kannai wa shizuka desu.

Inside the museum is quiet.

Breakdown of kannai wa shizuka desu.

• は: topic particle
• です: to be
• 静しずか: quiet
• 館内かんない: inside a public building

Questions & Answers about kannai wa shizuka desu.

How do you read 館内は静かです?

It is read:

かんない は しずか です
Romanized: kannai wa shizuka desu

A very important point: the particle は is written ha, but when it is used as a topic particle, it is pronounced wa.

So you say:

kannai wa shizuka desu

What does は do in this sentence?

は marks the topic of the sentence.

So 館内は means something like:

• as for the inside of the building/facility
• inside the building, ...

The rest of the sentence, 静かです, says something about that topic.

So the structure is:

• 館内は = topic
• 静かです = comment about the topic

This topic-comment structure is extremely common in Japanese.

Why is は pronounced wa instead of ha?