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Welcome! Kinda envious you’re already planning another trip to Japan. I’ve been just the once, exactly six years ago as of last Monday.
What’s your favourite food? Tried some of the regional specialties? Where are you planning to visit in five months?
I do like ramen. One of the great tragedies of America is that over there, they believe that “ramen” means “instant noodles”.
P.S. Edward Norton?
Welcome! What’s your bachelor in? =)
In any case, in the immortal words of Mary Schmich (as made famous by Baz Luhrmann):
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what to do with your life
The most interesting people I know
idn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’tWelcome!
My reason was that it seemed like fun. =)
I went to a place in Koya-san once (before I started learning Japanese) which had an English menu, but no member of the staff who could speak English (or read the menu), which meant I had to figure out which items on the Japanese menu corresponded to the items we wanted anyway. =)
Mind you, I can’t say I’ve often seen beef ramen – pork is more common. Thinking maybe I’ll have to give it a try sometime.
Well actually, many ramen restaurants have a vending machine by the door – you order at the restaurant by purchasing a ticket from the machine, and then handing that ticket to the server. The machines usually have little images of what you’re ordering (though, to be fair, most tend not to be all that visually distinct).
But welcome anyway! =) Where will you be studying?
In this case, それ is functioning as the topic of the sentence as well as being the direct object. When that happens, the topic marker は replaces the direct object marker を.
(It’s also highlighting the contrast – I don’t know that, but I do know other things.)
You don’t get any bigger than Tokyo. =)
Welcome!
Got any place(s) in particular you were hoping to visit? =)
Welcome! =)
Welcome! =)
Welcome back! Maybe it’s worth just throwing yourself in at the deep end. Find something in Japanese and try to read it. Basically, try to jog your memory by sheer brute force. =)
Yep. Context.
Could even mean “am I a teacher?”, though the context leading up to that particular question is unlikely to ever happen. =P
So, as a general point, it’s the verb at the end of the sentence that defines the politeness and tense. The verbs in the middle of the sentence are usually required to be in dictionary form, and often nonpast tense too.
Which is to say, for example, you can’t say にほんご を ならいます ために in the middle, but at the end, either みる or みます is fine.
な-adjectives are adjectives, despite functioning as nouns in almost all respects. Not entirely sure why some are mentioned in the dictionary as being nouns as well, because I sure ain’t never seen them actually functioning as a noun. That I can think of.
Noone’s ever really explained to me what “の-adjectives” are. Near as I can tell, they’re just nouns that are used to modify other nouns more often than not.
It’s useful to know which nouns often form する verbs, though. My dictionary mentions it – it’s got a little note saying [v-s] in the parts-of-speech field. Make a note of it if you like. =)
Yep.
は is only ever pronounced “wa” when it’s functioning as a particle.
