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 130-131 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English. I added other words for learning.
commodity prices ☆ ぶっか bukka
There are many peopple/It's crowded ひとが おおいです。 hitoga ooi
Step2 Grammar
So, Today’s grammar topic is “Plain Style, いAdj ＋とおもいます。”.
While I referred to “日本は物価が高いと思います。” on Page 134 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English, I used same grammar pattern and wrote another sentence by combining other words like below [*1]. To make dialogue structure, based on [*1] sentence, I wrote [*2] sentences as Person A & B’s line. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.
“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”
A このカレーは からいですか。[*2]
kono karee wa karaidesuka
Is this curry spicy?
B1 このカレーは からい とおもいます。[*1]
kono karee wa karai to omoimasu
I think it’s spicy.
[このカレーは からいです is a sentence that we have already learned. When we want to put it into “とおもいますSubject think-”, we just remove です so we can change からいです to からい as “Plain Style, いAdjective.” to express Present Affirmative. ]
B2 このカレーは から くない とおもいます。[*2]
kono karee wa kara kunai to omimasu
I think it’s not spicy.
[このカレーは から くないです is a sentence that we have already learned. When we want to put it into “とおもいますSubject think-”, we just remove です so we can change からくないです to からくない as “Plain Style, いAdjective.” to express Present Negative. ]
[To express Past Affirmative and Negative, we can changeこのカレーは からかったです toこのカレーは からかった とおもいます。And also changeこのカレーは からくなかったです to このカレーは からくなかった とおもいます。. So we just remove “です”. The nuance of past tense for this pattern is like, Speaker ate this curry previously and he tries to remember and say “it was spicy” or “it was not” as his opinion.]
Step3 Speaking Exercise
Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.
Speaking Practice Video↓
“Practice Sheet”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvKfJg-3KcWBkZXUMByTJ5xpEsoghAt_/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 “Plain Style, いAdj＋とおもいます。” 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 “Plain Style, いAdj＋とおもいます。” 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: この店のサービスはどうですか。
B: この店のサービスはとても悪かったと思いますよ。注文するために、店員を呼んでも、全然来ないし、店長の態度も良くなかったですよ。
A: 料理の味や値段はどうですか。
B: 値段は全体的に安かったですが、味は美味しくなかったと思います。
A: そうですか。じゃあ別の店に行ったほうがいいですね。
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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