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Hi! I'm learning Japanese, but I'm not too good at it.
こんにちは！ 日本語を勉強しているんですけど、かなり下手です＾＾；
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Feb 12 |
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What does the internet slang “草生えた” mean? Thank you for the explanation! |
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Feb 12 |
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How does pitch accent work in Japanese? There are also electronic dictionaries with audio recordings of pronunciation you can listen to. |
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Feb 11 |
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Vocab vs. Kanji. Should I learn a lot of vocab first before moving to kanji? Some people think it's better to focus on the spoken language first. Jorden thought so. My personal feeling is that it doesn't make sense to put off learning to read. But it's really up to you what you want to learn and in what order, so there isn't a real answer to this question. I voted to close. |
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Feb 11 |
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Is まで inclusive or exclusive when marking a range of dates? Could this be phrased something like: "Is まで inclusive or exclusive when marking a range of dates?" I'm trying to think of how this question could be more easily found by others in the future. |
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Feb 9 |
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What suffix do you add to a verb to make it perfective or imperfective? @DariusJahandarie You may be interested in faculty.washington.edu/ogihara/papers/Ogihara_handbook.pdf section 1.1 "The Theoretical Status of the Morpheme -ta" |
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Feb 8 |
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Is my translation program right to use 「ある」 instead of「いる」 here? japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1905/… |
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Feb 8 |
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Difference between ささぐ and ささげる @JesseGood I don't feel comfortable answering. They asked "if you could give a sample sentence for each word and probably give the simple nuance explanation on each". I haven't studied Classical Japanese and I don't know what "nuance" it would have if you used the literary form. (It would "sound literary", I guess?) |
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Feb 7 |
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Difference between ささぐ and ささげる Ah, I bet it uses edict. It looks like edict says ささぐ is a 五段 verb. |
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Feb 7 |
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Difference between ささぐ and ささげる The dictionaries on Yahoo (大辞泉・大辞林) seem to say that ささぐ is a literary (文語) form of ささげる, so I imagine they have the same meaning. They also say ささぐ is a 下二段 verb rather than a 五段 verb. Since you say you're a beginner, perhaps you can stick to ささげる and ignore the literary form? |
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Feb 4 |
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Parsing a specific sentence from a book BTW, if I recall correctly, 横線 is given the furigana ライン in that book. |
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Feb 3 |
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What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? Rather than vote to close, I tried to improve the question. Please feel free to roll my changes back if you think they were out of line. |
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Feb 2 |
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Did the Japanese have a word for surrender before WWII? Mark Liberman once wrote: "[W]hen someone makes a sociological point by saying that language L has no word for concept C, you'll rarely lose by betting that they're wrong. (And if they say or imply that speakers of language L have no way to express concept C, then you'll almost never never lose by betting against them.)" |
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Feb 2 |
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Help with name for boy (British and Japanese) I wonder if "Jon" should have been "Joe", like the Japanese name じょう. |
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Feb 2 |
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Two definitions of けれども @小太郎 It works in that example because the first sentence ends in a 終止形 (terminal form), which the 接続助詞 (conjunctive particle) version of けれども requires. However, with an example like 「〜ますよね。けれど、…」 joining them doesn't work, because ね is a 終助詞 (sentence-final particle), and 終助詞 isn't a type of 終止形. |
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Feb 2 |
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What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? Do you mean tsu-yo-ga-at-te-mo and つよがあっても? |
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Feb 2 |
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What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? Possibly related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/3540/… |
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Feb 1 |
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What suffix do you add to a verb to make it perfective or imperfective? @Koasamitsu nihongoresources.com/language/lessons/lesson-02/… |
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Feb 1 |
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Why do English sources for learning Japanese leave out pitch? In response to "I basically had to re-learn all of the words I thought I knew how to pronounce perfectly.": There are other features of Japanese pronunciation besides pitch accent which aren't shown by kana. This is just my opinion, but I think you'll have to do a lot of listening if you want to work on your pronunciation. |
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Feb 1 |
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Why do English sources for learning Japanese leave out pitch? At least one person has written a rationale: Against Marking Accent Locations in Japanese Textbooks (link taken from this answer) |
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Jan 31 |
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Would the plain form of a verb usually be translated as future tense? I edited this answer to change the Japanese name of "dictionary form" from 連用形 to 終止形, but see the question japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4375/… for discussion of whether "dictionary form" should be translated to 終止形 or 連体形 or both. |
