Choice of Happiness Week #9

 

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.

 

Step #3~ VocabularyReview

 

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)