Practice Your Japanese Through Conversation

[Garyuchin]

Hmmm.... Older books gathering dust: Japanese for young people - no mention of わたくし at all, Japanese for dummies does refer to it (and it does say formal), but no mention of actual processes. The examples in the "Basic Japanese → English dictionary" (Oxford/Japan Foundation) DO have は after わたくし, so does Websters... Oh well, a floor covered in books, few of which even mention わたくし - I'll put it down to "I misread something" unless it shows again somewhere.

A Dictionary of Japanese Particles, Sue A. Kawashima, Kodansha
3 distinct uses,
emphasises an explanation, or a cause of events/actions
expresses desire or will
and (no surprise) at the end of a sentence, as an exclamatory particle.

「でゆうんだ」は　「ってゆうな」べき　です　かもしれない。　調査している

[Yamanchu]

I spoke to my wife (Nihonjin) about 'watakushi' over the weekend and she assured me that it was used with the particle wa.

[Ulver_684]

I'm going to practice my Japanese so if anyone is interest lets make a conversation and lets see what happens!

Please let me know if this is correct or not!

こんにちは、私はSindyです! 私はニューヨーク市に住んでいます、そして、2007年6月2日土曜日に、私の誕生日があります。

私は23年のOldになるでしょう!

[Yamanchu]

Ulver, your Kanji is a lot better than mine, so I can't comment on most of what you say. I can say, however, that you only need to use 'watashi' once. After that, it's understood that you're talking about yourself.

[Garyuchin]

こんにちは、私はSindyです! 私はニューヨーク市に住んでいます、そして、2007年6月2日土曜日に、私の誕生日があります。
Ulver: Functionally correct as far as I can tell, but it definitely is written by gaijin.

If you like, try basing a new introduction along the following lines:

Good day, I am Sindy *** living in New York City with the birthday being (date as originally posted is perfect.)
*** teenagers generally give their ages here.

スタンでゆうんだ。よろしくおねがいします

Oh yeah: just to give you an idea of what all those pronouns sound like to a Japanese person. It would be much the same as translating "John answered " directly from Koine Greek to English, that is: "John he responded he said "

[Ulver_684]

こんにちは、私はSindyです! 私はニューヨーク市に住んでいます、そして、2007年6月2日土曜日に、私の誕生日があります。
Ulver: Functionally correct as far as I can tell, but it definitely is written by gaijin.

If you like, try basing a new introduction along the following lines:

Good day, I am Sindy *** living in New York City with the birthday being (date as originally posted is perfect.)
*** teenagers generally give their ages here.

スタンでゆうんだ。よろしくおねがいします

Oh yeah: just to give you an idea of what all those pronouns sound like to a Japanese person. It would be much the same as translating "John answered " directly from Koine Greek to English, that is: "John he responded he said "

Thanks guys for your help! Now I know that only teenagers say their age.

Well I know, I'm not a teen anymore but I prefer to say my age that let people guess my age and put me more years that I haven't reach yet.

[Sean]

映画「ゲゲゲの鬼太郎」の予告を見て、後半に主題歌が流れます。歌い出しの「目覚めたばかりの感情は手探りで闇彷徨って」の「目覚めたばかりの感情」のことなのことなんですが、どう解釈すればいいでしょうか？　「感情が目覚めたばかりだ」か、「目覚めたばかりのときの感情だ」か、それともどちらでもいいですか？

私は23年のOldになるでしょう!

「23（歳・さい）になる」のほうが正しいと思います。

[Ulver_684]

Sean-san!

Thank you for your nice comment!

[hrd]

2007年6月2日土曜日に、私の誕生日があります。

You can use

a) 6月は私の誕生日があります．
or
b) 6月2日は私の誕生日です．

a or b will sound more natural. Can you understand the difference between the two phrases above?

[Ulver_684]

2007年6月2日土曜日に、私の誕生日があります。

You can use

a) 6月は私の誕生日があります．
or
b) 6月2日は私の誕生日です．

a or b will sound more natural. Can you understand the difference between the two phrases above?

Hrd-san!

How you been It's good to have you back here on the JP101 forums!

Honestly, I don't know the difference so can you help me out and explain it to me, thank you!

[hrd]

Hrd-san!

How you been It's good to have you back here on the JP101 forums!

Honestly, I don't know the difference so can you help me out and explain it to me, thank you!

miss me?

OK here we go

a) 6月は私の誕生日があります．
My birthday is in June

this is more general

other example:

来週は私の誕生日があります．
My birthday is next week


b) 6月2日は私の誕生日です．
2nd of June is my birthday

this is more specific that we put the exact date

[Ulver_684]

Hrd-san!

How you been It's good to have you back here on the JP101 forums!

Honestly, I don't know the difference so can you help me out and explain it to me, thank you!

miss me?

OK here we go

a) 6月は私の誕生日があります．
My birthday is in June

this is more general

other example:

来週は私の誕生日があります．
My birthday is next week


b) 6月2日は私の誕生日です．
2nd of June is my birthday

this is more specific that we put the exact date

Hrd-san!

Thank you very much for the explanation, it was very useful!!

[jaypunkrawk]

6月20日に25才に成ったで、年老いに成ったでしょう。

[jkeyz15]

みなさんはなぜ英語を使っていますか？　日本語の練習するためのフォーラムじゃないんですか。

[AdamLeliel]

I'll try an introduction (practicing does help, I guess!)...

こんにちはみんなさん、どうぞよろしくおねがいします。私はアダムです。じゅうご才です。イギリス人です。はじめまして。

私はあるまんがとアニメがすきです。らんま½、るろうにけんしん、ドラゴンボール、とエヴァンゲリオン。

(Can I use と in the way I have done there?)