 Konnichiwa and good morning everybody, welcome to the basic Japanese language class for beginners. We have been doing a lot of sounds here, we have been doing katakana, hiragana, kanji characters in these previous classes with a lot of new words and lot of sound practice, lot of word practice. I hope that now you feel more comfortable and you are able to pronounce the words properly. You can make sentences on your own, you can ask a few things like you can ask name, you can ask age, you can ask about your, about someone's specialization. So I am sure you are a little more confident and comfortable than you were in the beginning. Well, as you know, before actually starting the class we do the revision of the previous class or I should say the revision of your assignments. We once go through the assignments, so before I actually start we will again go through what assignments I had given you. There were simple assignments this time, not very difficult. All you had to do was tell the price, which is what we did last time in our lesson. So, the picture is here in front of you, the names of the objects you know. There are some objects which you do not know probably and which I will tell you right now, but first we will practice our price. So, over here you could also repeat after me please, 120 yen, 980 yen, Meganewa 980 yen, Budou, Budou wa 350 yen, Kabin, Kabin wa 960 yen, Kutsu, Kutsu wa 1780 yen, Purin, Purin wa 140 yen. The next one is Shatsu, Shatsu wa 900 yen and the last one is Sushi. Sushi is a Japanese delicacy and it is actually raw seafood on rice balls. It is very tasty, you should try it sometime. Sushi wa Roppiakuen. So, I hope you did it like this at home loudly. Now we go on to doing the next one as well. Next one also is the same picture. The only difference is that you have everything written in Kanji characters. So, let us see what the first one is Hyaku-Niju-N. So, please write these in Kanji and then practice. This is a writing practice exercise. So, please do it. Megane, 980 yen. Well, tell me what it is. Budou is grapes, 350 yen. Then we have Kabin which is a vase and you can see it is written 960 yen. Then we have sandals. Sandal wa 1780 yen. Then we have Hyaku-40 yen and then we have Shatsu wa 900 yen and the last one for you is Sushi wa Roppiakuen. So, you will notice Hyaku- Hyaku- Hyaku are used like this. Just get used to it. Well, now in our previous classes we have done how to ask name. We have done how to ask about specialization. We have also studied how to ask age. So, today something new for you after this probably when you talk to someone you would also want to tell about your hobbies. So, well we have Shumi over here. Shumi is hobby. Shumi in Japanese means hobby. So, I will read the conversation for you. The basic structure is similar just by introducing this word shumi after anata no. You can easily ask someone their hobby, what they like doing. So well, it is right here anata no shumi wa nan desu ka? Watashi no shumi wa ongaku desu. Basic structure is using. Watashi no shumi wa tennis desu. Tennis. Watashi no shumi wa yamanobori desu. Mountaineering. Watashi no shumi wa piano desu. Piano of course you all know. Watashi no shumi wa cycling desu. Watashi no shumi wa dokushou desu. Dokushou is reading. Watashi no shumi wa shashin desu. Shashin is photography. Watashi no shumi wa suie desu. Suie is swimming. So well, you could replace ongaku with any of these over here and you could be telling about what you like doing, what your hobby is. It is all given in hiragana and katakana over here. So, you could please study your hiragana also like this. Try to remember the hiragana characters as well. Now, also what you can do over here is very simple. We did anata no shumi wa ongaku desu. We replaced ongaku with lot of other things like yamanobori, suie and a lot of other things. In a similar manner, you can also replace anata no over here as you have done earlier with okasan, tomodachi, sensei, watashi. So, any of these and more whatever vocabulary you remember, you can always replace anata with any of these and you can add no later on peening. Watashi no main, okasan, tomodachi, sensei and main. So, all of it you can ask and answer. You can see over here anata no shumi wa nandesu ka? Watashi no shumi wa ongaku desu. Same sentence, but over here watashi can be replaced with tomodachi, rao-san, oksan, shujin and tanaka sensei or anybody else you want to talk about. Is that alright? Let us go on to doing the vocabulary for shumi. Tennisu, as you can see is tennis, yamanobori, piano, saikuringu, dokushou, shashin, suie. So, these we did in our previous slide over here. Now, there is new vocabulary for you, ryoko, ryoko is travelling, eiga, eiga is pictures, movies and dorama. Dorama is of course an English word, drama, which of course you know what it is. So, you could use any of these in place of shumi over here. You can tell what your shumi is. Now, we have been practicing numbers in our previous lessons, a certain group in each class. So, today we will do this last group from 90 till 100. You could repeat after me please. This is just for pronunciation and we need to do the numbers really well because we need them for a lot of things later on. Lot of things you can do with numbers, you have to tell time, you have to buy things, you have to go so many miles, you have to do a lot of things, count a lot of things. So, numbers are really, really essential. We have 91, 92, 93, 94 or 94, 95, 96, 97 or 97, 98, 99 or 9 and then for 100 it is different it is hyaku. Please remember 100 is pronounced as hyaku, a short sound hyaku. So, with this we finish your numbers till 100. I hope you will do it at home and memorize them as fast as you can. So, now today we will do something new. What time is it now? Imananji desu ka. So, now you know this word nan, you know desu and you know ka over here. There are two new words ima and ji. We will do those very soon but before that I want you to listen to this dialogue carefully and let me see how much you actually understand and whatever is left we will of course cover it right here and right now. Well, how much did you understand now from the dialogue? I will read it out to you once and then I will explain. This is a dialogue between two people, Karuna san and Arun san. A small dialogue, short conversation over here. Sumimasen, ima nanji desu ka? Shichi ji desu. Gakko wa nanji kara desu ka? Hachi ji kara desu. Nanji made desu ka? Gogo sanji made desu. Arigatou gozaimasu. Do itashimashite. So, I am sure 50% is understood from here. Whatever is left of course you can read over here one. The English translation is given and then you also have it written here in Japanese in the script. You can see from here that some of it is in hiragana, some kanji's are there for you and well we do not have any katakana today but generally katakana is also there in the conversation if you have a foreign word. In Japanese all the three scripts are used simultaneously and you cannot write Japanese only in one script. Well, we go back to our conversation here, our dialogue here. Now I will explain. Sumimasen, excuse me, ima means now. Right now at this point ima nanji desu ka? Nan of course you know and after nan if you put this counter g, this word g, it denotes time. It shows time. It means o-clock is equivalent to o-clock in English. Sumimasen, ima nanji desu ka? What time is it now? Shichi-ji desu. Shichi of course you have done. So, number 7, shichi-ji desu. So, like this with each number ichi-ji, ni-ji, san-ji, yo-ji, go-ji, ichi-ji, ni-ji, san-ji, yo-ji, go-ji. So, you will notice over here that so far we have done numbers as ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku. So, over here you will see that yo-n is a little different. It is not yo-n, it is yo-ji desu. Yo-ji desu. So, for time please remember it is yo and not yo-n. Now, we have shichi-ji desu. Gakko wa nanji kara desu ka? Hachi-ji kara desu. Nanji made desu ka? Gogo sanji made desu. Now, a new word for you over here, go-go and go-zen. So, go-go means evening or pm and go-zen means morning or am and then of course the two phrases arigatou gozaimasu and do-itashi masute. Arigatou of course you know is thank you very much and do-itashi masute is mention not the pleasure is entirely mine, the pleasure is mine and it is alright. So, either of those you could use it could mean either of those depending on whom you are talking to. If you are talking to your teacher then it has to be very polite meaning the pleasure is entirely mine and if it is just a casual maybe asking time on the road then do-itashi masute means oh it is alright it does not matter it is okay. As I told you ima means now which corresponds to now at present at the moment in English as you can see on your screen over here. Then as I told you g is the counter for time, g means o-clock in English and if you add nan-before-ji as in nan-ji desu ka it is similar in meaning to what time it is may I know the time roku-ji desu as you can see go-ji desu five o'clock. Now, there is a small watch for you over here. You can practice your time ichi-ni san-yo go-roku shichi-hachi-kyu-juu-juu-ichi and juu-ni. So, now you can please repeat after me ichi-ji, ni-ji, san-ji, yo-ji, go-ji, roku-ji, shichi-ji, hachi-ji, ku-ji, juu-ji, juu-ichi-ji, juu-ni-ji. Now, you will notice that yo-ni and shichi are two different readings over here for yo-ni and nana. So, please remember that yo-ni for and nana is yo-ji and shichi-ji and not shiji or nana-ji. Please, this is not to be used for time, yo and shichi is to be used for time. So, well, we can practice hours of the day now. Sumimasen imanan-ji desu ka? A simple question you can ask and you can also answer hachi-ji desu. So, please repeat after me. Over here, we can practice the numbers once again ichi-ji desu. And also, we have the kanji for what is written in roman. Ichi-ji desu, ni-ji desu, san-ji desu, yo-ji desu, go-ji desu, roku-ji desu, shichi-ji desu, hachi-ji desu, ku-ji desu, juu-ji desu, juu-ichi-ji desu, juu-ni-ji desu. Please, pronounce these two yo and shichi as is written over here and not yon or shi or nana. Please, remember that for time it is yo and shichi. Now, once you know what time it is, you can say time. You can also tell the time of a place. All you need to do over here is sumimasen tokyou wa imananji desu ka? You can put the name of the place as is given over here. Tokyou wa imananji desu ka? So, before imananji desu ka, you can put the name of the place and you can ask the time of that place. And you could answer tokyou wa ima roku-ji desu or shichi-ji desu or hachi-ji desu, whatever time you want to say. Now, what you can do over here? So far, we have been doing with time. Now, the same question can be used for place and instead of place, instead of tokyou that we did just now, you can use deri which is deli, pari which is bare-is, rondon which is London. The language does not have the sound L or the letter L. So, London becomes rondon, Beijing and Singapore. So instead of tokyou, whatever place you want to put, you can put and ask the time of that place or that city. Now, over here you are asking time and you said tokyou wa ima roku-ji desu. Now, there is something else that you can do over here. If you want to ask it is 6 o'clock in the morning, will 6 o'clock roku-ji just suffice? No, it will not. You have to add am over there. So, what do you say for am in Japanese? Well, in Japanese am is gozen, pm is gogo. Now, what do you do with that? Unlike English, gozen and gogo will be written or said before time, that is ima gogo roku-ji desu. Before time, you will place gogo and gozen, gogo and gozen before time, roku-ji, shichi-ji, hachi-ji. So, now you can practice gozen and gogo with time. You could repeat after me, ima gogo ichi-ji desu, ima gogo ni-ji desu, ima gozen goji desu, ima gozen roku-ji desu, ima gozen ku-ji desu, ima gozen ju-ji desu. So, as you know the numbers, you can practice gozen and gogo like this. Now, you have this map right in front of you. Places are listed very nicely. You can please ask time. For example, Kairo is 3 o'clock. So, Kairo wa ima nanji desu ka? Rondon roku-ji desu. Rondon wa ima roku-ji desu ka? As we did places with time, you could easily look at this, look at the name of the place and ask time. Or you could also say, Rondon wa ima nanji desu ka? Whichever way you want to ask and practice time. Then, we have Beijing gozen goji. You can ask your partner, New York gogo hachi-ji, Tokyo gogo shichi-ji. Please notice, it is not Tokyo in Japanese. It is Tokyo, the sound of ter and not ter, gogo yo-ji, New Delhi, Singapore gogo ichi-ji, Bangkok gozen ju-ichi-ji, Sydney gozen hachi-ji. So, you have all the time over here, you have the place names over here and you can practice this simple conversation that we did in the previous slide with your partner and practice time with gogo and gozen, as you can see on the board as well. Now, practice one more thing with your partner, very simple. Please see, Mirasan and Rao-san are there. This is also a simple exercise, interesting exercise. You know the time of Tokyo for sure or wherever you are staying for sure. So, you can put the name of that place and ask time. For example, it is Tokyo over here. So, Tokyo wa ima gozen kuji desu. Lahore wa ima nanji desu ka? Or, Rondon wa ima nanji desu ka? Or, New York wa ima nanji desu ka? Pari wa ima nanji desu ka? You can ask your friend. So, now simple expression over here, so desu ne. In case you do not know the time of the place the person is asking, well, so desu ne could give you some time to think about what the time could be, what the time difference is and then you could reply. So, this so desu ne, this expression, one meaning of this expression is, well, you are asking for some time. You need some time to think. Lahore wa ima gogo ichiji desu. So, simple answer can be given in this manner. You have Tokyo-indo, Rondon-dhaka over here. You can practice with your friend with gogo, gozen and gogo again. Now, in our conversation we had kara and made, which I explained very briefly, kara means from and made means till, as you can see over here. This can be used very nicely with time and you could ask about what time does your office begin? What time does it end? What time does the school start? What time does it finish? What time you have your lunch break? For how long is your lunch break? So, you could answer from this time till this time. So, kara and made, as you can see on your screens. Now, you can practice also kara and made, two particles from and to or until. So, for with time ichiji kara niji made. So, you will see that kara and made both will follow time. Both will come will be used after time. So, from 1 o'clock till 2 o'clock. You could practice like this simple use to time and then you could use kara and made as well. Now, you could also put name of something, what you want to know for example, Gakko, Gakko, Ginko or you could also use kaisha, kaisha wa ichijikara niji made desu. My office is from 1 o'clock till 2 o'clock. Of course, it does not happen like this, but for practice it is alright. Gakko wa hachiji kara sanji made desu or Ginko wa hachijikara goji made desu. So, you could practice like this and tell about Gakko, Ginko, kaisha class from what time till what time it is. You could practice this with your partner over here, kara and made kaigi. Kaigi is meeting kaigi wa nanji kara nanji made desu ka. So, you could answer from what time till what time. The time is given over here, you could speak out loud and tell from what time till what time. Gakko, Gakko is cool as I told you earlier. Time is again given, kuji, yoji. So, you could ask your partner and could get an answer for it. Then we have Ginko, as I did just now on the board, Ginko wa kuji kara goji made desu. So, you could practice and with practice you will become perfect. Over here also there is practice. Rao san no kurasu wa nanji kara nanji made desu ka? Kuji kara juuichiji made desu. So, again kaisha in kanji also it is given. Over here kanji characters are given for time kuji kara goji made. Gakko wa hachiji kara nijima de hachiji, niji, kaigi sanji, yoji sanji, yoji. So, you could ask and get an answer. Ginko, we did Ginko earlier also, hachiji, rokuji, so you could practice this with your partner in pairs. Now also, we have been talking about offices, of schools, of class, of meetings. You could also tell time for trains, for planes, for bus. You could also talk about programs, for presentations. So, in a similar manner you could ask, hikouki wa nanji desu ka? Meaning, what time is the plane? What time is the train? What time is the departure? What time is your presentation? What time is the bangumi on TV? So, hikouki wa nanji desu ka? Kuji desu, densha and again you have it in kanji characters. Of course, you do not have to worry about the characters so much. These characters are placed over here just for you to get used to the kanjis. Just get the visual, the visual is always very strong, get used to it and when we actually do the character in class, you will be familiar and it will not come as a surprise. Shuppatsu, shuppatsu, happyou, happyou, bangumi means program. Now, replace the underlined words with the words given below. There is a lot of practice for you today because this is new and you have to be comfortable with the numbers with time. Next conversation, Gakko wa nanji kara desu ka? Which we have been doing in this lesson so far, Gakko wa shijijikara desu. So now, what you have to do is, kaisha, you have to tell time. Depato, again you have to tell time. Nihongo class, again time. Then you have juuku, which is coaching class and piano risaitaru. So, you have the time listed over here. You can ask your partner and practice like this. Now, we have done numbers till 100. Numbers are important. Why? Because you will be asking price, you will be using counters. Lot of things are to be done with numbers. So, we also have to do multiples of 1000. We have done 100 multiples of 100 in our last chapter. We will do multiples of 1000. So, 1000 is sen. You could repeat after me, sen or issen. Issen is also used sometimes for 1000. Ni-sen, san-sen. So, please notice it is not sen, it is zen, san-sen, san-sen, yon-sen, go-sen, rok-sen. Please you could repeat after me, rok-sen, nan-sen, has-sen. And now you will see, 8000 is a short sound, has-sen, kyu-sen. And it is not juu-sen, but it is ichi-man. So, the counter for 10000 is man and ichi is for 1. Ichi-man means 10000. Ichi-man, ni-man to 10000. So, ni-man. So, that is how you will practice your numbers please from 1000 till 10000. Now the next one, useful expressions in class we have been doing so far. Today, we had two expressions arigatou and do-itashimashite. I explained those two to you earlier also. Now you will see how it is done. We have these two people A-san and B-san and they are walking on the road and probably A-san drops something on the road and B-san very nicely, gallantly he picks it up and gives it to A-san. So, what does A-san have to say after that? Arigatou gozaimasu. And what does B-san say after that? B-san says do-itashimashite means it is alright or the pleasure is mine or mention not. Arigatou, of course, you know means thank you. So, these are two nice expressions which you should remember, which you can use whenever you are in Japan or you are practicing with Japanese people. Do-itashimashite means the pleasure is mine or as I told you earlier, mention not. Now we have Kanji characters. I have been talking a lot about Kanji and how it is made, how useful it is in the language, why it is essential in the language. So, now you have to learn these characters. We will be doing characters very slowly and all the words that we have done in the lesson, we will try to do those characters. Now earlier I had told you about Yama. So, the character for Yama is like this. It is a three stroke character, but how do you think it has come into being? Well, when you think of mountains, that is how you would draw mountains. Now, this is the peak and this is the base over here. So, like this, it comes like this. This is how a mountain is made in Japanese. In actually Chinese, because these characters are all borrowed from China, these are not original Japanese characters. So, well, once again for you, 1, 2 and 3. As I told you always, the Kanji character will end over here. Once again, 1, 2 and 3. Yama. So, anytime you look at this character now, I am sure you will all understand that it has something to do with mountain. There are two readings for this character, Yama and sun. The words you could remember as yamada san, yamada san and mount fuji. Mount fuji is fuji san. It is not fuji yama, it is fuji san. Please remember that now we have hon. This character you have done in Nihon. Nihon is Japan. So, if you remember, we did this with nichi, which we did last time. Nichi means day. Hon over here means origin or book. So, now you can very easily understand what nihon means. This deals with sun, this deals with origin. So, thus Japan is called the land of the rising sun or actually land where the sun rises first. So, now I will draw it for you. Hon, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Once again, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Nihon. This is a 5 stroke character. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Please do not make it like this or like this. This is not how it is to be made. It is always to be made like this. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. That is the stroke order. So, please remember the stroke order as well. Now, we have one more character for you. This character is what we have been doing in this lesson. This is g, meaning time. Now, time because sun decides the time. So, definitely we have this character over here. Then, we have this over here. Now, this means sun you can you have done already. This character means temple. This means temple also. This also means temple and it is made with the help of two thoughts, the foot and the hand. And what would the priests be doing the whole day or depending on time what they would be doing with their hands and feet is why this character has been put for temple. So, when you join these two, this is a single character. So, when you join these two, it becomes g, which is time. It signifies or it denotes time. So, ichi-ji, ni-ji, that is how it is to be written. I will do the stroke order once again slowly for you. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and then 1, 2. Do you remember this character? This is juu, 10 like this and like this. Once again 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. So, it is a 10 stroke character meaning g. It is a combination of ni-ji and temple. Now, this character please do not mistake it with dai, which we did earlier in our previous chapters. Dai means big, this means origin or book and it is very different but it looks similar as is given over here. Now, there are some common words with these characters. Yamamoto is the name Fuji-san and not Fuji-yama. Yamanobori, this word we did in our chapter earlier is mountaineering as you can see. Then with hon, we have honjitsu means today or this day. Hondana means bookshelf, homono means the actual thing, the genuine article, jikan means hour or time and jidai means era or age. So, you could also add this to your vocabulary now. Some new words with kanji characters. Of course, at the moment you do not need to remember all the kanji characters listed here on your screen. Only the ones in purple you need to concentrate on. There is vocabulary for you. We have done a lot of new words. All this vocabulary you can practice at home. I will just give you the pronunciation once. Kaisha, you can repeat after me please. Kaisha, Gakkou, Yubinkyoku, Byouin, there is a difference in pronunciation, Byouin and Byouin. Byouin is hospital and Byouin is a beauty salon. Misei, super, depato, taishikan, toshokan. Now, it is your time to be working. Work in pairs and practice time over here. You can see on the watch, it is very clearly given. So, I want you to practice with your partner at home and tell time over here. Then, we have practice in pairs using kara and made and ask your partner about the time of various classes in school. So, you can ask what the schedule is for that day. And then, of course, you have these very sweet looking hands over here and they are telling time. You can count the fingers one and also, you can tell time from here. Just count the fingers and add G after that and you will get time. So, practice with your partner. I think it is enough for today. You have done a lot of things, done a lot of practice, learnt a lot of new words and we will end our class over here. Won't trouble you anymore. So, minasan, kore de owarimasu. Ashta mata aimashou. Arigatou gozaimasu. Thank you.