<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=22322.msg914541#msg914541">Quote from: Combicon on 03-11-2008, 02:04:24</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yeah, most people (by people I mean tweens/teenagers learning japanese from anime) usually think desu means 'is'. <br/>Silly people.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Another mistake a lot of new-to-Japanese learners make is to pronounce desu as 'deh-soo', when it's just simple old 'des'. The U in desu is silent... the u is merely there as there is no singluar 's' in the Japanese alphabet. IIRC, the only singular found in said Alphabet is 'n'.<br/><br/>I may be Japanese(-American), but I do not speak it, unfortunately.