these lessons are really helping, but please make the numbering on the downloaded file, the blog files, and the pdf’s all the same.

thanks again, keep it up!!

Amandaさん、
In Japanese, a lot is implied. A complete sentence might
Anata wa kyou genki desu ka
How are you today?
Watashi wa kyou genki desu.
Today I am good.
But this can be shortened to
Genki? (rising intonation)
How are you today?
Genki. (flat intonation)
Today I am good.
Everything is implied.
Hope this helps.
John

Yes, that would be grammatically sound, although you would definitely sound extremely enthusiastic!

drop the 私は (watashi wa), to sound natural.
日本語はあまり上手く話せません is OK. it means “I can’t speak Japanese well.”

I use zekkouchou all the time here in Okinawa, people are really amazed! Thanks for the great lessons!

Kyle Hanson-san, palmist81-san

Thank you for listening to and enjoying our lessons!

Maichan-san,

おかげさまで comes first. So, you can say おかげさまで、げんきです, or おかげさまで、ぜっこうちょうです。 Also, you can say just おかげさまで which implies that you are good.