"I am an elementary school student."

Translation: 小学生です。

[Airichann]

Interpret it however you want, but the app is developed by americans. The first kanji literally means little so its basically school for little kids

[giovannigiotto]

school for "smol" student hahah

[AndresVale12711]

To add to this, middle school (or the one next to this one,i dont remember the name ) has the kanji for middle , and university has the kanji for big

[JAugustus]

Not every country calls them elementary school students

[RobbPorter]

I don't understand the down votes for this comment? This is a simple fact, not hate speech.

[RastaGanga33]

Everything is hate peaches. Peaches everywhere.

[deactivated user]

Hey, my country doesn't!

[AaronAtkin17]

That's a valid point, but they do need to pick some terminology to use for the English translation. I'm sure they just try to use what they believe to be the most common or widely used term. They aren't going to be able to cater to everyone's vocabulary.

[HiroyukiWa2]

私は小学生です。

[MysticWysteria]

What is the ひらがな for this?

[MiTaReX]

If I'm not mistaken, it is:
しょうがくせいです。
Shōgakuseidesu.

[MUchiGrazi]

Please help: when should we use 年生 and when shoul it be only 生 ?? Thanks

[chartsman]

年 is the counter for years so if you mention in which year of school the student is, you should use this kanji after the number.

[karenesss]

Assuming everyone will understand what elementary and middle school and where grades two and four etc fit into that is unfair.

[KimberlyHarding]

I agree, I had to guess what elementary was. In Australia we have primary, middle and secondary school.

[DaemonBeats]

When splitting years in Japanese schooling, I reckon you start over at year 1 when you move up to middle school? Or does it just keep counting up?

[Matt_the_Robot]

You start over indeed! And then again when you move up to high school.

[EnchantressEmi]

すごい、I did not expect the voice to be updated to a Child's