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キリンビール きのう私はキリンビールを飲んだ。 ビールがおいしいです What I wanted it to say.. Yesterday I drank Kirin Beer. The beer was delicious.
August 6, 2016
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Japanese Grammar Negative Verbs I need clarification :)

I have been slowly going through a Japanese grammar guide by Tae Kim.

I have a few questions only because it took me hours to understand what I was reading.

from what I understand to make a る verb negative you add ない example.

食べる  > 食べない ? right?

then there is the う verbs and a few stuck out to me.

帰る    > 帰らない  why does it become kaeranai instead of kaenai?

する　> しない why is it shinai and not sanai? I thought it has be a (A) sounding vowel.

くる    > ごない why is it gonai and not kanai?

thanks for any clarification i'm sort of confused about this :)









August 6, 2016
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Native English for Native Japanese Language Partner

Hey my names David and I am a native English speaker from Australia.

I am interested in finding a native Japanese speaker so we can be language partners i can try and answer questions about English and you can teach and answer questions i have about Japanese.


If interested please don't hesitate. :)

August 4, 2016
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Confused / Stuck Self Studying Japanese
I have a goal to study the Japanese language up to the point of fluency in terms of everyday life in Japan.

I have tried to self study Japanese for a few months but I feel like I am now advancing at a very slow pace. Using various beginner books from the Hai! Series which are more designed for classroom environments.

I have been listening to these audio CD foundation Japanese courses that I found on YouTube. I find them to have easy and clear explanations to understand basic beginner level grammar and sentence structure, although it still confuses me time to time.
I am pretty confident with reading Hiragana , not so much Katakana as its just weird to me at this stage.
As for Kanji I have attempted changing some Hiragana in to their Kanji and that has been fun.
 
I have been listening to the spoken Japanese and then writing it in to a Japanese text editor to test my listening skills. I should be writing them down physically but electronic version is just less time consuming, though I can change that if it will greatly help me in the long run.
I will provide some examples of my progress so far.

英語を話ますがたなかさんと日本語で話ます
I speak English but I speak in Japanese with Mr Tanaka

日本語を話ますが友達と英語で話ます
I speak Japanese but with my friends I speak English

ワインをのみながらテレビをみました
I drank wine while I watched the tv

I have spent countless hours researching many different ways of learning Japanese trying to find what is the best way for me to learn such as immersion, beginner books, listening to Japanese music, Anki flashcards ,mobile apps etc.

I have heard that Genki is a popular book to use for self study however they are expensive in my country and I looked for other alternatives such as a book called Elementary Japanese Vol 1 by Yoko Hasegawa ,it appealed to me because it is significantly cheaper and it looks like it is more suited to the level of study that I should be doing.

I am at a point where I am somewhat lost and confused on how to correctly continuing to study Japanese, or maybe I am overwhelmed.

So with all that said I hope either a native Japanese or Japanese language learner can offer me some advice on what I should do about it :).

It probably sounded like I complained allot but I just feel like I have say everything that I am feeling with my current self study language learning en-devour.

Any advice is appreciated :)

August 4, 2016
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