Re: Person marking on nouns?

En réponse à Peter Bleackley :


>Interesting. Sanae-sensei is a native speaker, and seemed to be quite happy
>teaching it as a spoken form. The class is taught entirely in Japanese,
>with no English used.
My Japanese teacher was also a native speaker (with a very bad Japanese 
accent in her French :)) ) and taught us that form warning us that using it 
in speech was being overly polite and literary. You wouldn't use a simple 
form in -masu in such a register.

Also, I watch Japanese programs nearly everyday, and I can tell you they 
never use the conjunctive form in speech :) . Even the -te form is usually 
used only in polite conversations. In everyday speech, it's "soshite" 
everywhere :)) .

Christophe Grandsire.

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