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This is what my wife said to me this morning: "I'm sorry for falling asleep when you wanted to talk about grammar." Which...??? I laughed very hard and told my wife she is a SAINT for feeling bad? Because honest to god, I can be so nerdy.
Last night, I mostly wanted to complain because articles and particles suck in Japanese. When do you use the object marking particle 'wa' as opposed to 'ga'? When do you use the articles e, ni, or de? It's very complicated for a non-native speaker and my instructor is great, but he also, I think, assumes that his students actually understand English grammar in a way that I'm not sure most of us do? Like, deciding what the subject of a sentence is can be hard once you move beyond: "the boy kicked the ball."
Did any of you out there have to diagram sentences in school?
I remember actually loving it, but, for me, it was more that anything that was more like art was automatically more fun for me?
Anyway, class went okay. My TMI went over just fine? Everyone else talked about their pets. I should have probably done the same, ah well.
Last night, I mostly wanted to complain because articles and particles suck in Japanese. When do you use the object marking particle 'wa' as opposed to 'ga'? When do you use the articles e, ni, or de? It's very complicated for a non-native speaker and my instructor is great, but he also, I think, assumes that his students actually understand English grammar in a way that I'm not sure most of us do? Like, deciding what the subject of a sentence is can be hard once you move beyond: "the boy kicked the ball."
Did any of you out there have to diagram sentences in school?
I remember actually loving it, but, for me, it was more that anything that was more like art was automatically more fun for me?
Anyway, class went okay. My TMI went over just fine? Everyone else talked about their pets. I should have probably done the same, ah well.