2022年2月 – Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning

Course Schedule of Japanese Conversation 4 in Spring Semester 2022

教科名：日語会話4

対象：2年生

教科書：新経典日本語　会話教程　第二冊、第2版　第9課～16課　

以下に授業計画を示します。変更するかもしれませんが、予習のときに参考にしてください。

第1回9課1回目：日本語概説、４自立語の述語文の文末、助詞の働き、動詞述語文、「に、を」動詞文、物のやりもらい文

第2回9課2回目：前回の復習、動詞の活用、テ形の機械練習、Vテあげる：基礎会話1

第3回9課3回目：前回の復習、もらう・くれるの区別、Vテもらう：基礎会話2、Vテくれる：基礎会話2、応用問題1

第4回9課4回目：前回の復習、応用練習2：Vテもらうくれる、敬語表現の基本、基礎会話3：Ｖテいただけませんか

第5回9課5回目：前回の復習、基礎会話4：Vテほしい、挑戦してみましょう

第6回10課1回目：助動詞概論、4自立語と「そうだ」の接続、そうだ外観：基礎会話1、そうだ予測：基礎会話2

第7回10課2回目：前回の復習、応用練習1：そうだ外観、ようだ接続、ようだ／みたいだ：基礎会話3

第8回10課3回目：前回の復習、応用2：ようだ・みたいだ、基礎4：典型らしい

第9回10課4回目：前回の復習、挑戦の一部、と思います、挑戦してみましょう

第10回11課1回目：前回の復習、ようだ推測：基礎会話1、ほかの推測「でしょう、だろう、かもしれない」

第11回11課2回目：前回の復習、そうだ伝聞；基礎会話2、～と言っている：基礎会話4

第12回11課3回目：前回の復習、らしい：基礎会話3、応用2：ようだ、らしい

第13回11課4回目：前回の復習、見える・聞こえる、応用練習1

第14回11課5回目：前回の復習、「そうだ」伝聞と推測の区別、挑戦してみましょう

第15回12課1回目：接続助詞概論、動詞バ形（条件形、仮定形）導入、「ば」「なら」接続と使い分け、挑戦してみましょうの一部「名詞＋なら、」

第16回12課2回目：前回の復習、基礎会話2：ば、基礎会話3；どうＶばいいか

第17回12課3回目：前回の復習、基礎会話1：なら、応用練習2：なら、ばいい

第18回12課4回目：前回の復習、基礎会話４：ずに、応用練習１、挑戦してみましょう

第19回13課1回目：前回の復習、基礎会話１：～と、応用練習１

第20回13課2回目：前回の復習、基礎会話２：たら・ても、基礎会話３：たら、どうする

第21回13課3回目：前回の復習、基礎会話４：たらどうか、基礎会話５、応用練習２

第22回13課4回目：前回の復習、基礎会話6：過去の1回性たら、挑戦してみましょう

第23回13課5回目：「と・ば・たら・なら」総復習、逆接の接続助詞「ても、が、のに」、第14課基礎会話5「のに」

第24回14課1回目：主語と目的語、「をに」の他動詞文の復習、基礎会話１：「を」のない受け身

第25回14課2回目：前回の復習、基礎会話２「を」のある受け身、応用練習１

第26回14課3回目：前回の復習、基礎会話３：自動詞の受け身、基礎会話４：行為者不明の受け身

第27回14課4回目：前回の復習、応用練習２、挑戦してみましょう

第28回15課1回目：使役のコンセプト、基礎会話２；自動詞の使役、基礎会話３：感情誘発

第29回15課2回目：前回の復習、基礎会話１：他動詞の使役、応用練習１

第30回15課3回目：前回の復習、基礎会話４；とおり、応用練習２

第31回15課4回目：前回の復習、挑戦してみましょう

第32回16課1回目：使役＋恩恵（詳細未定）

第33回16課2回目：使役受け身（詳細未定）

第34回：予備日

Boiled Mackerels with MISO that is Salty Soy Beans Paste

The photo above is yesterday’s. I boiled sweet potato in the pan. Those were the potato that I planted in my garden last year.

Still the Ground is Covered with Snow in my Region

This is a photo of today. I wanted to take a picture of train running, but those local trains do not come so frequently.

Today I bought the fish Mackerel. That was not “Horse Mackerel”, but simply “Mackerel”. This is Japan, but we usually see on the supermarket shelves, “Mackerel from Norway”. The mackerel in the photo was not from Norway, but from an Island of Sado which is the major island of Niigata Prefecture.

I boiled them with Miso which is salty soy bean paste for seasoning. Not only Miso, I used also a little bit of sugar, ginger slices, pieces of red pepper, and Japanese Sake for seasoning.

The white slices accompanying with Mackerel is white part of green onion.

Now it’s already the last third (we call it “Gejun”) of Februray. But this winter is cold and still going on. Since the spring semester will start from the coming week, I have been just making PPT slides all day for my classes.

Does He Drink a cup of Water that I put in Front of His Photo?

Viewers of this blog often see the pictures of mountains. Those mountains are all on periphery of Niigata Plain where I live now. Today I am going to write about a mountain which I don’t think I can see from my place, because it is a little far from here, in deeply mountainous area.

One day, when I was a kid, my dad said that he didn’t like mountain climbing. He said the reason. When he was young, he went to climb the Mountain Mikagura (Mikagura-Dake) with his two friends. Bad thing was that, in the middle of summer heat, those three men had just only one bottle of water. My dad had got terrible thirst while walking up and down the Mt. Mikagura. That was the reason of his saying he didn’t like mountain climbing and never wanted to do it again. I was just a kid at that time, but I thought that it was NOT a problem of mountain, but the problem of lack of preparation for mountain climbing in summer.

Now two years have just passed since my dad died. I always offer chrysanthemum flowers, sweet snack like cakes, and a cup of water on his altar. There is a big photograph panel of his face on the altar. Every night before I go to bed, I check the water in the cup. Water in the cup hardly reduce because no one drinks it. Vapor into the room air is little. I also check the water level in flower vase. This one downs every day. I pour water from the cup to the vase so that chrysanthemum flowers could last longer. Then I take the cup to the kitchen, change the water by the tap water, and put it again on the altar, with saying “Hey, dad, drink it”. Of course, there is no answer from the photo frame. I do this because I don’t want him to be thirsty in that world with the same problem that he experienced on Mountain Mikagura in this world.

The Mountain Mikagura is a little far from here. It exists near the border with Fukushima Prefecture. So, it is so deep in the mountainous area between Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures. Now it is winter season, it is difficult to even get closer to the mountain, let alone climbing it. It is cold, there is a lot of snow cover with risk of avalanche. And I don’t have my car (I hate driving). If I want to go there, I have to use public transportation. Even if there were some, I think the buses should be just two or three operations a day. I think I have never seen the mountain, “Mikagura Dake” in the remote area of Aga Town. Now I feel like I want to visit and see the shape of the mountain. Maybe I will find the trail that my dad climbed in his younger days.

Come spring, will I be able to go there? Though I am not sure if it’s possible.