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Here's the mini-mini lesson now >.> Instead of breaking down the whole sentence like I was going to before, I'll just teach a single construction from it that I think is really useful: "kara".

"kara" can basically be read as "because." If you say "X kara, Y" then you are saying "because X, then Y". Combined with the "X wa Y desu" ("X is Y.") formula that most Japanese students should learn right away, you can express a lot of relationships with this. (Note that "desu" + "kara" turns into "dakara". It's not a requirement -- "desu kara" does exist, but it sounds kinda formal -- but it makes it sound more natural.) So for example you might say "inu wa ookii dakara, kowai desu." ("Because the dog is big, it's scary.")