聞く•見るしゅくだい (4月13日)

こんにちは！

Today, I watched a YouTube video for a little under 15 minutes that allowed me to practice my listening and reading skills. Here’s the video: 

Brief Summary and Impression: 

This YouTube video talks about what a person does each day of the week from Monday to Sunday. This video was very easy to follow along with, since both kanji and hiragana were provided for us to read. Because kanji was provided to us, it was nice being able to review kanji characters that we have learned previously. The speaker spoke at a pace that was very comfortable for me to listen to. I felt that this video included a very good number of vocabulary, verbs, and grammar structures that I am now familiar with. 

With this video, I was able to acknowledge how much stronger my Japanese skills have gotten. Chapter 9 had several grammatical structures, and because of this video, I was able to practice listening and identifying those specific structures. Though I heard a lot of unfamiliar verbs and nouns, I can acknowledge that I understood a good amount of the video too. Here are some of the grammar structure and vocabulary that I found in the video:

• verb -ていて (ongoing action)
• ~たり、〜たりする verb structure 
• 作った, 聞いた, 読んだ　(plain past tense form of verbs)
• すこし
• て form of verbs (食べて, 見て, etc.)
• ことがある
• ゆっくり
• さいきん
• きょうみがある
• えを書く

This video also helped me to review vocabulary or grammatical structures from last semester. I really enjoyed the set up of this video as it pushed me to make inferences about the meanings of certain words.