The Week of April 7.

Dear Parents:

This week, students learned very basic, but the most important (I think), grammar rule of Japanese verbs. That is Japanese verbs consist of 2 parts: the verb stem and the conjugated portion. The verb stem tells the meaning of the verb, the conjugated portion tells the verb tense and whether the verb is affirmative or negative.

Verbs we have covered are “to speak”, “to eat”, “to drink”, “to read”, “to listen”, “to study”, and “to do (homework)”. By now, students should know how to form present tense/ affirmative, present tense/ negative, past tense/ affirmative, and past tense/ negative of a verb.

Also, they learned several sentence structures; from a simple one to more sophisticated ones.

Examples are:

I ate sushi.

I ate sushi yesterday.

I ate sushi for dinner yesterday.

I ate sushi in Kona yesterday.

I ate sushi with my friends yesterday.

I ate sushi with my friends in Kona yesterday.

I ate sushi for dinner with my friends in Kona yesterday.

With whom do you eat lunch usually?

Where do you eat lunch usually?

What do you eat for breakfast usually?

Etc…



Homework for this weekend? Study for the next week test.

Have a wonderful weekend!