took a test in which that was part of the grammar I was supposed to write) and I'm in Japanese II. >_>;


I thought it was

私の名前はアリソンです。

Which would be 'wa' and not 'da'?

Either way. Just like in English you can say "My name is ____." or "I am ____." And yes, they are both 'wa'.
PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:00 am


"Wow.... I used to study Japanese back when I was in school... Of course, now that I'm working I forgot almost everything. I can barely read in a turtle's pace... My kanji SUCKS big time.

Reading these posts make me reminisce and want to go back to studying again. But that's starting at chapter... 1." sad

*Tries to remember*

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Dai-yan desu. Ni jyuu yon sai desu to firipin jin desu. [draws a blank after the classical beginner introduction] sweatdrop LESSON 1 wo benkyou ni hajimemasu yo! [I messed that up. Now starting to study ... lesson 1. Again. >.< and vocab vocab vocab. ] cry

naerri


hikari megumi 15

PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:26 pm


naerri
"Wow.... I used to study Japanese back when I was in school... Of course, now that I'm working I forgot almost everything. I can barely read in a turtle's pace... My kanji SUCKS big time.

Reading these posts make me reminisce and want to go back to studying again. But that's starting at chapter... 1." sad

*Tries to remember*

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Dai-yan desu. Ni jyuu yon sai desu to firipin jin desu. [draws a blank after the classical beginner introduction] sweatdrop LESSON 1 wo benkyou ni hajimemasu yo! [I messed that up. Now starting to study ... lesson 1. Again. >.< and vocab vocab vocab. ] cry


sugoi! konnichiwa, daiyana-san! firipinjin desu ka? juugosai desu. good! good! messed up a little but still, very good! mrgreen
PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:47 am


Kurezi
Hello everyone! :]
I don't quite know where to put this...but can someone correct this for me?
It's a post in a Japanese blog I've made and I know it's riddled with errors. xD


カリフォルニアに火災を死にます。煙も死にますよ。o(^▽^)o

私はとても嬉です。 部屋の窓をあけました。今はあついじゃありませんから。

It's supposed to say:

"Fires are dying in California. The smoke is dying too.
I am very happy! I opened my window. Now it's not hot."


I know how it feels to want to say something, but because you don't have a big vocabulary in the language, you have to say it with what you know (I experience this nearly daily being here).

カリフォルニアで火災を消えています。 煙も消えています。
私はとても嬉しいです。 部屋の窓をあげました。今暑くなくなりました。 Perhaps (涼しくなりました would sound more natural, but I didn't want to change the meaning of what you wrote too much. That would make it "it has now become cool")

Stuff I added:

I changed に to で because whenever you have an action taking place (or using the Te-form plus iru) somewhere, it usually is で.
You forgot しい after 嬉しい
To snuff out, or extinguish is 消える (kieru)
The form of an I-Adjective -i +ku + naru is "something becomes something"

for instance:
友達を帰ったあとで、ぼくはさびしくなりました。
After my friend returned home, I became lonely.

Na-Adjectives with the Adjective+Naru form is as simple as:
Na-Adjective + Ni + Naru

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:50 am


こにちは、私は蛙です。背が小さい...でも沢山の女ちゃん大好きですよ....ハハハハ..
PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:15 pm


((Oooh, good, I'm glad I found this thread, everything else is over my head lol. please correct me if I mess up, I'm a noob here stressed ))

Konbanwa anata-tachi. Watashi wa Rachel to moshimasu. Hajime mashite! Lessons ((doesn't know Japanese word for lessons)) wa doko desu ka? Watashi wa nihongo o sukoshi dake hanashimasu.
Watashi wa genkides, arigatou gozaimasu ((in response to 1st post))

I dunno what else to say, because I know phrases, but it would be so out of place, jumping from the introduction to "totemo mushiatsui desu" to "eigo o hanishimasu ka?" to something else totally random. Sorry...

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PiikuNii

PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:00 pm



私は長い時間にこのギルドに行ったことがありません。

皆 が 元気 でした か. 4laugh
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