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In Japanese, making question is so easy.  Usually you can add "か" in the end of Sentense to change the statement into a question.
Example.



Statement
 
Question
 


台湾人です
I am Taiwanese
台湾人ですか？
Are you Taiwanese?


これはジュースです
This is juice
これはジュースですか？
Is this juice?


大野さんは学生です
Mr.大野 is a student.
大野さんは学生ですか？
Is Mr.大野 a student?


Eメールはとても便利です
E-mail is very convenience.
Eメールはとても便利ですか？
Is e-mail very convenience?


日本の新幹線は有名です
Japanese shikansen is well know.
日本の新幹線は有名ですか？
Is Japanese shikansenn well know?

Changing dictionary-form to ます form.
The following are the rules for the 3 groups of Japanese verbs.
Group 01 Verbs 
Always end up with words containing u-sound.  To change group 01 verbs to ます form, change the u-sound to i-sound in the last word.  And that append ます to the changed word.  For example, ある end up with る (ru).  Change the u-form to i-sound, る(ru) to り(ri).   ある change to あります

1. 同じ(おなじ)　the same, equal
 

「と」connecting nouns.  Means "and".
The particle と can be use to connecting two nouns or more than two nouns.
Example sentence:
上野さんは英語と日本語が話せます。（ Mr.上野 can speak English and Japanese. ） 

01. 彼氏（かれし）Boyfriend
02. お父（とう）さん　Father
03. 娘（むすめ）Daughter
04. 専業主夫（せんぎょうしゅふ）Stay-at-home dad

English is a subject-verb-object language. What that means is the average English sentence starts with a subject, then has a verb, then has an object. On the other hand, Japanese is a subject-object-verb language.
Example sentence
 



English
Subject
Verb
object


 
Cats
eat
fish


Japanese
Subject
object
Verb


 
猫（ねこ）が
さかなを
食べます

In grammer 02, we will learn how to say something is something else.
~は～です。 
です  is a copula which is used to equate two things.  It's one of the regular forms in Japanese.　です can act like the English "to be" in the sense that です is used to explain who or what something or someone is.
Example sentence 

01. 何曜日 （なんようび）Which day?
02. 月曜日 （げつようび）Monday
03. 火曜日 （かようび）Tuesday
04. 水曜日 （すいようび）Wednesday

【基本樣板】
○○ さん,
お疲れ様です、○○です。

S + have not + do something yet.
S　はまだ　～　していない
例：
01.記述されていない