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The land of fire? Tierra del Fuego? … Iceland?
Welcome! You planning on a trip to Japan, then? When? Where?
Handy rule of thumb, です/ます form will be ideal for pretty much any situation you’d encounter as a tourist.
Oh, may I ask what’s keeping you from using it more? Have they not ported all the TextFugu content there yet or something? Is it still too buggy?
Nothing more than simple procrastination. =)
Welcome! There’s so many aspects of language that are easy to take for granted, because in your native language you use them without even thinking about them. So yeah, I can kind of understand how you’d get so distracted by vocab and kanji that you’d forget about grammar, but… ouch. Something else to make sure you don’t forget for JLPT is listening practice.
I have an EtoEto login. I probably should make more use of it…
You can do that with a lot of grammar structures, actually. In some ways, Japanese can be more explicit about tenses than English is. For example:
ここでは高いビルがありました = There was a tall building here (but it’s not here any more)
ここでは高かったビルがあります = There was a tall building here (but it’s not tall any more)
It’s pretty much the difference between “there was a building that is tall” and “there is a building that was tall”.
Never been to Florida. I have, however, visited the Harry Potter studios in London.
And yah, they’re in 2020. I was thinking maybe I could get tickets to watch Australians compete for comparatively cheap (since they’re not the home team), though it could be worth going even just to see the new works they’re doing. =) The Tokaido shinkansen was built for the previous one in 1964 – the Chuo maglev won’t be done until 2027, though they’re pondering opening up a demonstration to Kofu in Yamanashi in time for 2020…
Thanks. I had my mother’s help – she’s big on scrapbooking – though I did all the actual work myself. =)
I certainly intend to visit Japan again, though I’ve made no firm plans as yet. My student club at uni is considering a trip in December next year to visit Harry Potter World (in Universal Studios, Osaka), and I’m also vaguely pondering visiting during the Olympics, maybe. Been making a huge list of places I want to visit when I can eventually go back.
Yah, it’s pretty. Full of temples, many of which you can spend the night at. I made a scrapbook of my trip, the digital version of which I uploaded to Facebook (albeit not quite at full size, which makes the text a tad tricky to read). You can find it here:
(Last time I checked, you could still view that without being my friend, but you do need to be logged into Facebook. Haven’t checked if it still works recently, though.)
There’s a subtle difference between the two sentences, and the synonym-ity of “supposed to” and “was expected to” is not really helping.
noun + だった はずです = “I am currently expecting that [the noun] used to be [main clause]” (but who knows if it still is).
noun + の はずだった = “I was expecting that [the noun] (at the time) was [main clause]” (but maybe I’m not expecting that any more).
It was good. Pretty different to Tokyo. The aquarium is seriously impressive (though I was a little bit disappointed by the castle). We didn’t spend much time in Osaka, though – even though we stayed at a hotel in Osaka for four nights, we only spent one day actually in Osaka. The other two days were spent in Koya-san and Nara.
Yep – once for a holiday, five years ago. Actually, exactly five years ago – today, I was visiting Osaka Castle and Aquarium. =)
You want a nominaliser. You’ll learn that in season six – you’re still in five, now. Specifically, here:
http://www.textfugu.com/season-6/nominalization/why/You need to nominalise “studying Japanese”.
日本語を勉強するのは難しくなっていた。
Mind you, you could also say “Japanese study” instead of “studying Japanese”, and that’s a noun already, which means you can already form that sentence.
Welcome! So envious…
Yeah, the built-in search sucks. Or rather, it’s completely non-functional. Which is odd, because we used to have a search that worked fine (though was very very well-hidden).
Your best bet is to use Google site search (i.e. go to Google and enter “[search term] site:textfugu.com” into the box).
Yes. The use of は adds emphasis that you like that thing and not other things, but it’s always fine to use が.
Welcome! I’ve got My Japanese Coach, too. Some of the kana stroke orders are a little bit off, actually…
