Konnichiwa, Canyon desu. I go to a university in the United States and I’m taking a elementary level Japanese class and I just need a little help with my sentence structure. I have a speaking quiz tomorrow and I’m doing pretty well in the class. I’m just still a little confused when I should use Watashi Wa versus when I should use this desu. If I’m going out at a party at like 8 PM, should I use Watashi Wa or should I use desu? which one would be more appropriate?? my professor is very very strict when it comes to not using casual speak thank you so much in advance. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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The question doesn’t even make sense. ‘watashi wa’ sets ‘watashi’ as the topic, while ‘desu’ is the polite form of the copula, that is to say, the word ‘is’ when ‘is’ is expressing equivalence.
I strongly recommend reviewing your textbook and mimicking the lines in there as closely as possible (substituting in your own name and such as appropriate).
I think you could say watashi wa ’name’ desu (私は name です) if that’s what you mean. Not gonna explain further bcs other people did it here already but I also suggest taking a quick look at your textbook, you might understand better if you do so