Contents
1. Lesson 5-Top
2. Kanji Intro
3. Kanji in Lesson 5
4. たんご (Vocabulary)
5. かいわ (Dialogues)
6. ぶんぽう (Grammar)
7. れんしゅう (Practice)
 

At Robot Club, two students are looking at a route map for the delivery robot.

In Lesson 5, Robert shows Alice around the Robot Club as they look at group photos, maps, and Dr. Yamada's laboratory. Through these conversations, you will learn how to identify people and objects, ask where they are, and describe their locations. You will practice using expressions such as this, that, which, and location words, as well as the particles が and に. You will also learn the location verbs あります and います, and discover that Japanese word order is often more flexible than English word order. In addition, this lesson introduces kanji, the third Japanese writing system, and presents eight simple kanji characters.

ぶんぽう (Grammar)

  1. この + Noun、その + Noun、あの + Noun、どの + Noun
  2. Noun + の、い-Adjective + の
  3. こちら、そちら、あちら、どちら (+ のほう)
  4. ここ、そこ、あそこ、どこ
  5. いちばん おおきい: the largest
  6. あかい ぼうしの ひと: a person with a red hat
  7. Subject marker が
  8. Location marker に (in, at, on)
  9. Inanimate objectが Locationに あります
  10. Animate objectが Locationに います
  11. Animate objectが Locationに すんでいます
  12. Contrastive Particle は
  13. Negative Questions
  14. Flexible word order in Japanese

Useful Social Expressions

  1. いえいえ、まだべんきょうちゅうです: Oh no, I am still learning. (A way of responding to a compliment like にほんごが おじょうずですね: Your Japanese is very good!)

New Kanji

日、本、山、中、田、上、下、人

Lesson 5-Top