Today’s lesson was great work! Today we studied the continuation from last time: **“kochira / sochira / achira,” “kocchi / socchi / acchi,” “docchi,” and “dochira.”**
**“kochira / sochira / achira”** and **“dochira”** are used when speaking to someone who has a higher status than you, or in polite situations. **“kocchi / socchi / acchi”** and **“docchi”** are used with people of the same status as you, or with friends and people you are close to.
📚 Vocabulary to remember えいが → movie えいがかん → movie theater / cinema まっすぐ → straight (straight ahead) おもちゃ → toy こども → child / children ほこうしゃ → pedestrian くに、おくに → country / homeland
**“okuni”** and **“okutsu”** simply add **“o”** at the beginning to make the word polite, so their meanings are the same as **“kuni”** and **“kutsu.”**
**“fujin”** refers to an adult woman or a married woman. It can also be used as a respectful term for an adult woman, but it is not very common in everyday conversation. The word **“josei” (woman)** is used more often.
Iwas surpurized your efforts today.You already read all Hiragana. We practiced Hiragana by reading many words. I think you can read more smoothly about all Hiragana soon.
Konbanwa! Thank you for joinong the lesson as always. It's great to see you! Today, we practiced na-adjectives (nouns) in the affirmative and negative present forms, and we made sentences using different adjectives and nouns.
The first negative pattern for na-adjectives (nouns) is "jay arimasen" which is a more polite way to say"It's not” or“I’m not." As you asked in class,“jya arimasen”and“nai desu”have the same meaning. Among the two,"nai desu”is used more often. It is still polite, but slightly more casual than "jya arimasen".
Some words such as "yu-mei”and“benri”can be used as nouns, so they belong to the na-adjective group, not the i‑adjective group. To make them negative, we say "yu-mei jyanai”or“benri jyanai.” We cannot say “yu-mei kunai,”because only i‑adjectives use the “〜ku-nai”negative pattern. Therefore,i‑adjectives and na‑adjectives follow completely different rules when forming the negative.
Excellent work! Thank you for asking such good questions. Have a great week. See you next time!
