Basic Japanese Lesson
Posted on February 14, 2009
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This article is a brief introduction for anyone that wants to learn Japanese and is focussing on colours, weather in the video above and a few simple phrases.
Kin iro = Gold
Kurai Iro = Dark Colour
Kuro = Black
Rairakku Iro = Lilac
Gin Iro = Silver
Ao = Blue
Murasaki = Purple
Akarui Iro = Light colour
Chairo Iro = Brown
Shiro Kuro = Black and White
Mizu Iro = Light Blue
Aka = Red
Midori = Green
Pinku = Pink
Shiro = White
The next thing that is important to learn is how to use these words in a sentence, so lets take a quick look at how we could do that shall we:
First we will learn the phrase: “My Car is Green”
In Japanese this is “Watashi no Kuruma wa midori desu”
In this sentence the word ‘watashi’ is ‘my’ and the word ‘kuruma’ is ‘car’ and we just learned the word for ‘green’ which is ‘midori’.
We also have small words called particles and these are ‘no’ which shows us the possession of the sentence and the word ‘wa’ which indicates the subject of the sentence.
You may also want to learn how to use the word for colour “iro” in a question to. To do this you would say: “Anata no kuruma wa nani iro desu ka”
As you can see the sentence is similar but we have the word ‘anata’ which means ‘your’ and the word ‘nani’ which means ‘what’ and then the the word or particle ‘ka’ which turns the sentence into a question.
You may also want to learn some useful phrases for Japanese weather too, so for this let’s watch the video below:
Finally let’s have a quick look at how you would ask for something.
To do this you let’s take the example of a coffee asking ‘do you have coffee?’
In Japanese this is “Koohii wa ikaga desu ka”
The word for coffee isn’t hard to guess it’s ‘koohii’ and we also introduced a verb ‘have’ which is ‘ikaga’. One last point is that the word ‘desu’ is a verb and is like the English verb ‘is’
If you want to learn Japanese fast then the best method is online. The great thing about online courses is that it doesn’t matter if you want to learn Japanese in New York, or Singapore, because the lessons come to you. I have reviewed some courses here for you to check out if you are interested: Human Japanese Review AND Tell Me More Japanese Review
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