Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
OMOSHIROI (Interesting)
Here you have valuable information about Japanese. It would help you to have a better view and understanding of the basics of this wonderful language.
1_ Japanese verbs can be divided in 8 groups base in their infinitive form and the changes they suffer when they are conjugated. But this is not a mandatory classification rule. Different authors used different classification. I am going to use Michio Nakaruma and Fortunato Brown's classification, let's be careful about it. Main verbs are always at the end of a phrase and they don't have and ending that identifies the suject, this is completely different from Romance languages. Japanese verbs don't have future tense; present tense carries out future tense function.
2_ In Japanese, there are particles or "one syllabe words" that will make Japanese learning the most difficult thing in the world, yet not impossible. These particles can be compared to prepositions and conjunctions, but some of them can't be compared, they only exist in Japanese, they are unique. It's really important to understand and distinguish each of these particles from the very beginning. They have a particular function; syntax and grammar are based in the use of these particles. WE NEED TO BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL ABOUT THEM.
3_ Japanese script has not blanks between words. We may think that's a nonsence, but it's true, so, in order to make Japanese language learning easier for us, they have come up with Romaji, which is Japanese but using roman scripts. Romanji or Romaji writing has a fickle word separation, different authors use different kinds of word separation. That's another thing we need to consider.
Mata aimashoo
1_ Japanese verbs can be divided in 8 groups base in their infinitive form and the changes they suffer when they are conjugated. But this is not a mandatory classification rule. Different authors used different classification. I am going to use Michio Nakaruma and Fortunato Brown's classification, let's be careful about it. Main verbs are always at the end of a phrase and they don't have and ending that identifies the suject, this is completely different from Romance languages. Japanese verbs don't have future tense; present tense carries out future tense function.
2_ In Japanese, there are particles or "one syllabe words" that will make Japanese learning the most difficult thing in the world, yet not impossible. These particles can be compared to prepositions and conjunctions, but some of them can't be compared, they only exist in Japanese, they are unique. It's really important to understand and distinguish each of these particles from the very beginning. They have a particular function; syntax and grammar are based in the use of these particles. WE NEED TO BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL ABOUT THEM.
3_ Japanese script has not blanks between words. We may think that's a nonsence, but it's true, so, in order to make Japanese language learning easier for us, they have come up with Romaji, which is Japanese but using roman scripts. Romanji or Romaji writing has a fickle word separation, different authors use different kinds of word separation. That's another thing we need to consider.
Mata aimashoo
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Konnichiwa こんにちは
Check my links "resources" in order to get A LOT of information about vocabulary and grammar
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Konnichiwa こんにちは (Hello)
More than 120 million of people speak Japanese; well you have to if you live in Japan. Japan, because of its geographic location, has an interesting political and cultural history, and a unique and completely original language, different than any other language, even than their neighbor language, Chinese.
Although Japanese had adopted Chinese ideographic script, it had created its own phonetic syllabication; its basic grammar system had not suffered important changes. Japanese certainly is one of the most difficult languages to learn, that might be because of its writing system and its great amount of idiomatic expressions. However, acquiring a functional skill speaking Japanese is not that difficult. Syllabus pronunciation is stable, which allows the majority of students to understand and imitate its sounds almost without a problem from the very beginning of their Japanese learning process. It happens that people from Japan consider their language as part of their social customs and not as a communication vehicle. As a consequence, they have not been well prepared or motivated to teach their language, so that there is a lack of teaching methods and resources. On the other hand, Japanese is peculiar enough to be analyzed under the lights of Indo-European language grammar.
On this blog, I’ll be helping people to learn Japanese at the same I improve my skills. So follow me and pay attention about what you’re reading. It’s a long way we have in front of us.
Mata aimashoo (see you)
REUS (Fefo)
Although Japanese had adopted Chinese ideographic script, it had created its own phonetic syllabication; its basic grammar system had not suffered important changes. Japanese certainly is one of the most difficult languages to learn, that might be because of its writing system and its great amount of idiomatic expressions. However, acquiring a functional skill speaking Japanese is not that difficult. Syllabus pronunciation is stable, which allows the majority of students to understand and imitate its sounds almost without a problem from the very beginning of their Japanese learning process. It happens that people from Japan consider their language as part of their social customs and not as a communication vehicle. As a consequence, they have not been well prepared or motivated to teach their language, so that there is a lack of teaching methods and resources. On the other hand, Japanese is peculiar enough to be analyzed under the lights of Indo-European language grammar.
On this blog, I’ll be helping people to learn Japanese at the same I improve my skills. So follow me and pay attention about what you’re reading. It’s a long way we have in front of us.
Mata aimashoo (see you)
REUS (Fefo)
Friday, August 20, 2010
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