Course Title: Elementary Japanese 1

Lesson 9

Shopping and Ordering Food

 

Restaurant

 

 

In this lesson, we will learn to make more complex requests used in shopping, ordering foods at a restaurant, and ordering foods on the phone. Also, we will learn how to count beyond 99, how to count objects of different shapes and how to state changed states (e.g., [Something/Someone] becomes ..., [Someone] comes to V habitually, etc.) by using the なります verb. We will also introduce the following 17 kanji characters:百千万円新古少白買右左長売言話国語.

  -stem + motion verb (purpose)
Counting things in Japanese (まい, ほん, さつ, つ, こ, かい)
Particle: (for X)
  Nがございます/Nでございます
Requests using quantity expressions: Xを Y本 見せて下さい
N/な-Adj になります
● Plain-Form Vようになります
  Nにします/Nで いいです
Nだけ
Polite expressions
  Large numbers (10,000 to 100,000,000)
Number から
  Aくなります, Vなくなります