
Nihongo - Goalproving Long Lost Update
4 months ago
Still working on my Japanese. I did have what I said down here in romanji but there were problems
Please make any comments about pronunciation that I need to have made since I'm ding this on my own and don't get any input otherwise
Please make any comments about pronunciation that I need to have made since I'm ding this on my own and don't get any input otherwise
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either way, great dialogs - i completely understood what you were saying.
pronunciation-wise, just keep in mind that the vowels are just like spanish vowels. for example, the 'o' always sounds like:
-poke
-hope
-no
it shouldn't ever be pronounced like:
-song
-Tom
Does that make sense?
Also, usage-wise, I very rarely heard the term 'anata' used while I was in Japan. Even though I'd learned it all through school--and I was never told not to use it--it just doesn't seem to be part of authentic, regular Japanese.
they just kind of perceive the subject of the sentence based on context.
e.g.
A: sumimasen...eigo ga wakarimasuka?
B: iie, watashi ha eigo ga wakarimasen.
(actually, it's more likely that B would use "wakaranai," which is slightly less formal.)
either way, hooray for goalproving revivals. i've just set a weekly goalproving alarm on my calendar, and you're the first person on the list!
do you want me to only remind you every other week?
Can you give me examples of the words I'm off on? I'm afraid a little of it is an accent problem. Being from the south I do things like say "i" as "ah" and I don't hear it that way. I also have the issue that all I have right now is purely audio so I'm guessing at spelling or doing Google searches and hoping I got the right word
the cd's I'm using are also a little inconsistent on the use of watashi and not using it but yeah, from what I've read it's really not used