Japanese

kawaiichik01 · (#1 (**permalink**))

I really want to learn japanese so if anyone can help.....i kno how to pronouce words and stuff but making sentences gets me confused. (and i'm always open to teaching anyone english in exchange)

MMM · (#2 (**permalink**))

Come up with some specific questions, and there is a better chance you'll get an answer.

kawaiichik01 · (#3 (**permalink**))

I would like to kno how to form sentences in japanese, like how to put the actual sentence together... so if anyone would help! arigatou gozaimashita!!!

SSJup81 · (#4 (**permalink**))

The sentence structure is...

Subject (particle [wa; ga; mou]) Date (particles like [e; ni; de]) Time Person/Place Object (particle, like maybe "wo") Verb/Noun/Adjective

Probably a bit confusing there, but maybe someone can explain it much better than I could.

I can give an example, though of a short sentence.

I went to the bookstore and I bought a book.

Watashi wa honya e ikimashita. Soshite hon wo kaimashita.

Meh...I'm trying to think of a way of explaining this sentence. lol

Watashi = Subject (I)

wa = subject indicator, which shows that the subject of the sentence is "I"

Honya = Place

e = Particle used with places.

ikimashita = verb (iku = to go)

Soshite = and

Hon = subject of second sentence

wo/o = to me, "hon" would be a direct object, so I'd use "o" here. You use "wo" with direct objects.

kaimashita = verb

*Begs anyone to try and explain this better than what I did here, since I got confused writing it* lol

kaelazors · (#5 (**permalink**))

i'll be glad to help you as much as i can but my japanese isn't perfect

chryuop · (#6 (**permalink**))

I might be wrong, but the more I study Japanese the more it looks like my language (Italian)...no order is the rule. It seems to me that the order is given by the way it sounds and for that you need to know the language well.
Think that I have found a script of a Japanese dialogue where the それは, which was the subject, was put after the verb (I guess it was something put afterwards coz forgotten while speaking, and spoken sometimes bends grammar rules...but still...).

aiyumecool559 · (#7 (**permalink**))

Japanese is easy, except sometimes kanji. English is so difficult. "The" is hard to understand. Sentence is easy. What kind of sentence you want make?