Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Japanese 1 first semester review summary

Jpn 1 review—chapters 1-4 in 1st year Kimono

1. 46 hiragana, plus maru, dakuten, small tsu , and combined characters
2. kanji: Japan, Japanese language, days of week, numbers 1 - 999
3. question words: when, what month, what astrological year, what number, how old, what astrological year
4. adjectives: delicious, yucky-tasting, noisy, dirty, big, small, great, enjoyable/fun
5. classroom nouns
6. verbs: exercise verbs, plus open, shut, look at, listen to, read, eat, drink
is/am/are isn’t/aren’t/ am not
7. formal expressions: appropriate to time of day, sorry, excuse me, please, Happy New Year
8. A wa B desu (de wa arimasen)
9. polite command: _______te kudasai
example: DOA wo shimete kudasai.
10. relational particles: wa, ka, wo, ne. no
11. denwa bangou phone number juusho address
12. months of year; days of week; Heisei nijuu ichi nen
13. people: sensei, tomodachi, Yuuko-san, Hanako-san, okaa-san, otou-san, non-Jpn text characters
14. astrological characters/animals
15. relational particles:
a. せんせい の おなまえ は 森 さん です か。
b. おすし は おいしい です ね。
c. すもう さん は おおきい です よ。
d. KIMERU せんせい は CHOKOREETO が すき です。
e. DARAN くん は CHOKOREETO が {あんまり} すき じゃ ない です。
f. まど を あけて ください。

Dialogue:

4 minutes
1 time period
1 place
Don’t change characters
Script from each participant in both Jpn and Eng