Japanese for Beginners. Learning Conversational Japanese

they indicate the topic (wa), subject (ga), object (o), etc., when they are used in the sentence. And also
they sometimes work like English prepositions; for example, kara is “away from,” ni is “toward,” no
is “of,” and de is “in.” They are placed after a noun or a sentence, and link words or sentences to each
other and indicate a relationship between them.
EXAMPLES: Amerikajin to Nihonjin (American and Japanese) (To indicates “and”) boku no tsukue
(my desk) Watashi wa onna. (I’m a woman.)
Practice
A. Divide the following words into syllables, as shown in the example.
→
Example: mochiron (of
mo / chi / ro / n
course)
1) ikura (how much) → _________________________________
2) benri (convenience) → _________________________________
3) ryōshūsho (receipt) → _________________________________
4) saikin (lately) → _________________________________
5) aisukuriimu (ice cream) → _________________________________
6) kyōdai (sibling) → _________________________________
7) osake (rice wine) → _________________________________
8) totsuzen (suddenly) → _________________________________
B. Listen to the Japanese words of each group on the CD and circle A or
B for the appropriate English words.
1) grandmother A B
2) no A B
3) husband A B