🌸Konnichiwa sekai! 🌸 (Hello World!)
Introduction
So my goal is to understand fluent Japanese and also try to speak Japanese without any help.
This is definitely a hercules task as there are around 10,000 Japanese words used per day on average. (Src. Some random youtube video lol)
As per my plan, If I learn 25 words per day, it would take me
10000/25 = 400
400 days to get somewhere with my progress.
This is not an overnight process and I'm fully aware of it. I'm planning to increase the number of words per day as I get used to the flow.
Since I don't have a lot of spare time, I'm not going to learn to read Hiragana, katakana or Kanji. I'm only going to be using Romaji, which is just the roman alphabetization of the Japanese language.
There won't be any "Introduction" section in the upcoming blogs.
Resourses
These are the resourses that I'm using at the moment to learn Japanese words and understand its meanings.
- Japanese Pod 101
- Learn with oliver - I highly recommend you to make an account in this service.
- Google translate
Note: I'll be updating this list through-out the process in each blog as well as here(in the first blog)
25 Words for the day
| S.No | Japanese word | English Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyou wa | Today |
| 2 | Anata wa | You |
| 3 | Totemo | Very |
| 4 | Suteki desu | wonderful |
| 5 | Yasun | Rest |
| 6 | Arigato | Thankyou |
| 7 | Anata | You |
| 8 | Samishii desu | Lonely |
| 9 | watashi wa | I/Me/Myself |
| 10 | Kono | This |
| 11 | ie (e-a) | House/Home |
| 12 | Kyoshi | Teacher |
| 13 | Sunde imasu | To live in/ Inhabit |
| 14 | nihongo | Japanese(In japanese) |
| 15 | benkyo shite imasu | learning/ have been learning |
| 16 | nandeska | what is (it) |
| 17 | shigoto | Job/ Occupation |
| 18 | anata no | your |
| 19 | desu/desuka | is/are |
| 20 | shite imasu | doing/ to do |
| 21 | Shinyo | to trust |
| 22 | tokui | to be good at |
| 23 | itsumo | always/ every time |
| 24 | daisuki desu/ aishite imasu | to love |
| 25 | Konnichiwa | Hello |
Note: All the words with underline are not actual words but some grammatical instrument. At the moment, I'm not entirely sure about them. I'll see learn how to use which one in which situation as I go forward.
5 Sentences for the day
| S.NO | Sentence | Literal meaning | Contextual Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watashi wa kono ie ne sunde imasu | I this house living | I live in this house |
| 2 | watashi wa kyoshi desu | I am Teacher is | I am a teacher |
| 3 | watashi wa nihiongo o benkoyo shite imasu | I am Japanese learning | I am learning Japanese |
| 4 | anata wa shigotowa nandesuka? | your job what? | What is your job |
| 5 | watashi wa piano ga tokui desu | I am piano good at is | I am good at piano |
As you can see, The literal meaning is not the contextual meaning in most situations. This is because,
| Language | Follows |
|---|---|
| English | Subject-Verb-Object |
| Japanese | Subject-Object-Verb |
This is much like prefix and postfix notation in programming.
Alright. This is it for today.
Byeee!