Japanese – 29th January

Here is Keiko’s message about the 29th of January Japanese class at the Modern Language School:

This week we learnt a new grammatical structure. 

Existence of people and things :  —NI—GA IMASU/ARIMASU.

A related example:

Onsen NI saru GA imasu.

There is a monkey in the hot spring.

Now we know that for people and animals, we have to use the IMASU verb and ARIMASU is used for inanimate things.