How to say 'Can I continue studying Japanese?'


How would I say the following:

> Can I continue studying Japanese?

I was thinking something along the lines of

> Watashi wa nihongo o narau no tsudukimasuka?

It's probably wrong, and I could use some help.




There are three issues here.

  1. ### Transitivity

_tuduku_ (→ _tudukimasu_ ) is intransitive ("to continue [of its own
accord]"). You need its transitive sibling _tudukeru_ "to continue [sth.]" (→
_tudukemasu_ ).

  2. ### Translation of "Can/May I..."

"Can/May I [verb]?" is usually translated using ～てもいいですか _-te mo ii desu ka_ ,
here _tudukete mo ii desu ka_.

  3. ### Grammar

_nihongo wo narau no_ is a noun phrase, which should become the object of
_tudukeru_. To make this grammatical you would need another particle _wo_ ,
giving _nihongo wo narau no **wo** tudukeru_. A way to avoid two _wo_ s in the
same sentence would be to substitute _narau no_ by _benkyō_ , for example.
_nihongo no benkyō wo tudukeru_.

Putting everything together, I would suggest

> _nihongo no benkyō wo tudukete mo ii desu ka_

as an improved version of your sentence.

You haven't given any context, so we can't determine whether this is a natural
way of phrasing this question in your context.

