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Your native language (Bahasa Indonesia) quietly pushes you into specific Japanese errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.
See my full report & start free →Indonesian is verb-medial (saya makan nasi); Japanese is verb-final (わたしはごはんを食べる). Hold the verb for the end of every clause.
Indonesian leaves the verb alone and adds sudah/akan/sedang; Japanese changes the verb itself: 食べた (sudah), 食べている (sedang). Practise endings — a bare dictionary form plus a time word isn’t a sentence.
Indonesian marks roles with position and prepositions (di, ke, dari); Japanese attaches particles AFTER the noun: di rumah→いえで/いえに, ke Tokyo→とうきょうへ, dari→から. Noun first, marker second.
You already pick orang/ekor/buah by noun type — Japanese counters work the same: 人 for people (≈orang), 匹 for animals (≈ekor), 個 for things (≈buah). Map your existing habit, then learn the sound changes (いっぴき, さんびき).
Particles mark grammatical role — choosing は vs が and を vs に is the core challenge.
Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb; the verb always comes last.
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