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[schellen]

ChiefKiasu:

Ah... so...


Watashi wa pengin desu. Hai. Many arigato for anata's Japanese pointers here, schellen-san. Watashi no nihongo learnt from Kill Bill wan.

Wah! Then I must kow-tow to you as shifu already. m(_ _)m Watch Kill Bill can learn such powderful Jap one! http://www.msnrules.com/emoticons/onion/onion25.gif\">

[carebear]

schellen:

3. Koko ni aoi pengin ga arimasu ka? Iie, arimasen. = Are there blue penguins here? No, there aren't.



Note that in Japanese, speakers and writers tend to exclude the objects and/or subjects in their sentences if both parties already know what they are talking about.

Arimasu is for inanimate objects.
Imasu is for living things.
So in this case, i tot it should be : Koko ni aoi penguin ga imasu ka?

[peapot]

Can I just check one must go through how many lessons before one can actual converse in Jap? Will you forget your Jap if you haven’t got a chance to converse in Jap? If this is the case, can I converse with you? Ha…very demanding right?

[carebear]

peapot:

Can I just check one must go through how many lessons before one can actual converse in Jap? Will you forget your Jap if you haven't got a chance to converse in Jap? If this is the case, can I converse with you? Ha...very demanding right?

The best is converse with the locals.
Sure way to learn.
Most of my friends got A1 or A2 for O level japanese, but when they went for exchange program in japan, most of them had difficulty conversing!

I am learning japanese on my own.
I go to the china websites to learn.
I find it easier when I learn japanese through chinese, as the sentence construction appears to be quite similar.

[peapot]

Oh carebear, do you mind to share the link? Can I converse with you to practise? Not now of course since I just started. Maybe after 1 month lesson or something.

[carebear]

peapot:

Oh carebear, do you mind to share the link? Can I converse with you to practise? Not now of course since I just started. Maybe after 1 month lesson or something.

For start, you can try :
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/MmnHbP6AsAE/
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/tOLJQ7KrLZg/
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/E3ld36MB0D8/


From youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t58Hblk8xQM

Cheers!

[sashimi]

peapot:

Can I just check one must go through how many lessons before one can actual converse in Jap? Will you forget your Jap if you haven't got a chance to converse in Jap? If this is the case, can I converse with you? Ha...very demanding right?

You definitely have to find some means of using the Japanese in order to improve and keep it working, so to speak. In my case, for example, I read Japanese magazines pertaining to my hobby and watch Japanese anime regularly. Whatever suits you!

In my experience, after taking 2 years of Japanese at Tenrikyo, I find that I can conduct a simple conversation in Japanese (which I did in Kyoto with the proprietors of our ryokan for a whle week )

Basic Japanese is also surprisingly very useful when shopping in Japan(ese). Eg. a knowledge of the katakana alphabet used to write foreign words, even in your initial year, is very useful.

[BigDevil]

schellen:

By right, it should be \"Irrasshaimase\" but S'pore service being S'pore service (i.e., non-existent), they always say \"Maseiiiii\" which sashimi and I and our friends have no idea what they're saying.

They never fail to irk DW with that, and she will go shaking her head. :roll:

[peapot]

Hi sashimi,


A few questions.
why is it a boy would start with " Boku wa sega hikui desu"? Shouldn’t it be "watashi wa sega hikui desu?"

When would use Kare wa, Kanojo wa and Kono?


Also, when you say $224 for first half, what does first half means? 6 months or 10 weeks?

[carebear]

Men can use boku or watashi which means "I".

Women only use watashi to refer to "I".

Kare refers to "he".
Kanojo refers to "she".
Kono refers to "this" followed by a noun.
Kore refers to "this".