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
私 = 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 は 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 き 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.