Moto Learning Doujou: #22-1 Japanese Speaking and Writing from Scratch with Moto for JLPT N5 Beginner and Intermediate level, “これはRelative Pronoun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

To fix しゅうりします syuurisimau

a clock とけい　　　　　　　　tokei

Step2 Grammar

So, Today’s grammar topic is “これはRelative Pronounです。”.

While I referred to “これは女の人が読む雑誌です。”　on Page 188, Lesson 22, 練習A-2 in みんなの日本語初級Ⅰ第Ⅱ版本冊, 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] Question sentence as Person A’s line. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.

“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”

A このスマホは　　　　　　なん　ですか。 [*2]

kono sumaho wa nan desuka

[From the above sentence, I imagined a situation that there is a smartphone on a table, it is a brand-new one, Person A gets curious and he is asking with the above sentence that contains nuances “What is this smart phone for? Whose? or Why is a brand-new one here?”.]

B これは　チンさんが　つかう(PS, Dictionary)　スマホ　です。[*1]

Korewa chinsanga tsukau 　　　　 sumaho desu

This is a smartphone that Mr. Chin will use.

[To explain スマホ＝Noun, we can put い/なAdjective or Nounの before　スマホ and that pattern is something we have learned so far.

Instead of them, we can put “Relative Pronoun” by using Plain Style. チンさんがつかいます becomes チンさんがつかう（PS, Present Affirmative, Dictionary form） and we can put it before スマホ＝Noun that we want to explain.

To learn how to make Relative Pronoun, we will check how to apply other Plain style.

Other Example1:チンさんが　つかわない(PS, Present Negative)スマホ　＝ it sounds “a smartphone which Mr. Chin will not use”.

Example2: チンさんが　つかった(PS, Past Affirmative)スマホ＝ “a smartphone which Mr. Chin used”.

Example3: チンさんが　つかわなかった(PS, Past Negative)スマホ＝“a smartphone which Mr. Chin did not used”]

Step3　Speaking Exercise

Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.

Speaking Practice Video↓

https://youtu.be/5nO5-hyeqBU

“Practice Sheet”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R54I63D9SFl6nTRHuA5-UvJIJ5XXpzst/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 “これはRelative Pronoun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 “これはRelative Pronoun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:　Bさん、この自転車は何ですか。凄い高そうですね。

B:　この自転車はベンさんが買う自転車ですよ。僕が以前買ったんですが、あまり乗る機会がなかったので、ベンさんに売るんです。ベンさんは、そろそろ来ると思います。

A:　ベンさんも自転車に乗る趣味があるんですね。

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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