Contents

1. Lesson 24-Top
2. Kanji in Lesson 24
3. たんご (Vocabulary)
4. 会話 (Dialogues)
5. ぶんぽう (Grammar)
6. れんしゅう (Practice)

Professional Office Meeting (Let me do this)

In a business situation, bosses often assign jobs for workers, or workers may ask for a certain job assignment. In a family situation, parents often ask children to do something, or children may ask parents to let them do something. In this lesson, we will focus on the common language used in these situations called causative verb forms---the expressions of making or letting someone do something.

ぶんぽう (Grammar)

  1. Causative sentences
  2. Verb-stem + なさい
  3. ~ば-conditional sentences
  4. Pred1のに、Pred2
  5. Xのように, Xのような, Pred + ようだ

Useful Social Expressions

  1. おつかれさまです!: Hello! (A common greeting among coworkers.)
  2. おつかれさまでした。お先にしつれいします。: Good work today. I’m leaving now.
  3. ちょっと…: Do you have a minute?

New Kanji

記、銀、回、夕、黒、用、守、末、待、残、番、駅、説、案、内、忘

Lesson 24-Top