Week #9 ~ Choice of Happiness 2025
Step #2~ Grammar
Sounds good now…
We take a look over here and …
Please read
Any/no + hikakukyu (any longer / no bigger nado)
Alright
now
Please
read the first 2 sentences….
#1 ~ I’ve waited long enough. I’m
not waiting any longer
(Kore ijyou matsuki wa nai)
#2 ~ We expected their
house to be very big, but It’s no bigger than ours.
(Karera no ie ha totemo okiito omotteita
ga, watashi ga ie hodo de wa nai)
Sounds
good now…
Please
read the last 2….
#3 ~ Yesterday you said you felt sick.
Do you feel any better today?
(Kinou ha
guai ga warui to itteimashita ne.
Kyou wa genki ga sukoshi
ha ii desu ka?)
#4 ~ This hotel is better
than the other one, and it’s no more expensive.
OK now…
These ones
in English, please…
1. #1, & #2, please
#1 ~ “mou /
kore ijyou” ~ #1 ~ not
any better
#2 ~ no better
#2 ~ “Tenki wa
kinou yori yokunai” ~
#1 ~ The weather isn't any better than yesterday
#2 ~ The weather is no better than yesterday
(If needed: Please make a note)
OK
now…
Alright now...
How about the next 2...
2. #3, & #4, please
#3
~ “sore ijō yasenai / sore yori yaseteinai” ~ #1 ~ not any thinner
#2 ~ no thinner
#4 ~ “1-Kagetsu-kan kono daietto o tsudzuketeiru
no ni yaseteinai” ~
#1 ~ Even though
I have been on this diet for a month
Even
though I have been dieting for a month
Even
though I have dieted for 1 month
#2 ~ I am not any thinner
I
am no
thinner
(If needed: Please make a note)
OK
now…
Alright now...
How about these ones...
3. #5, & #6, please
#5
~ “Sore ijō
hayakunai / sore yori hayakunai” ~
#1 ~ no faster
#2 ~ not
any faster
#6 ~ “Mōsukoshi
yukkuri shite kuremasen ka,
Watashi wa kore ijō hayakuarukenai” ~
#1 ~ Can you slow down, please.
Can you slow down a little, please
Can you walk a little more slowly
#2 ~ I can’t walk any faster.
(If needed: Please make a note)
Sounds good now…
The last one for this section..
4. #7, & #8, please
#7 ~ “Yori kantan dewanai”
~
#1 ~ no easier
#2 ~ not
any easier
#8 ~ “Watashitachi wa kono bunpō no pointo o
3-kai renshū shita no ni,
kantan ni naranai” ~
#1 ~ Even though we have
practiced this grammar point 3 times
#2 ~ It isn’t getting any easier
It isn’t any easier
It is no easier
(If needed: Please make a note)
Sounds
good now…
We
shift to an easier section and…
5.
#9, #10, & #11, please
#9 ~ “~wo
shinaide” ~ *Don’t…
*Don’t do…
#10 ~ “Anata
ni ~wo shite hoshikunai” ~ *I wish you
wouldn’t
*I wish you wouldn’t do that
#11 ~ “Son'na ni yoku fāsutofūdo
o tabenaide.” ~
*Don’t eat fast food so often
*Please don’t eat fast food so often
(If needed:
Please make a note)
Sounds
good and...
The
last 2 for this
section....
6.
#12, & #13, please
#12 ~ “Watashi wa anata ni son'na ni fāsutofūdo o
tabete hoshikunai” ~
*I wish you wouldn’t eat so much fast food
#13 ~ “Katei
ni watashi no furaido poteto wo torenaide” ~
*Don’t take my fries without asking
*Don’t take my french fries without asking
*Don’t take my fries without my permission
(If needed:
Please make a note)
Step #5 ~ Grammar Into #1
Alright …
Sounds good…now…
We take a look over here and…
20. What CAN AT show?
#1 ~ “AT” can show #1 ~ in the direction of
#2 ~ toward
OK so then…
(Change
picture #38)
21.What CAN “AT”
show…?
“At
wa dousa ga m butukerarete irutai mata wa jinbutsu wo shimesu koto ga dekimasu….”
*"At" can show the object or person that an action
is directed towards
*It can show the object or person that an action is directed
towards
(If needed: Please make a note)
Alright …
Sounds good…now…
If you turn your papers over and take a look at
the other side…
22.#14, #15, #16,
#17, #18, &
#19,
please
#14 ~ “~ wo miru” ~ look at
#15 ~ “~
wo jitto miru” ~ stare at
#16 ~ “~
wo niramu” ~ glare at
#17
~ “~ wo mitsumeru” ~ gaze at
#18 ~ “~ wo mitte miru” ~
take a look at
#19 ~ “~
wo chotoonozoite miru” ~ take a peek at
take a little peek at
(If needed: Please make a note)
Alright …
Sounds good…now the last 2….
23.#20, & #21, please
#20 ~ “Kare
wa tsugi ni kanojo ni nan to itta no deshou ka?” ~
*What DID he say to
her next?
#21 ~ “Anata
no mō hitotsu no jinsei wo nozoite mimasen ka?”
*Would you like to take a peek at your other life?
*Would you like to take a peek at the other life?
*If you could take a peek at the other life…
*How about taking a peek at the other life?
*Why don't you take a peek at the other life?
*Why don't you take a peek at your other life?
*Would you like to see the other life?
*Would you like to see your other life?
(If needed: Please make a note)
