User talk:Retropunk/Japanese Curriculum/Lesson 1

Hey,

I like this lesson. I just added an exercise and a summary of the grammar, because I believe that it is scary when the grammar section takes up more space than the rest of the lesson. I would put the explanations about the copula into a separate book page where we can collect explanations of anything, and then just refer people to these explanations from several course pages.

Junesun (talk) 10:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reviewing the lesson. I'm not really done with the grammar section.  I just pulled a bunch of existing sections and placed them into the lesson.  I plan on putting more examples, but since this is "the first lesson," I might be very limited with the current scope.
 * I agree that a large grammar section can be daunting. The use of a "grammar" redux page may prove to be useful.  However, this could backfire for things like the copula, where material in the lesson are not necessarily linked to the grammar point in the linked page.  For example, there's no mention of plain or polite past-tense/past-tense negative.
 * Again, this is just a starting point. We still have a long way to go.  --Retropunk (talk) 23:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I thought this was a really solid first lesson. However, I thought there needed to be some corrections, additions, deletions, and stylistic modifications. I've placed the new version of the page at User:Elaeum/Testbed/Japanese/Retropunk/Lesson1, simply because I didn't know if "review" meant that it was all right to make changes. Sorry, I'm a bit new here, and trying not to step on other peoples toes. If you like the modifications, I can remake them on your site, or we can just do a substitution. Hopefully we can get this into the book soon! Elaeum (talk) 22:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

When 'A Man' replies, 'No, I'm not.', shouldn't the correct Japanese be いません instead of ありません? --Earthiverse (discuss • contribs) 00:13, 13 May 2013 (UTC)