Slowly it is making more sense..

GoldCoinLover · 25 Sep 2011

I'm learning japanese through tae kim japanese.it is getting easier slighty I really like her approach to teaching.I'm learning na,andi adjectives and how to con jugate ru and u verbs also to the past tense which is tricky.can you please correct my japanese ? 寡黙な人でした；でも今私の道楽を手品です。cyril takayamaさんは，聞きませんでしたか
彼はとても上手です. あなたは手品を好きですか？難しいけど楽しです。これは正しい思わないです。。

Toritoribe · 25 Sep 2011

GoldCoinLover said:
寡黙な人でした

Who is the subject? That sentence sounds unnatural as a single sentence without it.

GoldCoinLover said:
でも今私の道楽を手品です。

を basically indicates the object of action verbs. Probably you want say でも今私の道楽は手品です?

GoldCoinLover said:
あなたは手品を好きですか？

It's not incorrect, but 手品が好きですか is more common. Adjectives that express emotion or sense like 好き, 嫌い, 痛い take the object marker が.

GoldCoinLover said:
難しいけど楽しです。

難しいけど楽しいです。
The polite form of i-adjectives is "the dictionary form + です".

GoldCoinLover said:
これは正しい思わないです。

これは正しいと（は）思わないです/思いません。
Nouns/Phrases/Clauses can't be attached directly ot 思う.

GoldCoinLover · 25 Sep 2011

Thank you!i wish I knew an inexpensive way to practice.i live on my own now on welfare. I have a book but it does not show answers.do you have any suggestions on how to practice ? I am using lang 8 and tae kims japanese.there are no classes near me.i self study.but slowly it is making more sense.thank you !

nice gaijin · 26 Sep 2011

GCL you might be interested in this website: LingQ

GoldCoinLover · 30 Sep 2011

hey guys I had a thought..

an insight if you will...using「が」。。 how about using it in the sentence like this...

That's the heavy one. would you use ga here ? how would you say it in japanese?
you would use ga, right? because you are specifying which one. now using 「は」,
it would be only to bring up the new topic... so が is answering a silent question, which is the heavy one? am I right?

Glenn · 30 Sep 2011

重いの would be "heavy one", as in 重いのをください ("please give me the heavy one."). You don't need が or は at all, unless the heavy one is the subject or topic. If you say "that's the heavy one," then yes, I'd say you would use が -- あれ/それが重いのだ(よ). の here is a pronoun, like "one" in English.

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