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did I type this right? - 01-24-2010, 03:11 AM

Did I type this correctly, I just basically want to say my name:

こんにちわ。わたし は ed の なまえ
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01-24-2010, 03:20 AM

No.

こんにちは。名前(なまえ)はedです。

Or, just "edです”


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01-24-2010, 03:28 AM

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Did I type this correctly, I just basically want to say my name:

こんにちわ。わたし は ed の なまえ
What alanX said. What you gave us was something like
Today! [like a girl would say it] As for me, Ed's name.
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01-24-2010, 03:39 AM

Oh, that sounds really bad haha. I had jut finished learning kana and I was trying at actually writing a sentence. I still need a lot of more work as it shows
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01-24-2010, 03:49 AM

Not bad at all for a beginner, bro.
At least your already on to kana.

Basically, the "wa" that you hear in "Konicheewa" is the particle は。
Not a big mistake at all.

And for the second sentence, it was just a grammar issue.
In english, we say My-name-is-X.
In Japanese, we say

My-の-name-は-X-is。
わたし-の-なまえ-は-X-です。

But native speakers usually just shorten to Xです。


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01-24-2010, 03:53 AM

So even if I just my name with just です、that would be accepted by a native speaker or no?
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01-24-2010, 03:58 AM

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So even if I just my name with just です、that would be accepted by a native speaker or no?
That is how native speakers say it. So, of course.
Xです。


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01-24-2010, 04:00 AM

Aah,thank you very much
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