Thread: はじめました

「はじめまして」 would be preferable to 「はじめました」

「はじめまして」as a greeting is not the conjugated form of the verb はじめる

「はじめまして」as a greeting derives from 「初めてお目にかかります」 "I meet you for the first time" or more literally, "You see me for the first time". 　
I am sure you already know it is a common greeting, equivalent of "How do you do".

As for the difference between はじめる and はじまる、the former is a transitive verb while the latter is an intransitive verb.


If you really want to learn Japanese, take lessons. Trust me on that one. And make sure there are plenty of opportunities to speak the language as well as write it.
Spoken, Japanese is a fairly easy language. Written it's one of the hardest.





Oh and welcome to AO.

if you could point me to some good lessons that dont cost any money, then id be happy to take them, otherwise its to expensive >.<

im going to have to read over that post alot in order to understand it, but thank you for giving me advice its what i need more than anything!

HI!! Welcome to AO................................

Originally Posted by kingmustang

HI!! Welcome to AO................................

Please don't try to bypass the character limit, we have it for a reason.

And yes, MushroomWobbit, it will be expensive. Unless you can find someone who can speak the language perfectly and is willing to teach you for free you will need to invest a lot of time and money.