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Expressing routines, future actions, or events, using the polite present verb.

Japanese verbs are classified into three classes, irregular verbs, ru-verbs, and u-verbs. There are only two irregular verbs (for which we all give many thanks to Amaterasu). These verb classes will become more useful as you learn different forms.

To come – 着ますーきません
To do – しますーしません
To get up – おきますーおきませんーる
To go to bed – 寝ますーねませんーる
To eat – 食べますーたべませんーる
To go – 行きますーいきませんーう
To go home – 帰りますーかえりませんーう
To read – 読みますーよみませんーう

* In contrast to English, Japanese verbs have two forms, polite and plain. The polite form is used among acquaintances, people of different age groups, and strangers in public places. It is also used in television and radio broadcasts, and letters. The plain form is used among family members, young children, and close friends of the same age as well as in newspaper and magazine articles.
* Japanese verbs have only two tenses: past and present. The present tense indicates present or future time, depending on the context
* In addition to expressing the location of objects, the verb あります can be used to express possession. You will use ～は　～が　～あります。
わたしは　じゅうぎょうが　あります。
やまださんは　テレビが　ありません。

Answer the following questions.
１．まいにち　だいがくに　きますか。いいえ、大学に行きません。
２．あさごはんを　たべますか。　はい、朝ごはんを食べます。
３．まいあさ　コーヒーを　のみますか。いいえ、コーヒーを飲みません。コーヒーが好きじゃないです。
４．どようびに　じゅぎょうが　ありますか。　いいえ、土曜日に授業がありません。
５．げつようびの　ばん　テレビを　みますか。はい、テレビを見ます。
６．まいばん　ほんをよみますか。　はい、毎晩本を読みます。
７．こんばん　おふろに　はいりますか。　いいえ、　お風呂に入りません。


Posting this to my journal so that I actually remember to do it these days. And to have, I guess, a midway checkpoint on the things I need to do during the day, though I doubt it will be anything as simple as a bullet point list. So you all get to see me rambling a little more. :)

Actually, at this rate, I'm tempted just to start up a language journal but then I'd never actually post in this one so never mind. You all get to see me ramble two to three times a day. And have a little language lesson during it. Although while I'm at it, if anyone's reviewing these languages often enough that they want me to put down tags for verb forms, noun cases, etc, when I review them so they can go back and reference things since they don't have the book, speak now or forever hold your peace! Or just, you know. Let me know if you want the name of the book I'm using, which might be easier if not necessarily cheaper.

While I'm at it, and while I'm doing Japanese, if anyone wants to follow along do you want me to include a pronunciation key, of sorts in the exercise? Let me know! Because I've studied this before so I can read it fairly well, barring the vocab issue. Hiragana and Katakana, that is. Basically, let me know if there's anything you're curious about as far as language lessons go. I'm also starting typing up the Japanese from lesson 5, so.

Oogh. Still not looking forward to the mail order sale week, but I think I have all my writing stuff scheduled, and as far as other stuff I'm knocking down most of those tasks like gangbusters. Right now, a bit of a walk. And then work and writing, and hopefully tonight I will actually jam German back into my schedule. One step at a time, though. No beating up on myself if I don't get there.