きょうはすいようびです。

I'm going to deviate from the verbs for a day as it isn't yet prepared. For today, I'm going to teach something that is useful in everyday circumstances. I'm going to start teaching some kanji!

This means that we can start replacing multiple characters with one chinese character!

For example: わたし becomes 私
The only difference between using kanji si that they are read the same way as they would be in hiragana.

So lets start learning kanji!

Remember that these kanji have the same reading as they would normally in hiragana.

As I have yet to teach numbers other than in the vocabulary lis, here it goes along with the kanji.

1 いち　一   (ichi)
2  に　二   (ni)
3  さん　三   (san)
4  よん/し　四   (yon/shi)
5  ご　五   (go)
6  ろく　六   (roku)
7  なな/しち　七   (nana/shichi)
8  はち　八   (hachi)
9  きゅう　九  (kyuu)
10 じゅう　十   (jyuu)
11 じゅういち  十一   (jyuuichi)
12 じゅうに　十二   (jyuuni)
13 じゅうさん　十三   (jyuusan)
14 じゅうよん　十四   (jyuuyon)
15 じゅうご　十五   (jyuugo)
16 じゅうろく　十六   (jyuuroku)
17 じゅうなな　十七   (jyuunana)
18 じゅうはち　十八   (jyuuhachi)
19 じゅうきゅう　十九   (jyuukyuu)
20 にじゅう　二十   (nijyuu)
30 さんじゅう　三十   (sanjyuu)
40 よんじゅう　四十   (yonjyuu)
50 ごじゅう　五十   (gojyuu)
60 ろくじゅう　六十   (rokujyuu)
70 ななじゅう　七十   (nanajyuu)
80 はちじゅう　八十   (hachijyuu)
90 きゅうじゅう　九十   (kyuujyuu)
100 ひゃく　百   (hyaku)
200 にひゃく　二百   (nihyaku)
300 さんびゃく　三百   (sanbyaku)
400 よんひゃく　四百   (yonhyaku)
500 ごひゃく　五百   (gohyaku)
600 ろっぴゃく　六百   (roppyaku)
700 ななひゃく　七百   (nanahyaku)
800 はっぴゃく　八百   (happyaku)
900 きゅうひゃく　九百   (kyuuhyaku)
1,000 せん　千   (sen)
2,000 にせん　二千   (nisen)
3,000 さんぜん　三千   (sanzen)
4,000 よんせん　四千   (yonsen)
5,000 ごせん　五千   (gosen)
6,000 ろくせん　六千   (rokusen)
7,000 ななせん　七千   (nanasen)
8,000 はっせん　八千   (hassen)
9,000 きゅうせん　九千   (kyuusen)
10,000  いちまん　一万   (ichiman)
20,000  にまん　二万   (niman)
30,000  さんまん　三万   (sanman)
40,000  よんまん　四万   (yonman)
50,000  ごまん　五万   (goman)
60,000  ろくまん　六万   (rokuman)
70,000  ななまん　七万   (nanaman)
80,000  はちまん　八万   (hachiman)
90,000  きゅうまん　九万   (kyuuman)
100,000  じゅうまん　十万   (jyuuman)

So for counting, you start with the largest number and continue to go down till the smallest number.
For example:
Write out 93,825
きゅうまんさんぜんはっぴゃくにじゅうご or in kanji 九万三千八百二十五

And when you have numbers that are higher than 10,000 just use 10 then 10,000 such that it says ten ten-thousands.

So I leave you with the first set of kanji and until next time, おやすみなさい！

なつやすみ！

おはようございます！わたし　は　ガブリエル　です。それ　は　なつやすみ　です。わたし　は　フランス　で　いきました。

This is what I am aiming to teach in three posts or less.
Translation: Good morning! I am Gabriel. It's summer vacation. I left for France.

Starting off with what was already taught, WE can say simple phrases with time, statements, and simple questions.

So how about saying phrases with actual verbs? That is what I am aiming to teach in this post and the future posts.
Today I will start off with the first definition of verbs.
There are three types of verbs: -ru verbs, -u verbs, and then irregular verbs.
The difference between the verbs is how they end. Here is a list on some verbs to start off with:

〜る	〜う	Irregular Verbs
おきる (to get up)	いく(to go)	べんきょうする (to study)
たべる (to eat)	かえる (to return)	する (to do)
ねる (to sleep)	きく (to listen; to hear)	くる (to come (destination, use に,へ)
みる (to see)	のむ (to drink)

So these are called forms. The forms listed here are called dictionary forms. They are rarely ever seen in spoken にほんご because they are solely to be used when searching for the verbs in the dictionary. The spoken and written forms that I know of are present and past (both negative and positive).

Let's get cracking!
Today I will go over how to conjugate in the present form.
〜う verbs are very simple: All that is done is take the last syllable and shift it to the 〜い form and then add ます at the end to show it is positive present.

Example:
いく (to go) - く + き + ます = いきます (going)
Used in a sentence: わたし　は　フランス　で　いきます。

*Whenever you use a verb, you will not use です to end the sentence as the verb is ending the statement

〜る verbs are similar in what we do with 〜う verbs except a minor change. The thing we change is take out the 〜る and add ます.

Example:
たべる (to eat) - る + ます = たべます　(eating)

Irregular verbs are similar in who to take the root.
They are the exceptions as their dictionary forms look the same to 〜る verbs. They are only exceptions.
What needs to happen is this:
take the る out and change the last syllable to the 〜い form of the verb and add ます

Example:
べんきょうする - る - す + し + ます = べんきょうします (studying)

So this concludes how to find the root of the verbs in the three categories and conjugate them into the present affirmitive.

Now for the present negative.
All you have to do is take the present affirmative and replace ます with ません like so:
いきます - ます + ません = いきません

There is a nother post being prepared on how to use verbs in sentences but for now I'll leave with a base on sentence forming with verbs. Till next time!
じゃまた

おはよう！

わたし　は　ガブリエル　です。
わたし　は　いちねんせい　です。
I am Gabriel. I am a first year college student.

As from my last post, I am now on summer vacation. Furthermore, I will have time to update the site and provide new things in the Japanese Language.

Thus far, I have covered the basic sentence structure of X は Y です。
As well I have covered teh basic time question and time telling.

So Now I will cover the basic for most asking sentences.
The structure is that of a normal statement like: わたし　は　いちねんせい　です。
Except now we must take out いちねんせい and わたし　は. Then replace the いちねんせい with なんねんせい (which is what year student).

So the question is:
なんねんせい　ですか。
That is the short version of the question. A real life situation would go like so (between two people):
A: おはよう。
おはよう
おなまえ　ですか。
わたし　は　ガブリエル　です。おなまえ　ですか。
わたし　は　イザオ　です。なんねんせい　ですか。
いんちねんせい　です。りゅうがくせい　ですか。
はい、わたし　くごくじん　です。アメリカじん　ですか。
はい、わたし　アメリカじん　です。

So that is the easy way of asking a simple yes or no question. It can be applied to how much or how old or how long as well.

Finally, this is the end for today, I expect to have more tomorrow.
じゃまった。

I'm working on finding out how  to make a new subdomain so as to make a list of vocabulary words and uses.

こんにちは: Good Afternoon!

Ok, so I was somewhat busy at a friends house yesterday so I wasn't able to post. Today is a good day though as it is Friday or きんようび (kinyoobi)/ 金曜日 (in kanji it is literally gold day). So I have posted the two tables on the previous post, yet I forgot to mention how to pronounce the vowels in Japanese.

So without further ado, I'd like to show the easiest way to remember how to sound out the vowels:

In the order of a i u e o

Ah we soon get old.

So now we should know how to pronounce everthing, right?

えと, there is yet even more to remember, so there are the 46 base characters, yet for most of them, there are alternate ways to write them to make new sounds like ji ge za de do go etc.

Let me make the table:

あ - A	い - I	う - U	え - E	お - O
が - GA	ぎ - GI	ぐ - GU	げ- GE	ご - GO
ざ - ZA	じ - JI	ず - ZU	ぜ - ZE	ぞ - ZO
だ - DA	ぢ - JI	づ - ZU	で - DE	ど - DO
ば - BA	び - BI	ぶ - BU	べ - BE	ぽ - BO
ぱ - PA	ぴ - PI	ぷ - PU	ぺ - PE	ぽ - PO

The same things go for the katakana characters. Just use the same markings.

So There it is. Now tehre is more special ways of writting things to get the special sounds and I'll save that for later.
So now we can learn more vocabulary.

Mother- おかあさん (okaasan)
Father- おとうさん (otoosan)
older sister- おねえさん (oneesan)
older brother- おにいさん (oniisan)
younger sister- いもうと (imooto)
younger borther- おとうと (otooto)
job (work or occupation)- しごと (shigoto)
high school- こうこう (kookoo)
teacher (or professor)- せんせい (sensei)
telphone- でんわ (denwa)
name- なまえ (namae)
what (the question)- なに/あん (nani/nan)
anime-アニメ (anime)
and then...- えと (eto)

So this is a good list. I am hoping to make a subdomain with the vocab that I have listed in all the posts for all to see. I will write out the meanings for all and hopefully it will provide help for those who need it.

As for my normal good-byes: ではまた (see you later).

わかりました: Understood

So I left off yesterday with the intro to the meanings of the two alphabets: ひらがな and かたかな. While the Japanese write in these two alphabets, the shorter way of writting a few many words or sounds is using かんじ.

Here is the ひらがな (Hiragana) Table

あ - A	い - I	う - U	え - E	お - O
か - KA	き - KI	く - KU	け - KE	こ - KO
さ - SA	し - SHI	す - SU	せ - SE	そ - SO
た - TA	ち - CHI	つ - TSU	て - TE	と - TO
な - NA	に - NI	ぬ - NU	ね - NE	の - NO
は - HA	ひ - HI	ふ - HU	へ - HE	ほ - HO
ま - MA	み - MI	む - MU	め - ME	も - MO
や - YA		ゆ - YU		よ - YO
ら - RA	り - RI	る - RU	れ - RE	ろ - RO
わ - WA		を - WO		ん - N

And here is the かたかな (Katakana) Table

ア - A	イ - I	ウ - U	エ - E	オ - O
カ - KA	キ - KI	ク - KU	ケ - KE	コ - KO
サ - SA	シ - SHI	ス - SU	セ - SE	ソ - SO
タ - TA	チ - CHI	ツ - TSU	テ - TE	ト - TO
ナ - NA	ニ - NI	ヌ - NU	ネ - NE	ノ - NO
ハ - HA	ヒ - HI	フ - HU	ヘ - HE	ホ - HO
マ - MA	ミ - MI	ム - MU	メ - ME	モ - MO
ヤ - YA		ユ - YU		ヨ - YO
ラ - RA	リ - RI	ル - RU	レ - RE	ロ - RO
ワ - WA		ヲ - WO		ン - N

So this concludes the two alphabets of Japanese. Now we know what it means when I would say アメリカ (amerika or  America). By now I have already memorized the two alphabets and I'm doing this to practice so as to not loose touch of any of the characters.

So for today, I'm including some vocab words that some would want to know:

I (for your self) - わたし
U.S.A. - アエリカ
France- フランス
Japan- にほん (hint: It doesn't actually say Japan, it is said as nihon or nipon)
college- だいがく
language (like English language) - ~ご (ex. にほんご or えいご - English Language)

So I know that this post doesn't have much to talk about as it is just the table of the two alphabets and very few vocab words; however, I need to rest and I will try to post every day something new and exciting (maybe if you like anime tv/manga) and hopefully this will continue as a great blog!

As with yesterday: おやすみなさい。(Good night.)

こんばんは: Good Evening!

Well so far I am taking a Japanese 1 course at Santa Monica College. I am making this blog to help myself and maybe others who are doing the same in learning this language for the first time.

So far i have learned the two alphabets and approximately 20 かんじ which means kanji in roman letters. Kanji are all the official Chinese characters that have been borrowed into Japanese to shorten up the writting. This is in no way shortening the way to say things! Kanji is strictly to write with, you would read it the same way without!

So lets begin. The first alphabet is called ひらがな, which means hiragana. There are a total of 46 characters that are used in modern Japanese and I would input a table if i could but I don't think I will at the moment. Next post I will though for both alphabets. ひらがな is used for Japanese based words only! That means all words that originated in Japan are written with these characters.

This is where the second alphabet comes in handy, it is called かたかな or katakana. This alphabet has 45 characters only. This alphabet is used to form new words from different languages that didn't originate in Japanese: like the Wii or ウィイ. This comes in handy to say different words like computer and coffee.

Now these two alphabets are used to write out everything, yet the Japanese were smart! They decided to use Chinese characters to represent either one entire word or parts of words that are formed to make up words. For example, take weekend: it is derived from the words week and end. Now imagine that the word week could be written in one character instead of four characters, makes things simpler to read right? That is what kanji is used for.

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It is late, and I have Chemistry in the morning so I must leave this as a first post for the new blog. Now to say good night: (in romanized japanese or romajii) oyasuminasai/おやすみなさい (in hiragana).