Vampire_Knight_EMi
question I have a question. I get every thiing in all the other lessons but I just can't get what order the words are supose to be in. I've read books that said Japanese verbs always go last , but others tell me different. I am so confused!
question From what I understannnd...it depends on the sentence.
I have the book "easy japanese" by jack seward I highly reconmend it for the newbie in the japanese way lol (its helped me allot) and heres what it says about word order...
The usual word order in japanese is:
subject - object - verb
subject - adjective
remote subject - immediate subject - verbSo ultimately yes, the verb is usually at the end... it's just what consitutes as a verb in japanese is sometimes different than in english. The book also explains that last bit with the remote subject. It says how japanese often set the stage for what they're going to talk about, and then the immediate subject is the for what they want to say. For example the sentence "Kibishii sensei wa hima ga arimasu" means "the difficult teacher - free time - has" .
does that make sense?
Also, has any one thought about making part of these lessions more on Pronunciation? I noticed several people were saying they wern't sure if they were saying it correctly or not.
I know how to say "r's" properly gave me a serious hard time and I still struggle with it a bit.
also to help people who were asking about the dialect. I've been told, its almost impossible to learn them all. Your going to be a weirdo forienger weither you like it or not lol. Long as you got the general idea , (Again from what I understand) youll do fine. Just listen to allot of people speaking japanese and itll be ok.
I know my husband I watch allot of movies in japanese and are actually looking into getting a PAL dvd player so we can get more movies in japanese. We also have bought audio CD's...so..just listening can help.
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