Learn Japanese.

[dkamm65]

First, let's do this in a way that makes sense.
"watashi wa yukkuri" would be "I'm slow."
"watashi wa yukkuri desu", by your logic, would be something like "I'm is slow."

I said it's the equivalent, not a direct translation. Japanese and English are too different of languages to give it such definitive word for word for word translations, so I used that as a general example. It was just a way of thinking of it. They just say their name is John, but you obviously know they mean "I am John". It's sort of the same idea. If you say "Watashi wa osoi desu"(I am slow), you drop the state of being verb (desu), but they still know you mean "I am slow" (watashi wa osoi). Put the verb back, and you sound very polite.

You scoured Google for that long and that's all you could come up with?

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[oromis]

literally translated as "it is."

"it is".

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SONS, I AM DISAPPOINT. THIS HERE THREAD FOR DISCUSSING SILLY JAPANESE THINGS, NOT RAGING ABOUT A WORD IN A LANGUAGE YOU DON'T KNOW AND WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT.

[dkamm65]

SONS, I AM DISAPPOINT. THIS HERE THREAD FOR DISCUSSING SILKY JAPANESE THINGS, NOT RAGING ABOUT A WORD IN A LANGUAGE YOU DON'T KNOW AND WILL NEVER CARE ABOUT.

I care about it, and I'm sort of trying to learn it. At least basic understanding level.

[Mr.Interceptor]

SILKY JAPANESE THINGS

The hair of Japanese females?

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The hair of Japanese females?

Stupid Wii-mote cursor, jumpin' around....

[Miga]

At least basic understanding level.

I want to get a basic understanding of Japanese too.

Also, I found this site a while back, it may help for those who want to get a grasp on Japanese.

http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/

[mrlolop]

I want to get a basic understanding of Japanese too.

Also, I found this site a while back, it may help for those who want to get a grasp on Japanese.

http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/

What I understand: Okay, so there's these letters. But they're not our letters. They're some symbols that usually represent what they're describing. And there's these other set of letters, too, that are used for words that aren't in that language.

[dkamm65]

I want to get a basic understanding of Japanese too.

Also, I found this site a while back, it may help for those who want to get a grasp on Japanese.

http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/

Also
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency
and
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
and
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.en.html
and
http://japanese.about.com/library/blkodarchives.htm
and sort of
http://www.youtube.com/user/Gimmeaflakeman
and finally
http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/

What I understand: Okay, so there's these letters. But they're not our letters. They're some symbols that usually represent what they're describing. And there's these other set of letters, too, that are used for words that aren't in that language.

There's hiragana, which represent sounds (na ni nu ne no for example), and kanji which represent whole or partial words. Then there's also katakana, which are for non-Japanese words, such as people's names, cities, adopted words, etc.

[Miga]

Also
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency
and
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
and
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.en.html
and
http://japanese.about.com/library/blkodarchives.htm
and sort of
http://www.youtube.com/user/Gimmeaflakeman
and finally
http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/

Yup.