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Originally Posted by MMM
Japanese is all about context, and verbs certainly are conjugated, just not in the same ways they are in Spanish, French or Italian. To me, it us much simpler, as there is no difference in the way "I go" "You go" "They go" are conjugated, where all three are different in romance languages.
In Japanese unnecessary words are dropped. That's why "I" and especially "you" appear so rarely. "I am hungry" just becomes "am hungry" because it would be unlikely for you to be talking about anyone else's appetite. And if you are you would make it clear. "Are you hungry?" becomes "are hungry?" because who else would you be talking about?
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ja, i guess this is the part that totally throws me off. english and (to some degree) indonesian need i and you most of the time, so when i tried to make sentence in japanese always ended up with lotsa watashi wa to start the sentence. the sentences then looked and also sounds funnie
