
Best friends with a person you’ve never met in real life?
The arrival of social networks and e-mail enabled cellphones brought a new phenomenon to Japan, the merutomo (e-mail friend). People find new friends, but sometimes you can even find your soulmate! Find out what kind of friendship is developing in this story!
We’re learning an important grammar point, both which involve the particle no being used as a nominalizer. We’ll take a look at how to nominalize Japanese verbs (similar to a gerund in English), and we’ll look at the construction noun + particle + no.

Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S3) | 17 Comments »
Grammar: no, nominalizer, noun+particle+no | Function: talking about things | Topic: e mail friends, Facebook, friends, merutomo, Mixi, phone | Politeness Level: casual
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