Daru wrote:

Micaela Mousiki wrote:

Hmmm... I'm not good reading kanji ^^;
But reading the bits of the sentence, It has to do with the space, right?

"If you're using kanji, then you don't have to put spaces in."
lit. "If (you) use kanji, then spaces are not required"

Of course, as with my previous statement, I'm not too confident in my word choice here, so it may sound weird to a native speaker.


Japanese is written with no spaces, but they're usually put in to make it easier for beginners who don't know kanji and read sentences with only hiragana/katakana, or for signs or messages written entirely in kana.

Micaela Mousiki wrote:

Daru wrote:

they're usually put in to make it easier for beginners who don't know kanji and read sentences with only hiragana/katakana, or for signs or messages written entirely in kana.

Ah! I see ^^
Thank you, I didn't know about that. Next time will write with no spaces, then.

My1 wrote:

as you see, when you wont use kanji, then you can (and if you ask me you should) use spaces coz when you are no natve speaker, it is xTremely hard to figure out where one word ends and where the other begins.

I know about and still using spaces, coz it is easier to read...

Micaela Mousiki wrote:

Yeah, I usually use kanji in "watashi" or the days of the week, numbers and some other simple things like tree, river, forest, etc.
And I normally use those in a sentence, so yeah ^^

I wonder how do I say " I wish *Insert noun here* " ?

Daru wrote:

You would generally use the form:
[noun]が欲しい。
lit. want [noun].

「欲しい」is an i-adjective that modifies the noun, meaning "want". However, it's not used as a verb like in English, but as an adjective, so the actual usage is different, and it conjugates as an i-adjective.

You can also use the 「たい」ending for the stem of verbs to communicate desire to do that verb. For example, 「昼ごはんを食べたい」, where I used the 「たい」ending attached to the stem of 「食べる」 to say "I want to eat breakfast" rather than "I eat breakfast". This ending also conjugates.

My1 wrote:

can you let me understand it too???

Daru wrote:

Oh, sorry.
Here are the kanji I used:


欲しい
ほしい/hoshii
want (adj.)

食べる
たべる/taberu
to eat (v.)

犬
いぬ/inu
dog (n.)

昼ごはん
ひるごはん/hirugohan
breakfast (n.)

GladiOol wrote:

I don't because japanese is silly

My1 wrote:

JAPANESE IS NOT SILLY, IT IS ONE OF THE COOLES LANGUAGES EVER, SO YOU DON'T DARE SAYING THAT AGAIN!!!

My1 wrote:

JAPANESE IS NOT SILLY, IT IS ONE OF THE COOLES LANGUAGES EVER, SO YOU DON'T DARE SAYING THAT AGAIN!!!

My1 wrote:

I AM SERIOUS WHEN IT'S ABOUT JAPANESE

My1 wrote:

me too that's one reason why I am learning it, but when anyone even thinks about insulting the japanese language, I cant help but get angry...
@above wtf is otaku???

Azure_Kyte wrote:

So, a person outside of Japan watching Anime, reading Manga, and playing JGaems/Listening to JMusic will automagically be a Weeaboo.

If it's a person WITHIN the country, who is Japanese, then they are said to be Otaku, or shut-ins.

Ephemeral wrote:

i can read katakana and hiragana and i know a few really common kanji, but i still have issues with sentence structure

Ephemeral wrote:

i had a discussion once with a japanese student who was learning english - we spoke for a bit about how english grammar sucks, and how english is pretty hard to learn

Ephemeral wrote:

i had a discussion once with a japanese student who was learning english - we spoke for a bit about how english grammar sucks, and how english is pretty hard to learn