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
・By 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.
(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 22-23 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English. I also added other words.
that way, that place near the listener (polite equivalent of そこ)
that way, that place over there (polite equivalent of あそこ)
which way, where (polite equivalent of どこ)
house, home (When asking politely, it means your house)
house, home(When answering, my house)
toilet, rest room
conference room, assembly room
exit
washroom, toilet, rest room
Yokohama city
Step2 Grammar
So, Today’s grammar topic is “Nounはどちらですか。Nounはあちらです。”.
I cited below [*1] sentences and translations from Page 26 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1 Translation & Grammar Notes – English. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.
“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”
erebeetaa wa dochira desuka。
Where’s the lift? [*1]
[I think when we want to ask “Which direction?”, we can use どちら. As you know, when we want to ask exact place, we tend to use どこ＝where]
B あちらです。 [*1]
achiradesu。
It’s in that direction. (It’s over there.) [*1]
[Full sentence: エレベーターは あちらです。We can use こちら そちら あちら to indicate direction depending on how far is something from a speaker. We can omit “エレベーターは”and just say あちらです。]
Step3 Speaking Exercise
Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.
Speaking Practice Video↓
“Practice Sheet”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vSNaHrtdaXroCrlGARuzuIbp1gNOeiSy/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 “Nounはどちらですか。Nounはあちらです。” 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 “Nounはどちらですか。Nounはあちらです。” 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”
B: 新宿三丁目駅は、あちらですね。このまま、この通りを進むと伊勢丹や三井住友銀行があります。その辺りに、地下鉄の入り口がりますよ。
[From this sentence, we can guess Person A and B could be on the Yasukuni street and around East gate of Shinjuku station. ]
A: あー、なるほど、紀伊國屋書店の方ですね。ありがとうございます。
[Kinokuniya is big book store.]
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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④Other Activities
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⑤Reference
3A Corporation 2012, Minna No Nihongo Second Edition - Elementary Japanese1 Translation & Grammar Notes – English, 3A Corporation, Tokyo.
ISBN-10: 4883196046
スリーエーネットワーク（2012）, 「みんなの日本語 初級I 第版 本冊」, スリーエーネットワーク.
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