[image] Wouldn’t the meaning be closer to “As for Tom, coffee is what he wants to drink.”?

I don’t think garbled English is that useful, but when introducing a new grammar point I can see the value in pointing out the literal translation. So for 好き I would explain that it isn’t a verb as in English, and for the first example sentence would include the point “literally this translates to ‘…

In fact, thinking about the ‘drink-wanted’ point - do you really find that any more helpful than ‘want to drink’? Because I really don’t. But I do find it helpful to know that the たい modifier is technically an adjective, because then it helps me to understand/remember that it conjugates like an い-ad…

Yeah drink-wanted makes perfect sense to me, as weird as that sounds.

Well then, fair enough! For me, understanding that “English helper verb ‘want to ~’ corresponds to an adjectival modification of the verb in Japanese” is much more helpful (excuse my poor knowledge of grammatical terms). I want to know that, for example, コーヒー is giving you coffee, and that 飲み is g…

I understand. I have a random question - do you know what the Genki font is called? Pretty much every Japanese font I see online looks terrible (Twitter and Discord especially) but Genki’s font looks really nice.

Now that I don’t know, sorry! Edit: unless there’s anything here ? Btw, did my response re: your actual question about が help at all? I wasn’t sure whether you were still unclear…

が isnt only used to mark new information. It’s also used to mark a subject (the clip in this case), when used in response to a question.

Half-read the thread. Just wanted to point out that “literal translations” from Japanese to English don’t exist really, mainly because particles don’t exist in English. So a seriously literal translation of, say… 私は寿司を食べた …would be like: “I (particle that marks the topic) sushi (particle that mar…

Okay the question thing I did not know.

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jprspereira January 19, 2018, 11:17pm 49

I heard Misa’s video was pretty good too. Not sure as I haven’t watched it.

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