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
129 [✐2] Plain Style (casual)
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
[✐2. Andante] Plain style intensive training
“Did you bring an umbrella?”
[00:07]
Hello, everyone. How are you doing? Today, we will practice Plain Style, a casual style, which you use when you talk to your family or friends, you know.
[00:18]
Please say in Plain Style after the Masu-style sentence.
For example,
Do you mail? [Masu Style 🎵 → Plain Style]
The intonation is like, “lifting up” at the end.
“me-ru suru?, suru?”
Ready?
[00:36]
1. Do you go (= Are you going) ?
2. Do you eat?
3. Do you read?
4. Do you write?
5. Do you buy?
6. Do you go back?
7. Do you fix/repair?
8. Do you use it?
9. Do you borrow?
10. Do you return?
11. Do you call?
12. Do you work overtime?
13. Do you throw away?
14. Do you learn?
15. Do you bring (along/around)?
16. Do you take (= bring smth. to somewh ere)?
[03:21]
Next, we will practice in past tense.
For example,
Did you mail? [Masu Style 🎵 → Plain Style]
Ready?
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「かさ、もってきた?」
[00:07]
みなさん、こんにちは。おげんきですか。きょうはカジュアルな、Plain Styleのれんしゅうです。かぞくや ともだちとはなすときに つかいますね。
[00:18]
ますスタイルのあと、Plainスタイルをいってください。
たとえば、
メールしますか 🎵 → メールする?
イントネーションは さいごを もちあげるかんじです。”メールする?、する?”
いいですか。
[00:36]
1. いきますか → いく?
2. たべますか → たべる?
3. よみますか → よむ?
4. かきますか → かく?
5. かいますか → かう?
6. かえりますか → かえる?
7. なおしますか → なおす?
8. つかいますか → つかう?
9. かりますか → かりる?
10. かえしますか → かえす?
11. でんわしますか → でんわする?
12. ざんぎょうします → ざんぎょうする?
13. すてますか → すてる?
14. ならいますか → ならう?
15. もってきますか → もってくる?
16. もっていきますか → もっていく?
[03:21]
つぎは かこけいです。
たとえば
メールしましたか 🎵 → メールした?
いいですか。
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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.