Japanese

[Freshie]

Brents at work right now. I'm gonna try to make him get on Mido and help you when he can. ^^;;
I fail at this. x3

Also he started a blog.[Note, not too much Japanese as its mostly about Japan culture in general]

[Chu]

Thanks, Freshie! Sorry for the trouble. ^^; I really should've brought my notebook home.

[Chu]

All right, this is what I did. I'm not confident on the plain form or particles so please tell me if I messed anything up! ^^;

私の冬休み


私の冬休みがつまらなかった。私はねった、そして、アニメをみった。君に届けはよかったよ。まだ、まいしゅう新しいエピソードを見った。

十二月二十五日にラッズくんはきった。私たちはケイキとカップケイクをやいた。そして、私たちはクリスマスヂーナを食べた。ブロッコリーチュズーカセロールとハムがおいしかった。

十二月二十六日にラッズくんはミチガン州に行きた。だから、私はとてもさびしかった。ずっとねった。インターネトをありませんだった、だから、しゅくだいがむずかしかった。つまらなかったよ。

一月二日にラッズくんはきったよ。でも、私はびょうきだった。一月二日から一月五日まで私はびょうきだ。何もしなかった。そして、ラッズくんを見ったなかった。

Edited to add kanji and rearrange some things.

[Freshie]

(Brent typed up the following, also note, he got really frustrated with this, as in, though the Japanese was noobish, and I hope it doesn't sound too mean. ;-; )

私は冬休み

私の冬休みがつまらなかった。寝た（ねた、It was conjugated wrong. You meant sleep, right?)そして、アニメを見た(みたYou congugated wrong again.) 君に届けはよかったよ。まだ、毎週（まいしゅう）新しいエピソードを見た。（It's ichidan, it conjugates with just -ta in past form. -iru and -eru verbs are really easy).

十二月二十五日にラッズくん（Or 君）は来った（Did he come to you, or did you come to him? Because that makes some of the other verbs will change depending on the answer.)私たちはケーキ（You do not write another katakana letter to make a sound longer, You use the line.　To make the え　Sound longer, you use the　い　Sound, so EI is エー)とカップケーキをやいた。そして、私たちはクリスマス・ヂーナを食べた。ブロッコリー・チーズ・カセロールとハムは（You don't really need to use が　there.)おいしかった。

十二月二十六日（Is Ｙｏｕｒ teacher making you write out numbers like that?　I haven't seen too many Japanese people even write dates like that anymore. Usually it's just １２月２６日）にラッズくんはミチがン州（Do you really need　州？It seems kinda redundant to me）に行った。（You conjugated it wrong）だから、私はとてもさびしかった。ずっと寝た。（When though>　The rest of the day or longer? This makes it seem like you just were super lazy and slept a lot）インターネット（Spelled it wrong, Tis' okaie though.）がなかった（Ｐｌａｉｎ　ｆｏｒｍ　ｏｆ　ある　Ｉｓ　ない、Ａｎｄ　ｐａｓｔ　ｆｏｒｍ　ｏｆ　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｓ　なかった。）、だから宿題（しゅくだい）が難しかった。（むずかしかった）。つまらなかったよ。

１月２日にラッズは帰ったよ。（Ｄｉｄ　ｙｏｕ　ｍｅａｎ　ｈｅ　ｃａｍｅ　ｂａｃｋ？　Ｉｎ　ｔｈａｔ　ｃａｓｅ，　ｙｏｕｒ　ｖｅｒｂ　ｉｓ　ｗｒｏｎｇ．　　Ｉｆ　ｙｏｕ　ｄｉｄｎ’ｔ　Ｉ　Ｈａｖｅ　ｎｏ　ｃｌｕｅ　ｗｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ｗｅｒｅ　ｔｒｙｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｓａｙ．）でも、私は病気（びょうき）だった。１月２日から１月５ひまで私は病気だった。（Ｎｅｅｄｓ　ｔｏ　ｂｅ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｐａｓｔ）。何もしなかった。そして、ラッズ君を見なかった。

I think the main reason I'm so confused with the sentences about him, is I have no clue where he and you are in relation to each other. Also, I don't know if he's coming to you, and he lives in Michigan, etc. If you could clear that up I could help you a little better.

Anyway, I hope that you keep working at it. ^_^

日本語は上手になろうんだよな！しきに日本語でしゃべろう！がんばってよ！

[Chu]

Oh, I edited it after that and turned it in. XD There were still some mistakes though so thanks.

[Freshie]

Ahaha, well no problem. ^^;;

[Freshie]

Brent (who doesnt go on sites much right now) got curious about and was wondering if you could scan the graded paper to see how it was graded. ^^;;

[Chu]

I threw it away, I'm sorry. D: I don't keep many papers.

Generally she marked off for awkward sentence structure and poor spelling. Fuckin' small tsus. >_> They always trip me up. Is there anything in particular he's curious about?

On the up side I made amazing notes for the test which I did well on. I'd post them but they were done in word so the formatting/highlighting would mess up.

[Freshie]

I'm not really sure what hes curious about. ^^

But I have him for his blog and hes gonna start helping people with whatever they'd like to know. I know particles and plain forms mess up some people so he's working on getting that info up. ^^;;

[Pandora]

My school had cut Japanese from their language selection before I was allowed to take the class. They would only allow sophomores and above to take any classes in the ITV room (have no idea why), and then when I became a sophomore, they cut the majority of our foreign language programs. I spent my sophomore and junior year petitioning to get the classes back because many students wanted to take them. Near the end of my junior year, I gave up because the principal didn't care (pretended to, though) and I started teaching myself. The only outside things I have had to help me (besides the old Japanese lesson books that a friend who took the class gave me) was the Nintendo DS game My Japanese Coach. Suprisingly it helps a lot, but there are some parts that are not explained in depth enough and leave me confused and then I can't ask the instructor any questions, because she is a programmed npc made to tell you the lesson and hope you understand it. Also, I have troubles with sentence structure at times. I can create simplistic small sentences like: "おてありわどこですか? Oteari wa doko desu ka? Where is the restroom?" and such, I just have trouble with the more sophisticated sentences, but I really can't find much for sentence structure practice worksheets for Japanese online.

[Chu]

It's kind of unbelievable that they cut Japanese though. Of all languages I think it would be the second most (to Chinese) important language for Americans to learn considering how the two countries are basically taking over businesses. Our future lies in those countries.

For bathroom, you would use the katakana form since it's derived from the English toilet: トイレ.

You're talking about particles, right? I still have trouble with them, but I'm getting better. Hold on, I'll try to find my teacher's guide on sentence structure and particles. Se did it because everyone in my class has trouble with it. XD


Particles:
で – 1.Via
2. Place of action

と – 1. And
2. With

に – 1. After time, months, and days
2. Marks location (so does へ)

が – Subject marker (わたしがケーラです。 - I’M Cara.)

は– Topic marker (わたしはケーラです。 - I’m CARA.)

を – Direct object marker


I don't have my notebook with me. XD But I did have some particle stuff I wrote for my midterms. Can you explain your sentence structure problem to me? I could try to ask my teacher.

[sonaxakai]

I'm not Japanese or learning any Japanese but it'd be Cool!I'm Chinese but I only know a little bit and Chinese is new to my school and it's the only language I'm learning(hopefully) next year(because I have too,my parents are from China and most of my relatives are in China only a couple relatives are in the U.S so it's kind of forced)

[Chaomiles]

I don't know anything about Japanese language ^^" I know some hiragana, but that's all ^^"

[ecco]

hey thats more than some people know!

[BiscuitQueen]

Japanese is either a language spoken by the citizens of Japan or directly referring to a citizen of Japan.