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oh i see.
the question i want to know though is can u access it if u put it back or even copy it back to the original file AFTER the trial is up.

yes i think you can. once its on your computer its yours

i think your able to redowload it too if you lose it.. not too sure on that though

ok sweet.
i will make a duplicate of it somewhere jic but thank u ^^
im using their intermediate and advanced audio stuff.
really good. ^^

anyways, nap time!

xD I listed to their absolute beginner stuff ouo its how I learned no was possessive <3

that's good! ^^

well good job! ^^

thank you :3

Since I have numbers listed up on my white board.. can you help me choose a um.. kanji of the week? ouo,

yw.

and so kanji of the numbers?
or a basic basic kanji?

basic kanji ouo


and how would you write 11-19 in kanji? i'm not sure i'm doing this part right ^^,

well what i used to think was it was stacked but its not.
you know the vocabulary for it?
jyuu ichi
十　　一
十一　＾＾

and basic kanji:
tree
ki
き
木

what do you mean by stacked?

and from what you showed me it looks like I'm writing them right ouo

and I'll start with ki ^-^

i used to try to write the 10 & 1 kanji in one kanji.
like the 10 part on top, then the 1 part on bottom.
doesn't work that way. xDDD

sweet!
i am going to be busy until wednesday and wednesday i will post up arimasu and imasu.
sorry for the delay already but i forgot i had TESOL on saturday

my ipad can change language such as it would be kanji if I switched my keyboard language

you mean like this?

十
一

ouo?

yeah thats what i mean dk.
but i would right it as ONE kanji.
and that is a mistake.
but the way u wrote it there is when u r writing vertically.

@echo:
as does my ipod.
its a very handy tool if u have a japanese dictionary on it and u want to search quickly

Now for today's lesson:

あります　(Arimasu) and います　(Imasu)

Learning to use our first verbs - あります and　います - requires that we also know a little bit more about them. Specifically, these two verbs are NOT object verbs. This means that they do not use the particle を　(wo) in their sentences to make sense. There are other things such as compounding sentences and whatnot but that is for a MUCH later time. For now, we will use the subject particle が to indicate what we are talking about.

For example, we will use the word 誰/だれ (dare) which means "who" for the います　example.

The sentence is: だれがいますか？ Dare ga imasu ka? Who is there?

います (imasu) does not mean "there" it means to exist. But います (imasu) is only used for living things such as humans and animals.

あります (arimasu) then means to exist but for non-living things. Things like books, computers, etc etc.

This is important. Because you cannot confuse the two. It is very apparent which one should be used. Now the sentence structure as I said goes (subject)+が+います・あります. It all depends on what you want to say.

Now some of you might be wondering why you would use あります・います vs です.　Let me show you two sentences using the same subject.

ほんです. Hon desu. It is a book.

ほんがあります. Hon ga arimasu. A book exists. (There is a book.)

You see the difference? It actually is a completely different way of saying things. It's like you point to a book and say "It is a book" or you look around and say "There is a book."

It sounds strange, I know. But its how it works. Later on you can add counters for how many of something there is or places using different particles. For now, just practice using the nouns we have already learned using います・あります.