How do you say "I have begun studying Japanese"?


How do you say "I have begun studying Japanese"?

I have memorized all of the hiragana characters along with some grammar rules.

I have made sentences on my own but I can't seem to get this right. I have
tried this

> にほんごべんきょうはじぇました

It sounds weird to me but I'm not completely sure if this is right or wrong

If possible, please write it in Romaji along with hiragana.




Your attempt:

> にほんごべんきょうはじぇました

Firstly, I'm assuming はじぇました was a typo for はじ **め** ました. Secondly, you're
missing a few particles. If you studied some grammar you should become
familiar at an early stage with the object marking particle を and the
possessive particle の.

Using these you could say:

> にほんご **の** べんきょう **を** はじめました。  
>  nihongo no benkyou wo hajimemashita.

where the whole of にほんごのべんきょう is the object of the verb はじめました i.e. the thing
that was started.

When you see の the thing before の normally describes the thing after. So, what
kind of study (べんきょう) is it? It's Japanese study, にほんごのべんきょう. Here べんきょう is
used as a noun.

The verb はじめる also attaches to the masu-stem of verbs, so you could use
"study" as a verb rather than a noun as we did above. The verb is べんきょうする. The
masu-stem of する is し. So "started to study" is べんきょうしはじめました。 The object is now
simply the thing we are studying, which is Japanese. So we get:

> にほんご **を** べんきょうしはじめました。  
>  nihongo wo benkyou shi-hajimemashita.




Your attempt:

> にほんごべんきょうはじぇました

Firstly, I'm assuming はじぇました was a typo for はじ **め** ました. Secondly, you're
missing a few particles. If you studied some grammar you should become
familiar at an early stage with the object marking particle を and the
possessive particle の.

Using these you could say:

> にほんご **の** べんきょう **を** はじめました。  
>  nihongo no benkyou wo hajimemashita.

where the whole of にほんごのべんきょう is the object of the verb はじめました i.e. the thing
that was started.

When you see の the thing before の normally describes the thing after. So, what
kind of study (べんきょう) is it? It's Japanese study, にほんごのべんきょう. Here べんきょう is
used as a noun.

The verb はじめる also attaches to the masu-stem of verbs, so you could use
"study" as a verb rather than a noun as we did above. The verb is べんきょうする. The
masu-stem of する is し. So "started to study" is べんきょうしはじめました。 The object is now
simply the thing we are studying, which is Japanese. So we get:

> にほんご **を** べんきょうしはじめました。  
>  nihongo wo benkyou shi-hajimemashita.

