Course Title: Elementary Japanese 2

Lesson 11

Talking about Families

 

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In this lesson, we will learn to express on-going actions and resultant states. We will also learn to describe families by using clause modifiers and to distinguish in-group vs. out-group terms (honorfic and humble). We will also introduce the following 16 kanji characters: 男女口目耳手足名父母兄弟姉妹家族.

 

● Verb-て forms
● Express on-going/repeated actions and resultatnt states by using Vて forms
　　(e.g., たべています, けっこんしています, etc.)
● Person pronouns
● Additional academic subjects, majors, age, home towns, counter ～年生, etc.
● Connective とき (e.g., こどものとき, １３さいのとき)
  ● Counting age (～つ, ～さい) and counting people (～人)
  ● Family terms
  ● Clothing verbs (きている, かぶっている, はいている, etc.)
  ● Describing people & things, using modifying clauses (しろいぼうしを かぶっている 人)