Japanese notes

On this Twitter account I want to talk about Japanese grammar and the meaning of Japanese words. It is for everyone who likes analytical thinking and learning.

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@Ganbatte2814 @Little_Bou Fast perfekt! Die Partikel wa schreibt man mit dem Zeichen は. Wenn man nur kana benutzt, lohnt es sich oft nach Wort + Partikeln ein Leerzeichen zu setzen, damit es lesbarer wird. So machen das z. B. viele Game-Boy-Spiele, die oft nur kana benutzen (あした、わたしは　ははと …)

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Furthermore, する has three (!) mizenkei: し, せ and さ, because of its system that originates in the description of bungo and not in that of modern Japanese. The whole system works a lot better with Classical Japanese, but any modern linguist would still roll their eyes

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Japanese school grammar (橋本文法) is very confusing for native speakers as well as for non-native speakers. For example, the Japanese verb いる (to be) does not have a stem and only has the inflection いる. It's hard to believe that anyone would prefer this system over others

[MIKO SENSEI Japanese tutor 🇯🇵 @kawaiinanippon]

In my opinion, Grammar for native-Japanese speaker is easier to understand than Japanese Grammar for Non-Native speakers if you are a native speaker of Arabic or Chinese or someone have a background in math that allows you to understand advanced linear algebra.

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Another big problem of the grammar that is used at Japanese schools for natives is that the system doesn't divide irregular verbs like する in its stem and inflection, because the strange system makes a useful division impossible

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@pnkcntrls は is pronounced like わ, when it is used to write the Japanese Particle -wa. The spelling of the particle has historical reasons like the particle を which is pronounced like お

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@dexe_San 放送部? https://t.co/c6yUiR9q3R

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@Blushing_Tomato It really depends on how far people dive into it, but I also believe that many people who say that Japanese grammar is easy just don't understand Japanese well enough to recognize what they still have to learn. Learning kanji on the other hand is very straight forward

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Just because ～なかった is used to express that something didn't happen in the past which can't be changed, doesn't mean that it can't be approached in the future, which seems to be the reason for this confusing "difference in" usage 6/x

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「内緒っていったのに、あの話、林君に言ったでしょう？」
「いや、言ってない」(Tsukahara 1998)

Although ～なかった is used to show that something did not happen in the past and ～ていない is often used when something has not been done yet, 言わなかった sounds strange #ていない 1/x

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On the other hand 見ていない can be used if you want to imply that you can still watch it in the future. It's a little bit confusing when you think about the example with 言っていない, where 言わなかった sounds strange, because it implies that you might watch it in the future 5/x

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@cryofrzd @thetenthart The paper was surprisingly interesting. "Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar - A Unification-Based Approach" by Takao Gunji is also well written, but it's difficult to get your hands on it nowadays

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@sandysamir234 좋은 아침! 한국어를 조금 할 수 있어^^

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くって like in 嬉しくってよ can be used for something in the past or the present. Therefore, 嬉しくってよ can be translated as 嬉しいよ (I'm happy!) or 嬉しかったよ ("I was happy!"). The only problem is that you will sound like a spoiled girl … #よくってよ #嬉しくってよ

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How to lose weight in a nutshell #て

[Kayo sensei @kayoshodo]

Let’s learn how to write hiragana “て”.
#japaneselanguage #nihongo #日本語勉強中 #kanji #learnjapanese #日本語

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@Snackserv I don't know about any modern approach that would classify particles as words, so technically speaking you don't even cheat :-)