Learning to Read Japanese: Subject Particles

  In the hiragana family, there are a few characters that have special functions:

1. は
2. も
3. が

  These are called "particles". Of course these aren't all of the particles out there, but these are the "subject marking" particles. Meaning that they... mark the subject in a sentence.

   

   Learn to use は correctly first. It's like the grandfather of the subject particles and it is by far the most commonly used. 私は学生です= I am a student.

   In my opinion, も is by far the easiest particle to understand and use. 私も学生です = I am also a student.

   And then there was が, the filthy bastard. By far the most confusing particle, there are even entire books dedicated to understanding how to properly use it! Don't feel bad if  が has you confounded, a lot of people have trouble with it!

   If you want to understand how to use these particle, I have an extremely useful link for you that helped me out a lot:  http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/particlesintro