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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
97 [✐1] koko, soko, asoko, doko?
[✐1.Adagio] Demonstrative expressions これ、それ、あれ、どれ“Where? There! ”
[00:07]
Hello, everyone. Today, we will do “koko, soko, asoko,doko” => kosoado!
ここ: here (near the speaker)
そこ: there (near the listener, or somewhere between not far from both speaker and listener)
あそこ: over there (far from both speaker and listener)
Repeat after me
[00:17]
1. The pen is here.
2. The pen is there.
3. The pen is over there.
4. Where is the pen?
5. Kate san is here.
6. Kate san is there.
7. Kate san is over there.
8. Where is Kate san?
Now, answer as follows.
[01:45]
Where is the pen?
/ here
→ The pen is here.
Ready?
[01:55]
1. Where is the newspaper?
/ over there
→ It’s over there.
2. Hey, did you see my glasses?
/ there
→ It’s there.
3. I wonder where my smartphone is.
/ over there
→ It’s over there.
4. Where is Lee san?
/ over there
→ He is over there.
5. Where is Andrew san?
/ next room
→ He is in the next room.
6. Grace san isn't (here).
/ in the converence room
→ She is in the conference room.
7. Huh? Where is the cat?
/ kitchen
→ S/he is in the kitchen.
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「どこ? そこ!」
[00:07]
みなさん、こんにちは。きょうは、ここ、そこ、あそこ、どこ => こそあど!です。
ここ: here (near the speaker)
そこ: there (near the listener, or somewhere between not far from both speaker and listener)
あそこ: over there (far from both speaker and listener)
Repeat after me
[00:17]
1. ペンは ここに あります。
2. ペンは そこに あります。
3. ペンは あそこに あります。
4. ペンは どこに ありますか。
5. ケートさんは ここに います。
6. ケートさんは そこに います。
7. ケートさんは あそこ にいます。
8. ケートさんは どこに いますか。
では、つぎのようにこたえます。
[01:45]
ペンは どこに ありますか。
/ ここ
→ ここに ありますよ。
いいですか。
[01:55]
1. しんぶんは どこに ありますか。
/ あそこ
→ あそこに ありますよ。
2. ねぇ、わたしのめがね、みた?
/ そこ
→ そこに ありますよ。
3. スマホ、どこだっけ?
/ あそこ
→ あそこに ありますよ。
4. リーさんはどこにいますか。
/ あそこ
→ あそこにいますよ。
5. アンドリューさんは どこですか。
/ となりのへや
→ となりのへやに いますよ。
6. グレースさん、いませんね。
かいぎしつ
→ かいぎしつに いますよ。
7. あれ、ねこは どこですか。
/ キッチン
→ キッチンに いますよ。
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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.