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It's been a very long time since I've lived in Japan, and I've just finished the first draft of a story that features a couple of Japanese phrases. Is there anyone here with good Japanese who might be willing to cast an eye over them to see whether I've gotten the verb-subject order in a few phrases I remember from my time there.

Anyone willing to help. There are onlu a half-dosen or so phrases.

Thanks!

Unfortunately ...

... I'm unable to help in this because I've got rather a lot on just now ;) I wonder whose fault that is? Well, that and the fact that the only Japanese I know is 'Samurai' or perhaps 'Mikado'.

Robi

My Japanese isn't amazing.

My Japanese isn't perfect but common sentence structures are:

1) Topic > Time > Place > object > verb
   私 は 今日 図書館 で 日本語 を 勉強します。

2) topic frequency > time > goal > verb
  私は よく     七時ごろ うちへ 帰ります。

Verbs go at the end and subjects, if they're known to the listener, can actually be omitted. Good luck!

nihongo

sorry still haven't passed my first year proficiency test.