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Japanese speakers learning Irish
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (日本語) quietly pushes you into specific Irish errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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です versus あります is exactly is versus tá

Japanese already separates identity (私は医者です) from existence and place (家にあります). Map です → is and あります/います → tá, and the hardest Irish split is solved on arrival.

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Verb-final to verb-initial

Japanese ends with the verb; Irish begins with it. "私はお茶を飲みます" → "Ólaim tae". Practise saying the verb before you have decided the rest of the sentence.

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No particles — position and prepositions instead

Nothing in Irish does the job of は/が/を; word order alone marks the roles. に and で are covered by prepositions that fuse with pronouns: ag → agam, ar → orm.

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The v and w hiding in bh and mh

Japanese has no /v/, but Irish bh and mh land right on it: "bhí" is close to "vee", "mhaith" to "wah". Drill them apart from plain b and m.

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One article to add, none to invent

Japanese has no articles, so "an" gets forgotten. There is still no word for "a" — but "an" is required once the thing is known: "leabhar" → "an leabhar".

core challenge

Verb first (VSO word order)

Irish opens the sentence with the verb: "Ólaim tae" = I drink tea, "Itheann Seán arán" = Seán eats bread. Action, then who, then what.

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