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IMABI posted a reply to topic Patterns in adverbs? 1 days ago
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Reply Ry

06:08 AM on March 11, 2013

"Yes, I got to that question. It turns out that the sentences you gave were still well within the usages discussed in the site. There was nothing amiss. I included other lessons that you could visit."

Respectfully, you were wrong. The meaning of とする that I was missing was that of "to make," which is not included on this site(nor on the others I frequent). Even situations in which the "as" meaning can be applied requires stretching the meaning. "To make" is closer in several of the situations in those situations. Furthermore, one of my major sources of confusion was とする／としている appearing at the end of sentences. In these cases especially, "to make" is more natural than trying to shoehorn in "as." Example?
石炭を燃料として使う。To use coal as fuel.
石炭を燃料としている。To make(/turn) coal into fuel.

Make no mistake. I remain very grateful for the site and confident about the lessons within. But I think that this is a grammar aspect that isn't included that should be.

I've written a post on the forums going into further detail about this, but I cut it off as it was growing a bit long(I think I babble too much

). If necessary, I can pull up the relevant entries from 大辞泉 and 大辞林 as well as dig up more example sentences to demonstrate this. Thank you again for the site ^^

Reply CptGuapo

11:48 PM on January 31, 2013

Thanks a lot, IMABI. Very kind of you. I'll try my best to contribute here. Regards.

Reply Michi

09:32 AM on January 28, 2013

Thank you! I feel so welcomed haha! I'll get down to learning, hopefully more regularly, soon!

Glad to be a part of this amazing website!

Reply Ryan Lazuli

12:17 PM on January 26, 2013

Thank you. Your website is amazingly extensive! I would donate, but I don't have a job xD

Reply Lemonade Sky

08:56 PM on January 23, 2013

Thanks for the welcome, Imabi. I'm sure I'll have some questions going forward, but after peeking at this site for the first time last night, there is a lot of information here. Good stuff.

Reply Ry

07:08 AM on January 22, 2013

First of all, thanks for the wonderful site and the nice welcome. I was actually having a lot of trouble with とする／として。 I think I'll try making a post about it.

Reply ToraToransu

02:49 PM on January 20, 2013

Thank you! I haven't studied Japanese in a while and have recently decided to pick it back up. I appreciate the welcome and the free services that you offer with this site.

Btw, do you know an Aidan Aanestad? He's the one who directed me here. We went to the same high school and he actually taught me a little bit of Japanese.

Reply carolina

08:34 PM on January 15, 2013

Thanks for the welcome!!
I started to read the lessons here and I have to say I like them a lot!
Thank you for all your work

Reply wheezyheen

01:32 AM on January 11, 2013

Thanks for the welcome! I am really impressed by the sheer breadth of information you have on here. I don't think I know any native speakers who would be interested, but I have several relatively fluent friends to whom I will definitely show this site!

I'm curious, you are so young and I saw somewhere you said you have only been studying Japanese for 5 years. How have you had the time to learn so much? What did you do, what was your curriculum for yourself? Have you created all the material/lessons on this website yourself?

Reply MichaelXD001

11:09 PM on January 09, 2013

Alright thank you very much. For now, I'm going to go over your lessons from the start and work my way through. Should keep me busy for a while and hopefully answer a lot of my questions :).

Reply MichaelXD001

10:49 PM on January 09, 2013

Thanks for such fast replies, let me try and understand this properly. "を" makes "理科" the direct object of "専攻する?. So it roughly means "(I'm) studying science"? I remember ます is used for politeness, but I don't remember what "してい" means either.

I still have a long way to go on this. Ive been on holidays recently, and I've been putting in at least 5 hours a day on Japanese for the past 2 weeks. Before that I was only going on very basic stuff I remember from primary school Japanese lessons, and random words I have picked up from anime over the years.

Reply MichaelXD001

09:47 PM on January 09, 2013

Thanks for the reply, I haven't had anyone correcting my attempts at Japanese yet, so thanks for point them out. I gather the second part is being inconsistent with the polite grammar? I'm a little confused about the first correction. Isn't を used as a particle in verbs?

-EDIT- So I just found out 願 is pronounced "ねが" not "なが". That was very silly of me.

Reply Bouldabassed

03:17 PM on January 08, 2013

Alright thanks!

Reply Bouldabassed

10:03 PM on January 07, 2013

Alrighty here it goes

For vocab i do a few things. I watch a lot of anime and listen to a lot of Japanese music, so if I hear a word that I want to know, or one that I think I've heard a lot before but don't know yet, I'll look it up on jisho.org and/or tangorin to learn the meaning. For grammar I have done a combination of things. For a lot of it I've been using Tae Kim's guide, and some of it I've picked up myself from hearing it so much and then go find a lesson on it to solidify it (then review if I ever feel necessary). Starting a few days ago I've began to read through the lessons on this site which have been a great help so far =). For listening practice I rely on all the Japanese I hear from my music and shows. For kanji I've been sort of just picking a lot of the common ones up as I go along =P. Lastly, for writing, I've occasionally written a couple things and submitted them on lang-8 but since writing isn't my main priority (reading is), I haven't done this much.

Reply Bouldabassed

09:06 PM on January 06, 2013

Awesome! Thank you for the informative reply!

Reply Bouldabassed

05:57 PM on January 06, 2013

Yeah that's true =P. Oh yeah, I have one question if you wouldn't mind answering it (I'm aware that there are many possible ways to answer this and opinions do vary, I am just curious what you might recommend). How do you recommend learning kanji? I've been teaching myself Japanese for about 9 months but I have never been able to fall into a good kanji-studying routine. I have become familiar enough with a few hundred of the more common ones so that I can read them in most contexts, but I know that's only a small fraction of the 2136 that I need to learn. Also, do you recommend learning each kanji's readings along with the kanji itself, or learning the readings as you learn vocabulary words that contain the kanji?

Reply Bouldabassed

05:38 PM on January 06, 2013

Well I wish you the best of luck with that goal. I'm sure you'll make an amazing Japanese teacher someday. What you're doing is like the quintessence of making a difference. I feel that a lot more people would utilize this site if they knew about it, as I didn't even know of this place until couple days ago. I'll do my best to spread the imabi name around a bit because this is a resource that everyone learning Japanese should at least be aware of.

Reply Bouldabassed

04:48 PM on January 06, 2013

Sounds like you have very high standards for this site which is good to hear. Just wondering, but what motivates you to put so much time into this?

Reply Bouldabassed

03:07 AM on January 06, 2013

Thank you very much! This site seems amazing. I can't even begin to express my gratitude to you for creating this. 本当にありがとうございます！

Reply Amat-Karum

11:09 AM on January 03, 2013

There are indeed a lot of people interested in Japanese in Brazil. Japanese Pop Culture is very popular here. However, most of them can't speak English and the Portuguese material available for studying Japanese online is almost inexistent. So I think that if you could get your website translated and the lessons properly adapted to Portuguese you would get even more visitors from here.

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