“Minna-san, konnichiwa. Watashi no channeru ni yōkoso!Hello everyone and welcome back to my channelToday I’ll be teaching you how to introduce yourself in Japanese!
‘Japan’ is ‘nihon’ in Japanese, and to say that someone is Japanese you add ‘jin’, ‘Jin’ is a word that shows that a person or a group of people belong somewhere, so it becomes ‘nihon-jin’.
A particle is added to a single word to indicate how a word functions. The particle ‘wa’ is a topic marker, because the word that’s marked by ‘wa’ functions as the topic of the sentence.
When these 2 are added together it makes ‘watashi-wa’, which is equivalent to ‘I’ in English. Because ’watashi’ itself doesn’t mean ‘i’ in English, it changes according to the particle that’s added to it.
For example, when you add the particle ‘o’ and say ‘watashi-o’ it changes to ‘me’ and when you add ‘no’, and say watashi-no’ it changes its meaning into ‘my’. So to say ‘I ’ in Japanese you would say ‘watashi-wa’.
And when you add it to your nationality and ‘am’ it becomes: ‘watashi-wa igirisu-jin des’. It becomes ‘watashi-wa igirisu-Jin des’ which translates into ‘I am British’
