 私の子どもの学校は、子どもがあまり多くないので、スペースがありますが、 近所の小学校は、子どもがとても多いんです。 So something similar to this play food is a sense of like, but it's, it's one of many ways to express the idea of however, our but in Japanese and as rule, though, this this use of got always follows a polite form of the verb or the polite capilla. So here I must like polite form of other, and then followed by gas. So actually, that's important because it's it's how you can tell, those two uses have got apart otherwise, you wouldn't be able to distinguish them. Confusing sure that the same word has totally different meanings in these two different contexts, but at least there's a strong clue that distinguishes between the two, the fact that this immediately follows a polite form of a verb. Okay, so the thing which is that, however, is this whole other separate independent clause, which is that neighborhood elementary school has a topic, children vary are many. So again, my child's school doesn't have many children, and therefore there's a lot of free space, but the neighborhood school, the numberhood elementary school has a lot of children. And one last grammatical point here, what we have is instead of just saying oides, which would be very many, right, children are very many, it's oyendes. And what this is is this, this in is a shorthand for the nominalizing no. So without the, I would say that again, the little translation would be children are very many, but with it, now the little translation is more like it is the case that children are very many. It's like this odd, you know, what in English is a very verbose roundabout turn of phrase to express the same idea. In Japanese, they use this very commonly because, well, as you can see, it's not verbose to express it. Exactly why they would use this in some cases and not others is a complex topic. One explanation given is that it has a sense of stating more like a fact, more of like makes it more like a declaration of fact than just something you casually say. Anyway, there are various explanations for why this nominalization is done, why it's snuck in. This is just the first example we'll see, we'll talk about it in future cases. So first off, we have that elementary school, the one that was just mentioned, the one that has a lot of kids, the sports event day, the sport meet day, that is also a topic of the sentence. And then in morning four o'clock, from morning four o'clock, parents, they're the subject, school before school, well, in front of school, actually I should say, yeah, for physical locations, Maya has a sense of like, in front of, in front of school. This verb here, narabu narandeiru, means to line up. And then tacking on, so this is like, well, seems to be the case. So it seems to be the case that parents in front of the school line up before four in the morning for the sport event day at that elementary school, the one that had a lot of kids in the prior sentence. A few things here to note. So one is that, you know, if we consider Dela to be a combination of day and law, then it's like, well, this is both the location where something is taking place, but also the topic of the sentence. And yet we also have another topic here. Generally, you would think of there being as one topic to a sentence, but I've seen cases where it seems like you get away with having more than one. Maybe there's an alternate explanation for what's going on here, but that seems to be the case to me. And lastly, the verb here, the choice of using the teotiform, I think basically is justified for the same reasons I described before. And then also it's interesting that this is the non-past form of the verb rather than the past. Again, I think because this is describing recurring action, habitual action, something that happens every time they hold the sports festival day, not just at one specific point in the past. 問が開いたらすぐ学校に入れるように何時間も前から学校の外に並ぶんです. Okay, so this is saying, gate, open past tense form conditional, I would translate it as upon opening or upon opened, and then immediately school to school enter potential. So can enterように, we'll talk about this in a minute, and non-zikon. So this is like some number of hours, some number of hours. Marked as a topic with more, a little strange, and then from before, so from before several hours, school outside, so outside the school, that is location where we're lining up. And again, that's another case of using which again doesn't really change the literal meaning. So what this is saying is that for several hours before, people are lining up outside the school in order to enter the school immediately once the gates open. The other notable thing in this clause is that the time expression several hours before, from several hours before is written as two separate noun phrases marked by separate particles. I find that a little strange. Honestly, I don't really understand it. I would expect this to be expressed somehow as a single noun phrase, and yet you have more here. The best explanation I come up with is that more has a sense of not just an addition, but also like even, so even several hours, even some number of hours before, and they have to line up. Okay. And then up here, this is actually quite tricky to explain, honestly, I don't fully understand it. Soように is a, well, you mark a clause withように and it has a sense of being the intended result of some other action. So here, people do this for the intended result of this, so that they can, they line up at the school several hours before, so they can enter the school immediately once the gate opens. Grammatically what's going on here is, well, yoh, the yoh in question here is a number of yohs. It's this one, this one that uses the character for some honorific, but it has a sense of like way of doing something, method of something, form, style, design, or peering and looking. So in the way of something, an imitation of something, I guess, maybe it's the best translation. I don't know, I find it very, I've not seen a good translation of this word. It's really hard to nail down what this word means in itself. Anyway, in this form, in other context, you'll see it used as a, as a, as a not adjective. And when you make an adjective and adverb, you put ni in it. So this is like an adverbial form of yoh, of this, like in the style of, in the way of something and what way of what in this case, well, we have this clause before it. So in the way of, in the style of this, people do this. Again, it's probably not a good translation because it's more like, well, people do this with the expected result of this is the real sense of it here. So the other interesting thing here is itadah, this is a form of akku, which is the intransitive verb meaning open. So the gates are opening. And the tada form has a sense of, it's usually translated as like if or when. If the gate opens or when the gate opens, then everyone can immediately enter, but I think a better translation would be upon, upon the gate opening. And I think that's a better translation because a key sense of the tada form, a key part of it is that it is a sense of like a trigger of like this thing happens, and then the thing that follows comes after in sequence or, or is immediately triggered in sequence by this thing happening. Whereas if and when there are a lot of ways you would use if and when in English that wouldn't fit that criteria. So they would, they'd be a false translation in that case. So yeah, that's why I think it's better to translate this as upon the action. Disneyland mitai de taihen desu yo ne? Okay, this one's pretty simple. We just have Disneyland of course with the suffix mitai, which has a sense of like resembling or something which is like, so Disneyland like and then taihen, so troublesome, challenging. And de here is actually not the particle de like in this sentence down here, this next sentence, this day is actually the conjunctive form of the copula. So something is Disneyland like and then also something is troublesome. And at the end here, we have the end sentence particles, yo ne, which are just just expressing an attitude about the statement basically. So it's like, don't you know, and don't you agree basically combined together. So the overall meaning here is that something is like Disneyland and is troublesome. And from context from the prior statement, you know, she's talking about the school, people having to line up at the school to get in because it's so crowded. Now, you may be wondering, how do you tell apart the conjunctive form of the copula and the particle form of the copula? Honestly, I don't know. I'm not sure there really is a way. It's really kind of disconcerting because in other cases, like we saw earlier with with GOP in prior sentences, you know, there's the form that there's the GOP particle used to mark the subject. And then there's the GOP particle, the the the end sentence particle, or as it's a conjunction that's only used after the polite form of the verb or the polite form of the of the copula. So in that case, you have a clear immediate contextual clue about which got you've encountered. And so it's it's it's not actually hard to discern them. It's there's a pretty clear distinction. Whereas here, you know, the copula and the particle are both just preceded by some noun phrase. So here, I'm not sure how we know this is meant to be the copula form. Somehow the grammar parsing library that I use did figure it out. That's why it's highlighted like the copula here instead of a particle. But I'm not sure what clue it used. I don't really know how it figured that out. Anyway, that's something I don't have a great answer for. 2020. Okay, so this is saying from 2020 year 2020 corona day, meaning like in the bounds of corona in the time of corona, the sports festival as a topic, and then cancellation marked by knee, making it well, like the target of the action. And what is the action here? Well, it's a form of not meaning to become. So it became canceled. It became canceled is what's what's the same. And note here, we have the the Tati form, which means we're inexhaustively list listing actions that happen. And so the other thing that happens is that extremely small event as is the target of becoming again, not so it became an extremely small event. And then again, in the pattern we use this Tati form, your list actions, you end with a form of of so do. So here's the past tense polite form of so do. Okay, so this year from this year. Again, various events. That is the subject and then began. And after the platform of a verb, we see when you have got immediately following the platform of a verb or the copula that tells you it's not the subject marker. It's it's a conjunction, meaning like but or however, it's one of many ways to say but or however in Japanese and then sports festival as the topic. Hotondo as an adverb means like mostly, but here it means most. So it's used as a no modifier. So most elementary schools at most elementary schools. Korono no toki. So time of Corona told this particle here is well, the so-called quoting particle, but here has a sense of like, if we're talking, if we're talking about the time of Corona, then what follows is. Onaji yoni. So this is again, we saw yoni earlier, meaning like the result, the intended result of an action, but here it's more like same way, in the same way, small event ni. So this is the target of action, which is becoming. So it became small event in the same small, in the same way. And then mitai desu at the end. So after your verb adding mitai has a sense of like, well, I think it's the case, you know, it makes it more suppositional. So the whole thing is like from this year again, various events began. However, sports festivals at most elementary schools, in the same way as the time of Corona, seems like there'll be small events. Watashi no kodomo no shougakko mo. Kotoshi no undoukai wa gozen chuu dake deshita. So my children's elementary school, also as well, this year's sports festival as a topic, during the morning, and dake is a particle meaning like only. So only during the morning was. So as for my children's elementary school, this year's sports festival was only in the morning. Dakara o bentou o tsukuranakutemo yokatta desu. Dakara is, it means therefore. Pretty obviously it's made out of the informal copula followed by kara, so like from that, from the thing just said is like the literal translation, I would say. And then o bentou, so lunch is our direct object and make in negative tei form, and that's followed by mol. And when you put a tei form verb in front of mol, it has a sense of like, even doing this. So even if not make lunch, and then what follows is the polite past tense of good, so was good. So the whole thing is therefore, even if not make lunch, it was fine that I didn't have to make lunch because as said in the prior sentence, the event is only in the morning. So I'm gonna actually start backwards here, because it'll be easier. So here this part is saying that there's a rule that was and here we have a relative clause construction. It's a noun preceded by a verb and that's generally your clue that, ah, this is a relative clause construction. And so what is the verb? It's say and what is being said. It's a rule that says, and what's being said is marked by the to particle. And so it's actually all of this is the clause marked by to. And so what this clause is saying is it's saying leisure sheet again, which means like picnic blanket. That's a direct object of motte so hold, which is in the tei form. And then the iru part of the tei form is itself in the tei form. Well, okay, so this construction here is you have tei form of verb wa and then ike nai, which again is like the, it's iku in the potential negative form. So cannot go. So it has a sense of, we saw a similar construction earlier. It's a sense of like holding a picnic blanket, possessing the picnic blanket would not go. It's not something you should do. It's something you must not do. So it's saying there is a rule that says that you can't hold, you can't bring a picnic blanket. And then sora kara, that's literally just a sora is in like that, that thing from that thing. It has a sense of, well here it says, and then or after that. So it's just another connective phrase basically. And then the next sentence. Minna tatte mimasu. So everyone stand and see with the overall sense of everyone stands to see. No one has picnic blankets. They're not sitting on the ground. Everyone's just standing to watch. Now, you might be wondering why minna is not marked by a particle. It's not the topic. It's not the subject. Well, I would say it's adverbial here. It's pretty much always the case of you. If you see a noun in a clause, it's not marked by a particle. Then well, it must be adverbial. And that's very strange. Cause in English, like there's no equivalent in English where you could use everyone as an adverb like this. Like you wouldn't say everyone Lee stood and watched, right? That'd be very strange and not valid English, right? But this is an aspect of Japanese as they use adverbs in a more expansive way than we do in English. So yeah, it's a strange construction from an English perspective, but you'll see other cases like this. Another interesting question here is, well, is this actually technically two separate clauses or is it one clause? You have a verb in te form that links into another verb. Should we think of that as being two separate linked clauses or is it all just one clause? I'm not really sure how to think of this. You see a lot of cases where in conjunctive form of the verb, the te form of the verb immediately follows another verb. And in many cases that forms sort of like the verb that follows is treated like an auxiliary. Like say, if we look at the definition for Miro here, you'll see that Miro can be used as an auxiliary verb to have a sense of like to try or to discover to find something out. So in another context, tatte mimos could mean even try to stand is what it could mean in some other contexts. Though obviously in this context, it means they're standing to see. Anyway, so it's just another case in Japanese where things are generally more ambiguous, less specified, less nailed down and more reliant upon context. Okay, so this is therefore a leisure sheet, meaning picnic blanket, direct object ofoku, meaning put, tame meaning sake. So like for the sake purpose of putting on a sheet and then ni marks it as the target of action, the indirect object perhaps. And then early morning, from early morning, lining up people, people that line up early morning, marked by mo, and then inaku narimashita. So narimashita, past tense of become, inaku is the negative adverbial form of iru, meaning exist. And so very literally this is became not existently. And so together this has a sense of making something disappear to not exist anymore. So the overall sense of this is that therefore people who show up early in the morning to put down blankets, they no longer exist. People aren't doing that anymore. Some of the choices of particle here are a little interesting like the use of mo here to mark the people that the people lining up early in the morning. I think that makes sense because they no longer exist and so mo might be more appropriate in that case. That's my hunch. And the use of ni on tame makes sense here because this is one way of expressing the idea of the main verb of the clause is done in order to do something else. In many cases, the secondary result of the action is marked by ni. Morning, during morning, choose like a suffix, meaning during within. So during morning, dake meaning only. And then de as a particle marking it as the bounds of action, the bounds of time in this case. So only during the morning and then we have that tari tari suru construction. So an inexhaustive list of things that are being done. So one is running, dancing, and then various things are also done. Kotou is a general word meaning like thing. Well, it has a number of uses we'll encounter later, but one sense of it is just thing. And then the whole clause here is marked by kara because it is an explanatory clause. It explains something else. It is the reason for something else. And what it explains is that we are somewhat busy. And again, we have the polite kapla followed by ga. So it has a sense of being like however or but. So however, I as the topic, and then what about me? Well, the sports festival is the subject morning, only during morning, and that's the target, the result of becoming. So become only during morning. The sports festival became only during the morning. And then truly happy, truly glad. And so the overall translation is that well, because we did only during the morning, running, dancing, and various other things, then I or perhaps we were a bit busy. However, as for myself, I'm glad now. I'm happy now that the sports meet has become only during the morning. Demo, sports ga daisukina ko wa motto nagai jikan undoukai wo shitaika mo shiremasen ne. So demo at the beginning has a sense of but or however. Again, there are many ways to express that idea in Japanese. And then sports as subject and then love or very much like child is our topic. This is confusing. I'll come back to this, but what this actually all means is that it's about kids who love sports is what this is actually saying. So that's our topic, kids who love sports and then more long time period. This is an adverbial time phrase and then sports festival as an object of shdai. So this is actually sort of the typhoon of sort of meaning want to do. So want to do sports festival. And then kamo marks this action, this wanting as being something that's possible. And then here are the verb. Well, it could be the polite negative of the potential of shire, of no. Or it could just be the intransitive of coolant of shire, so it could just be intransitively not knowing. Unfortunately, they're homonyms. So I'm not really sure which it's meant to be. Both kind of make sense to me really. Anyway, kamo preceding not know has a sense of like saying that something may be the case. You don't know if something is the case or not, but it might be the case. And then again, ne is just incendence protocol meaning like don't you think. So the overall meaning here is, but however, children who love sports, more long time, maybe they want, maybe it's the case that they want to do the sports festival for a more long time. That's the sense of this. Now, the really interesting thing here is that we have child here marked by this clause. This is a relative clause construction. It's a clause preceding a noun. Very literally, this is like sports is loved children. Children for whom sports is loved is the very literal translation here. Unfortunately, there's a grammatically ambiguity here where you can interpret this alternatively as just being a so-called non-adjective, like Daisuki is a non-adjective, so Daisuki no ko, so it could be, it could mean a favored child, a loved child. And so very strangely then, this would be saying sports is a loved child, which obviously is a strange idea to express and so not what's intended here, but grammatically, as far as I know, that's equally just as valid in interpretation here. Okay, now we have a very short sentence, so I'll just lump it with the following longer sentence. Muzukashii desu ne. Aki wa gakkou no evento ga takusan aru no de. Mata hoka no evento no hanashi mo shitai to omoimasu. Okay, so this is just saying literally, something is difficult. What is difficult? Well, presumably it's what she just mentioned. It's the fact that children who love sports maybe want to have a longer sports day. And so perhaps accommodating that is a difficult situation. Anyway, so the next sentence then is autumn as our topic. School event as a subject vary or many exist. So it's a many school events exist in autumn. No de here is a way of marking the clause as being an explanation. That's another way of marking something as an explanation. Why you would use this and not kata here or other alternatives? I don't really know, but this is one way of expressing causality. And then the follow-up is again, other event stories also want to do as in like want to tell stories about other events. And then the whole thing is marked by the quoting particle tol because it is, well, here this means think. So it is the thing that is thought, the thing that she thinks. So the whole sentence is saying that as for autumn in autumn, there are many school events and therefore she thinks that she wants to again tell stories about other events. Finally, last sentence. では今日はこれで終わりにしましょう. また来週. First off, dewa is a particle, it's a combo particle of de and wa. And we saw it used earlier marking a noun phrase. Here there's no noun phrase preceding it. So it's really more of a, it's just an interjection here and it has a sense of like well then. So well then, today that's our topic,これで so like in a very abstract way with this and then a lot of end marked by ni. So it's the target of our action, which is to do. So this is the platform is sort of, but the show at the end makes us like a volitional. So very literally like let us do to the end. So the whole thing means well then as for today, with that, let's end it here. Let's end it. And then the very last sentence, the sign off says again next week as in like, I'll see you next week, we'll do this again next week.