And another thing!

I’m getting huge hits from people searching for “what does benkyo shimasu mean” because I once used the phrase in a post that never explained what it meant.  Sorry to have helped Google mislead you.

Benkyo shimasu means “study”.  Benkyo (“study”) is, I think, a noun in Japanese and has to be with shimasu (“to do”) in order to make it a verb.  It works like a -mas verb.  I think.  I’m not a native speaker, I’m a pretty mediocre student.

Ganbatte!