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    Organic Japanese Structure

    Course

    Worksheet 1: The First Three Lessons

    Let’s try making sentences using what we have learned so far.

    At this early stage we will just practice basic skills one by one, but
    from Lesson 4 we will slowly start using our accumulated knowledge
    to build more and more complex sentences.

    You can use romaji, hiragana, or full Japanese (hiragana, katakana


    and any kanji you know). Vocabulary is listed at the end.

    Lesson 1

    Please answer these without using the zero pronoun (invisible


    carriage) as it isn’t covered in Lesson 1.

    Sentences:

    1. I am a cat

    2. I dance

    3. The cat walks

    4. The bird sings

    5. The cat is white

    6. The bird is small


    Vocabulary

    Here I am using only fairly basic kanji – broadly those covered in


    Alice in Kanji Land. Feel free to use more kanji if you know them. I
    am giving animals, birds and plants in hiragana, but katakana is often
    used for them and you may do so if you prefer (not tori though – the
    actual names of particular animals, birds, and plants such as ウサギ
    or ネコ. Using katakana is probably slightly more “correct”-seeming
    but hiragana is considered softer and therefore cuter. I am also doing
    it to make it easier for those who only know hiragana. We should
    work in (at least) hiragana from an early stage for the sake of
    structural integrity. Taking longer with katakana isn’t a crucial issue.

    I: わたし watashi
    Cat: ねこ neko
    Dance: おどる odoru
    Walk: あるく aruku
    Bird: とり　tori
    Sing:　うたう　utau
    Is-white: 白い　しろい shiroi
    Is-small: 小さい　ちいさい　chiisai

    Lesson 2

    Please answer these using the zero pronoun and particle (the
    invisible carriage). Please answer three times: once as it is
    actually said, once showing the zero pronoun, and once showing
    what the zero pronoun represents.

    Example:

    Q: I am a cat

    A: ねこだ　(or: neko da)


    =∅がねこだ　(or: =∅-ga neko da)
    =わたしがねこだ (or: =watashi ga neko da)

    Sentences:

    1. I’m Alice

    2. It’s sunny

    3. I drink tea

    4. It’s White Day

    5. I sing a song

    Vocabulary

    Sunny: はれ　hare
    Tea: おちゃ ocha (the o is honorific but almost always used)
    Drink: 飲む のむ nomu
    Today: 今日 きょう kyou
    Weather:　天気 てんき tenki
    Song: うた uta
    White Day: ホ ワ イ ト デ ー ほ わ い と で ー 　 howaito dee (ee
    pronounced like the e in get only twice as long). White Day is a
    Japanese holiday where men give gifts to women in return for the
    chocolate they received from them on Valentine Day.

    Lesson 3

    Please use wa in all these sentences. If there is a word in [square


    brackets], that word should be the wa-marked topic of the
    sentence. This time, please give the answer in four forms: the
    three we did before plus the literal English meaning, using “as
    for”.
    NOTE: wa can only mark something we already know about. So
    in cases where “a” or “the” is needed in English, we never
    render ○○は“as for a ○○”. It will always be “as for the ○○”.

    Example:

    Q: I am an [American]

    A: わたしはアメリカ人だ (or: watashi wa Amerikajin da)


    = わ たし は ∅ がア メリ カ人 だ (or: =watashi wa ∅-ga
    Amerikajin da)
    =わたしはわたしがアメリカ人だ (or: =watashi wa
    watashi ga Amerikajin da)
    As for me, I am an American

    Sentences:

    1. [I] am Sakura

    2. [Sakura] is very beautiful

    3. [I] send a letter to Sakura

    4. I send a [letter] to Sakura

    5. I send a letter to [Sakura]

    6. [Sakura] sends a letter to me

    Vocabulary

    Very: と て も totemo (used just like English “very”, directly


    before what it modifies)
    Beautiful: うつくしい　utsukushii
    Letter: てがみ tegami (literally hand-paper)
    Send: おくる okuru

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