fashion and japanese help

[aimeekitty]

9 days till Japan, I'm trying to get my planning done.

:::::::FASHION HELP:::::::

I have these two skirts. I'm probably going to wear a white or black top with them. It's going to be 40 to 50 degrees F in Japan... it's warm in the buildings though. Can I get away with wearing a calf-length skirt...?
Will I be really cold? :( I'm used to CA where it's perpetually 60 to 90 degrees. I dont have much warm clothes.

What if I got black wool, or cotton tights to wear under the skirt? would that look stupid? :( HELP.

:::::::JAPANESE HELP:::::::
a few things I would like to learn to say in Japanese:
(please forgive any attrocious spelling on my part, I don't know much japanese, and I'm learning mainly right now by listening)

---- what is the difference between saying arigato gozaimasu and arigato gozaimasusta?
I noticed that sometimes people say the "ta" at the end when you leave a store? Do I say the ta back? or masu...?
I also noticed the same type of thing on the end on other words, I'd like to know what it means/ how to use it.

---- "Is this for sale?" (specifically is the item available for purchase, instead of "I want to buy this, or how much is this"...)

---- "I made this myself."

---- "Can I try this clothing on?"

---- "Do you have men's clothing?"

Comments

[bettyvalentine.livejournal.com]

It's the "Te" for "hand" paired up with the nominalized stem "tsukuri" from "Tsukuru/tsukurimasu" ("to make"). Because it is hooked up to "te", the "tsu" in "Tsukuri" takes the hard modifier and becomes "dsu" ... which is pretty much a dental zu. (say zu with your tongue touching your teeth.) I am not sure of the correct accent, but I *think* it is on the second syllable. (but my accent sucks, so YMMV).

Dzu and Ku both keep their cute little Japanese U's.

[bettyvalentine.livejournal.com]

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