Moto Learning Doujou: #1 Karaoke Practice + Learning Japanese by Song + Writing Activity: 1st part of the Song “ロビンソン”

①Karaoke & Learning Japanese

どうも、こんにちは。I am Japanese. To study English, I am teaching Japanese in English.

I have started to use Japanese songs as learning material for my English exercise and for someone learning Japanese or want to practice Karaoke.

Intentionally, I will introduce “Not New Songs”. This is because, you can easily find out many new songs with translation on Official Channel in YouTube but it is difficult to find out about relatively old songs. I will introduce popular songs amongst Japanese or little unknown but masterpiece.

Today, We will see the first part of lyrics of ロビンソン. The name of band is スピッツ. Lyrics Writer and Composer is 草野正宗 Kusano Masamune.

②Instruction

1, Check meaning of each word in lyrics and also Grammar Explanation that I add.

(Some websites do not make contract with JASRAC, copyright management organization, while other websites such as はてなblog, YouTube, and Facebook make the contract, so I will introduce lyrics in links of those websites. )

2, Check my Interpretation of lyrics or translation.
→ https://bit.ly/3ovlM1x

Sometimes, writers intentionally omit some words such as Subject or Object in lyrics. In this situation, I try to imagine and interpret meaning of lyrics, Like I said, I am learning English, so there could be many incorrect and unnatural explanations or translations in English. Sorry about this.

3, After listening to original song, it is good to practice Karaoke. That might be also effective as Japanese exercise.

(Sometimes, the key of original song is high or low. in this situation, try to adjust the key by Karaoke machine.)

4, If you are learner and want to learn more Japanese, try Writing activity below. To improve language, output such as writing, and speaking is necessary.

③Writing Activity

(W1) I will pick up some words from the lyrics. choose one word from the below “Word List” and make a sentence by using the word. Please refer to the below ④Example.

(W2) It is good to ask your Japanese friend or teacher to 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”.)

→　https://bit.ly/3xy1Hso

“Word List”

１，―を　追いかける
２，―を　ぶらさげる
３，―を　作り上げる
４，―を　離す

④Example sentences

I chose 1 & 3 and wrote examples like this.

1, 公園でジョギングしていると、野良猫が私を追いかけてきました。可愛かったので撫でてあげました。

３，ミラーさんの趣味は大きなパズルを買って、何ヶ月もかけて(パズルを)作り上げることです。

If you add explanation and English translation, it will be helpful to understand and correct your sentences more accurately.

⑤The first part of Lyrics & Interpretation

→ https://bit.ly/3ovlM1x

I just try to practice Karaoke（笑).