Gengo Girls #34: The Journey Is More Important Than The Destination

Gengo Girls #34: The Journey Is More Important Than The Destination

In the real world people almost never say boring things like “I go” or “The dog barks”. It’s always “I’m going to the library, be back in a minute” or “Why in the world is that dog barking so loud at 3 in the morning?”

But saying complex sentences require a lot of grammar we haven’t covered yet so for the next several strips you’re just going to have to deal with artificially boring sentences.

Vocabulary

= わたし = I; me

行く = いく = to go

Transcript

言語ガールズ #34

The Journey Is More Important

Than The Destination

Blue: Let’s try using the “Subject Verb” pattern to say “I go”.

Yellow: Let’s see… 行く doesn’t end in “iru” or “eru” so to make it polite I have to change the last syllable to and add ます.

Yellow: So “I go” must be…

Yellow: 私は行きます

Blue: Perfect!

Yellow: But where am I going?

Blue: We need to learn some new grammar before we can answer that question.

Yellow: In that case I’m going home.