my friend said that when you add DES to your sentence in the last part its like a period...and when you add des KA it likely means that your saying a question...:sheep:

I observed it just yesterday that there's many differences in the way we make our sentences in japanese compared in constructing english sentence...thats why it does take a long time before you master it:)

Also i remembered someone who told me that the verb is always in the last part of the sentence in japanese (if she's right) so when you say "Dancing is my favorite part.." in japanese its like.." my favorite part is dancing" or sometimes its scrabbled in "my is favorite part dancing"... i'm really not sure to some parts of the sentence but the verb is in the last:)

Hi! To Holybell84 Sorry I wasn't familiar with that word. For Asgard and Ashenvale, both of you guys are on the right track as far as meanings of words and forming of sentences. I'm no language professor either, but most sentences are usually in reverse order to that of english al though in some cases that's not always true. Japanese, like all languages takes time to perfect. So don't rush. As far as DES, OR KA. They don't always end a sentence although they do mean an affirmative or a question. SAMA is usually reserved for royalty, but can also intone DEEP respect for someone special, and KUN is used for a friend or buddy. or can just be used in place of SAN since SAN is kind of formal.

So...KUN is for casual and SAN is for formal.

soka...thats why sometimes kun and san can be added to names both girl and boy :sheep: Yosh!:)

-kun is mostly used for boys, although it can be used for girls of a similar standing aswel.
-chan is a term of affection, parent to child, girl to girl, sweathearts. Also used for pets, think about P-chan in Ranma 1/2.
And isn't -sama for like royalty? Like ouji-sama means Prince? I might be mistaken, but atleast I thought it was something like that. And of course it's a term of highest respect, as has been said already. And for people with big egos, naturally. ^^

That's true Reiyuka, but sama is also used as a show of endearment like RANMA 1/2s KODACHI calling RANMA "Ranma-sama" or AOI in "AI YORI AOSHI" calling KAORU "Kaoru-sama"

Or to some one whom you respect greatly; like in samurai deeper kyo where, the original Sasuke addressed Yukimura as Yukimura sama.

i really have to buy that dictionary of English-Japanese, Japanese-English w/ how to construct sentences.

in order to buy that i need to save my allowace 1st-_-

How much is that?

I realised that if u know chinese and english at the same time, learning jap is a breeze; some of the words in jap have the exact meaning in chinese.

Oh really? :amazed: maybe it'll be next when i mastered japanese:) in mycountry the dictionary for Jap-Eng is 250 pesos that about 3 dollars un us:sheep:

(i really have to save money:sheep:)

It's really good to see so many people so enthusiastic about this series and learning a language that is foriegn to them that most people wouldn't give a second thought to. Keep it up you guys! GAMBATTE KUDASAI NE! ^_^

Same tjoughts here jimmy. Well done!!!!!

Good thing that this thread was made. I really want to learn japanese. So that when i go to japan for a job career, at least, i can relate with them.

AHHH! japonese is soooooo confusing.But i did 1/2 a year of it so im not bad.