Thursday, May 18, 2017

May 17, 2017

Warm-up 2017.05.17         平成29年5月17日   水曜日

Kanji practice:  write each kanji 3 times by itself,

週   何   半   分   今
Week       What       Half          Minute    Now        

and then write each kanji-compound word 3 times

今週     何月    何曜日    一時半        
こんしゅう  なんがつ  なんようび  いちじはん   
This week                      what month?              what day-of-week?      1:30
一分     今年                   何年生    今日
いっぷん   ことし   なんねんせい きょう

One minute                    This year   What year in school? Today



Discussion of kanji handout from previous day





Handout of First Year Review


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





しゅくだい    宿題     Homework

Study review handout to see if there are 
any mistakes or anything I left out.






Wednesday, May 17, 2017

True adjectives (a.k.a. い adjectives

Handout of  い 'i" adjectives


おおきい  ちいさい
big                   small

大きい   小さい
big                   small

たかい   やすい     たかい
expensive        inexpensive             tall/high

あたらしい ふるい
new                 old

いい    わるい
good                bad

むずかしい やさしい
difficult            easy

やさしい      
gentle

とおい   ちかい(ちかく)
far                    nearby/near

おいしい  まずい
delicious          yucky-tasting

いそがしい
busy
May 16, 2017 -- Tuesday

平成29年5月16日  火曜日  火=Fire
                 曜日=Day of week


Listening practice


Handout of  い 'i" adjectives


おおきい  ちいさい
big                   small

大きい   小さい
big                   small

たかい   やすい     たかい
expensive        inexpensive             tall/high

あたらしい ふるい
new                 old

いい    わるい
good                bad

むずかしい やさしい
difficult            easy

やさしい      
gentle

とおい   ちかい(ちかく)
far                    nearby/near

おいしい  まずい
delicious          yucky-tasting

いそがしい
busy



Handout of kanji and how they evolved from pictorial symbols


Bingo using verbs:  Claire and Nana won once, each



Homework

Write each of the last 5 kanji for Nakama Chapter Five, 10 times each

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Listening Practice Nakama Ch. 5

Listening Practice – 2017.05.16

1.      When does Claire eat lunch?

A.    12:30
B.     11:15
C.     12:15
D.    12:00
E.     11:30
2.      What does she often eat for lunch?

A.Hamburger
B.Hot dog
C.Ramen
D.Ice cream
E.Pizza

3.       Where does she study for the test?

A.    In her room
B.     At school
C.     In the library
D.    At park
E.     In the classroom

4.      When does Claire take a shower?

A.    Every night
B.     Before breakfast
C.     At lunch time
D.    After school
E.     On the weekends

5,  What languages does Claire like?
A.    Korean and French and Russian
B.     Spanish and Latin and Dutch
C.     Italian and Czech and Turkish
D.    Japanese and German and Chinese
E.     Thai and Mongolian and Kazakh




1.       クレアー さん  は 11:30 に ひるごはん を たべます。
2.       2.よく アイス・クリーム を たべます。
3.       それから クレアー さん は としょかん で テスト の べんきょう します。
4.       まいばん クレアー さん は シャワー を あびます。

5.       クレアー さん は 日本ご と ドイツご と ちゅうごくご が すき です。

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

Monday, May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017 -- Monday


Warm-up 2017.05.15  平成29年5月15日     月曜日  
                                                                              月=Moon


Write each of the following kanji 3 times each:
土、曜、年、時、間

Write each sentence below in hiragana (only) on the genkouyoushi paper.  Then write it again in English.  


まいばん 私 は ステーキ を たべます。 おいしい です。

Every night I eat steak.  It's delicious.

土曜日 の しち時 に 学生 は しゅくだい を します。    つまらない です。

At 7 o'clock on Saturday the student does homework.  It's boring.

オーク・パーク まち の 中 に こうこう が あります。ひろい です。

There is a high school in Oak Park town.  It's spacious/broad/wide.

日本人 の 29年 は アメリカ人 の 
                                                                    2017年 です。

Year 29 for Japanese people is year 2017 for American people.


いち時間 は ろくじゅっ分 です。

One hour (duration) is 60 minutes.



Diagrams on board illustrating various kanji and their parts:

時:とき、ジ

日 + 寺 = Time is shown by the sun passing over the Buddhist temple      とき、ジ


曜:ヨウ

日 + 羽(ヨヨ)+ "old bird"   = day-of-week


分:フン、ップン、わ「かる」

八 + 刀 = divide, understand, minute (1/60 of an hour) 


間:あいだ、カン

門 + 日 = time interval, space, between


年:とし、ネン


しゅくだい  宿題   Homework

Kanji Practice Sheets (Schmadeke)








May 12, 2017 -- Friday
平成29年5月12日  金曜日  
金=gold, money, metal

ワーム・アップ 

Important notes on reading and writing Japanese, based on results of the most recent test

A.  2-  or 3- word kanji expressions have meanings independent of the meanings of individual kanji.  Here is an example, a compound word in English:  blackmail.   It does not mean “a letter that is black in color.”  It means a threat to reveal information if a bribe is not paid.
        The kanji for “Japan” are  日 sun + 本source, but when those                            two kanji are together in a word, the meaning of the WORD 日本 is “Japan.”
         The kanji for “student” 学生 are “learn” 学 + “live/life” 生, but when those two kanji are together in a word, the meaning of the WORD 学生  is “student.”

B.  When reading a Japanese sentence, FIRST OF ALL you need to find the main verb.  Where is the main verb?  Remember Kimmel’s First Law:  3X  “The Verb Comes Last.”  After you find the main verb, you can look for the subject/topic. You can’t just read the subject and then imagine what the verb might be.

C.   You need to be careful with kanji that might look similar to each other.  There are a number of kanji that have 3 strokes, for example, but they mean different things.

川=River   水=Water  小=Small
大=Large   上=Above  下=Below


Work on Mother's Day Cards:
Mother’s母の日Day
おめでとう
           お母さん     ありがとう
Thank you, dear Mother. (or Grandmother, or Aunt, below)


おばあさん  お祖母さん 
おばさん

しゅくだい  宿題  Homework


Kanji, 10 times each

土、曜、年、時、間