 Konnichiwa. Are you all ready for the Japanese class? Want to learn more Japanese? Well, we definitely will learn more Japanese today as we do in each class and also I will tell you something new today. So, let us see what we are going to do now. Over here we have assignments for you as we do all the time. Let us first go over the assignments see what you have done at home, whether it is right or not, correct or not. Let us try that and then we will do our lesson. So, the first assignment over here is look at the picture and tell where is the tokei, rajio, empitsu, shimbun, isu, kabankagi, tsukue in the room. So, this picture is of a room where there are a lot of objects for you and you have to tell exactly where they are. Well, last time we had we had done locational nouns and this is the exercise for that you have to tell where exactly these things are. So, well, let us see. You have words like ue, shita, tonari, yoko, naka, ushiro, mae and these words you had done. So, this is what we are going to practice over here. Rajio wa terebi no ue ni arimasu. The second one over here is once again haizara. You have done this already in one of the previous lessons. Haizara wa teiburu no tsukue no ue ni arimasu. In a similar manner, you have this camera over here on the table. Let us see what is the word. Well, tonari is the word and this is a tsukue, a table. It has lot of things on the table and lot of things next to the camera on the table. Tonari means next. Kamera wa haizara no tonari ni arimasu. So, arimasu is what we need to practice. Arimasu shows location of inanimate objects where they are situated, the presence of inanimate objects at a certain point. Now, we have the fourth one for you over here is tokei. Now, tokei is on the wall. So, you can use ue and you can also omit ue. Well, it will be like this, tokei wa kabe no ue ni arimasu. For the time being, ue will work, but later on there is a proper verb for it and we will do the verb later. So, tokei wa kabe ni arimasu. And then we have all the others as well. Soba, ushiro. Ushiro is for isu, isu wa tsukue no ushiro ni arimasu. Then again you have ue, enpitsu wa tsukue no ue ni arimasu. Then, table, table wa hea no hea no naka ni arimasu. So many others, shita, kaban wa tsukue no shita ni arimasu. And then the last one is shimbun naka. So, you can practice these with your partner, answer or ask questions for locational nouns which is also equivalent to prepositions in English. In, at, on, besides, along, all these are prepositions in English, but they are used as locational nouns in Japanese. Now, we did how to ask how many things are there, irregular objects or triangular, rectangular, round, small objects. How would you ask how many they are in number? So, well, practice telling how many apples are there in each picture. There are so many pictures, so many apples for you. We will start with one, just a review of what we did. Well, Hitotsu, Futatsu, Mitsu, Yotsu, Itsutsu, Mutsu, Nanatsu, Yatsu, Kokonotsu and To. Now, one thing I want to tell you over here, this is Ikutsu and Hitotsu, Futatsu so on till ten to. After this is ko, counter ko, which we did like ikko, niko, sanko and so on, right till whatever number you want. Now, you would say it is randomly placed over here and there is a reason for putting it randomly, so that you do not get used to just saying one after the other. Hitotsu, Futatsu, Mitsu, Yotsu, Itsutsu, Mutsu, not only just that, but you could just look at a thing and immediately say what number it is. So, that is the exercise over here. Now, again we have so many pictures, number of things listed you can see, ask your partner what this is. Well, Mikan wa ikutsu arimasu ka? Ikutsu is how many as we have already done, Mikan wa Mitsu arimasu and so on you can do for ringo. Well, ringo wa nanko arimasu ka? Itsutsu arimasu. Instead of ikutsu, you can tell the number of objects present and you can also ask is it such a number or is it how many, how many is it? Well, ringo wa nanko arimasu ka? Ringo wa jukko arimasu. So, you can ask in ikutsu as ikutsu how many and nanko as how many both are used. Sakurambo wa ikutsu arimasu ka? Sakurambo wa futatsu arimasu. Then we have ichigo over here, ichigo wa ikutsu arimasu ka? And it is yotsu arimasu. So, this I hope you did it properly and practice at home. Match the words in group A with group B. So, you have the words here. Again, practice how many it is. So, let us see whether you did it properly or not. Hitotsu and you have the answer right here. Keshigomu, kyu-ko, ringo, itsutsu, kopu, mutsu, hakou, juiko, chokorei-to, mitsu, donatsu, futatsu, senbei, nankou, how many? Senbei. Senbei is a snack, a Japanese snack made out of rice, crushed rice, boiled rice, steamed rice and it is flat as biscuits and is very tasty. So, senbei for you over here and momo nanako, 7 pitches. Now, this assignment is write the words given below in Hiragana. Well, as we are doing Japanese over here, we cannot just do it in Roman. We have to write in Hiragana and we need to practice that slowly and steadily. So, let us see what you have done. Did you practice your Hiragana properly or not? Have you learnt it or not? Let us see it right here. Well, you have the picture of an apple, ringo. So, you can just check your spellings over here. Ichigo, mikan, isu, empitsu and over here you will notice that when we pronounce, we say em, but when we write the syllable is en, empitsu, tamago, saifu, momo. You can please check it. Now, this is also very important. We have done a lot of kanji characters so far in our previous lessons. They all look very similar. You can see, you know the words over here. The words are already done. You have memorized them. You make sentences with these words, but now we also need to do the kanji characters because in Japanese when we write, then Hiragana and kanji both are written together. In fact, all three scripts are written together simultaneously. So please, do your kanjis as well. You know the word hon, which means a book. Now, all three look similar. The one in green is right, which is hon. I have already done the stroke order with you here on the board. So well, you can now see the kanji and try writing it also. Then we have hon over here. Hon written like this. So, it is a five stroke character. Then you have ski, which is month. Well, now you have dou over here and then you have hito, which means for person. So, this was your kanji. Please try remembering all of this. Now, we have a small radio conversation for you. Listen to this conversation and let us see how much you have understood. What was new in the conversation? Can you tell me? Well, there was something new definitely and as you have already learnt how to tell shumi, which is hobby. How to tell where you are from? What is your senmon? The next question would be, well, what is your birthday, which is tanjoubi? So, I will read the conversation for you once and then I will tell you exactly what it is. We have done tanjoubi last time as well in our previous lesson. So, in that we did something different, we did the positive. This time, we will do the negative. Tanaka and Kim-san. Tanaka and Kim, two people, futari ne. Ashta wa Kim-san no tanjoubi desu ka? Iie, watashi no tanjoubi wa ashta de wa arimasen. Tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka? Watashi no tanjoubi wa nigatsu no juu ichinichi desu. Ara watashi no tanjoubi mo nigatsu ni arimasu. Nigatsu no nan nichi desu ka? Muuika desu. So well, tanjoubi you already know. I am sure most of it is understood. The only new part over here is de wa arimasen. Tanjoubi wa ashta desu, which is positive. Ashta means tomorrow. We have already done this time expression. Tanjoubi wa ashta de wa arimasen. It is not tomorrow. So, you can also answer like this. And instead of ashta, you can also put your date and ask. Tanjoubi wa sangatsu mikka desu ka? Sangatsu mikka desu ka? A question, ka over here. Instead of ashta, time expression, sangatsu mikka, the third of March. You can also ask, Iie watashi no tanjoubi wa sangatsu mikka de wa arimasen. You can also answer like this. Now, ja tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka? When? Third line, watashi no tanjoubi wa nigatsu no juu ichinichi desu. So, you can ask like this. Ara watashi no tanjoubi mo nigatsu ni arimasu. Ara is just an expression where you show some surprise. Ara, really, is that so? Watashi no tanjoubi mo, mo also you have done earlier, which means also watashi no tanjoubi mo nigatsu ni arimasu. My tanjoubi, my birthday is also in February. Nigatsu no nan nichi desu ka? Well, which what date of February? Muika desu, which is the sixth. So, you can talk like this, have a small dialogue with your friends about tanjoubi. You can tell your tanjoubi, you can ask about tanjoubi, you can give the date of your tanjoubi and so on. This is in the script, as you can see your translation. It is not actually a translation, but well, the meaning is there. Now, you can see over here, anata no tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka? Juugatsu no juu gonichi desu. And if you want to say no, then ee juu gatsu no juu gonichi dewa arimasen. You can change juugatsu no juu gonichi for any of these over here. Ichigatsu suitachi san gatsu mikka, go gatsu ni juu gonichi, hachi gatsu futsuka. And you can answer in desu or dewa arimasen. Over here, anata no tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka? Question, that is what we were practicing. Well, over here instead of tanjoubi, as you can see over there, you can replace it with shiken, which is test, kekkon, which is marriage and niugaku, shiken, which is entrance exam or anything, party. Anata no party wa itsu desu ka? Any of these you can replace it with over here. So many are given. Shiken is test, kekkon marriage, kekkon kinenbi marriage anniversary, niugaku shiken. Of course, you can see his entrance examination. Ten rankai exhibition and tanjoubi birthday as we are doing. Over here, kekkon is marriage and the actual marriage ceremony is kekkon shiki. So, you can replace tanjoubi for any of these and ask and give date as I had given you here. You can put any date over here, any month. For example, we just did san gatsu mikka or any of the previous, in the previous slide, I had given you dates. You can put any of those dates, the ones you have practiced and you can tell your shiken, kekkon, ten rankai, tanjoubi, kekkon kinenbi, anything in this manner. Well, instead of anata, now you can add all the vocabulary that you have done earlier, which is watashi, imouto, tomodachi, okasan, any of this. You can add and use and make sentences and do a small conversation with your friend. Now, this was just revision. Well, now we are going to do something new today. I have already done the first part of this exercise with you in our previous lesson where I told you about arimasu, which means you show location of a certain object at a certain place. So, now as we have done for things, we will do for living things now. Last time we did for inanimate objects. Now, this time we will do for animate, for living things, for people, for animals, for people what is the verb you will use instead of arimasu. Arimasu is for non-living things. So, well, noun 1 wa, noun 2 ni or place ni arimasu is what we did. Hon wa soko ni arimasu or we did hon wa tsukue no ue ni ari. This is what we practiced last time. Now, this time we will do tanaka. Tanaka san wa soko ni imasu. Tanaka san is present over there. So, please for people and for animals it is imasu and not arimasu. Shows location of living things at a certain point, presence of living things at a certain point or place. Now, we will do this small conversation again. Listen to this and see. Rao san wa doko desu ka? Rao san wa shokudo ni imasu. Tanaka sensei mo shokudo ni imasu ka? Ie sensei wa kaigishu ni imasu. Ano kaigishitsu wa doko desu ka? Kaigishitsu wa eriweta no mae ni arimasu. Arigatou. Well, did you understand something? This conversation is also between two people Anu and Arun. Well, I will read it for you. Rao san wa doko desu ka? Rao san wa shokudo ni imasu. Tanaka sensei mo shokudo ni imasu ka? Ie sensei wa kaigishitsu ni imasu. Ano kaigishitsu wa doko desu ka? Kaigishitsu wa eriweta no mae ni arimasu. Arigatou. So, now you will see how arimasu and imasu are used for non-living and living things. Most of it is understood, I am sure. Doko, of course, you know where. Shokudo is the canteen or the dining hall. Shokudo ni imasu. So, person wa place ni imasu. Imasu is for existence of people, ni is for place at that particular point or place or location. Tanaka sensei mo shokudo ni imasu ka? Now a question, Tanaka sensei mo also you have done. Also shokudo ni imasu ka? Ie sensei wa kaigishitsu meeting room or conference room ni imasu. Ano, if you remember we did this ano earlier. Ano is just to attract attention instead of sumimasen which is a little more formal. You can use ano which is more informal. Ano kaigishitsu wa doko desu ka? Again we have done earlier means where kaigishitsu wa eriweta elevator no mae ni arimasu. As we are talking about kaigishitsu arimasu comes over here. It is in front of the elevator. Thank you very much. That is the small conversation which you can do on your own as well. Now you know a lot of words and vocabulary and you can make sentences with the help of particles. So, try this conversation changing using different words, vocabulary that you have learnt. This is in the script. As you can see your translation. It is not actually a translation but well the meaning is there. Now as I told you earlier imasu is a verb which means to exist or to be and shows the existence of a person or an animal at a certain location or point. You have examples here. You can go over the examples and see. Also we have done locational nouns in our previous chapter. Here also we will cover a few more locational nouns for you. So you can just go through this. Now you have this picture here where you can see a teacher, a blackboard and some students sitting in the classroom. So, what are they going to do? How do we tell they are there in the classroom and how many people are there? So well, minasan wa doko ni imasu ka? Minasan is all of them wa doko means where, ni imasu ka? Where are they present? Minasan wa kyou shitsu no naka ni imasu. You can also say kyou shitsu ni imasu and remove the naka over there but just to be more specific, minasan wa kyou shitsu no naka ni imasu. They are inside the classroom. Sensei wa doko desu ka? So instead of saying doko ni imasu ka, you can ask a direct question. Sensei wa doko desu ka? Sensei wa gakusei no mae ni imasu. So, sensei is in front of the students. Sensei wa gakusei no mae in front of them ni imasu. Now, we did with sensei. How will you use arimasu over here? Kokuban which is blackboard wa doko ni arimasu ka? Kokuban wa sensei no ushiro ni arimasu behind the teacher. And sensei wa doko desu ka? Again, sensei wa doko desu ka? Earlier we did sensei wa doko desu ka? And there was another answer. Now, let us see what they have to say. Sensei wa kokuban no mae ni imasu. So over here, kokuban is the subject and over here, sensei is the subject. So, with respect to sensei, where is the kokuban? Where is the blackboard? Now, what you can do is, you can practice the location of the cat over here. Where exactly is the cat? Is it under the table? Over here, you can see under the chair, inside the box, behind the chair and on top of the chair. So, let us see what it is in Japanese. Neko wa isu no shita ni imasu. Neko wa haku no naka ni imasu. Of course, over here again, you can remove the naka over here. Neko wa haku ni imasu is also used and correct. Neko wa isu no ue ni imasu on top of the chair and we have Neko wa isu no ushiro ni imasu. So, this is how you can use your locational nouns that we have studied and you can tell exactly where a thing is placed or where a person is placed with respect to another thing. Now, let us see if you can give me the answers over here. Honda san wa doko ni imasu ka? Honda san wa Tanaka san no ushiro ni imasu. Behind Tanaka san. Tanaka san wa doko ni imasu ka? Tanaka san wa kaisha ni imasu. Tanaka san is in the kaisha or hea ni imasu. Hea no naka ni imasu inside the room. Well, this is a phone so it is inanimate. Now, what is the verb that you are going to use? Will you tell me? Well, let us see what is given over here. Denwa wa doko ni arimasu ka? So, you have to remember for people it is imasu and for non-living inanimate it is arimasu. Denwa wa skuwe no ue ni arimasu. And we have this lady over here. Hisho san wa doko ni imasu ka? Hisho wa Tanaka san no hidari ni imasu. Hidari is left. Left from where you are watching and not from where Tanaka san's hand is. So, please do it like that. You have done imasu and arimasu. Imasu and arimasu. You understand this very clearly. Imasu is for living and arimasu is for non-living things. Now, you have done counting over here as hitotsu futatsu or ikutsu which is how many and so on or ikko ikko niko or nanko for how many. Now, over here how will you count people? So, non is a question word anyway and what will you add after non? Well, for people it is nin. So, it is nan-nin. So, for example, if you want to ask in the previous classroom slide where sensei is there with the students, you can say hea no naka ni kyoshitsu no naka ni nan-nin imasu ka? So, how many people are there in the kyoshitsu? Now, we can practice over here. It is very simple with nin except for one person or two people which is hitori and futari respectively. It is number and nin san nin yo nin go nin and so on. With the number you just add nin to it meaning those many number of people are present at a certain place inside a room or wherever. Yo over here is an exception, hitori is an exception and futari is again an exception. Otherwise, it is all numbers all the time. Now, you can practice nin is the counter used for counting people. Now, you would be understanding counters by now because we have done a number of counters so far. Well, you can look at the picture and tell how many people are there. Hitori, in this picture over here you see a single person, a girl reading something may be thinking so hitori, hitori desu. Over here we have two people futari, hitori and futari are the two exceptions over here. You can ask nan nin imasu ka in the first picture hitori desu. Nan nin imasu ka futari desu. You have how many people can you tell me? Well, yo nin, yo nin desu. So, you have four people here. Yo nin, shashin no naka ni nan nin imasu ka? Shashin no naka ni yo nin imasu. Now, you can tell me kono shashin no naka ni nan nin imasu ka? So, you have hitori, futari, san nin, yo nin and go nin. So, how many people are there? Well, we have go nin, shashin no naka ni go nin imasu. You can practice more over here in this slide. Let us see what the question is. Heya ni nan nin imasu ka? So, hitori, futari, san nin, yo nin, go nin, roku nin, nan nin and hachi nin. Let us see how many are there. You tell me how many people are there. Well, heya ni hachi nin imasu. You can practice more of this. Shashin ni nan nin imasu ka? So, we have a shashin for you. Nan nin imasu ka? Minasan, dozo, let us see. Shashin ni yo nin imasu. Once again, nan nin imasu ka? Or, shashin ni go nin imasu ka? Shashin ni go nin imasu ka? What is the answer? Do we have 5 people here? Hitori, futari, san nin, yo nin, go nin and there is one person hidden over here. So, we have 6 people, roku nin and the question is, shashin ni go nin imasu ka? So, the answer is, iie shashin ni go nin imasen, shashin ni roku nin imasu. Then we have another picture over here for you of this park and kono shashin ni nan nin imasu ka? Well, kono shashin ni yo nin imasu. And as we have a picture which has 4 people here, you can also answer, kono shashin mo yo nin imasu. Is that alright? So, you can use mo also, you can use wa also, whichever you want. Now, what do we have over here? Now you can ask like this, shashin ni san nin imasu ka? Iie shashin ni san nin imasen, yo nin imasu. Look at this picture, shashin ni yo nin imasu ka? Iie shashin ni yo nin imasen, go nin imasu. So, instead of nan nin, you can also use the number and ask how many people are there. Now, as we always do, we will do kanji also because that is also an integral part of Japanese and we need to know the kanjis. Over here, you can see there is a very complicated character but not as complicated as it seems actually. You can make it on the board and you will see how simple it is. You have done the word, ushiro. Kokuban wa sensei no ushiro ni arimasu or for that matter, kokuban wa watashi no mae ni arimasu. It is right here in front of me. At the moment, it is behind if I am looking this side, it is if I am looking towards you, it is behind me. So, this is the word that we are going to do ushiro. One, two, three, one part of the kanji, one, two, three, second part of the kanji, then the third part is one, two and three like this. So, it is a nine stroke character. You will see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine meaning ushiro. It has other meanings also but for the time being as we have done this word, just this one word ushiro, we will try to remember it as ushiro. Also, if I am not mistaken, we have also done go-go as go-go that is p-m meaning later. So, you can also remember it as go. It is a nine stroke character. We have another one over here for you. You have again done this word, mayu. Now, one, two, three, this character you have done if you remember month and this over here. So, let us see how many strokes are there to this character. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. So, again this is also a nine stroke character as ushiro, mai, mai means front off or ahead or before. So, well, two characters for you today. A few words, new words with these kanji characters, you have ato-de, ato-de. Ushiro atogaki means a post script. Mai, front, ahead. Mai-ba means front teeth. Ba means tooth. Mai-kaki or maigaki is a preface. So, well, these are some words, new words with characters which you can learn and practice also. Now, the Japanese have a very typical expression they use before eating, before they start to eat. This expression I think we did last time, itadaki, masu, they will join hands and then say thank you God for all the food that you are giving me. Well, what do they say after having eaten food? What is the word or the expression they use after eating and thanking God again for all the good food that he has provided? Well, the word is gochisou sama. So, you can see, you join your hands and you say itadaki masu, itadaki masu and then you say gochisou sama after finishing your food. After you are through with your food, you thank God again for all the good food that he has provided. So, gochisou sama. Please learn these two expressions, they are nice, they are very handy, they make you very comfortable in Japan and they also and the Japanese also like it very much that you are using their expressions very very freely and nicely where they are supposed to be used. Now, this is some vocabulary, you can go through the vocabulary, we did these words in the lesson. I will just read it out once very quickly. Hidari, Mugi, the meanings are given right here on the right side in black. Kokuban, Hisho, Kazoku. Remember one thing when you are practicing at home, please practice loudly so that you can hear what you are practicing and it helps a lot finally in the long run. Well, now my work is over and your work begins over here. You have to do your assignments at home, you have to practice all this that we have done here in class. The first assignment is this picture where you have to answer these questions over here, they are given. How many people are there? How many ladies are there? How many gentlemen are there? Men are there? How many girls and boys are there? Children are there? So, try to do it with your partner in class or maybe later on after class or at home. Say it out loud, use the counter-nin so that you remember it. Then, we have this picture of a family of Tanaka san and his wife and you have to tell how old they are, how old his family members are and also you have to practice this new vocabulary over here. Okusan means wife, Musuko means son, Musume means daughter, Mago means grandchild, Otoko no hito boys again, Onna no hito girls and Akachan is a baby. So, you can practice all these with your partner, remember the vocabulary and ask and have a small conversation or a dialogue. Now, look at this assignment here, ask your friend what they are going to do in their summer vacations which is Rokugatsu, Yasumi, Natsu Yasumi. So, you have your schedule planned over here, you can see it is all planned, you have to show the picture and ask what they are going to do on these dates during their summer vacation. That way, you can practice all that you have done, your dates, your months, your days of the week, you can practice and do a small conversation. Now, practice with your partner asking where is the bank and the school and bookstore and all these things in the picture located using locational nouns with arimasu and of course, imasu over here if you want. Now, we have match group A with group B which we generally do so that you remember your vocabulary. Then of course, this is the most important part where you have to remember your Kanji characters which you need to write, write them in hiragana over here. So, that is all that is there for today. I want you to do these assignments at home and we will do something new again in our next lesson, next class till then, mata aimashou. Oyasu minasai. Thank you.