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Er, I know that. But I still spell it as "ha" anyway.
onamae ha? ...ah i know where you got that from. in japanese, the 'ha' symbol is pronounced as a 'wa' when used as a particle. so...it's 'onamae wa' and not 'onamae ha'. you would pronounce the 'ha' symbol as 'ha' when it's used in an actual word or name (eg - hamasaki). but if it's used as a particle (by itself) then it's pronounced 'wa'.
kind of confusing...when i first learnt that, i was like o_O but after studying japanese for 3 years, i'm used to it now ^_^
Last edited by mystical shadow angel; Feb 05, 2006 at 03:43 AM.
Er, I know that. But I still spell it as "ha" anyway.
Re: Japanese sentence structure like if you ask someone are you an american? it's set up like anata wa amerkia-jin desu ka..........which if its translated directly is:you an american are?
Originally Posted by JEEB
@Moonlight
No problem, it's fun to try to put something you know into words, something concrete.
@jeilee
No, I'm not Japanese. It's true that I've been in Japan for a year and that got my Japanese a lot better but it still doesn't make me Japanese. I've been thinking about being a Japanese teacher in my local high school as it has a sortage of courses about it and many people are eager to join more classes (and it's a way to earn money). Heh... It's only been about two years from the time when I took that course myself. Learning hiragana and katakana (^_^)/
@non-offtopic:
In any case I'd say that Wikipedia has matured a bit on the side of languages. For basic information I'd say that it's one of the best places to look. I was planning on making a somehow-understandable book on Japanese, but I'll leave that until I get through the Nihongo nouryoku shiken on level 1 (-_o)
I wish i had classes!!!! but i learn everthing on my own time! and i want to go to japan!!!!!! My fav teacher went!!! I wanna go!
Thank you Lasura!My lover speaks; and he says, 'Arise my beloved my beautiful one and come!' -Song of Songs 2:10
Eh...it's kind of like Chinese, you can't take a sentence and directly translate it...
Take classes and learn, or something; it's pretty hard to explain, even for a Japanese chiq like me. .__.
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Re: Japanese sentence structure Well I believe that chinese is harder way harder…
Thank you Lasura!My lover speaks; and he says, 'Arise my beloved my beautiful one and come!' -Song of Songs 2:10
Nope, it's actually "You are an American?"
After a while, you'll see that you can treat DESU KA as a question mark and DESU as a full stop. For example, this sentence : "Watashi wa Ami desu." This translates as "I am Ami (full stop)"
You see what I'm getting at?
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