I have been studying Japanese for a bit less than a year with a teacher and the Minna No Nihongo textbook. Writing topics down helps me remember any subject, so I decided to make some study cards for each chapter of said textbook.
These study cards follow how my teacher taught the lessons, so some specific topics are covered in earlier sections than what is found in the book. However these mostly stay true to the text.
I am new to Japanese, so the examples I came up with may be grammatically incorrect (and there also may be mistakes in the content itself). If you find any mistakes, please let me know so I can edit them.
I hope some of you can get use out of these! I plan on making study cards for all 50 chapters of the combined textbooks, so let me know if you are interested in those.
You got a rogue n in your second sentence, an extra ? in the も line, 高いじゃない is grammatically incorrect, were you trying to say 機化師? Doesn’t seem to be a thing. Although now I see you used 磯, so idk. Wait, 忙しい? That would be a funny mistake, haha. I think you meant 日本語の本, I was wondering what that kanji was.
If this is meant for beginners, you’d probably be better off adding furigana, or trying to stick to easier words. Otherwise, the presentation is pretty good, and you can see the effort.
Can confirm.
Would surely be interested in the rest, it’s extra resources for students.
Point 5 - Actually, 本 generally takes ご as the formalising prefix rather than お. The rules about which word takes which can be a bit obscure - generally it’s ご with on’yomi and お with kun’yomi, but as per the standard in Japanese, all rules have exceptions. For beginners it’s generally wise to just stick with the words that routinely take the prefix, like お金 or ご飯, and not try to strike out on your own until you’re at the point where you’re starting to learn keigo.
Point 4 - I’m a bit confused as to how or why you’d even consider using にん in this case. Perhaps you need a counter-example.
Point 3 uses the same example sentence from the previous card.
Your example sentence uses に particle as an example of で. You have で described correctly here (by means of/by way of), but the に in the example sentence is “at” (destination/time). To use で here I think you’d have to insert something like (alarm clock, dog barking, zombie apocalypse) before で起きました (the verb also becomes past tense - you WOKE up by means of something).
Also, does MNN 1 not cover/compare へ / に as direction particles? I haven’t cracked it open in awhile to check.
It’s worth noting because they can usually be interchangeable to describe traveling toward some place, but I don’t think へ can be used to describe a destination, or a nonphysical concept such as heading toward a goal or plan, or heading to do something (go to buy food - 食べ物を買いに行きます).
As usual I’m probably a bit off the mark, but I’ll never get corrected if I don’t make my misunderstandings public
That’s what I’ve been using it as. へ for direction and に for destination/objective. There are some parts in the book where I think に would be better, but oh well.
Glad you like them! Hopefully the next batch wont need as many corrections, but luckily this community is very helpful even if they do . I will be posting the next 10 in a couple weeks! (Hopefully) - So be sure to look out for that as I will be putting them on a new thread.
. I will be posting the next 10 in a couple weeks! (Hopefully) - So be sure to look out for that as I will be putting them on a new thread.