Hi, Could any native speaker of Japanese tell me whether "jibun" can refer to "Taro" in the following sentence, according to your intuition, not strict...
Hello, Tom and all. (Is this a correct way?) Thank you for the explanations about your language. It is interesting to find differing views among native...
Hi, Ray san. Nihonjin no Hirashin desu. Are you enjoying learning Japanese? (^_^)/ $B$G$O!"$4<ALd$N7o$K$*Ez$($7$^$9!#(B (dewa, goshitsumon no ken ni okotae...
... Actually, I am only a linguistics student who is studying reflexive pronouns in some East Asian languages. I tried to learn Japanese a few years ago, but I...
Thanks for accepting me into this group all! Being a first year Japanese Language student it is very tough to find classmates to practice with with all of our...
hirashin-san to minasan, konnichiwa. Replying to hirashin-san's email Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [Japanese is nihongo] The word...
... There are usually two general opinions about this matter - and I guess it's the same for every language. The one side believes that a language, as a tool...
Hello everyone, My name is Freddy. I'm from Indonesia. I'm new to both Japanese, and this group. I welcome anyone who wants to be practice partner to email or...
Hi everyone I'm mark - I am member of health hokkaido - an NGO here in Japan providing free health information, life in Japan and a few things in the middle. I...
Konnichiwa mina san, Richo de gozaimasu..... Hirashin san, How about these sentence : " watashiwa Richo de gozaimasu" is it correct form? when we can use it? ...
Konnichiwa, omataseshimashita..... Hai dekimasu, eigo ga sukoshi wakarimasu... Doushitan desuka? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Richo san, konnichiwa. I'm very glad you asked me about Japanese.(^_^)/ ... hai. tadashii nihongo desu. (Yes. That's a correct Japanese sentence.) But it...
Hutatabi, konnichiwa, Richo san. (^_^)/ I noticed you've written a strange phrase. ... "Doushitan desuka?" means "What happened?" or "What's going on?" It...
Thank You very much for your correction Hirashin san, but what i was trying to say is: "Why do you ask it?" but I was alittle confuse to say it unformally, so...
Hi Fred san, Konnichiwa, Indonesia jin no Richo to moushimasu...... Yoroshiku onegaishimasu... ^_^ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Konbanwa, Minnasan! Watashi wa Bruce to moushimasu. Youroshiku onegaishimasu. I am trying to learn Japanese on my own, in what little spare time I have! I have...
Hi, Bruce. Hajimemashite. I'm Hirashin. Nihonjin desu. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. ... Bruce san wa, dokoni sunde orareru n desuka? Amerika desuka? I know...
Hajimemashite, minnasan, watakushi wa Afi to moushimasuga, Indonesiajin desu. Hajime no nihongo no milist ni e-mail o kaite imasuga, douzo yoroshiku onegai...
This is my first post, as I just joined this forum. I am studying Japanese on my own with a number of books and aids purchased from Amazon.com. Fortunately,...
barry-san, konnichiwa. Welcome to the forum. It's great that you have a friend who is able to help you along in the beginning. Which books have you chosen to...
... If you want help learning the Kana (Hiragana+Katakana), here are some tips on how I did it: 1. For each character, make up some sort of mnemonic image that...
Hajimemashite, Sasha to moushimasu. Amerikajin desu. Ichinen ijou nihongo wo benkyoushite imasu. Nihongo(to Eigo)wo naratte iru koto ni kyoumi ga aru hitobito...
Tom, thanks for the advice. Here are a few of the books I purchased: * Kanji ABC - Foerster * Beginner's Kana Workbook .... Kaneda * Japanese Step by Step...
... Hmm . . . let's take this situation for example. When you are introducing yourself to an online group like this, is it odd to use "to moushimasu?" Should...
