[Coda]

In retrospect I really should have said 使いみよう there (tsukaimiyou, "let's try using") -- if anyone wants me to post up a grammar lesson on how that fits together I'd be happy to oblige.

Edit: Actually that should be tsukattemiyou... whoops, I'm rusty. I knew something sounded wrong.

[Ultima]

It's fine XD I would have believed you either way.

I'm doing Japanese homework, anyone wanna do it for me? >w>;
It's easy enough, I just don't wanna do it

[Fauxreal]

Anything you kids want to post - I would be totally happy with.

I wish I knew could get a hold of some Japanese nursery rhymes or something to learn it easier.

[Coda]

Well, I used TWO things there, so it's really two lessons, although they're both fairly small.

〜てみる (~te miru)
If you add "miru" to a verb in -te form, it changes the meaning to "try to X". So for example, たべてみる ("tabete miru") means "to try to eat" or "to try eating". It's a normal -ru verb at this point, so it conjugates as you would expect -- たべてみた ("tabete mita") means "I tried to eat" and たべてみてください ("tabete mite kudasai") means "please try to eat".

〜おう (~ou)
The -ou conjugation is called "volitional". It's usually translated as "let's X" or "shall we X?"

For -ru verbs, you drop the -ru and add -you. (miru -> mi + you -> miyou, shall we look?)
For -u verbs, you replace the -u with -o and then add a u at the end. (nomu -> nom + ou -> nomou, shall we drink?)

[Ultima]

Oh, so ~おう is the plain form of ~ましょう? I never knew it existed =O

[Coda]

Yep, Ultima, you're exactly right, it's the same.

[Demonskid]

Originally Posted by Ultima

It's fine XD I would have believed you either way.

I'm doing Japanese homework, anyone wanna do it for me? >w>;
It's easy enough, I just don't wanna do it

SCAN IT! OuO

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okvu9xhzyu...001-010.pdf?m=

MLC Japanese Language School gives free lessons and tests =)

[Ultima]

Originally Posted by Demonskid

SCAN IT! OuO

Lol, I'm done already. But I do still have access online to all of my homeworks from all four semesters XD

[Demonskid]

*-*

-stares at ulti-

[Ultima]

XDD Maybe I'll post the first/easiest one and see how people do.

My college has lots of stuff online, so I can get to the homeworks, the powerpoints from the lectures, and some other stuff for every semester I've had of it. =P

Edit: Ohh, actually the first semester was a different website so idk if I can get to it. -tries-

[Fauxreal]

Who's is the first post? Can we sneak it in as a first postish? second post?

We can call it the learning post!

[Demonskid]

o3o if we upload stuff to dropbox i can put the drop box links with the other learning thingys up front

-dk made this thread-

[Fauxreal]

Good! This is a fabu idea! <3

[Demonskid]

Ok, so with the new sailor moon anime coming out next month, they've released the Promotional Video/Trailer for it.

I've decided that since I understood MOST of what was being said.. I'd translate it (i didn't do the song >.>, i might go back and do that tomorrow)

Fansubs by DK

._., sorry i'm so bad at this

[Den]

Has anyone posted yet about LiveMocha? It's a site that is free to join, and offers a wide variety of languages, with different modules to 'purchase' with points that you can accumulate through completing lessons and by helping others learn new languages as well.

[Demonskid]

I have an account on there, but i never really helped me. I learn more from JapanesePod101 then I did on LiveMocha xp