Family Words in Japanese

Telling Time Video

Year 8: Telling Time

Year 10 // Ch. 5: Pg.72-75

Namja Town and Ice Cream City

In Chapter 5, you explore Namja Town and Ice Cream City while learning new vocabulary and Tokyo entertainment/tourism.

The theme for these pages are “spending time with your family and friends”?

LEARN ABOUT::

• leisure activities enjoyed by families and young people in Japan
• popular places families and teenagers go
• new kanji
• time words (now, later, tomorrow etc.)
• invite people to hang out
• arrange an outing
• use the plain form of verbs

Hiragana Alphabet Songs

Practice your Japanese alphabet by singing along and using your Hiragana chart. The FIRST video is the classic slower song. The SECOND video is more challenging with a speed round at the end. Can you keep up?

• remember the RA RI RU RE RO are more like a hard r sound.
• GYO is the row, therefor KA GYO is the row that reads KA KI KU KE KO
• use your HIRAGANA chart and follow along