Japanese Swotter - Speaking Drill + Shadowing
Are you learning Japanese and looking for more opportunities to speak? This Podcast drill is exactly for you. Simply repeat after me - while you are commuting, cooking or even in your bed. The drill also includes plain style dialogue, which is an informal style spoken in daily life among friends and family, and also in Anime. Now more shadowing practices are available, too. Have a go and get fluent soon! --- Learning Nihongo is fun, ne. More drills and full transcripts/translations (on your smartphone! + PDF) are available on Patreon.
Japanese Swotter - Speaking Drill + Shadowing
58 [✐1] It's strange weather, isn't it?
[✐1.Adagio]
Note: Japanese people are generally not good at small talk, but even if they don’t know each other well, they might have a small chat with neighbours or people working in the same building. "Weather" is always a good topic to start with!
[00: 07]Hello everyone. Let’s talk about the weather today.
Repeat after me
[00:14]
1. It’s a good weather today, isn’t it?
(Lit.: Today is a good weather, isn’t it?)
2. It’s clear/sunshiny/fine today, isn’t it?
3. It’s warm today, isn’t it?
4. It’s cloudy today, isn’t it?
5. It’s cold today, isn’t it?
6. It’s cool today,isn’t it?
[01:08]
You have no problem so far, right?
Repeat after me
[01:14]
1. It’s hot every day, isn’t it.
2. It’s hot and humid/muggy today, isn’t it?
3. It’s raining a lot, isn’t it?
4. It’s a strong wind, isn’t it?
5. It will be snow tomorrow, won’t it?
6. It’s strange weather, isn’t it?
[02:15]
Then, let’s answer as follows.
For example,
[02:19]
How is the weather there?
here rain
→ It rains (it’s raining) here.
OK?
[02:29]
1. How is the weather there?
here, hot
→ It’s hot here.
2. How is the weather there?
nice weather
→ It’s nice weather here.
3. How is the weather there?
here, very cold
→ It’s very cold here.
[03:27]
4. How is the weather there?
today, muggy
→ It’s muggy today.
5. How is the weather there?
since yesterday, rain
→ It’s been raining since yesterday.
6. How is the weather there?
nice weather, but cold/chilly at night
→ It’s nice weather, but cold at night.
[04:36]
Now, let’s make a sentence in past form.
For example,
it rains, yesterday
→ It rained yesterday.
Ready?
[04:49]
1. It snows, yesterday
→ It snowed yesterday.
2. It’s hot, last week
→ It was hot last week.
3. It’s chilly, this morning
→ It was chilly this morning.
4. It’s clear, in the morning
→ It was clear in the morning.
[06:06]
Next comes Dialogue.
In the office building, Tomoko san(A) dashed and got in the elevator just before the door closed. A man(B) inside asked what floor she wanted to go to and pressed the elevator button for her. They had a little conversation about the weather.
[06:27]
A: Ah, I made it.
B: Which floor (would you like to go)?
A: 9th floor please. Thank you.
B: Sure, 9th floor… It’s muggy today, isn’t it?
A: Yeah, and it was very windy yesterday, wasn’t it?
B: It will be heavy rain tomorrow.
A: Really? It’s a strange weather recently, isn’t it?
Repeat after me
[06:55]
1. 9th floor please.
2. It’s muggy today, isn’t it?
3. It was very windy yesterday, wasn’t it?
4. It will be heavy rain tomorrow.
5. It’s a strange weather recently, isn’t it?
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Note: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese.