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Japanese Foundation Course Helen Gilhooly and Niamh Kelly
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Track listing Japanese is written in several scripts: Kanji (an ideographic system, using characters of Chinese origin), Hiragana and Katakana (syllabaries, in which a single character represents the sound of a syllable). R -o maji (the Japanese language in the Romanised Latin alphabet) is used by foreign students of Japanese who have yet to master the Japanese scripts and by Japanese native speakers when using computer and other keyboards. In this track listing we use the R -o maji script.
CD1 Track 1 Introduction Pronouncing Japanese. Japanese words in English: kimono; karate; karaoke. English words in Japanese are adjusted to Japanese speech patterns: kamera ‘camera’; dejikame ‘digital camera’; hoteru ‘hotel’; aisu kur - ı mu ‘ice cream’; k -o h ı - ‘coffee’; T. shatsu ‘T-shirt’. CD1 Track 2 o kudasai ‘please may I have’; aisu kur ı - mu o kudasai ‘Ice cream may I have’ = ‘May I have an ice cream, please?’ In Japanese, you don’t need words for ‘a’ or ‘the’. sumimasen ‘excuse me’; sumimasen aisu kur - ı mu o kudasai ‘Excuse me, may I have an ice cream, please?’ kore ‘this’; sore ‘that’; are ‘that over there’; sumimasen kore o kudasai ‘Excuse me, please may I have this?’ hai ‘yes’; d -o zo ‘go ahead’ CD1 Track 3 tabemasu ‘to eat; I eat; she eats; he eats; you eat’: aisu kur ı - mu o tabemasu ‘Ice cream [o] eat’ = ‘I eat ice cream’. sandoicchi ‘sandwich’ kore o tabemasu ‘This [o] eat’ = ‘I eat this’. This -masu form of Japanese verbs also covers the sense of ‘will’ (the future): kore o tabemasu ‘I will eat this’.
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CD8 Track 4 denwa wa doko desu ka – or, more politely, odenwa wa doko desu ka – ‘Where is the telephone?’ We use the marker wa to specify who or what we’re asking about. doko ni arimasu ka ‘Where is it?’ The difference between doko desu ka and doko ni arimasu ka to say ‘Where is it?’ is that the form with arimasu (and imasu) stresses the location more than the form with desu: doko ni imasu ka ‘Where is he (located)?’ doko ni arimasu ka ‘Where is it (located)?’; Tanaka-san wa doko ni imasu ka ‘Where is Mr Tanaka (located)?’; hoteru wa doko ni arimasu ka ‘Where is the hotel (located)?’ dare ‘who’: dare desu ka ‘Who is it?’; dare to shigoto o shimasu ka ‘Who with work [marker o] do [question mark]’ = ‘Whom do you work with?’ CD8 Track 5 konban sushi o resutoran de tabenagara Nihon no tomodachi to hanashimasu ‘Tonight I will eat sushi in a Japanese restaurant while I talk with my Japanese friend’. CD8 Track 6 watashi wa gorufu ga heta desu kara ry -o shin to shimasen ‘I am bad at golf so I won’t play it with my parents’. CD8 Track 7 sensh -u Nihon no tomodachi to T -o ky -o ni ikimashita ‘Last week I went to Tokyo with my Japanese friend’. CD8 Track 8 ohashi de oishii resutoran de sushi o tabemashita ‘We ate sushi with chopsticks in a delicious restaurant’ – in Japanese, if the food at a restaurant is delicious, we can describe the restaurant as ‘delicious’. kin -o ry -o shin to takush - ı de koko ni kimashita. Soshite keitai de tomodachi to hanashimashita ‘Yesterday I came here with my parents by taxi. And I talked with my friend on a mobile / cellphone’.
CD8 Track 9 jikan desu ‘It’s time; time’s up’; Nihon ni ikitai desu kara Nihongo o hanashimash -o ‘I want to go to Japan so let’s speak Japanese’; Nihongo o hanashitaidesu kara Nihon ni ikimash -o ‘I want to speak Japanese so let’s go to Japan’. arigat -o gozaimasu ‘You have helped me. Thank you’. Conclusion
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