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Hahaha intro はMontyPython見たい！知らない方ちょっと調べてください。

え？この鳥、もう死んだ!

intro はMontyPythonみたい！

はははは、一月に本当のモンティーパイソンらしいイントロが出てきます。是非チェックしてください！　
maxiewawaが韓国語を話すビデオは楽しかったよ。

nateさん、i think all western learners have this same problem! so i hope everyone can shed some personal experience on it.

i can’t speak for other people, but i personally found that particles are a good place to start looking:

は、が、を、で、に are pretty strong indicators of not only the proceeding word’s grammatical function but they act like a “buffer” between words. (as you get more casual, you can’t rely on this so much… but in the Nihongo Dojo you can!)

also, when i started out… if i typed a sentence, i spaced my words like they do in some newbie books.
for example: 日本語を　勉強するのが　好きです。
until i felt comfortable, i typed all my emails and wrote my homework like this. eventually i got comfortable and stopped doing it. but one note of warning, that style is not normal for native japanese! so your friends won’t write that way and signs and books and documents aren’t written that way. but it’s not a bad way to start off.
and actually, if i’m not mistaken, naomi’s PDF’s are written in that style.

anyone else have some thoughts on this?

marky

Arigatou gozaimasu, Marky-san. I will take your suggestions and begin there.

ネイト

Marky san the particles are very important
hiragana is also essential to identify the verb conjugations , thus
separating words

Well, I think the Review Tracks are a great innovation: just the kind of added value that makes the learning center worth it.

But why should Newbies and Beginners have ALL the fun?

Lower Intermediate and Intermediate review tracks would be great.

They could be slightly more involved than the beginner ones, letting us practice the constructions from the bunpo sections and so forth. PLEEEEEEASE?! With sugar on top?

Anyway, I would appreciate it a lot.

Oh, btw, the PDFs on Miki’s Blog are great too : without them, the Advanced lessons were way too hard for me. But with the PDFs and a bit of perseverance, Miki’s Blog has become a great resource for listening comprehension.

Marky-san…

Oh COOL! But which lesson’s review tracks are up already? Did you start with Intermediate lesson #1 and you’re working your way up? You should put up some liks…

You guys do realize that the “Happy Birthday” song is not public domain, right?