A Secret So Easy, It will turn the tedious and sometimes daunting task of learning another language funto making language learning EasyJapanese EasyI know what’s good for me!JPPGG© #91How to say, “I know how to verb

NAN NAN SHITARA YOI KAVerb

(Base TA)

+ RA +Yoi

is the word for good and for all intents and purposes is equivalent to

so that

*yoi

in any caseyoka – can be hear much in Fukuoka to mean – “Nah”, or “I’m good”

TASHIKA

is not an adjective like AK AI, UTSUKUSHII,AKAR UI, TOMEI, OR SURUDOI.As is true in the pursuit of any language mastery, you must have an understandingof what is meant by the phrase, “milk before meat”. You can’t expect to learn somethinghard or complicated, or expect to eat meat with fully grown canines and flesh piercingteeth before you are able to ingest the milk from a tender mother breast. Therefore, it iswise for any language learner to begin at the beginning, and spend some time there… andhang out…even they should try singing songs about the

alphabet

. Alphabets being thesmall parts of a language that when strung together form words, and make languages,living organisms. Learning the alphabet or syllabary for the language you are learningright now will make your progress and improvement in that language easier later bydoing so.Herein lies a key to a language mastery. If an alphabet is available for thelanguage, by all means

start studying it!

The best way for you to get close to a languageis by studying, and saying in your mouth the little parts of the language, saying them time

and time again as we all do at one point or another in civilized society. Through a carefulstudy of the smallest and simplest parts of a language can you get to know it as intimatelyas you would get to know you native language.As a child, who does not remember singing an alphabet song, reading a book for the first time, looking up a word in the dictionary for the first time, or simply reciting thealphabet. Language is something that must be learned, and its true in English andJapanese. Get yourself some hiragana, and katakana flash cards and memorize the look,feel and shape of each one being able to correctly identify each one, just as you do withthe English letters. Learning the alphabet in another language is the first step towardsunderstanding.Please take a moment to reflect on the first times you sang The Alphabet Song, or recited you’re A,B,C’s. Now reflect upon how you came to know that 5 X 5 is = 25. Iknow that if you gain a solid grasp of the Japanese Syllabary, the 46 syllables that makeup all the sounds of Japanese then learning Japanese will be as a piece of cake for you. Itwill be easy to learn the Japanese language. That’s it! The trick to learning a foreignlanguage is starts with learning the alphabet. In the case of the Japanese language, their alphabet, isn’t an alphabet because it is not made up of just letters, it is made up of syllables. There are 46 syllables in Japanese, and even though it is more than the number of letters in the English language (English letters in the alphabet = 26) it really isn’t thatmany once you see how it is set up.The Japanese syllabary is made up of 46 syllables and represents all soundsnecessary for the formation of any Japanese word. It is just like the English’s Alphabet but its called the gojuon or chart of the 50 sounds. It is grouped to make the learning of itvery easy. Set up in groups that follow the first 5 syllables or the Japanese vowels; a, i, u,e , oBy the time we are 12 we usually forget that we had ever even learned the Englishlanguage and are so familiar with the Alphabet that we have forgotten that it was due toits recitation that we would know what we know. Reading and Writing are two sides of acoin that are wholly influenced by its contributing language’s Alphabet as are Speakingand Listening to a lesser extent. The alphabet I so ingrained into our language that weforget to take it for what it was when we try to apply these learning techniques to the way

we would learn Japanese. For the purposes of learning how to read, write, speak andlisten in English it was necessary to study the core of the language at first, and that wasthe Alphabet. A good way to get at the core, or the heart of a language is by studying it’sAlphabet. We can do that in a similar or even the same way you would learn your timestables. How much did you get for memorizing your times tables? Offer yourself a cookieand say to yourself, “If I start my Japanese study (or any language study) by learning thesyllables that make up their words then I will be ahead of the learning game later onwhen it really gets complicated. Like I said...milk before meat. A house is built on a solidfoundation. In other words, boiling it down to what I am trying to relate to those desirousof the ability to speak in another language and communicate, down the line Don’t want tocheat myself out of learning Japanese and retaining it, but good! Your parents, masters, or mentors may have promised you $5 if you memorized the times tables up to 12, but youcan also do it for free…on your own… and you can reward yourself with a big surprise.Be consistently insistent on diligent Japanese study and you will be able tocommunicate. And the ability to communicate with others of another country can open upwhole truck loads of cool stuff. Catch the fever, learn Japanese. Tell everyone at the PTAmeetings that Japanese is really not that bad. Also I ask all of those who may harrow intheir souls hatred against the Japanese people to end it now so that we can live peaceablyamongst each others, and learn from one another.

Japanese Adjectives

The adjectives follow the syllabic structure found in the vowel rowof the Gojuon, or indeci showing the 46 symbols of the Japanesesyllabary in this order: A, I, U, E , and O. that represent of allsounds necessary for Japanese word formation.