Re: When do you start to stop learning?

From: Kevin Wayne Williams (kww.nihongo_at_verizon.nut)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:45:07 -0700

Cindy wrote:

>
> One interesting thing is that nobody has really taught me the articles
> (an, a, the) effectively. I have asked many native English speakers to
> teach me, you know.
>
No one manages to teach は and が very well, either. Determining when a
verb is sufficiently inactive that I should use　に instead of で eludes me.

Just to make English more fun, you do realize that there are dialects
(like mine) that distinguish between the "the" in "the Empire State
Building" and the "the" in "the red car", and pronounce them
differently, don't you?

[snip]
> FYI, I tell you about the most non native Japanese speakers I met in
> person. They were usually fluent in the beginning such as greetings and
> self-introduction. Yep, all me-me-me-all-about-me topics are discussed
> amazingly fluent. Then, OK, if you are so fluent, let's work in
> Japanese.

I don't think it's "me me me" so much as "first lesson, first class."

KWW