Beginning Japanese Assignments

Friday, May 15, 2020

Just a reminder! Everything is due by next Tuesday May 19! 

Have a great summer!

Thursday May 14, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

     Well guys (and gals of course) this is not at all how I imagined ending the year. I'm sad we don't get to do our BIG Japanese feast it really would've been a really fun time. I hope you've enjoyed your beginning Japanese experience this year and learned a little bit about the language, culture, and country. I love Japan, I wish I could go there on every vacation. Some of you I won't get to see again next year, and that saddens me. I hope that you remember your time in Japanese class fondly and hopefully go on to keep studying and learning. Learning the language is really a life-long pursuit. I've been studying Japanese since I was in high school and that was a LOOOONG time ago. lol! Anyway, there's always something new about Japan for me to study. Keep watching and enjoying Anime and Manga. Stick with it. and above all  GANBATTE KUDASAI! 

SAYONARA! 

JAANE!

MATANE!

BYE BYE!!!,

    Lakes Sensei

Tuesday May 12, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

    Well guys (and gals) we are wrapping things up for the year this week. Thursday will be our final Japanese lesson this school year. Today I have a short questionnaire about your Duolingo usage during the term. Answer each question thoughtfully.  

Sayonara ! Until Thursday!

Bye Bye

Assignment: Self grading Duolingo

Here's the link to the google form, you may need to copy and paste it into your browser:

https://forms.gle/AHngcXD4dwTLNvhH8

Thursday May 7, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

   Today I have another short short story for you to translate into English. Once again I tried to separate the words for you to make it easier. Also, quotation marks around a word indicate its a foreign word (example "ge-mu" = game). I hope this helps you a bit more in your translation. Hang in there and good luck! GANBATTE KUDASAI!

Reading Comprehension #2 

Here's the link to the google form assignment (you may need to copy and paste it into your browser):

https://forms.gle/7aTz1aEWQAHRMtWr9

Tuesday May 5, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!!!,

     The meme was in honor of yesterday's "Star Wars Day", but it has a lot to do with what we are going to have you do today. Yep, you guessed it, some reading comprehension. You will be translating a short story from Japanese into English. I've tried to separate the individual words for you to make things little easier. GOOD LUCK! Ganbatte!

 Reading Comprehension #1

Here's the link to the google form assignment (you may need to copy and paste it into your browser):

https://forms.gle/3UZrzeq1VT397FhE9

Thursday April 30, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

    Today I want you to give me a little report on how your Duolingo practice is going. Write a paragraph telling me these things:

-How often you've been using Duolingo

-What was the last lesson you completed

-What you've been doing to supplement your Duolingo learning (ex. have you made yourself some flashcards, a study notebook)

-Make a goal to improve your study

Here's the link to the google form assignment (you might need to copy and paste it into your browser):

https://forms.gle/neEuXAmiAt3yEC2U8

Tuesday April 28, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

    Today is a small quiz on animals, let's see if you remember them all. Ganbatte Kudasai! (Hang in there!)

Here's the google form link (You might have to copy and paste this into your browser):

https://forms.gle/rYtJ2DCgRhxfHuNU8

Thursday April 23, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

     Today, let's see how well you remember your colors. Good Luck! Ganbatte kudasai!

Here's the link to the google form assignment (you may need to copy and paste the link into your browser):

https://forms.gle/PBBEvrZMYV64soUi7

Tuesday April 21, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

      Today you're going to work on translating a few sentences. This is back from lesson 2; so nothing too hard. Do your best. Questions one through four are a dialogue between two friends, Satoko and Shouta. You do NOT need to write down their names each time, just translate the sentence. Number five through nine are translating English to Japanese. I'm sure you can figure it out (google translate **Cough **cough if you can't. Lol) GOOD LUCK!

Assignment: Japanese Translation #1

Here's the google form assignment (you may need to copy and paste the link into your browser):

https://forms.gle/ysTfSfLHqMdonRUcA

Thursday April 16, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

    So today, a short little exercise with anime. I'm going to ask you about the anime you've been watching; you're favorite anime of all time; and finally to tell me about your favorite anime as if you were explaining it to someone who had never seen it (kinda like you would to someone about a movie they haven't seen).

Please use the following google form link to do the assignment. (You may have to cut and paste the link into your browser):

https://forms.gle/3eGj9nHf2ii9qgUH9

April 14, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

     Today, we are going waaay back. Yep, we are going back to lesson two. I wonder how much you remember??? Guess we will see. GOOD LUCK.

Answer these questions in the google form:

https://forms.gle/oyPpg7BUULkLt2XU6

March 31, 2020

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

     Today we are going to delve back into some grammar from lesson 6. 

We are going to learn how:

-to make adjectives negative (pg 118 in your lesson packet)

MAKING ADJECTIVES NEGATIVE

-All true adjectives in Japanese end with "i"

-To make "i" adjectives negative you drop the last "i" then add "kunai"

FORMULA= ("i" adjective) minus "i", add "kunai"= it's not (adjective)

EXAMPLES-

     atarashii= new    atarashkunai= not new

     samui= cold        samukunai= not cold

     oishii=delicious   oishkunai= not delicious

THE SAME FORMULA WORKS WITH COLORS 

EXAMPLES-

     akai= red       akakunai=not red

     charoi= brown       charokunai=not brown

     aoi= blue       aokunai=not blue

Use the following google form to do the assignment for today, giving you some practice with this grammar:

(you might need to copy and paste the link into your browser)

https://forms.gle/WuFg5b29ZoUGskhF8

Assignment #1

From an anime of their choice, students will write down ten words they do know in Japanese (using Romaji) and then 5 words they do not know and their definitions. Yes this means you need to search out the definition. I suggest using https://jisho.org/

Below is the link to the google form assignment. Alternatively you may hand write this assignment and email me a picture of your work. Please be sure to write neatly and clearly if you are handwriting the assignment. Mr. Lakes' email: [email protected]

https://forms.gle/Y3SrABDUSfbUuv4f7

Konnichiwa Minasan!,

I hope everyone's study of Japanese is going well and being enjoyable. Remember to use Duolingo EVERYDAY. Have fun with it. It is a great opportunity to have so much time to learn from it. Today I have a short vocabulary assignment for you from the lesson 6 packet you received before the school dismissal. If you have happened to lose yours, I suggest using the site:

https://jisho.org/ 

It is a free online dictionary, a great reference in your study.

Here is the link to the google form assignment:

https://forms.gle/MeTRv18emq28v9Yp9