S2 Day 3: Conjugations!

It's about time I got down and finally learned how to conjugate things properly. I'll probably compile this into an Anki deck when I stop being lazy, but for now, here it goes.

na-adjectives

好き
positive non-past: 魚が好きなタイプ。
negative non-past: 魚が好きじゃないタイプ。
positive past: 魚が好きだったタイプ。
negative past: 魚が好きじゃなかったタイプ。

So in this case, the sentences above describe Type and whether the type is one that likes, doesn't like, liked, or didn't like fish.

i-adjectives

高い
positive non-past: 高い
negative non-past: 高くない
positive past: 高かった
negative past: 高くなかった

With these, we can add the conjugation directly to the front of a noun. So 高い男の子 would mean tall boy and 高くなかった男の子 would mean boy who was not tall.

The only exception to the conjugation is いい which means good.

いい
positive non-past: いい
negative non-past: よくない（良くない）
positive past: よかった（良かった）
negative past: よくなかった（良くなかった）

The adjective かっこいい, cool, behaves the same way.

一段動詞 Type II -ru Verbs

見る（みる）
positive non-past: 見る
negative non-past: 見ない

五段動詞 Type I -u Verbs

飲む（のむ）
positive non-past: 飲む
negative non-past: 飲まない

I don't know if I want to tackle memorizing the past forms for the verbs since I feel as if I already have enough to memorize for today.

S2 Day 2 Grammar Review

Since it has been about a year since I've studied any Japanese, I'm reviewing grammar points for today so that I can write sentences!

I'm starting off with Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese.

I went through the chapters through the i-adjectives.  I keep forgetting how to conjugate those ones.

There's also a publicly available Anki set for Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese which is an excellent study supplement!

Day 6: Making up day 5 みゆの父ははるやさんがすきじゃないです

That is to say, Miyu's father does not like Haruya-san.

今日は土曜日七月十八曜日。ええと、Journey to JLPTによおこそ六日！！
Today is Saturday July 18.  Um, welcome to Journey to JLPT day 6.

My grammar was probably completely off on both counts (the title and the above sentence), but I feel like it's important to try to actually use the Japanese I know.

As you can see from the title after the last Jpod101 lesson, Miyu's father hates Haruya.  He talks with a co-worker about the problem in this lesson (lesson 5).

Vocabulary
お子さん - おこさん (someone else's) child
実は - じつわ as a matter of fact, by the way
娘 - むすめ daughter
息子 - むすこ son
早く - はやく early, soon
孫 - まご grandchild
本当に - ほんとうに really, truly
二番目 - にばんめ second
独身 - どくしん single, married
変 - へん strange, odd, eccentric (na adjective)
考える - かんがえる to think about, to consider (class 2 verb)
心配 - しんぱい worry, concern (na adjective)

Grammar point:
-たくない
This is the suffix for the negative of -たい (want) and forms an -i adjective.

Formation:
Take the masu form of a verb, subtract the masu ending and add たくない.
For example:
食べたあい - want to eat...
食べたくない - do not want to eat...
行きたい - want to go...
行きたくない - do not want to go...

Points to consider:
To get the adverb out of an adjective, just take off the -i and add -ku

-ばんめ - suffix for ordinal numbers:
四番目 - 4th
なんばんめ？ - ?th


Lesson 6: The Plot Thickens
This is where Miyu's father and his coworker discuss meeting up and playing golf with him and his son. There was a lot of new vocabulary and grammar in this lesson. 

Vocabulary:
有名（な）- famous (na adjective)
ゴルフ - ごるふ golf
ゴルフコウス - ごるふこうす golf course
プロゴルフアー - ぷろごるふぁあ pro golfer
苦手 - にがて poor (at), weak (in), dislike (of)
パター - ぱたあ putter
サラリーマン - salaryman
上手 - じょうず skilled, good at
呼ぶ - ようぶ to invite, to call, to call out (class 1)
プレーする - ぷれえする to play
教える - おしえる to teach (class 2)
歩く - あるく to walk (class 1)
下手 - へた unskilled, poor at
週末 - しゅうまつ weekend
走る - はしる to run

末 - まつ end
男 - なん man
次 - じ next
次男 - じなん second son
長男 - ちょうなん oldest son
三男 - さんなん third son


Grammar point: nominalizers
We use の or こと to the dictionary form of a verb to nominalize (make it into a noun) a verb.

So...
私は走るのがすきです。
I like running, I like to run.

Otherwise, it's not grammatically correct:
走るがすきです。
I like run.

Day 6: Making up Day 5 (grammar)

I joined palabea.net several months ago, and I dug it out of my inbox and started browsing around to try and talk to people in Japanese. I'm still waiting for replies to the threads I've posted, but I found some great videos in the video lecture section of the site.

The lecturer FXDL2007 introduced どれ and どちら (eng: which) in the first video that I watched. The difference between the two is that どちら is used for a choice between two objects whereas どれ is normally used for a choice between more than two objects.

- 私の切符はどれですか。= わたしのきっぷはどれですか。 = which is my ticket?

In his other series he introduced:
どう - how
- お仕事はどうですか = おしごとはどうですか = how was work?
- とても忙しいです = とてもいそがしいです = I'm very busy.

どこ - where
- 車はどこですか。= くるまはどこですか。= where is the car?
- 駐車場です = ちゅうしゃじょうです = it's in the parking lot.

いつ - when
- あなたの誕生日はいつですか。あなたのたんじょうびはいつですか。= when is your birthday?
- 一月一日です。 = いちがつついたちです。＝January 1st.

誰 - だれ - who
- あの男性は誰ですか。= あのだんせいはだれですか。=who is that man?
- 彼は鈴木さんです = かれはすずきさんです = He is Mr. Suzuki.

何 - なん - what

Miscellaneous vocabulary to add to Anki:
誕生日 - たんじょうび birthday
携帯電話 - けいたいでんわ mobile phone
駐車場 - ちゅうしゃじょう parking lot
難しい - むずかしい difficult
お仕事 - おしごと work (polite)

One of the reasons why I like his video series is because he hand-writes the Japanese in live time so I can see how the kanji and kana are written by a native Japanese rather than than the computer-generated stuff which is unnatural as far as handwriting is concerned.