Lynna (post: 1386219) wrote:due to my extream lack of time and money, I'm trying to learn Japanese over the internet. On my own.
Its...sorta working. I've found some helpfull sites, but there is something that confuses me: what is the placement of verbs in a sentance?If anyone knows or knows a site that could help me, I would be very gratfull!
Japanese is a very confusing language...but it's fun! I'm working at it...
Arigato gozaimasu!
Atria35 (post: 1402520) wrote:There's a site online called readthekanji.com that could help with the kanji. I've been using it a bit- though it's a bit hard to get the hang of, it does help quite a bit!
AnimeGirl (post: 1403190) wrote:Ooh, is it free? Right now I am currently learning Hirigana (which, if I master that, I can read most things in Japanese if it has Furigana, like in my Nihongo Seisho). Kanji is difficult, but I'd like to know how the kanji combinations and things like that work, and although the calligraphy on that is hard, it'd save alot more space in the bubbles of my manga XD
Lynna (post: 1386219) wrote: Japanese is a very confusing language...but it's fun! I'm working at it...
Arigato gozaimasu!
Lynna (post: 1409521) wrote:@ KougaHane wow that sounds really hard!! Hope I never have to learn Mandarin XD
On thing I have trouble with is particles: I'm always forgetting to put the particle "ka" at the end of my questions
I also simply forget exactly how things should be said...for example, I'll say "nani iro desu ka?" (what colour is it?) when I really mean "kore wa nani iro desu ka?"( what colour is this?) It doesn't make a whole lot of difference but..It's annoyng when I forget
I'm learning www.yesjapan.com and I highly reccomend it
goldenspines (post: 1410167) wrote:Please don't take offense, because I am picky, but it's actually "naniro desu ka?" and "kore wa naniro desu ka?"
It's only when "what" is used by as a noun in a sentence (such as "what are you doing") is when you use "nani" (ex: "nani wo shiteimasu ka?"). Otherwise, it's "nan" with the second word (like color/iro or time/ji).
Bobtheduck (post: 1410330) wrote:You always say nani jin (what nationality) never nan jin, for instance. At least based on what I've learned. "Anata wa nanijin desu ka?"
Bobtheduck wrote:Which reminds me of another thing I haven't figured out. WHen is Anata OFFENISVE, and when is it NECESSARY. Because both cases are true depending on context.
Kaori (post: 1410486) wrote:Yes, "nanjin" is correct. However, it's much more polite to say "Okuni wa dochira desu ka?" It's not really good to ask someone's nationality by saying "Nanjin desu ka?"
Bobtheduck (post: 1410528) wrote:Are you Japanese? Just wondering. If you are, this could be another issue of dialect because both the non Japanese host and the Japanese host of Yes Japan, as well as his Japanese voices for the lessons say "Nani jin" And they did say "Anata wa nanijin desu ka?" on at least one video (one I remember is the Korea vs Japan vid, featuring one American, one Korean, and one Japanese girl). No corrections were made by the Japanese member, and while George is American, he has a staff of Japanese people working on the site and Nanijin appears several times in the lessons.
Bobtheduck (post: 1410528) wrote:Are you Japanese? Just wondering. If you are, this could be another issue of dialect because both the non Japanese host and the Japanese host of Yes Japan, as well as his Japanese voices for the lessons say "Nani jin" And they did say "Anata wa nanijin desu ka?" on at least one video (one I remember is the Korea vs Japan vid, featuring one American, one Korean, and one Japanese girl). No corrections were made by the Japanese member, and while George is American, he has a staff of Japanese people working on the site and Nanijin appears several times in the lessons, with the sound files spoken by his Japanese staff (and possibly his Japanese wife).
1. QUESTION SUMMARY: Is there a pattern to using NAN and NANI?
responded on: 2002-05-09
Hmmm. There really isn't a pattern. Except that you can't use NAN all by itself. It is always part of another word or combined with NO. NANI can be used all by itself.
Most of the times the combined words like
NANGATSU (what month),
NANYOUBI (what day of the week),
NANSAI (how old) are using NAN
but some words like NANI-IRO (what color) and NANIJIN (what nationality) and NANIGO (what language) use NANI so as you can see there isn't just one pattern that works. You just have to memorize the words.
Bobtheduck (post: 1410528) wrote:Are you Japanese? Just wondering. If you are, this could be another issue of dialect because both the non Japanese host and the Japanese host of Yes Japan, as well as his Japanese voices for the lessons say "Nani jin" And they did say "Anata wa nanijin desu ka?" on at least one video (one I remember is the Korea vs Japan vid, featuring one American, one Korean, and one Japanese girl). No corrections were made by the Japanese member, and while George is American, he has a staff of Japanese people working on the site and Nanijin appears several times in the lessons, with the sound files spoken by his Japanese staff (and possibly his Japanese wife).
goldenspines wrote:I have never seen "nani" used without a particle after it (unless it's the short and informal expression "Nani?").
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