For this post, I'm going to explain about something in a Japanese sentence or the Japanese grammar...
Usually in the English language, you connect words in a sentence by starting with Proper noun follow by a verb and end with a noun.
For example:
"I want to eat pizza."
"I" is a proper noun.
"want to eat" is a verb.
"Pizza" is a noun.
But if you want to say it in Japanese:
私はピザを食べたいです。
（わたしは ピザを たべたい です）
私（わたし）(I/Me) is a proper noun.
ピザ (pizza) is a noun.
食べたい（たべたい）(want to eat) is a verb.
食べる（たべる）(To eat)
So let's take a look at the difference between an English sentence and a Japanese sentence:
For English:
Proper noun ---> verb ---> noun
For Japanese:
Proper noun は noun を verb
In a Japanese sentence, when you see the letter は connected, it will not be read as HA, it'll be read as WA. The letter を is used for connecting the noun and a verb together into a sentence.
When you combine ピザ and 食べたい（たべたい）with を in between and you get the sentence ピザを食べたい（ピザを たべたい） which means "want to eat pizza".
Literally わたしは means "I will" but if you combine that with a sentence, it'll become a different meaning.
It's not just わたしは。It can also be あなたは and so on. (which I will explain next time).
です Literally means "It's" or "It is" but it depends on what sentence you use with it.
I'm sorry that I have to make this short. But I hope I will explain some more soon in another post.
Sorry... No manga illustrations on today's post... Been feeling tired at the moment...
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