In the way of a beginner, I need your help

[betterworld]

Hi friends,
I've started to learn Japanese a while ago and now I try to write some simple texts. I actually wrote a simple one but I thought that I should ask you about it. Could you check my writing and tell me my mistakes?

I wrote a simple recipe like this,
Today's recipe is tomatoes pasta. First of all, boild some water in the saucepan. Put pasta into the saucepan. Then, take pasta out from the saucepan. Roast the tomatoes in another saucepan. Lastly, put pasta into the saucepan and mix it with tomatoes. And enjoy the eating.
This is very simple one because I'm a beginner in Japanese.

Kyou no ryorihou wa tomato no pasuta desu. Mazu, oyu o sousupan de wakashite kudasai. Pasuto o sousupan ni sashiirete kudasai. Ato de, pasuta o sousupan ni teikuauto shitekudasai. Hoka no sousupan de tomato o yaite kudasai. Saigo ni, pasuto o sousupen ni irete, yaita tomato to torimazete kudasai. Soshite, tanoshinde tabete kudasai.

I wrote it in romaji because of my keyboard. So sorry about it. Could you tell me my mistakes? Thank you very much in advance.

Maybe it might be good if I denote some words because it is in romaji.
sashiireru = to insert, to put in
torimazeru = to mix, to put together
teikuauto suru = take out

Thanks a lot for your help again.

 

[nekojita]

JREFへようこそ！ (welcome to JREF!)

Actually when writing a recipe you generally don't use てください form (you can use it for the last "please enjoy"). Either plain verbs or sometimes polite (ます) form normally. Your conjugations are right, though.

I think you have a few problems relating mostly to your dictionary. You must be careful when looking up new words in Japanese - don't just put in English and take the first word that comes out, check example sentences to make sure you have the right sense of the word.

"ryorihou" → レシピ
ソースパン → 鍋 (nabe)
さしいれる → just use いれる
テイクアウト is for "take out" like "take away" food. For draining pasta, you can use お湯を切る (oyu wo kiru), also ざるをあげる
とりまぜる → just use まぜる

 

[betterworld]

JREFへようこそ！ (welcome to JREF!)

Actually when writing a recipe you generally don't use てください form (you can use it for the last "please enjoy"). Either plain verbs or sometimes polite (ます) form normally. Your conjugations are right, though.

I think you have a few problems relating mostly to your dictionary. You must be careful when looking up new words in Japanese - don't just put in English and take the first word that comes out, check example sentences to make sure you have the right sense of the word.

"ryorihou" → レシピ
ソースパン → 鍋 (nabe)
さしいれる → just use いれる
テイクアウト is for "take out" like "take away" food. For draining pasta, you can use お湯を切る (oyu wo kiru), also ざるをあげる
とりまぜる → just use まぜる

Thank you so much Nekojita. In the next time, I will write in the way you indicated.
By the way, I have some troubles finding sources in Japanese. Is there any website which you can suggest to me? I want to read some texts. Because I am a beginner, it will be good if texts don't have too many kanji words.
And is there any grammar book you can suggest? I think different books to study are better than one grammar book.
I also use Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary as the dictionary. Is this a good one or not?
Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[betterworld]

Hi friends
Could you suggest some websites like 福娘童話集 きょうの日本昔話 ? I want to read Japanese texts but I didn't find any website like hukumusume.com. If you suggest some of them, I would be happy.
Thank you very much for your help.

 

[nekojita]

Most online dictionaries/apps use a database called EDICT (including jisho.org). It contains a lot of words that are rare or archaic (old), and so you have to use caution when looking up words.

A good site for practice, especially if you have already been through a beginner-level course/textbook is Erin's Challenge

For grammar books, I also personally like the style of a series called どんな時、どう使う by ALC - there are some example pages from the lower level book on their site here: http://www.alc.co.jp/book/7013014/