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Old 2003-11-06, 18:18   Link #33
[Titan]
Tenshi
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Heaven
Age: 40
based on the first post (and watching too much anime) I would say

"Watashi wa" means "I am" (but wasn't this the female form, and wasn't the male form something like "Boku wa"?)
"desu" would imply the end of a sentence
"desu ka" implies a question
"kore wa" means you're talking about a thing or object; "this is"
"anata wa" means "you are"

so that's what I've "learned" from just the first post. But... is it correct?

questions I still have after the first post:

-Is it really necessary to end a sentence with "desu"?
-are there differences when the person who's talking is male of female?
-if you are talking to a person, does it matter if that person is male of female?
-Do I sound like a three year old girl when I say those sentences to a japanese person?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not being negative about your thread, but I think providing more information on grammar, sentence structure and meanings of words would make this thread a lot more usefull.
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