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13 Responses to “Newbie Lesson S4 #12 - Do you Have the Time?”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, what time is it where you are now? Ima nan-ji desu ka?
Saturday at 11:14 pm
今十時です。
Sunday at 2:21 am
今、午前二時十九分です. I should be asleep.
Sunday at 4:54 am
今二十時五十分ですよ!
Sunday at 12:39 pm
今、4時39分です。
What Age Do Little Kids Start Speaking Masu Form?
Post On The Comments Or Directly To Me?
Sunday at 10:33 pm
今午前八時三十三分です。
(It’s 8:33am.)
Monday at 9:46 am
Mina-san, How interesting that some people use semidiurnal hours and the others use 24 hour clock! Where are you all from?? In Japan, we use both, but we are very familiar with 24 hour clock.
ジェイミーsan> Depends on what kind of family a child grows up in, but I think I learned to use masu in a preschool.
Monday at 2:00 pm
Hiroko-san, I really dislike 24 hour clocks
Monday at 11:08 am
Hi all, from what I have heard kids switch over to the -masu and -desu form around when they enter Junior High School. So probably the earliest age might be 10-11 and most probably around 12-13. So, in Junior High School teachers would require the polite -masu form but in Elementary school they would not.
I think that Japanese kids don’t need to formally learn the polite forms because they will have spent their whole lives hearing(and understanding) them on tv, the radio, movies, people on the street, their parents talking to other adults, etc. Switching to the -masu, -desu form is just one step on a child’s road to adulthood in Japan.
Monday at 12:21 pm
ごぜん三時にじゅうふん (3:20am)
Is this right?
Monday at 3:49 pm
Charms-san,
It’s almost right! But, if you say “さんじ にじゅっぷん”that would be perfect.
Thursday at 5:40 am
今何時ですか。
十一時です。大丈夫ですか。留学生のおりえんていしょうんは十一時からです。
本当ですか。また、後で。
また、明日。
Tuesday at 7:55 pm
ありがとうございます せんせい Mayumi!
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