<p>Excuse me. Could you speak a little more slowly please.</p>
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<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Wakarimashta.</p>
<p>I understand.</p>
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<imgsrc="./images/Lesson2_C.png"alt="Numbers form zero to 10.">
<h2id="lesson_3">Lesson 3</h2>
<imgsrc="./images/Lesson3_A.png"alt="Do you speak/understand Japanese?">
<h2>Asking and answering the question, do you speak Japanese?.</h2>
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<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Anoo, nihongo, dekimasu ka?</p>
<p>Hi there, do you speak Japanese?</p>
<p>Some notes on this.</p>
<ol>
<li>Anoo - this is a word used to indicate that you want to speak to someone so it is similar to saying hi there or excuse me in English.</li>
<li>go - go means language so you have nihon which means Japan and so nihongo means Japan language or Japanese.</li>
<li>Dekimasu ka - literally means do you do so do you do Japanese. In Japanese, there is no equivalent to speak as used in this context.</li>
</ol>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Anoo, nihongo wakarimasu ka?</p>
<p>Excuse me, do you understand Japanese?</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Hai, dekimasu.</p>
<p>Yes I do.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Hai, sukoshi dekimasu.</p>
<p>Yes I speak a little Japanese.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Hai, wakarimasu.</p>
<p>Yes I do.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Hai, sukoshi wakarimasu.</p>
<p>Yes I understand a little Japanese.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Hai, sukoshi.</p>
<p>Yes, a little.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Sumimasen. Dekimasen.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I don't.</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Sumimasen. Wakarimasen.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I don't understand Japanese.</p>
<p>Some other languages.</p>
<ul>
<li>英語 - Eigo - English.</li>
<li>ハンガリー語 - Hangari-go - Hungarian.</li>
<li>中国語 - Chugoku-go - Chinese.</li>
<li>韓国語 - Kankoku-go - Korean.</li>
<li>インドネシア語 - Indoneshia-go - Indonesian.</li>
<li>タイ語 - Tai-go - Thai.</li>
<li>フランス語 - Furansu-go - French.</li>
<li>猫語 - Neko-go - Cat language.</li>
</ul>
<p>Remember that go is the Japanese word for language so if you add go to the name of the country, you get the language and you can also remove go from the name of the language in order to get the name of the country in most cases. However, the Japanese word for England is</p>
<p>イングランド - Ingurando</p>
<p>I assume that if you put go at the end of Ingurando, a Japanese person would understand that you mean the language of England. However, note:</p>
<p>イギリス英語 - Igirisu eigo - British English.</p>
<p>Possibly a similar thing would apply for Scottish, but technically this is not a language. For info:</p>
<p>I found the katakana a little bit easier to learn using my flashcards than the hiragana but it probably makes sense to learn the hiragana first. Katakana are used for foreign words as we will see in image 4C.</p>
<p>One thing that helps when learning the katakana and I think this is true for the hiragan as well is that once you have learned the 46 basic characters of the katakana, you will find that it is easier to learn the other charaters because there are just the basic characters with a small embellishment. For example, if you take the five basic characters for ka, ki, ku, ke ko and add the two marks hat look like a double quote mark, you get ga, gi, gu, ge, go and similarly other sets of basic characters map to additional characters so knowing that means you don't need to learn the characters if you know all of the nasic characters and you know what these mappings are.</p>
<imgsrc="./images/Lesson4_B.png"alt="What is this in Japanese?">
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Kore wa, nihongo de nan desu ka?</p>
<p>What is this in Japanese?</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Kore wa, nan to iimasu ka?</p>
<p>What is this called?</p>
<h3>hiragana</h3>
<p>Driver's licence wa, nihongo de nan desu ka?</p>
<p>How do you say driver's licence in Japanese?</p>
