皆様, こんにちにゃあぁ！Welcome to Kiki+Koko: Let’s NihonGO!! Online, giving you the tools you need to survive and thrive in Japanese language and culture. But, what are tools and skills without knowing how to use them properly? We’re here to lead you through an agility course of Japanese language. Using the tapes we gave you, you’ll either be able to use this course as a way to test your skills, measuring your current abilities, or as a way to practise your skills! Sometimes it takes more than just thinking to yourself whether or not you know the materials. It’s easy to think you have a handle on something when it’s right in front of you. But, it takes getting out there and actually jumping through the hoops, crawling under ropes, climbing over that wall thing, swimming through water, running in mud! Only this time, you don’t have to even get proverbially messy because it’s on your own closed course. Though it’s important to make mistakes out there in the real world to get corrections and understand what to do better in future, but it can still be important in the very early stages of learning to have that safe space of memorisation and skill training on your own before taking it out for a test run. We’re Kiki and Koko, your Japanese language and culture teachers as well as your hosts for this test of your classroom vocabulary skills.

𝕃𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖, 𝕠𝕟 𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕔 ℂ𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕞 𝕍𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕓𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕪… We had a listen of those classic jams: 🔊 Basic Classroom Vocabulary | Verbs | TAPE 3 – SIDE A, and 🔊 Basic Classroom Vocabulary | Verbs | TAPE 3 – SIDE B. And, during that, we had throwbacks to previous tapes, on which we tested your skills in 🔊[QUIZ]Listening, Reading, & Translation Practice| Basic Classroom Vocabulary | TAPE 1 + TAPE 2 – SIDE A  and 🔊[QUIZ]Listening, Reading, & Translation Practice| Basic Classroom Vocabulary | TAPE 1 + TAPE 2 – SIDE B. However, these only tested your translation knowledge of said nouns and adjectives. This time, we’re going to test not only your knowledge of these verbs, but a bit about translation and word choice. Don’t worry, we won’t make things too difficult, but we’ll be sure to give you enough of a challenge for this to be something to which you can return for revision and practice.

But, if you find that this activity isn’t enough for you, or you simply want to give it a bit more, you can always do your best to compose your own sentences! With the information we provided so far about verbs, conjugation, particles, and sentence creation, there’s more than enough parts of speech to make a decent bit of composition! It doesn’t have to be something out of this world, but putting in the thought and effort of creating cohesive sentences can be great practice and it acts as a great way to create new pathways in your mind, connecting to even more concepts, therefore anchoring the information in your memory more extensively. Now, it takes time to memorise vocabulary and a bit longer for it to become natural to your everyday speech, but with patience and time, you’ll go far!

You have to start from somewhere, so don’t let yourself get stuck on what you think you can’t do, rather do your best with what you know, and hone what you can do in order to connect those ideas. By already knowing or having a good grasp on some of the concepts we’ve introduced and combining them with the other subjects with which you may not be quite as familiar or comfortable, you’ll be able to bolster those other skills. While it’s important to celebrate what you do know, it’s important to never ignore the things you don’t, or it will begin to sort of pile up and become a barrier that will become more and more difficult to climb with time. Even still, all of learning is a mountain to climb, and even if you do build accidental barriers, we’ll still be there for you, helping you get over the hurdles. And, this is why we continue to compound previous lessons within these quizzes, so that if you were stuck, you’ll have even more chances for the material to become more natural to you!

Now, we’re going to start with some earlier concepts to ease into things, then get a bit more complex along the way!  In each of the sections, we’ll explain what you’ll have to do in order to complete each activity. So, without further ado: Let’s NihonGO!!

Listening (or Reading) Practice |日本語の聞き取り（若しくは読み取り）練習

Hello, there！僕、 QUIZBO™くんです！練習しようよ！Let’s NihonGO!!

We’re starting off with some listening or reading practise. If you’re unable to use the audio clips, then you’ll still be able to use this for Japanese reading practice. We’ll keep this simple, though, and stick to hiragana. If you don’t know one of the characters yet, then it’s still alright, because you can at least try to fill in the blanks with the audio or just practical context. We have here with us the portable version of our computer robot friend, QUIZBO™ Mini, who will be here to help read out the audio portions. And, if you’re not using the audio, then he’ll just be here to encourage you. Are you ready!? Let’s NihonGO!!

次の単語のローマ字化をお選びしてください：
Please choose the romanisation of the following word:

次の単語のローマ字化をお選びしてください：
Please choose the romanisation of the following word:

次の単語のローマ字化をお選びしてください：
Please choose the romanisation of the following word:

Phraseology Practice |用語練習

If you haven’t started learning hiragana, then what are you waiting for? Jump right into learning to read with us! We’ll tell you why it’s useful and help you every step of the way!

In this section, you’ll practise choosing the appropriate word for the situation. Of course, many people can make silly sentences intentionally, but we’re looking for answers that are most appropriate based on context. This takes understanding the meaning of a word to another level, actually understanding which one you should be using in context, helping you pair previous nouns with current verbs. If you’re using this as practice, this will help you anchor these new verbs to the previous words you’ve hopefully already revised. And, if you haven’t, then no worries, you can still use these as context for learning those previous words. Though, of course, it’s best to sort of follow the path or this won’t be as helpful as it could be for you.

This will be a bit more of a skill practice than simple vocabulary as you’ll not only need to know the meaning of the word, but also know how to read it. But, no worries, you can always practise if you’re not quite ready to quiz yourself.

この文に、一番適切な動詞をお選びしてください。
Please choose the most appropriate verb for this sentence.

椅子が　ありませんから、　○○。
いすが　ありませんから、　○○。

肝要なヒント：「ありません」は　「あります」の否定形です。
Vital Hint: 「ありません」 is the negative form of 「あります」

この文に、一番適切な動詞をお選びしてください。
Please choose the most appropriate verb for this sentence.

クラスは　難しいですから、手帳で　○○。
くらすは　むずかしいから、てちょうで　○○。

ヒント：「手帳」は　「ノート」のようなことです。
Hint: 「てちょう」is like a「のーと」.

この文に、一番適切な動詞をお選びしてください。
Please choose the most appropriate verb for this sentence.

読みやすくて　知らない言葉が　ありますから、クラスに　辞書を　○○。
よみやすくて　しらないことば　ありますから、くらすに　じしょを　○○。

ヒント：この文に「しらない」は　「don’t know」を意味します。
Hint: In this sentence,「しらない」means「don’t know」.

Translation Practice |翻訳練習

Now, you’re going to put together your skills from the previous sections in order to actually translate some sentences! We’ll keep it simple by giving you multiple choice, but we’ll also give you a few where you’ll just need to keep to the honour code and write it down or say it aloud or in your mind before revealing the answer.

Now, we’re going to be using a few vocabulary words and grammatical concepts from previous lessons, but even still, you should be able to get good use out of this as long as you know the main vocabulary words from the lesson, and you’ll end up practising a few others along the way~! It’ll allow you to sort of assess your skills and you can even use these to create your own sentences~!

次の文の　英訳を　お選びしてください。
Please select the English translation of the following sentence

「この本を　読みます。　長くなくて　読みやすいですし。」
「kono hon wo yomimasu. nagakute yomiyasui desushi.」

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次の文の　和訳を　お選びしてください。
Please select the Japanese translation of the following sentence

「The teacher is not strict. You only need a pencil and paper.」

次の文の　英訳を　お選びしてください。
Please select the English translation of the following sentence

「楽しい　クラスですが、机と　椅子は　十分ありませんから、床に　座ります」
「tanoshii kurasu desuga, tsukure to isu wa juubun arimasenkara, yuka ni suwarimasu.」

(Don’t worry about the underlined words we haven’t presented before this lesson.)
(このレッスンの前に見せたことなくて下線部を引いた単語を気にしないでください）

Wow wow! That was quite a bit of practice! But, maybe you still feel like there’s more you’d like to do? Well, you can always go through and try to make your own sentences based on the words used, this activity. Perhaps you simply want more practise like this? Well, no worries! We’ll be presenting you with another one of these quiz activities in future. But, for now, there’s no such thing as being too familiar with these vocabulary words. So, feel free to go back to the previous lessons or try to complete the previous quizzes:  🔊[QUIZ]Listening, Reading, & Translation Practice| Basic Classroom Vocabulary | TAPE 1 + TAPE 2 – SIDE A  and 🔊[QUIZ]Listening, Reading, & Translation Practice| Basic Classroom Vocabulary | TAPE 1 + TAPE 2 – SIDE B. With activities like these and possibilities for self-guided composition and writing practice, you have infinite ways to get engaged with your Japanese language studies! That’s why we try to provide content that goes far beyond what’s there at face value, so you can get the most you can out of each and every lesson and quiz.

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