Thank you for joining the lesson on Sunday. It was great to see you! In today's lesson, we continued learning and practicing Lesson 9, i-adjectives. For example: *salor moon no manga wa omoshiroi desu. (Salor Moon's manga is interesting.) *dragon ball wa tsumaranai desu. (Dragon Ball is boring.) *classic ongaku wa furui desu. (Classic music is old.) *ongaku wa tanoshii desu. (Music is fun.)
** “Tanoshii" is an adjective in Japanese. In English, "fun" works as an adjective or a noun, but "enjoy" is a verb, so you use them differently.
Thank you for your hard work! Have a great week. See you again in May!
Thank you for coming today's lesson. I am happy you to show me many interesting toys. Today, you could say many new Japanese words. Let's practice more. See you next！
Thank you for joining the lesson on Sunday. It was great to see you! Today, we finished Lesson 10, the section on na-adjectives. Well done on your hard work!
Then we moved on to the Intermission 2, the "desu" talk. In this part, we put "desu" at the end of the sentence. Also we practiced using "vervs", "masu-form", such as "kiki masu(to listen) . For example: * kore wa nan desuka? → kore wa pika-chu desu. * konohito wa dare desuka? → Miku Hatsune desu. * Hikaru Utada wa yumei desu ( Hikaru Utada is famous.) or Hikaru Utada wa yumei na kashu desu. (Hikaru Utada is famous singer.) * donna ongaku ga suki desuka? (What kid of music do you like?) → Japanese pop , K-pop ga suki desu. (I like..) or yoasobi ga sukidesu, yoasobi no "idol" o mainichi kiki masu. (I listen to Yoasobi's "Idol" every day.)
Thank you for using various vocabulary and phrases. Let's review these points again in our next lesson. “What is this?”,“Who is this person?” We will practice asking and answering questions using various verbs. You worked very hard today,too. Have a wonderful week! See you next time!
Today, we practiced the potential form (can / be able to do) in Japanese.
For example: 私は漢字が読めます。 I can read kanji.
私は漢字が読めません。 I cannot read kanji.
We also studied how to conjugate verbs into the potential form.
Group 1 verbs: 読みます → 読めます read → can read
会います → 会えます meet → can meet
Group 2 verbs: 食べます → 食べられます eat → can eat
見ます → 見られます see/watch → can see/watch
Group 3 verbs: 来ます → 来られます come → can come
します → できます do → can do
You did a very good job with these conjugations. I can tell that you prepare well before each class—great work!
Raymond-san, you were also able to talk very well about what you can and cannot do. Thank you for sharing many interesting things about what you can do in New York and in the U.S. I really enjoyed listening to your stories.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in the next class!
