JAPANESE Lesson Four - What Grade?

[Kai Shi]

UmiWolfy

nvm i understand so since im in nineth grade it would be
Watashi wa chuugaku kyuu nen sei desu?

Sorry, long time getting back to you. I've been on Gaia a little less often lately sweatdrop

The way its done in Japanese is a little different than how it is elsewhere. So instead of saying grade 9 its the junior high year 3.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu.  

[WickedYandere]

Kai Shi

UmiWolfy

nvm i understand so since im in nineth grade it would be
Watashi wa chuugaku kyuu nen sei desu?

Sorry, long time getting back to you. I've been on Gaia a little less often lately sweatdrop

The way its done in Japanese is a little different than how it is elsewhere. So instead of saying grade 9 its the junior high year 3.

I don't undterstand sad  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu.  

[Miss Shelock Holmes]

Watashi wa koukou ichi nen sei desu.

Did I get that right?  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu.  

[Vender For Life Duh]

Watashi wa koukou san nen sei desu.

That would be for twelfth grade in America, right?  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu. mrgreen Wakerei mashita .  

[Animas-Princess]

Isn't Student Seito, not Sei?  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu  

[Starry Starry Fright]

UmiWolfy

Kai Shi

UmiWolfy

nvm i understand so since im in nineth grade it would be
Watashi wa chuugaku kyuu nen sei desu?

Sorry, long time getting back to you. I've been on Gaia a little less often lately sweatdrop

The way its done in Japanese is a little different than how it is elsewhere. So instead of saying grade 9 its the junior high year 3.

I don't undterstand sad

Sorry, took a long time to get back to you!

In Japan (as well as most of Canada and the UK), schools are organized like this:

Elementary School is Grades 1 - 6.
Junior High/Middle School is Grade 7 - 9.
High School is Grades 10 - 12.

In the USA, being in grade 9 would make you a first year high school student, but if you transferred to a Japanese school, you would be in your third year of middle school. So to make sense to a Japanese person, you would have to say "third year of middle school" (chuugaku san nen sei) to make them understand.  

[Starry Starry Fright]

Kawaii Yami Rorita

watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu

Correct! biggrin  

[Starry Starry Fright]

Animas-Princess

Isn't Student Seito, not Sei?

They both mean student! "Seito" is a general noun for student, whereas "sei" is a suffix you can add to things to make them mean student.

For example, "daigaku" means "university". But "university student" isn't "daigaku seito", it's "daigakusei". Just add sei. biggrin  

[Starry Starry Fright]

The_Joker_Hinamori_Amu

Watashi wa koukou san nen sei desu.

That would be for twelfth grade in America, right?

Right you are! Well done. biggrin