Words That Point (For Very New Learners)(Genki 1)

[NolanHeussner]

I started Genki 1 recently and I’m working on chapter two. Genki is a fine textbook, but, since it’s intended for a classroom setting, I’m left to find lots of my own learning resources. Genki 1 doesn’t help explain the meanings of “words that point” beyond defining them, and I didn’t find any online resources to explain this, so I made this very low-effort chart that will make learning and memorizing them very easy.

[dml90]

Thanks for posting this—very helpful!

[ChristopherFritz]

Next up:

• こいつ・そいつ・あいつ・どいつ
• こちら・そちら・あちら・どちら
• こっち・そっち・あっち・どっち
• こう・そう・ああ・どう
• こんな・そんな・あんな・どんな

(I don’t know where/if these are in Genki, though!)

[Belthazar]

@ChristopherFritz

Next up:

Heh. I was trying to remember the other こそあど words, but they’d completely escaped my memory…

[ChristopherFritz]

I did leave out the “extras”, such as そういう, こんなに, これから, それくらい, and the ones I need to learn better, like このような.

[Saida]

こなた、そなた、あなた、どなた