Moto Learning Doujou: #16-5 Japanese Speaking and Writing from Scratch with Moto for JLPT N5 Beginner and Intermediate level, “なAdjectiveで、―です。”

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

enthusiastic ねっしんな nessinna

hard-working, honest まじめな majimena

unique ユニークな yuniikuna

excellent, capable ゆうしゅうな yuushuuna

cool

(Original pronunciation and writing with う but people often pronounce かっこいい without う　)

かっこ(う)いい kakko(u)ii

Step2 Grammar

So, Today’s grammar topic is “なAdjectiveで、　―です。”.

I cited below [*1] sentence and translation from Page 104 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English, and cited [*2] sentence from みんなの日本語初級Ⅰ第Ⅱ版本冊, Lesson 16, page 138, 練習B-7. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.

“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”

A ならは　どんな　まちですか。　[*2]

nara wa　donna　machidesuka。

What is Nara like?

B1 ならは　しずかなまちです。　ならは　きれいなまちです。

nara wa　shizuka na machidesu。 nara wa　kireina machidesu。

B2 ならは　しずかで、きれいなまちです。　[*1] 　　　　 nara wa　shizuka de　 kirei na machidesu。　　　

　　 Nara is a quiet, beautiful city. [*1]

[We can combine 2 sentences like B1 into just 1 sentence like B2 by processing なAdjective.　E.g. we just remove last な　in the なAdjective, we can get しずか, put で and finally we can get “しずかで、”. At the end of sentence, we can bring another いAdjective/なAdjective/Noun+です. In the above B2, we can say きれいな　まちです。（なAdjective＋Noun+です） or just say きれいです（なAdjective＋です）.

The tense of these elements at the end of sentence will determine the tense of whole sentence. For example, ならはしずかで、きれいな　まちでした。 If put “まちでしたPast tense”, the tense of whole sentence becomes “past”.]

Step3　Speaking Exercise

Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.

Speaking Practice Video↓

https://youtu.be/ofzF5U3uqZE

“Practice Sheet”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n3Ur4hNpYBuzI3E6baYA9Z1pr3M4RLse/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 “なAdjectiveで、　―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 “なAdjectiveで、―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”

A:　このゲームはどんなゲームですか。

B: このゲームはシンプルでユニークなゲームです。ゲームの中の主人公は出入国k管理官として国境でパスポートやビザに間違いがないかチェックするだけです。でも、国境に訪れる人達は、様々な人生の背景を持っていて、とても個性的なゲームです。

A:　へ-面白そうですね。どこで買えるんですか。

B:　スチームのオンラインストアーで買えますよ。

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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