Welcome to the forum, I’m not gonna talk down to you lol. Putting it into natural English is one thing, but making sure the language is clean and follows more obscure grammar rules is one thing.

I appreciate some good QC on my subs/translations ^^

I saw a facebook status from a Japanese friend yesterday.

“didn’t do anything but study. I was pretty lazy today. (｡-_-｡)”

At first I thought she messed up her English, but NO, she was totally like “all I did was study all day, IM SO LAZY!”

Maybe if she tries hard enough this girl has potential to stop being so crappy. Maybe she needs to work harder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVlAevviq8

• This reply was modified 13 years, 5 months ago by  Sheepy.

^thanks for that link, I know one or two other people on the site that are interested in workout routines that it will be doubley interesting for.

Anyone who knows a lot of Japanese people on facebook, or speaks a lot of japanese on facebook with know how good this is.

I’ve had people already tell me posting nothing but foreign languages to people who can’t read it is annoying lol, so now I can setup a circle of people who I want to see Japanese and those who dont.

MisterM: let me redirect you to yet another grammar point. It has a few names, like “subordinate clauses” or “noun modified sentence”.

Basically, you have it like this. A clause using casual form, directly followed by a noun.

Ok that doesn’t look that easy but its easy enough if you see a sentence.

僕が作ったケーキは食べました。

The cake that I made, I ate it. (I ate that cake that I made)

僕が作った　＝　the subordinate clause
ケーキ　= the noun being modified
食べました　＝ the primary clause

So basically whatever comes after 作った is what it is attached to, so 僕が作ったケーキ = The cake that I made. So therefore that entire sentence + a noun becomes a whole new complex noun. Its not a super natural sentence but you might get it from that.

It works the same copula or いる・ある (except for だ）。

日本にいる女の子はかわいいですね。

日本にいる女の子 = Girls who are in Japan

So if you break down the method its not too hard. Just make a sentence in PLAIN form, and then follow it directly with a noun. Its usually used for phrases like “that guy who was at the party last night” or “that food that we left in the fridge”. Etc etc

To read up on it properly, heres the tae kim link

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/subclause

• This reply was modified 13 years, 5 months ago by  Sheepy.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 5 months ago by  Sheepy.

Welcome to Textfugu! If you’re really passionate, I’m sure you’ll really enjoy yourself. At first when you can’t read much it may be a pain but it won’t be long before you can start reading some basic stuff and then you start to see how fun it can be ^^

Unless you’re a desperate Japanese house wife ;D