Week 4

In this session we finished off the chapter on shopping in JFBP.

There was a lot of grammar in this chapter in particular PARTICLES, ADJECTIVES and COUNTERS.

See these websites for more info.
Particles:
http://www.timwerx.net/language/particles.htm
http://www.tofugu.com/2009/03/25/japanese-particles-cheatsheet/


Adjectives:

http://rcl.pliable.us/J-adj.html
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa040101a.htm

Counters
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa061001a.htm

We also looked at the masu form of verbs
Note that this website refers to group 1 abnd group 2 verbs, which is the terminology used in Japanese for busy people. I use the Japanese terms - ichidan and godan because it is easier to remember which is which.
http://japanese.about.com/od/grammarlessons/a/031101a.htm

I asked you to produce a piece of written work for next week on the topic of shopping. This is your chance to practice all these different bits of grammar.
(Sorry not all the links are clickable - the blog was playing up and wouldn't let me paste links)

Week 2

We started Japanese for busy people book 1.
We completed the first chapter about meeting people for the first time.
Although this was a revision chapter there was quite a lot of new vocab and the challenge of reading the dialogue in hiragana/katakana.
Make sure that you complete the exercises in the book for this chapter.

We also did a vocabulary building exercise (and exercise in using the possesive "no") talking about what people had in their bags.
here are some of the words in case you forgot:
さいふ
ペン
けいたい
じょうぎ
じしょ
イヤーホーン
みぶんしょうめいしょ
アイポッド
きょうかしょ
くつした
みず
きって
カード
メモリーカード
かさ
ティッシュー
てぶくろ
けしゴム
ホッチキス
ぼうし
でんしじしょ
マフラー

I apologise if I forgot any of them! If you can't remember the meaning (or would like to know the kanji), look them up. Copy and paste into http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

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