Verbs and the 'like' adjective...

My words of the day today:

yoofuku - clothes (This one makes sense to me because 'clothes' in Chinese is 'fu'... they're kind of similar.)

kookyuuhin - quality goods (This word totally doesn't exist in English... it sounds really slow on my recording because of the long vowels.)

shimasu - to do

dekakemasu - to go out

And the strange ones:

suki - to like 

daisuki - to like very much

Obviously, this phrase words as a verb in English and is translated as a verb, but it is used as an adjective in Japanese, so I think a more exacted translation would be 'liked' or perhaps 'beloved' in a weaker way... as in:

Kookyuuhin wa suki desu. - Quality goods are well liked; or, I like quality goods.

The word itself is easy to remember because it's one of my friends' nicknames! The usage will take a while to get used to, I think.

I haven't forgotten my hiragana! My words of the day in hiragana are:

ゅぉふく- yoofuku

こうきゆうひん - kookyuuhin

します - shimasu

でかけます - dekakemasu

すき - suki

だいすき - daisuki

Also, I think that 'dai' means 'very' or 'big'. It sounds like the word for 'big' in Mandarin (da) and it's the prefix in 'daigaku', which means 'university', which could be like a big school... It works for me, anyhow... :)

I'm learning again! Hooray!