Telling a story
Telling someone what happened is how most conversations at home start: the train, the shop, something the kids did. This lesson gives you the words that put events in order and add a bit of feeling, all with the た-form you already know. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 words for telling a story
Each card shows the word, the form you'll use and a sentence from a story about your day. Ten reuse words from Everyday Japanese 1 and 2.
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Words that move a story along
Start, move on, add a twist, finish. These words go at the start of a sentence.
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- Tell it in the past. Use the た-form all the way through. For the background, use てた: (it was raining).
- やっと or ? やっと is "at last", after waiting. is just the last step.
- Listening counts too. へえ, そうなんだ and それで？ tell the speaker you're following. Silence can sound like you're not interested.
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Four patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.