Good Evening!
I will be starting with Minna no Nihongo I book that I posted in the tools page.
This is more useful to me at the moment as it is more of a revision and reference book. I hope you all find it as useful
To start of with, I have drawn tables for the vocabulary in this lesson. There isn't really much I can do in this book as it is all just reference and grammatical notes. So to train myself I have drawn it all out so I am used to the characters and where they will appear.
I have decided to write out the romaji as well as the kana, kanji and English translations.
Lesson 1 is basic vocabulary.
Unfortunately I do not have a scanner, I hope these images will be sufficient. This table should help you learn what kanji will appear in certain words.
This is the main topic of lesson 1, 国くに country, 人ひと nationality and 語ご language. This is very helpful, the more I wrote 語 the easier I found it to write. I do recommend you write out some of these kanji, just to get the hang of them and to make it stick so its recognised when you see it.
You will use these when you are writing things like where you are from and the language you speak, so written exams, job applications and so on. Honestly, I don't think stroke order is essential but you want to learn it just ask and I will happily do a post on it. But practice makes perfect!
Grammar Explanation.
This is just some grammar and particle explanation to help with sentence construction.
1. は This partical は indicates that the word before it is the topic of the sentence. You select a noun you want to talk about, add は to show that it is the topic and you give a statement about the topic.
e.g. わたしは マイクミラーです。 I am Mike Miller.
2. です Nouns used with です work as predictates.
です indicates judgemenbt or assertion
です also conveys that the speak is being polite towards the listener
です inflects when the sentence is negative or in the past tense (discussed in lesson 12)
e.g わたしはエンジニアです。 I am an engineer.
3. じゃ ありません this is the negative form of です. It is the form used in daily conversation. For a formal speech or writing, では ありません is used instead.
e.g Casual サントスさんは学生じゃありません。 Mr Santos is not a student.
Formal サントスさんは学生ではありません。 Mr Santos is not a student.
4. (1) か This partical is used to express the speaker's doubt, question, uncertainty, ect. A question is formed by simply adding か to the end of the sentence. A question ends with a rising intonation.
(2) Questions asking whether a statement is correct or not. As mentioned above, a sentence becomes a question when か is added to the end. The word order does not change. The question thus made asks whether the statement is true or not. Depending on whether you agree with the statement or not, your answer to such a question beings with はい or いいえ.
5. も This is added after a topic instead of は when the statement about the topic is the same as the previous topic.
e.g ミラーさんは会社員です。 Mr Miller is a company employee.
グプタさんも会社員です。 Mr Gupta is also a company employee.
6. の is used to connect two nouns and to donote ownership or posession.
e.g ミラーさん は IMC の 社員です。 Mr Miller is an IMC employee.
7. さん is added to the name of the listener or a third person to show the speaker's respect to the person. It should never be used with the speaker's own name.
e.g あの 方は ミラーさんです。 That's Mr Miller.
When referring directly to the listener, the word あなた(you) is not commonly used if you know the listener's name. The listener's famil name followed by さん is usually used.
e.g 鈴木： ミラーさんは学生ですか。 Suzuki: Are you a student?
ミラー: いいえ、会社員です。 Miller: No, I am a company employee.
This concludes leson 1!
Apologies if this is rather long, but it has a lot of useful information and the rest of the blogs will be this long, if not longer! I will try my best to keep it short and sweet!
Happy studying!
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