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Yes. It's like a gerund.
朝ご飯を食べたのは八時でした。
Literally,
"'ate breakfast' was eight o'clock."
is the more Japanese way of saying...
"It was eight o'clock when I had breakfast."
Using the same construct,
家に着いたのは夜でした。
Literally,
"'got home' was a night time."
is the more Japanese way of saying...
"It was a night time when I got home."
0 votedJanuary 25, 20130Satoshi Kon (今敏)
今敏映画が、好きです。
それは(今敏映画は/彼の映画は)ほんときれいです。"Millennium Actress"が、すきです。みんな、今敏の映画好きですか?
日本語の映画はおもしろいです。
KAY, that's all the japanese for today haha. But yes, I really do like Satoshi Kon's directing. it's so beautiful to me ;v;
And yes. I'm a little bit of an おたく、but whatever :P
Hope everyone is doing well. TOMORROW IS FRIDAY 8D!!!
明日は金曜日です!!!よかった!********************
Again, beautifully written Japanese!
And I think you have successfully learned how to use は and が perfectly.
I'm not particularly against colloquialism in this and since Chiemi san has already pointed out everything about it, I'd like to just share my thoughts on some marginal issues here.
I know you meant "it is" by それは which is not entirely wrong but I noticed it's rarely used and it made me wonder why.
Many languages, like English or French, usually avoid using proper nouns repetitively so they use "it is", "they are" and the likes very often. But in Japanese, repetition is okay and the only occassion それは/これは is used is when you want to emphasize the statement as in "so she called me and THAT was really good because I could have missed the train." But "彼(he)" and "彼女(she)" are used almost like in English.
Another thing is we have the term 日本映画 along with ハリウッド映画 but to specify the language used in the movie, you'd have to add の to make it an adjective.
Note that you could also add の between the director's name and 映画. But I guess Satoshi Kon is now famous enough to be adjetivized(?) as in Kurosawa movies which we also call 黒沢映画. (And because Kon is such a short family name Kon movies end up being called 今敏映画 just for the rhyme!) We could have Kimura movies or Tanaka movies but they're not famous, yet. I mean there must be many yet-to-be-famous Kimuras and Tanakas studying to make films at the moment, somewhere in this country or abroad. Haha.
Okay, I should stop now.
TGIF and Have a good weekend!
0 votedJanuary 25, 20132- "for" or "because". However, please note that it implies indirect cause or the result being the one among many possibilities. Take a look at the following examples. 1.明日は試験があるということで、先生は宿題を出さなかった。 With tomorrow's exam in consideration, the teacher didn't give us homework. 2.明日は試験があるので、先生は宿題を出さなかった。 Because there's an exam tomorrow, the teacher didn't give us homework. The first sentence implies that the teacher could have given the homework but s/he chose not to do so in solicitude for the students who must be busy with their exam preparations, whereas the second sentence emphasizes that it's a natural thing to do for the teacher when there is a plausible reason not to give homework. With regard to your notebook correction, ので and ということで would both work but not から. I suggest using the first and the second of the following. In simplified form, 1. プレゼンテーションの内容を暗唱できたということで、審査員に褒められた。 For the fact that we could recite the presentation from our memory, the jury praised us. (implies that the team gained a special approval from the jury because reciting the presentation takes an extraordinary effort. The jury didn't necessarily have to praise the team but they felt it was appropriate to do so.) 2.プレゼンテーションの内容を暗唱できたので、審査員に褒められた。 Because we could recite the presentation from our memory, the jury praised us. (implies it is a natural sequence of events, very much like the English translation.) 3.プレゼンテーションの内容を暗唱できたから、審査員に褒められた。 It is because we could recite the presentation from our memory that the jury praised us. (Please remember から is rarely used in the written language this way! You can find from multiple online sources the explanation of the difference between ので and から. The general explanation is that から focuses more on the reason. It is an answer to the question why.) And I understand why the corrector used ということで instead of ので. I take it that the presentation was something of a competitive nature (since there is a jury), and if you win it, the jury may be able to give you a plausible reason but there could always be a chance that they pick the other teams. I personally thought you could use ので because memorizing definitely was praiseworthy in that context. The jury could have picked whichever team for the winner but they were still free to comment and praise all the teams as they liked. You guys did a good job and you deserved it.0 votedJanuary 24, 20131
