Good day everyone! Today, im gonna teach you basic japanese. ill try my best to make it easy and understandable.
first of all, i want u guys to learn the basic writing. they have 4 ways of writing:
1. roomaji - its a japanese writing, but you use english alphabet to spell japanese words like these "konichiwa" "arigatoo"
2. hiragana - it is japanese characters. it is used only for japanese words. its their own character. (cant write it here)
3. katakana - katakana is also japanese character; however, this character is only used for borrowed words like " helicopter" "table" "california"
4 kanji - japanese people borrowed a lot of chinese characters, and this is kanji. basically, kanji is really same as chinese character but has different pronunciation. chinese characters, on the other hand, have two types of wrting too, traditional and simplified. kanji is more on simplified chinese character.
but here we are using roomaji today.
first part
like tagalog we have vowels like a,e,i,o,u, in japanese is pretty much the same thing, but the order is different, a, i, u, e, o. so for tagalog speakers, japanese pronunciation must be easy.
a, i, u, e, o ka, ki, ku, ke, ko sa, shi, su, se, so ta, chi, tsu, te, to na, ni, nu, ne , no ha, hi, fu, he, ho ma, mi, mu, me, mo ra, ri, ru, re, ro
and they have:
ya, yu, yo wa, wo n
they also have compound syllable, but im not gonna go over that today.
second part
japanese grammar is totally different from english. like in english, the subject comes first before the verb and object is at the end of the sentece(SVO). on the other hand, japanese has SOV which means subject first then the object and the verb.
For example:
by the way, ill give u some verb vocabulary
dict form (informal form) -masu form(polite form) english taberu tabemasu eat nomu nomimasu drink wakaru wakarimasu understand
I - watashi/watakushi/atashi (there r many ways of saying I) my - watashi no/watakushi no/ atashi no (just put "no" in order to be possesive pronoun) you - anata (theres also a lot of ways saying you) me - watashi o/ watashi ni ( "o" and "ni" are used for direct object, but "o" and "ni" have diff functions)
am i making any sense? i hope so...
okay!
this time we r gonna use polite form
english SVO japanese SOV
i eat sushi watashi wa sushi o tabemasu (polite form) you drink sake anata wa sake o nomimasu i eat your sushi watashi wa anata no sushi o tabemasu you drink my sake anata wa watashi no sake o nomimasu
as u have noticed, there is "wa" after the subject. its kindda like "ay" in tgalog.( ako ay, siya ay)something like that. u also have noticed that before the verb there is "o". "o" indicates the direct object. it is always placed after the direct object.
**sake is a japanese rice wine
part three
verb conjugation
present tense present negative tense past tense past neg. tense
as u can see, there is a pattern, right?for the prest neg tense, the verbs end in "sen" and for the past tense, the verbs end with "mashita". lastly, the past neg, it ends with "sen" plus "deshita".
for example:
i ate sushi watashi wa sushi o tabemashita you dont eat sushi anata wa sushi o tabemasen i didnt eat sushi watashi wa sushi o tabemasen deshita
part four:
question marks
to make the sentence a question, just add "ka" at the end.
for example
do u eat sushi? anata wa sushi o tabemasu ka? do u understand? wakarimasu ka?
in japanese writing, it doesnt have punctuation for a question mark (?) i just put it just to emphasize that it is a question, but "ka" already tells that the sentence is a question. i hope u got what i meant. also, if ur only talking to one person, you dont have to repeat "anata wa" always coz it is understood that u r talking to the same person.
last part for today!
common greetings:
good morning! ohayoo gozaimasu good day/hello/good afternoon konichiwa good evening konbanwa good night (o)yasuminasai *put "o" for girls to be more polite good bye sayonara see u later ja mata/mata ne *mata means again how r u? genki desu ka? *jap literally means hows ur health? yes im ok/fine hai! genki desu yes hai no iie thank you/thanks arigatoo hello(on the phone) moshi moshi
i think, thats it for today! i hope i made sense.
did u learn something? pls comment and let me know what else u wanna know for basic japanese. next time i'll put a video so that ull also learn the pronunciation.
watashi ga nihon ni itta no wa itoko tazuneru tame deshita. watashi no tomodachi wa issho ni nihon ni iku hazu deshita. demo, watashitachi wa densha de tookyoo kara kyooto made iku yoteideshita. asoko de, tada no tabemono ga aru to omoimashita, tada no tabemono wa juugyooin dake no moni daroo. soshite, watashitachi wa juugyooin ja nai kara tabemono o uketorenai daroo. watashitachi wa kayahu tsuku tsumori datta ga okureta. motto hayaku itta nara motto tanoshikatta to omou.
It was Friday the thirteenth. I woke up around 10 in the morning. The weather was fine, not so hot and not so cold. It was windy though. My mom asked me if I could go and send money to the Philippines. So I went to the bank and withdrew money. While I was driving to the bank, my friend called me. We were laughing and joking on phone. Meanwhile, she asked me if I was driving. Maybe she heard some traffic noise. I said yeah. Then she told me that it is Friday the thirteenth. Nobody wants to go out. I felt anxious right that moment, but I do not believe it. So I was like, ok, whatever, I do not care. So then, she reminded me to take care. When I was driving towards the road from the bank, I could not see the up coming cars from my left because Fed EX truck was blocking my view. I was going to make a left turn, but then I could not see it, I just made a right turn.
The bank that I went to is close to the gasoline station. So I went to the gas station to get gas. I told my friend that I’ll just call her later, then I hung up. After getting gas, I went straight to Korean town where the money sender is. I could not find a street parking. First, I parked on the loading zone because I thought that I would not take so long to send money. I left my car and went inside the building. The guy before me was taking so long. I could not wait. I had only 15 minutes to park at the loading zone. It was illegal to park at the loading zone. So then, I asked the lady if they have their own parking lot that I could park my car. She said , its at the back of this building. So I went out and drove my car to the back of the building and parked inside. When I entered the parking lot, it says that the first 15 minutes is $1.50. I told myself that its fine, they have validation, so I did not have to worry about it.
My car was already parked. I went inside. There were people on the line then. I could not wait for the validation, so I went to the front desk and asked for the validation. The lady said, you parked at the wrong parking lot. I was like ‘what the heck?’. I have been there for 12 minutes. So in order not to pay more than $1.50, I had to go back and move my car to the right parking lot. I paid $1.50. I was getting pissed. What happened was that I drove my car around the building and tried to find the right parking lot. I got tired. In the front of the building, I saw a vacant meter parking. Then I parked there. I put two quarters. Each quarter costs 30 minutes, so total cost is one hour. I went inside to do the transaction. It only took me 10 minutes to do the transaction.
At the same building, there is a Korean coffee shop. Since I had more than 30 minutes, I still had time to walk around. I went inside and asked if they were hiring. To make this story short. I got hired right away. I had an interview and training. They were still looking for more applicants. I remember my Korean friend, so I called him, his name is Sukwhan. I knew that he needed a job. Since the coffee shop is owned by a Korean, it would be easier for Sukwhan to work there. Anyway, Sukwhan lives couple blocks away from it. I told him to come and get interviewed.
While waiting for him, I asked the guy who parked in front of my car if he could stay for few more minutes so that my friend could park on his spot. The guy was nice, he stayed. Then Sukwhan came. It was around 3:30pm. My plan after sending money, I would go straight to the gym because I have not gone to the gym for a while. But that did not happen because I had to wait for Sukwhan. When he was being interviewed, it was almost 4pm, something just reminded me to check out the minutes of our car. I knew we still had more than 20 minutes. We’ll be done in few minutes anyway. But I went out to check it and put some more quarters in the meter.
I got shocked when I saw Sukwan’s car was not there anymore. I thought it got stolen. So I ran towards to my car, then I saw my car had a small paper on the wiper. It was a parking ticket. It costs $140.00. OMG! I was panicking when I saw my car was next being towed. So I hurriedly took my car and parked on the residential area. I also called Sukhwan to tell him that his car was already towed. He was not picking up the phone. He was still having the interview. But on the second time calling him, he picked up.
After that, we went to the place where we could get his car back. While driving, I felt so bad because I was the reason why his car got towed. I called him to come to the place to get interviewed, and then his car got towed. If I did not call him, his car would not have been towed. It was my fault. However, he was kind. He did not blame me. He said it was ok. But when we got to the place, where we were going to pick his car, he had to pay $149 in order to get his car back. $140 for the violation and $149 to get his car back. The total will be $289. OMG! I was really sorry. Maybe, inside him he was blaming me. But he said it was ok. I told him that we make the government rich. I just tried to make a joke. And he said I call them public enemy. He was right!
