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Question to Teacher: Can the topic markerは be used twice?
Course 3 Lesson 4: The Concert (Kanji)
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Course 3 Lesson 4: The Concert (Kanji)
| mumei | Post Date: 2008-05-06 16:27:53 |  save to notebook | saved questions | |||
 member since 2008 Feb 18 Questions: 67 Comments: 8 | On the kanji part of this lesson. The second to the last statement under the kanji yasumu .Kotoshi wa natsu yasumi o toru tsumori wa arimasen. I don't intend to take a summer vacation this year.” Both the Japanese text and the sound use the topic marker wa twice.これは はじめてみたのです。ちょっと、せつめいしてくださいませんか？”は”は ぶんのなかに にど つかうことができますか？ | |||||
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| JFZ_George | Post Date: 2008-05-19 10:10:24 | ||
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On YesJapan and in the Japanese From Zero! book series in which YesJapan.com is based we do say that you can not use wa more than once in a sentence.This is a rule that is broken in a couple of cases: 1. If you are quoting another sentence. 2. If you are using wa to stress a certain part of the sentence.In the sentence Kotoshi wa natsu yasumi o toru tsumori wa arimasen. the speaker is stressing 2 that "this year" she has no intention of taking a summer break. This usage of wa implies that maybe she normally goes, or perhaps this year is special.I will say this about Japanese teaching methods. I am a big fan of teaching broad rules about something so that it sticks. Then later on you can teach about exceptions. I guess this is similar to how you teach your children big concepts. Like you tell them to NEVER do drugs. But then later they find out that there are exceptions for when you are sick. The bottom line is that they know to be cautious about doing drugs. The same thing applies here with using wa twice in a sentence. It is totally possible for it to happen, but you just want to be aware of how it is used.Hope this helps! George | ||
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| mumei | Post Date: 2008-05-20 12:14:03 | |||
member since 2008 Feb 18 Questions: 67 Comments: 8 | Thank you George-sensei. Never knew that は could be used twice. Learning new things here all the time. うれしいです。 | |||
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