Hello everyone, welcome to the fourth chapter (^.^)(^｡^)(^-^)(^A^) If you haven’t already, please check out the home thread for our study group here. Please use this thread to discuss Genki I, chapter three. Talk about what you learned, ask questions, and do group activities together. Also please…

I thought of a good answer for 1b:

I’ve read this week’s chapter and done a few exercises, but I’ve still got most left to do. Luckily, next week is catch up, so there’s not as much pressure.

いい答えです。 I live In Texas so I probably would have said something similar but about cowboys (even though that’s a lie)!

Would anyone please help me me understand what #4 on page 38 in the workbook says? It starts out like . But that doesn’t make any sense…any help would be appreciated.

It means: “When you were a child, were you a good child?” 子供の時、いい子供でしたか。 Kodomo no toki (lit. the time of a child), ii (good) kodomo deshita (past tense of desu) ka (question mark).

Genki I uses the の時 thing a lot in this book despite not introducing the actual grammar point until Lesson 16 in Genki II. There’ll be stuff later on like 高校の時 (when you were in high school), so I don’t know why they didn’t just teach it earlier.

Omg! Thank you so much!!! I spent so much time on that. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

Ohhhh that makes so much sense!! I was going through book and notes searching for it! Thank you for confirming that I didn’t just miss it! I wish they would have just taught it in this chapter if they were using it for the workbook.

I just quoted from the workbook. It’s literally the sentence from the book.

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Jiggly_Jellyfish August 21, 2019, 6:20pm 32

Helloo everyone,

thanks for all the chapter 4 discussion! If you are ready, you can now go to chapter 5 and discuss with this new thread:

if you aren’t then that’s okay too, just keep using this thread as long as you need to!

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