All About Particles (助詞について)
I borrowed a book called "All About Particles" by Naoko Chino from the library in order to learn about Japanese particles and be a good language partner. I can understand and use these particles naturally, but I find it pretty hard to explain their uses in English properly. Gee... I do respect teachers of Japanese and people who are trying to learn or have learned Japanese as a foreign language.
*I would greatly appreciate it if you could point out any grammatical errors or unnatural parts you may find in this entry.
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All About Particles (助詞について)
I borrowed a book called "All About Particles" by Naoko Chino from the library in order to learn about Japanese particles and be a good language partner. I can understand and use these particles naturally, but I find it quite difficult (pretty is more appropriate for informal spoken English; hard is not wrong, only a little simplistic, difficult is a better word) to explain their uses in English properly. Gee... I do respect teachers of Japanese and people who are trying to learn or have learned Japanese as a foreign language.*I would greatly appreciate it if you could point out any grammatical errors or unnatural parts you may find in this entry.
Your English is very good!
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Peter さん、コメントをありがとうございます！日本語の助詞をマスターするのは、本当に大変そうですね。And thank you for letting me know about your discussions entries. I'll check them out!
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本当にですよ。私はどちら助詞を使ういつも分かりません。 If you check discussions under my profile, I wrote three things with sentences using prepositions in English. 日本語の助詞の難しさと英語で難しさは同じようだと思います。特別単語と特別助詞は釣り合います。
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Thank you, Eric-san! You are exactly right. I still have a lot of difficulty with prepositions as well as articles and nouns (countable vs. uncountable), and I can imagine how hard it could be to explain the rules to English students. I'll keep working on them! :)
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No corrections are needed, your writing in fine as it is.
As you probably know, in the English language we use what we call prepositions to reform similar grammatical functions as particles do in Japanese. Native English speakers understand them intuitively and use them naturally, but have difficulty explaining the rules to English students.
In my opinion, the non native speakers of English seem to have the most difficulty with prepositions. Sometimes they speak and write as well as a native speaker, but will get a proposition wrong at times. Examples are "at", "on", "in", etc.
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