Yes, I'm new to Japanese and posted the other comment as well. I appreciate the suggestion about taking grammatical advice from Japanese friends. While omitting the particles in the examples I cited in my previous comments may be alright, it might be disastrous to do the same thing in another context. Not to mention, "speaking like a native" is not always a good thing. If you learn from natives in an informal context, then your Japanese will most likely be limited to informal language, which can be problematic to say the least.
Posted by Anonymous on Feb 19th, 2010 at 11:03 am.
Yes, I'm new to Japanese and
Yes, I'm new to Japanese and posted the other comment as well. I appreciate the suggestion about taking grammatical advice from Japanese friends. While omitting the particles in the examples I cited in my previous comments may be alright, it might be disastrous to do the same thing in another context. Not to mention, "speaking like a native" is not always a good thing. If you learn from natives in an informal context, then your Japanese will most likely be limited to informal language, which can be problematic to say the least.