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.

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