{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Juan 🍁 wrote","author_name":"Juan 🍁 (npub1r3…npk7y)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1r3hrmdf7r62vwmrgxlx3trwky2ntklze6hz9crsesxvt7m3c7l7qynpk7y","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Just completed my 12th hour with my Japanese language instructor.\n\nHere's a few of the quirky/intriguing things I've come across so far:\n\n1- If you can count to 12 and say the word がつ (gatsu) you know all the months of the year. \n\nいちがつ (ichigatsu) にがつ (nigatsu) and so on. \n\n2- There is a different word for existing/having something, depending on whether that thing is sentient or not. \n\nいます (imasu) vs あります(arimasu)\n\n3- There is no past, present and future tenses. Only past, and non-past. \n\n4- You tweak the verb depending on what you're trying to say. \n\nI will watch a movie\nえいがをみます \neiga o mimasu\n\nI want to watch a movie\nえいがをみたいです\neiga o mitaidesu\n\nShall we watch a movie?\nえいがをみましょか\neiga o mimashou ka\n\nWould you like to watch a movie?\nえいがをみせんか\neiga o mimasen ka\n\n5- You use a different word depending on what your counting. For example:\n\n2 people\n2 dollars\n2 pens\n2nd day of the month\n\nthere's a different word for \u003c2\u003e ... 🤔 \n\n*grain of salt please. I'm very early in my journey "}