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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:45 am


It's what we're currently learning in my class, but my class is a bit above my level so I'm not understanding it. Both when to use keigo and how it works. For example, one of my practice problems has me changing this exchange into keigo:

先生1:この間の旅行の写真、見ますか。
先生2:ええ、ぜび見たいです。

So I changed the 見ます to ご覧になります and left 見たいです the way it is, because I think it'd be weird for one teacher to be using keigo with another and the other using keigo right back. But I still have no idea.

Plus, on another problem I'm supposed to change 教えています into sonkeigo, or at least so I assume because it's talking about a teacher. Anyway, I'm not sure how to do that, because the only way I can think of is お教えていになります and that just sounds weird to me.

So in conclusion, any elucidation on the subject would be greatly appreciated. (Being taught it in Japanese when you can only understand a third at best of what your teacher's saying is difficult, believe you me.)
PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:44 pm


ご覧になります= Yes this is (^ー゜)bグッ! 

お教えていになります= Wrong 

Its should be お教えになってます(~てます To avoid redunant politeness) 

Conjugate なる

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