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Originally Posted by Darnellrbts
Good afternoon. I have a question, I'm doing a practice from the genki text book on ja arimasen. I have to answer the question but I'm not sure I did it correctly.
スーさんのせんもんはけいざいですか。
Should it be this
いいえ,にほんごじゃありません。computerです。 ( couldn't do it in japanese phone messing up)
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Big problem.
Here is what you wrote:
Person A: Is Sue's area of specialty economics?
Person B: No, it isn't Japanese. It's computer.
See the issue above? You could say:
Person A: スーさんのせんもんはけいざいですか。
Person B: いいえ、けいざいじゃありません。コンピューター� ��す。
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I actually personally never say ～～じゃありません and neither do many other Japanese-speakers but if that's what you learn, let's not discuss it.
I use ～～ではありません. I couldn't quite see how someone could stand the imbalance between the highly casual じゃ and the not so casual ありません.