The Secret of the WA Particle! What it REALLY does

The WA particle is the most basic part of Japanese and the most misunderstood.

And because it is so fundamental, misunderstanding the wa particle means misunderstanding a large proportion of Japanese sentence structure itself.

The textbooks don’t help here. In fact they are responsible for much of the problem.

In this video Cure Dolly uses her celebrated train metaphor for Japanese sentence structure to show exactly how the wa particle really works.

What part of the train it is may well surprise you!

But once you understand that you will be able to see exactly what the wa particle really is.