Japanese 2 semester review, work-in-progress

1st Year  Japanese Curriculum
キメル先生の日本語の授業
Students are responsible for figuring out what they don’t know yet and getting the information they need.

Verbs, and all about them
                location in sentence
 ...masu ...masen ...mashita ...masendeshita
 ...mashou
 ...te/ de forms
 simple present, simple past, volitional
 affirmative, negative
 polite requests/demands with kudasai
 is/am/are   [not]  desu     [de wa arimasen]    
 was/were   [not] deshita   [de wa arimasendeshita]
 traveling verbs, active verbs, and です

HIRAGANA

KATAKANA  foreign-derived words in Japanese, with a few examples
 nations  ドイツ  フランス            オ-ストラリア
 foods  コ-ヒ-                       ピザ                       スパゲッテイ
 some modern inventions バス        ラジオ                  テレビ
 names of non-Japanese people   ホセ           テリ-
 use of dash for long vowel, use of dash  instead of  “r” after a vowel パ-テイ-
 small vowels after other syllables ファション

Adjectives: types, i (and na, with different conjugations)
 1. position:  before a noun 
   before desu
 2.. present or past

Kinship Terms--words for family relationships

Formal Expressions/Aisatsu (linguistic expression of essential POLITENESS)
                before and after meals

leaving home in the morning and returning
 arriving at someone’s house for a visit, and leaving
 inviting someone into your house
 greeting someone in the morning, afternoon, or evening
 saying goodnight just before bed
 APOLOGIZING--If you never apologize,
          you are failing in the Japanese culture portion of the course.
 saying goodbye
 calling a family on the telephone and asking for one particular person

Invitations: accepting and refusing, politely

Compliments, and how to respond to them

Means of Transportation: trains, planes, cars, buses, bicycles

Destinations: town, school, library, airport, friend’s house, etc.

This one, that one (and that one Way Over There):  near speaker, near listener (far from both speaker and listener)

Relational Particles:  what they are and when to use them
 は     か          を           に           が           よ           で     の                  と     よ

Kanji:

 mountain, river, rice field  language,
 person     Japan: sun’s source
 book     moon, fire, water, tree, gold/money, earth

[hand, foot, mouth, ear, eye]

Learn

Life/live

Previous

Teacher

Student

Year

Month

Day-of-week

Japan

Now

Word Order in Sentences:
 Kimmel’s First Law:  ”Verb Comes Last” repeated 3 times
 From the great Russian linguist of Japanese language learning, Prof. Titipov

                    TTPOV: Time,  Topic/Subject,   Place,    Object,     Verb (Active)

                                           Ni                     wa       de            wo  

Existence sentences

                Place no position ni subject ga arimasu/imasu

Sentences with traveling verbs

              Time    (ni if it has a name or number)  Topic/subject wa Destination ni traveling-verb

Wa/ga pattern sentences

        Topic wa grammatical-subject ga adjective desu.

        Example:  Sensei wa o-sushi ga suki desu.     Sensei likes sushi.                                                                                        

Addresses and Telephone Numbers

                Street name no  number ban

Names of the Main Japanese Islands and of Important Cities in Japan

                Honshuu, Hokkaidou, Shikoku, Kyuushuu

                Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, Kyoto, Nagasaki

Great Japanese Landmarks

                Ginza, Tokyo Tower, Daibutsu/Great Buddha, Mt. Fuji/Fuji-san

Times of Day, Months, Seasons, the Weekend, Last Week, now, every day, etc.

Describing people and things--adjectives in present and past tenses
  big, small, great, noisy, easy/gentle, difficult, delicious, yucky-tasting
  cute, new, enjoyable, boring, etc.

[Hobbies and sports:  ひまな   とき free time (activities)]

Classroom objects: door, window, chair, (black)board, pen, pencil, book, etc.

School subjects: social studies, history, Japanese, English, Phys. ed., music, etc.

   

 Self-introduction and Introduction

Songs: 1. Furusato, 2. Totoro, 3. Sakura, 4. Hiragana Song,  5, Kami-sama no okage de , 6. Kimi ga yo

Nakama, Chapters 1-5