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Japanese is a fantastic language with many linguistic possibilities. It is mostly structured around respect; almost every expression can be said at least five ways, depending upon formality.

Let us begin with basic sentence structure. Unlike English, Japanese is a subject-object-verb language. This means, rather than saying "John eats apples", you say "john apples eats"
There are also interesting articles known as 'particles', which are completely void in English. There is 'wa', which functions as a subject marker. In addition, there is "wo" (pronounced "o") that functions as an object marker.

Thus "john eats apples" would be "john wa ringo wo tabeta". Ringo is apple, and tabeta is ate. Wa functions as a marker to let you know John is the subject of the sentence. Wo lets you know what it is that John ate.

Verbs in Japanese are interesting: There is no future or present tense. There is simply not-past-tense. "taberu" may mean "eat", or it may mean "eats" or even "will eat".

Your first assignment will be to translate
1. "I drink soda"
2. "I run often"
3. "John wa nama tamago wo taberu"

The vocabulary:

drink = nomu
I = watashi
Soda = soda
nama = raw
often = yoku
run = hashiru
tamago = egg

um...

1. watashi soda nomu

did I get that right?

The particles! You forgot the particles!

watashi wa hashiru yoku?

so.. watashi wa soda nomu. ?

Milo Minderbinder wrote:

watashi wa hashiru yoku?

In Japanese, the verb will always end the sentence, no matter how weird it sounds.

Sgt. Pepper wrote:

so.. watashi wa soda nomu. ?

Almost. Very close. Forgot the wo though.

Or watashi wa soda wo nomu?

So watashi wa yoku hashiru.

Precisely!

watashi wa soda wo nomu.

except I really dont like soda that much...

I AM TOTALLY PWNTING JAAPNESE YO.

The factuality of the statement is irrelevant.

Now try #3.
Also
"watashi wa yoku mizu wo nomu"
"john wa mainichi taitei ringo wo taberu"

mainichi = every day
mizu = water
taberu = eat
taitei = usually

._. it's too late... I might try tomorrow between other homework..

#3: John eats raw eggs.

this John guy is crazy. Or Japanese.

Or both lolololol

What are you talking about? Japanese and crazy are the same word.

I was implying that very statement

Now try "Japanese are crazy".

Japanese = nihonjin
Crazy = baka
are/is/am = desu

Nihonjin baka desu

Milo Minderbinder wrote:

Nihonjin baka desu

The particles. Oh, except for wo. No wo needed here.

Right. Nihonjin wa baka desu

I just realized how mean of a statement that is, considering baka also means dumb.

You mean, evil person! Repaint!

I will repaint. Repaint and thin no more.