Being Casual, Part 1 (Nouns)
“Criticism should be a casual conversation” – W. H. Auden
Up until this point, the Japanese you’ve studied has been standard, somewhat formal Japanese. Of course, this is very important to know (it’s also much easier to learn from formal to casual compared to the other way around), and you’ll still use it throughout TextFugu.
Now, though, you’re going to learn how to take the things you’ve already learned and make them into “casual” speech. Up first is nouns.