Japnese sentence building 101
So far there have been a couple of happy announcements regarding the japanese language.
- There’s no punctuation
- The sentence order is pretty random, as long as you end it with a verb
- You can leave out obvious stuff: Don’t have to keep stating watashi wa
No punctuation; Let me explain that, they have a “.” But you don’t need to use it. There’s also a “,” but it’s facing the other way and I’ve never seen it used.
There’s no ” ”
You see anything between those quote signs?
it’s a space
There’s NO spaces in the Japanese language
Crap
Double Crap
Itisreallylikewritinglikethisyouonlyknowwhatitsaisbecauseyouknowtheindividualwords
I’ll give you one guess to the flaw in this
That’s right. I’m learning Japanese so I get to know the words.
There’s a bright side . . . . . There’s particles
Particles which denote the function of the last word (couple of words). So “は” would indicate the subject and “に” would indicate the location.
There’s a drawback to this aswell. は and に are letters. They are used in the words you are seperating. And then there’s the fact that “は” is is really the letter “ha” if used in a word but “wa” when used as a particle. The way you write it however . . . . is exactly the same. And considering there’s no space behind は no matter if it’s in a word or used as an ending particle . . . . .how the hell am I supposed to see that.
Have I cheered at being given the oppertunity to learn this fabulous language lately. Let’s do it now
All together
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2
1
YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH
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Of all the things I’ve lost
I miss my mind the most
- Mark Twain
so have you learned to congratulate people in Japanese yet? Maybe I can use that in the very near future, if I don’t forget that is, I’m supposed to go to Greece remember? So far the getting stuff together part sucks, the take this with you sucks, the ‘my battery charger just died on me, so I can’t bring my own stuff/laptop’ sucks. Ow well I’ll tell you how it goes
(K)
Jen
Soooo . . . finally got your laptop fixed and now you still can’t use it?
Sounds like your earlier judgement on the matter still holds: The bag is the most reliable part.
Have fun in Greece. I’d ask you to pick up some Greek sunshine for me, but with this constant rain here it’s finally below 30 degrees. I kinda like it
tanjôbi omedetô Wouter,
How is it to have a party in Japan?
We read you Blog with a big smile and hope you keep enjoying yourself.
Out of the country does not mean out of our minds.
Have a nice day
ありがとう ございました
Big party here. Nice to see you have the time to read this with a 3rd grandchild having joined the ranks.
I’ll enjoy my parties here. You enjoy helping out with the poopie daipers.
Sounds like a good deal to me
Hang in there Wally. Hiragana and Katakana are pretty easy to read once you get used to it. And if you don’t like the spacing and are having trouble seeing where one words stops and the next begins, just hurry up and start learning Kanji. That actually makes things a lot easier to read!