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That’s on the difference between ません and ないです, which are both polite negative endings. ない on its own is the dictionary-form negative ending, which you have to use for pre-nominal adjectives (or for pre-nominal anything, actually).
Past tense of します/する. [Noun]する is a combination you’re going to see a lot of.
It’s just べんりじゃないくるま
Don’t think Kouichi covers pre-nominal adjectives in as much detail as he really should…
Got a link? =)
As for んだ (which is, by the way, a form of のだ), I can’t really find anything on the internet, though it could be that my search-fu is weak. My grammar dictionary describes it as being used “when the speaker is explaining or asking for an explanation about information shared with the hearer. The information is often what the speaker and the hearer have observed or heard.” I guess it’s implying “I know, and I know that you know, and I know that you know that I know, so look at all this shared atmosphere”.
It also adds: “It’s also used when no information is shared by the speaker and the hearer and the speaker is not explaining or asking for an explanation. In this case, the speaker is talking as if some information were shared with the hearer, and the effects of this are, for example (a) to involve the hearer in the affairs he is talking about and/or (b) to impose his idea upon the hearer or, at least, to emphasise his idea emotively.”
What’s that from? It’s coming across a little weird, though I have a feeling that it’s something more like “make yourself at home”.
In any case, なるんだから isn’t なるん + だから but rather なる + んだ + から. んだ is used to “create harmony and shared atmosphere”, according to Nakama, and also as a way of indicating that you’re providing clarification (or, when used in a question, to elicit clarification).
Were you to express yourself like that in English you would sound like an idiot.
Have you ever read English song lyrics? =P
Welcome! How is JET? I’ve heard… mixed things. You been sightseeing around Shikoku? You have the time to go sightseeing? =)
Also, have you tried CookPad?
Welcome!
I have to admit I’m no expert on finding jobs in Japan, but my understanding is that unless it’s a job that specifically requires you to be an English speaker (say, teaching English) then a Japanese company would prefer to hire a native Japanese speaker regardless of the level of ability in that job. Don’t want to discourage you, though. Maybe there’s American companies based in Japan?
You may find you’ll need to learn Classical Japanese, which could be a whole other level of difficult, but I have to admit I’m no expert in how Zen texts are written. In any case, good luck with that. =)
Which temples were you planning to visit? Going to drop in on any Shinto shrines too?
Move on. That’s been there since the Internet was invented…
Bump.
(I’m not sure if 京都にの電車 is okay…it seems like it should work, but it sounds wrong.)
Just now happened to encounter a random note in the grammar dictionary while looking for something else: no, you can’t do にの. It’s ungrammatical.
Still, nothing wrong with 京都行きの電車… =)
No, it got missed, somehow. Basically, it’s fairly similar to に, except that it puts more emphasis on the journey itself (where に puts the emphasis on the destination). Otherwise they’re pretty much completely interchangeable. Also, when it’s functioning as a particle, it’s pronounced the same as え.
Many things (though I’m not sure if it’s all things) can be found on the downloads page: http://www.textfugu.com/dl/
You don’t really say “good luck” in Japanese. What you say is がんばって – work hard, keep at it, do your best. =)
Remembering kanji readings in isolation is hard. When you start learning vocab, you start getting a better handle on the readings at the same time.
