Learning Japanese Online
If you are interested in learning some basic Japanese right now, then you are in the right place. In this article I am going to introduce some simple Japanese sentences that you can start practicing with.
To kick things off let’s have a look at how to ask for something. Let’s take the example of asking if someone has coffee. In Japanese you would say: ‘koohii ga arimasu ka’, or this is often reduced to simply ‘koohii arimasu ka’.
Here the verb ‘have’ is the word ‘arimasu’ and is used only for objects and not people or animals.
If you want to ask ‘are there dogs?’ for example you would say ‘inu imasu ka’ where we replace the verb arimasu for imasu.
When you learn Japanese its important to understand that there are different verb forms such as ichidan and godan verbs and we have to change them or ‘conjugate’ them when used in different circumstances. I learn Japanese online and some of the better online courses teach all about Japanese verbs in their grammar lessons.
Another important thing to learn is that when you are discussing places in Japanese you use different words depending on what location to the speaker they are. For example if the place is near the person who is speaking then you would say ‘koko’, or if it is near the person listening you would say ‘soko’ and if the place is far from both people you would say ‘asoko’.
Finally you may want to start learning some Japanese words to grow your vocabulary, so below I have listed some body parts for you:
ear – mimi
mouth – kuchi
head – atama
nose – hana
arm – ude
stomach – onaka
foot – ashi
eye – me
hand -te
leg – ashi
If you want to learn some japanese colors then you may want to check out this video:
The are a number of ways to learn Japanese these days but I have found with out a shadow of a doubt that online Japanese lessons is the best. There is so many great courses available and you can take lessons when you feel like it! A review of the course that I found to be the best is found here: Rocket Japanese Review
Hope this helps,
All the best!
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