tailieunhanh - Japanese Is Possible - Lesson 08

Tham khảo tài liệu 'japanese is possible - lesson 08', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Japanese is Possible! Lesson 8 A man said to the universe, "I exist!" ● Review of JIP Objectives ● Existing in Japanese ● A Note on GA ● Example Sentences ● More Popular Words ● Important Points to Remember Review of JIP Objectives I just want to take a few minutes to review the objectives of "Japanese is Possible!" Unlike your average college course, this column will not focus on "formal" Japanese and learning the Chinese characters (Kanji) before teaching anything else. On the contrary, those things will be saved for last since they are the least useful. Learning things with no immediate relevance harms your motivation. Once you're watching Anime without subtitles, then you can learn those nice extras! How to exist In English and other languages, one uses a form of the verb "to be" to indicate his or her present location. ("I am at the store.") Anyone who has studied Spanish knows that the verb used to indicate location (estar literally "to stay") is not the same as the verb used to indicate a personal characteristic (ser). Japanese is like this. (To tell you the truth, you can use desu to indicate location in Japanese and not be wrong, but the method that I am about to teach you is, I believe, a bit more grammatically correct.) In Japanese, when something is in a particular place, it exists there. You use the verbs iru and aru (both meaning "to exist") to express this. Use iru to show the location of animate objects (people, animals), and aru for inanimate objects (books, tables, sewing machines). The simple sentence pattern is like this: Something wa/ga somewhere ni aru/iru. And you can expand from there. Notice that you need to use the particle ni (at/in/on) after the location and before the verb. Takashi san wa mise ni iru. [Takashi topic store at/in exists.] Takashi is at the store. Pasokon ga tsukue ni aru. [Computer sj desk on exists.] A computer is on the desk. A Note on GA There is a lot of similarity between WA and GA, in that they both have to do with