Moto Learning Doujou: #2-3 Japanese Speaking and Writing Practice with Moto for N5 Beginner level and Intermediate level, Grammar Topic: “このorそのorあの”.

①Improvement of Speaking and Writing

こんにちは。モトです。I am Japanese and I am teaching Japanese. In this series, I will share my practice way for N5 Beginner and Intermediate level learners who want to review.

If learners are studying Japanese only for JLPT as test preparation, it might be difficult to improve speaking and writing Japanese actually, because the test does not cover Speaking and Writing. Thus, we set a Goal to improve Speaking and Writing in this series while learning JLPT N5 Beginner topics.

Features and Advantages

・While using Practice Sheet, we try to remember Question and Response sentences as Dialogue to learn how to use word and grammar. (Using story or dialogues, it could be easier to remember them efficiently.)

・It is also good to partially hide some words in tables in Practice Sheet by hand to check your progress or you can also change part of words and make another sentence like improvisation music.

・After Speaking, through making your sentences, you can improve Writing. (Based on your sentences, it is good to make your Practice Sheet and play Dialogues with other learners.)

・I will apply Minna no Nihongo to speaking and writing practice that covers almost all topics introduced by Genki so Genki user can also use this series.

(I will cite English translation from the textbook as it is, or I try to translate some expressions by myself. Now I am also learning English so my translation and explanation could be not correct or not natural, sorry for that.)

②Instruction of Exercise

Before Speaking & Writing exercises, check vocabulary and grammar.

Step1 Vocabulary

I referred to words (I marked with☆) and their translations from Page 16-17 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English. I also added other words.

pencil 　　　　　　　　　　えんぴつ enpitsu ☆

radio 　　　　　　　　　　　ラジオ rajio　 ☆

wrist watch 　　　　　　　うでどけい udedokei

Step2 Grammar

So, Today’s grammar topic is “このorそのorあの”.

I cited below [*1] sentences from Page14, Lesson 2, 例文8 in みんなの日本語初級Ⅰ第Ⅱ版本冊. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.

“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”

A このかぎ　は　だれの　　ですか。 [*1]

konokagi wa　dareno　 desuka。

Whose key is this？

[In L2-2, we have learned “あれは　だれの　かばん　　ですか。＝　Whose bag is that?” In L2-3, we will learn another way to ask but it has same meaning. Full sentence　is “このかぎは　だれの　(かぎ) ですか。”. この comes before かぎ and このかぎ means　“This key” to indicate a key close to Person A. You can also say そのかぎ=That key　あのかぎ＝That key over there]

[だれの　means “whose” and We can remove the second (かぎ) because person A has already mentioned この“かぎ” at the beginning .]

B わたしのです。[*1]　　　　　　　

watashino desu。

　　　　This is mine.

[Full sentence is　“(このかぎは)　わたしの　(かぎ)　です。”. Person A has already mentioned このかぎ and B knew that so Person B can remove このかぎは and　かぎ and just say わたしの　です。]

Step3 Speaking Exercise

Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.

Speaking Practice Video↓

https://youtu.be/9qH8ehXvSgU

“Practice Sheet”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10G2YfYa0H4QSlnBN56qI3XlIX3oWrhyT/view?usp=sharing

Step4 Writing Exercise

(W1), Read the above “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue” between Person A and B. The Dialogue contains Grammar topic in each time.

(W2), Try to make your dialogue between Person A&B like “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”. In your dialogue, please try to use this time grammar topic “このorそのorあの” appropriately. Millions of mistakes are necessary for improvement, so you do not have to hesitate.

N5 level learner, if you have difficulty to write Dialogue style sentence, it is OK to write single sentences with grammar topic and OK to use only Hiragana. (It is easy-to-read to make space between word and word).

(W3), It is good to ask your teacher or Japanese friends to correct your sentences.

“For Intermediate Level Learners”

(W4) See the below “☆Advanced Example Dialogue”. Like the example, try to use this time Grammar topic “このorそのorあの” at least once and make your original Dialogue. In other words, if you just use the topic at least once, you do not have to use the topic anymore and you can make your dialogue freely. It is also OK to add more Person A&B part to make longer Dialogue.

“☆Advanced Example Dialogue”

A: このお弁当は誰のですか。焼き魚が凄く、美味しそうですね。

[このNoun is used here.]

B: 私のです。さっき、近所の居酒屋の前を通った時、買いました。

A: へー、あそこの居酒屋は、お弁当も売っているんですね。

B: 昼間は、日替わり定食が500円で食べられるので、今度行ってみませんか。

A: いいですね。じゃあ、明日か明後日にでも行きましょうか。

[たべます, its Potential form is たべられる＋Reason ので]

So, like this, while using Today’s grammar topic, write your dialogue and if you add [ ] explanation and English translation, it will be helpful to understand and correct your sentences.

(If you have a difficulty to find out someone to correct your sentences and want to ask me to correct your sentences, check my “Moto Writing Doujou”.)

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