Ocha & Chat Prep & Shadowing Script + Audio
Focus: Verbs and Negative Verbs This week in Ocha & Chat, we will practise using simple Japanese verbs — and how to make them negative. Ocha & Chat is our weekly live call in which we talk about Japan, Japanese culture and practise speaking Japanese. It is on Sunday at 10 am Sydney time. Even if you can't make it, if you read this information and shadow with the audio, you will progress your Japanese greatly!! In Japanese, many polite verbs end in ます. For example: 食べますたべます tabemasu to eat 飲みますのみます nomimasu to drink 行きますいきます ikimasu to go To make these negative, we often change ます to ません. 食べます → 食べません tabemasu → tabemasen eat → do not eat 飲みます → 飲みません nomimasu → nomimasen drink → do not drink 行きます → 行きません ikimasu → ikimasen go → do not go Shadowing Script Try reading this out loud. Then listen, repeat, and copy the rhythm. Japanese こんにちは。私はケンです。毎日、水を飲みます。コーヒーも飲みます。でも、お酒は飲みません。 朝ごはんを食べます。パンを食べます。でも、魚は食べません。 学校に行きます。図書館にも行きます。でも、今日はスーパーに行きません。 テレビを見ます。YouTubeも見ます。でも、夜はあまり見ません。 日本語を勉強します。毎日、少し勉強します。でも、長い時間は勉強しません。 Romaji Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Ken desu. Mainichi, mizu o nomimasu. Koohii mo nomimasu. Demo, osake wa nomimasen. Asagohan o tabemasu. Pan o tabemasu. Demo, sakana wa tabemasen. Gakkou ni ikimasu. Toshokan ni mo ikimasu. Demo, kyou wa suupaa ni ikimasen. Terebi o mimasu. Youtube mo mimasu. Demo, yoru wa amari mimasen. Nihongo o benkyou shimasu. Mainichi, sukoshi benkyou shimasu. Demo, nagai jikan wa benkyou shimasen. English Hello.I’m Ken. Every day, I drink water. I also drink coffee. But I don’t drink alcohol. I eat breakfast. I eat bread. But I don’t eat fish. I go to school. I also go to the library. But today, I’m not going to the supermarket. I watch TV. I also watch YouTube. But at night, I don’t watch much. I study Japanese. Every day, I study a little. But I don’t study for a long time. Key Pattern Verbます = do something Verbません = do not do something Examples: 食べます — I eat 食べません — I don’t eat 飲みます — I drink 飲みません — I don’t drink 見ます — I watch / see 見ません — I don’t watch / see