My first thought on writing today’s strip was “Wow, did it really take me 90 pages just to get to a simple idea like ‘I want to’? Maybe I should have covered this earlier”
Then again, most of the stuff up to this point has been pretty important too, so I think all in all I’m OK with the order I’ve been covering material in.
Transcript
言語ガールズ #90
Immediately Useful
Blue: Let’s talk about how to say “I want to do a verb”.
Blue: Start with the polite ます form of the verb. Then replace the ます with たい. Finally add a です to the end to be polite.
Blue: So “I want to read this book” would be 私はこの本を読みたいです
Yellow: Makes sense so far.
Blue: For negative and past tense treat the たい like an い adjective.
Blue: For example, “I wanted to read” is 読みたかったです
Blue: That reminds me! I found this great historical fiction book at the library the other day. It’s all about life Victorian England. I can lend it to you if you want…
Yellow:よみたくないです！よみたくないです！