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Japanese Lesson 1

1 - The most important thing, in general, to learn any foreign language, you have a good basic grammar of their native language. Then rehearse good grammar and logical analysis! If you do not know the syntax of the Italian never be able to translate from Japanese. Brush up complements, adverbs, adjectives, consecutio temporum.

2 - Japanese was neither singular nor plural, neither male nor female, and there are no articles. The word "manga", for example, can equally well be translated "the / a cartoon" that "/ comics". For the pronouns, there are exceptions.

3 - verbs have neither person nor number. "Miru" taken out of context can mean "I see, you see, he sees, we see", etc ...

4 - verb tenses are only the following:

- this

- past

and ways

- Conditional

- gerund

But they are not labeled in Italian, but through the "basics" that we will see later.

5 - there are different registers of language depending on the person speaking and his interlocutor:

- male / female

- Upper / Lower

- unknown / unknown (uchi / soto )

which are reflected in different degrees of formality (from lowest grade to highest):

- Order / rude (eg military)

- flat form (friends of the same age and same social position)

- polite form (among strangers at the same level)

- humble honorific form / honorific (Keigo)

- further honorific form (to appeal to the emperor, etc. ...)

6 - is also important to know the unwritten rules inherent in Japanese culture, not to commit gaffes. For example, you never use the pronoun "you", but it is addressed to another person using the name or surname, often speaking of himself in third person. He does not address ever the word to a stranger (but for foreigners, gaijin, it's different) and is not permitted to attach or indicate other. You never speak out loud and you do not use the phone on the subway or train.

.7 - It may seem obvious, but it happened to me many times of being asked if the Japanese and Chinese are two different languages.

Obviously the answer is YES, VERY. In fact, completely! The only thing that may look like the Chinese ideograms, as they were originally copied from the Chinese classic, and used to express words in Japanese, then adapted and some 'in pronunciation that is altered in meaning. Now that the Chinese been simplified, no longer even resemble each other so much. The pronunciation and sounds cmq are completely different, since the Chinese is a tonal language (one syllable has four tones and four different meanings), while Japanese has no tones or accents (in fact, every time a word is pronounced differently depending the sentence and the context).

8 - The sentence structure and syntax are "upside down" compared to Italian (it's a bit 'like the Latin and greek). The meaning of a sentence can only understand the last word, as we shall see, and the relationship between the various subject will be clear only after reading the last sentence or principal as appropriate.