The different place, the different meaning I had a student practiced the particle 'も' which made me drawn my attention to the interesting point. 「ジョンさんは、４つのハンバーガーも食べました」, which means 'John ate four hamburgers too'. 「ジョンさんは、４つもハンバーガーを食べました」 or 「ジョンさんは、ハンバーガーを４つも食べました」 which mean, 'John ate as many as four hamburgers' You might remember that words order in the Japanese language is not so matter when you use the particles correctly, however, in such cases above, you sometimes have to be careful about the order when making some expressions.

これは行き過ぎ？-Strawberry Curry!- 最近、面白いカレーを見つけました。その名も「いちごのカレー」。。。だれが食べるねん！？と突っ込んどいて、自分で買いましたが、まだ食べていません。そういえば、ハンバーグにパイナップルをのせて、食べたりしますよね？それと似ているのかな、、、まだ怖くて食べれません。でもそのうち食べます！

孤独のグルメ 生徒さんから、時々、いいドラマを教えてほしいと言われます。今日見つけました。「孤独のグルメ」というドラマです。YOUTUBEでも見れます。日本のいろいろなおいしい食べ物を知ることができます。とてもコミカルで楽しいですよ=)

What is the particle 'だ'? My student gave me a question shown in the title. And I showed here the answer. A nice question=) だ is, yes, the short form for 'です'. But it can be applied for the sentence of 'Xはnounです' or 'XはNA-adjectiveです' while you can not use だ in such way if the sentence is 'XはI-adjectiveです'. ex) わたしはカナダ人です and わたしはカナダ人だ. Both are fine because カナダ人 is the noun. 彼女はきれいです and 彼女はきれいだ. Both are fine because きれい（な） is な-adjective. But レッスンはたのしいです is fine while レッスンはたのしいだ is incorrect. To make it correct form, you shouldn't put だ right after い-adjective. レッスンはたのしい is enough in the short form. And だ-form is not impolite, rather, simply casual or shorter form. And it has a very important part in making the sentence more colloquial form. ex) あなたは日本人だね？(seeking confirmation) わたしはカナダ人だよ(wanting to make the listener assured) Does it make a sense?=)

Three cues of the transitive and the intransitive verb in Japanese. 1. If the verb is ended with ARU, the verb is the intransitive verb. And it becomes the transitive verb when changing ARU to ERU. ex) 変わる→変える、止まる→止める 2. All are the intransitive verbs if the verbs are ended with RERU. ex) 流れる、破れる、割れる、生まれる 3. All are the transitive verbs if the verbs are ended with SU. ex) 返す、帰す、出す、直す、残す

なぜにほんはjapan? わたしの生徒さんが「なぜ日本は英語でJapanなのか？」と聞かれたので、まとめてみました。英語ですが、、、 Originally, China called our country as Yamato. But some reference says that such word gave Japan scorn. I am not sure if it was true or not, however, Japan changed their own name from やまと to 日出処（ひいずるところ）. 日出処 means 'the place of the sunrise'. And 日出処 was translated into 日本. 日出処 seems not to have any business with 日本 for you, doesn't it? But... 日（ひ） means the sun. 出（いずる） means 'to go out = to rise'. And 処 （ところ）means 'a place'. And 本 has a meaning of 'the start' or 'the beginning' while having a meaning of 'book' as you know. And Chinese people came to call our country 'Jippon' in their accent. But Marco Polo heard that word 'Zipangu' instead of 'Jippon'. And English speakers back then heard 'Japan' instead of 'Zipangu' in English accent. Then, that word had had been spread out over the world. Does it make a sense?? XD 日本人の皆さんで、「この説明はおかしい！」と思われたら教えてください。よろしくお願いします=)

italki.comの日本語がひどいことに。。。 最近、italki.comの日本語がアップデートされたみたいですね。おかしな日本語が多いです。正直言ってひどいですね。日本語の人気も上がっているので残念です。italkiさん、ちゃんとした翻訳家を雇ってください！！

日本人の知らない日本語 最近、「日本人の知らない日本語」という本が好きになりました。ここでも、この本を知っている人もいると思います。でも、YOU TUBEでそのドラマを観ることができるのを知っていましたか？下がそのリンクです。日本語と中国語の字幕があります。聞き取りの勉強にもとてもいいと思います=) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iSSBVEFwDc I like the book entitled 'Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo'. Some too at here know about a serious of the books. But do you know that you can watch the Dorama at YOUTUBE? Here is the link below which has the subtitles in Japanese and Chinese. It must be a good help as listening tool as well=)

Q & A had with my online student My student gave me interesting questions so I would like to show it at here. Video he watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdS6osBi48 His Question I watched the video you sent me before (Lola in Paris) and found a few phrases I couldn't understand: 見られちゃう？ 合わせやすそう？ 迷っちゃう？ Is 「ちゃう」 a kind of girly suffix? My Answers 見られちゃう is 見られてしまう 合わせやすそう in this movie means that it seems to be easy for Lola to make the sweater fit or coordinate with denim or other wear. 　This is assumption form from the point of speaker's view -the first person-, not second or third person's. 迷っちゃう is 迷ってしまう And yeah, ちゃう is often used as girly expression. But sometimes even men used such expression in colloquial style.