くまこ別館　Kumako's Annex

あけましておめでとうございます。

wow, you're a junior high school student and teaching Japanese yourself? That's impressive!

Well, I think I want to pass this question to my followers here as I am not quite sure grammatical difference...but at least, ”～そうです” is clearly different from the others, as it's 伝聞（でんぶん）, the story you have heard from someone else and talking about it to other person. You could add "I hear..." when you translate ”～そうです”.

As for　ようですand らしいです, they also can be 伝聞　sometimes, but they also can be the fact you have witnessed by yourself.

But I'm afraid I can't explain helpful enough.. :/

While I was thinking about this question, even another similar expression hit my mind, which is ”～みたいです”

ex.”雨が降ったみたいですよ。”　

Um, well, it's just because NO means OF in Japanese. Naturally the word comes pretty often in a sentence.

And plus, NO is used to express "someone's". 

Hi Kumako-san! i've just signed up for nihongo lessons and i'm really having a hard time with te-forms. i'm curious when did you learn this part in school over there in japan. :O what where the difficult subjects you encountered in school? just curious :)

SO, I would like some advice from you guys who're studying Japanese.

I didn't study much Japanese, you know:p

thank you for following me:)

this post card is written in Kansai dialect.

Sometimes it's a bit different from the standard Japanese.

ほんまに＝ほんとうに

おおきに＝ありがとう

hi, Maybe this is a stupid question, but you blog is useful for learning japanese right ? and what other blogs useful foe learning japanese do you know ?

こんにちは！

そうですねぇ・・・なにがいいかな。

I think you can ask Google JAPAN by keyword written in hiragana or alphabet. Such as "にほんご　べんきょう” or "おはなし　ひらがな”　something like those.

I guess the Thursday one is the most difficult to read, huh?

I'm posting this こうちゃ　うらない while I'm drinking a cup of tea:)

日本のタレントやアイドルで誰が好きですか？

Who are your favorite Japanese idols and talents?

And how do you support them, how much could you possibly spend your money for them?