•·.·''·.·• #002: Japanese Grammar for Beginners! ≡;- ꒰ °さやか here!꒱ ♡{ So, recently, I noticed that people were trying to speak Japanese to me, but they weren't getting the grammar correct, as most online teaching services people use to learn languages like Japanese tend to show you the phonics and words and expect you to know the grammar off-by-heart already. However, unlike other languages, if you get your grammar wrong when speaking or writing Japanese, the entire context of what you're trying to convey can get shifted! So, I'll be showing you how to use correct grammar today! }♡ ♡{ So, first of all, the 'spaces' when typing Japanese... wait a second, there aren't any?! Yep, that's right! We DON'T use spaces between words in a sentence, so this tends to throw people who have gotten used to leaving spaces off, and cause unnecessary confusion. }♡ ♡{ OK, next part! There are 3 different 'types' of Japanese, these are: Hiragana (which is used in most Japanese words and all the grammar used in Japan was made FOR Hiragana, making it the easiest to learn, although the writing may take a while due to how complicated it is to write each word), Katakana (you don't need to worry too much about this, it's how most words that don't come from Japan are wrote), and Romaji (this turns each Japanese symbol into a 'sound.' It's used mostly around foreigners as it helps them pronounce each word.) }♡ ♡{ So, there's often a lot of confusion about the verb when speaking Japanese. This is because, rather than holding the entire sentence together, it comes at the end! So, rather than 'let's walk to the shop,' it would be 'let's to the shop walk.' }♡ ♡{ Speaking of the parts of a sentence, each object and subject has a suffix. The subject would be followed by は (wa) whereas the objects would either be followed by を (o) or に (ni.) Please remember that 'o' is only used when talking about the DIRECT OBJECT! }♡ ♡{ The final thing I'm going to talk about today sounds a bit silly and pretty, but it's how people use these symbols: 「 」which are only used as QUOTE MARKS, AKA '...' and 『』which can be used in a quote that contains 「 」(e.g 「...『...』...) or as double quotes, "...". }♡ Thank you for your time, I'll be making a second part later on! Sayaka ☆
