Grammar question 勉強してるん - help?

[watermen]

I have 2 questions here:

1. マンゴーランゲージという＝＝＞Can be roughly translate into "A website called Mango Languages" right?

2. 勉強してるん==> What kind of grammar is it. Why not just 勉強します?

[Psy]

I'm not sure why-- I'm not a native speaker-- but that Japanese seems a little... rough. But yes, you're right, という is "called" so マンゴランゲージというサイト is "a site called Mango Languages" and マンゴランゲージというとてもいいサイト "a very good site called Mango Languages."

んだ/んです/のだ/のです is a form that adds a sense of explanation to a sentence. Some people liken it to saying "you see," like in this case "you see I'm studying Japanese with.." Still, だ on its own sounds kinda harsh, and normally you don't use んです unless you're answering a question that used either it or some form of "why." (なぜ, どうして, etc.)

Kind of a cool flashcard program though. What is it?

[maxiewawa]

Psy didn't mention it, but してる is a shortened form of している（しています）。

It's www.mangolanguages.com . It's a cross between pimsleur and... Rosetta stone.

I had a go but I got sick of it really quickly.

[watermen]

Psy didn't mention it, but してる is a shortened form of している（しています）。

It's www.mangolanguages.com . It's a cross between pimsleur and... Rosetta stone.

I had a go but I got sick of it really quickly.

Thanks for reminding me してる is a shortened form of している. It makes sense now.

Like you, I was initially sick of it after about 8 lessons. One of the reason is because I realized that the grammar is getting tough, yet they offer very little explanation. I was using it to study Spanish at that time.

Today, I suddenly feel like using it to study Japanese again, since I only went through 4 lessons in the past and was bored with it . I suddenly feel that the Japanese lesson here is so effective, may be because I have a better understanding of Japanese grammar with Jpod101, the repetitive style that is offered in the site is extremely effective. It actually helps me to strengthen whatever I learned in Jpod101.

[watermen]

Kind of a cool flashcard program though. What is it?

Hey man, you got it, If you take picture of the site, it can be used as a flash card.

Here is another for you.

[Javizy]

I think he's asking why the ている-form is being used when there is no progressive/perfective sense to the translation 'I study'. This has come up a couple of times before.

Basically (in fact, I don't know how to elaborate on this), ている can be used to describe habitual actions:

毎朝ジョギングをしている。I go jogging every morning.
どんな新聞を読んでいますか。Which newspaper do you read?

As with many things, you usually need some context to understand this usage properly. I'm not 100% when it comes to using this form myself, and I have trouble deciding whether to use plain or progressive forms in various other situations, since Japanese uses progressives more often than English.