If you like, I can give you the e-mail address of my Japanese instructor. He charges USD$40 for the entire course. (I suppose he teaches on a one-to-one basis.)
Before you start, do you know what a verb is? What an adjective is? What a noun is? What an pronoun is? Unless you know what word is what and the function it serves, learning Japanese will be rather difficult. I'll break down a few things for you. In a Japanese sentence, you will find, subject, object, and verb. For example, "Watasi wa tori wo tabemasu." (I eat birds.) "Watasi" means "me", "wa" is a "tag word" indicating that "watasi" is the subject of the sentence. "Tori" means "bird". "Wo" is a tag word indicating that "tori" is the object of the verb, and "tabemasu" is the verb, meaning "to eat". This sentence constitutes the basic Japanese sentence and it's the first one you'll be learning. More examples: "Watasi no chichi wa furui desu." "Anata no gakkô wa furui desu ka?" "Kyô tenki wa samui desu." And a slightly more complicated one: "Kuroi inu ga aru uchi ni futoi neko ga arimasu." When starting off, the "-masu" verbal conjugation will be the first one you learn, in the present and in the past. (Future tense does not exist in Japanese.) Only later on will you learn the "abrupt" verbal conjugations, which do not end in "-masu", but end in either "-ru" or just "-u". I recommend you learn as many words as possible in Japanese, just to increase your voabulary. Also, learn how to write in kana. These are not as difficult as kanji (Chinese characters) and all Japanese elementary-school children learn it before going on to their first 880 kanji. Not to worry; only 50 or so are learned for first grade. It may take you forever to learn them, but -- as with many other things -- practice makes perfect. Write each kana (and kanji) in the same stroke order and direction until you get it right. If you look up "kana practice" and "kanji practice" on your search engine, you will find sites that have material for you to practice your skills. One that I recommend is "kanji land" on the Japanese language pages of about.com . They have good material there. - Arian I. --- In [email protected], tazchong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arigatou for reply me. Watashiwa ureshii when received your message. But I don't understand what were u writing about in japanese. I'm just know a few of single words in Japanese. A sentence is difficult for me. So I don't know how to write a sentence. Hope u can teach me!!! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Japanese_Language/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
