NIHONGO!; Grammar

Minna-san, Kon'nichiwa!

Mayonaka-desu.

So a month or two ago, someone on twitter was asking around for assistance with learning Japanese! So [of course] my mum told her about me :) . I adore teaching/assisting people and as i am learning Japanese myself, i saw this as a perfect opportunity to not only help someone else, but to help myself -selfish as that may sound-. Unfortunately, at that time, i was unable to do anything due to studying super hard on the final essay from my first university module! Never the less, now that i'm "free" i might as well make a blog series dedicated to teaching the Japanese kana systems (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji), as well as Romanji with a brief look at my personal favourite books and ways to learn that little bit extra.
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GRAMMAR 
Today, i'm just starting with the basics of Japanese grammar and discussing how to correctly form or translate the average sentence. 

Compared to Western grammar, the Japanese language can be a little confusing. Have you ever translated something in google translator (or Bing -oh dear-) but found that you need a translator for the translation given??~

I mean, they just don't make sense, right?
Well thats because Google translator translates things exactly how they're written!

This is a large subject to write about so to beginning with, i better mention that Japanese sentences, in comparison to English sentences are backwards. Confused yet? Well, here's an example of how sentences work; If you speak english and you wished to say "I watched TV", you would end up saying something that literally translates to "I TV watched". Another example of this would be my introductions; i always type "Minna-san Kon'nichiwa-Mayonaka Desu" which literally translated into "Everyone hello, Midnight i am" (Am i the only one who thinks Yoda was part Japanese XD). In short, an ordinary sentence conducted in Japanese always end with the main verb (doing word; Ran, gave, made, etc.). Other "rules" include having the noun (Person/name/place/ect) placed before an object, and putting a time before the place (ex. Lets meet at 9am at the hotel would be more preferred then Lets meet at the hotel at 9am).

Now that we've discussed the basic sentences, we'll move onto....
QUESTIONS. 

                                     The next article will be posted next week at Midnight on Wednesday! (the same for every article in this series)

Sayonara! 

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