First Year Japanese Year End Review -- preliminary

Students are responsible for asking questions if there are items here that they don't remember or don't understand.

Text: 1 Kimono 1-8 , textbook and workbook
published in Australia,
distributed by EMC Publications, Minnesota



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



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
your own family members (family members of the person who is speaking)
other people’s family members (listeners’ family members)



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,　cities, countries 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:
1 through 999 days of the week
mountain, river, rice field language
person Japan: sun’s source
book moon, fire, water, tree, gold/money, earth
verbs: goes, sees 行きます｛いきます｝、　見ます｛みます｝

[hand, foot, mouth, ear, eye]



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　に, Topic/Subject　は, Place　で, Object　を, Verb (Active)



Alternative form for sentences with traveling verbs:

Time に Topic は Means-of-Transport で Destination に traveling verb





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



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. Sakura, 2. Hiragana Song, 3. Zou-san,

4. exercises 9. Minna de, Ohayo 10. Hanako-san no Maki-ba de (Old MacDonald)