I understand that, but in your example, it uses “-te irun” – does this change it at all?

thanks!
theo.

I’m studying japanese, and I can’t help but feel this is a brilliant site – I’ve learnt so much from it in only 15 minutes. well done

with the second example here, I’m a little confused – you’ve got “nani o shite irun desu ka?” with the translation “what are you doing?”. I would’ve thought it “what will you be doing?”, as this form of the verb implies that it isn’t being done now, but will be done at some stage.

the other thing is, with the answer to this question, the literal translation is “I will be doing kanji practice” – why isn’t this what you have written?

(I’m not trying to correct you! I just want to know why you have written this, as the literal translation is completely different (from what I can gather) to your translation. I’m only doing fist year japanese, so this is very interesting for me – it’s far more complex than what I’m doing.)

thanks for your time!