、人々は月を見て、多くの事を
。イングランドでは、
は月は
だと
。日本では、人々は
と考えました。
日本語 |
English |
ひらがな |
月 |
The moon |
つき |
昔 |
a long time ago |
むかし |
想像しました |
imagined |
そうぞうしました |
人々 |
people |
ひとびと |
チーズの球 |
a ball of cheese |
チーズのたま |
考えました |
thought |
かんがえました |
月にはウサギがいる |
there was a rabbit on the moon |
つきには うさぎ が いる |
Mukashi, hitobito wa tsuki o mi te, ōku no koto o sōzō shi mashita. Ingurando de wa, hitobito wa tsuki wa chīzu no tama da to kangae mashi ta. Nihon de wa, hitobito wa tsuki ni wa usagi ga iru to kangaemashi ta.
昔、人々は月を見て、多くの事を想像しました。イングランドでは、人々は月はチーズの球だと考えました。日本では、人々は月にはウサギがいると考えました。
桜先生、
このサイトはとっても便利で面白くて有用ですね。五年前ぐらい、日本語の勉強を始めたけど、やめた。よく、やめて、続けられなかったんだ。元気テキストを読んじゃった。エリンの挑戦も見ました。でも、後でどうする続けるか分からなかった。実は、一年半の前、中国語の勉強を始めました。もう、僕の中国語のほうがいいですよ。沢山簡単な小説を読んですから。日本語の上達のために同じ仕方をしようと思います。とにかく、サイトをアップして、ありがとうございます。
チャーリーさん、
コメントを送ってくれて、有難うございました。
このサイトを見つけてくれて、とても嬉しいです。
これからは、日本語の勉強も頑張ってください。
応援しています!
さくら
I have a question: “How can I find the dictionary form of 「想像しました」?”
I know that you’d given me the word meaning. But I want to learn more about it, so I need to know if there is any way to reverse the form of a word back to dictionary form?
BTW, your website is wonderful. Thank you so much for your great resource. Is it ok if I share it?
Sorry that I did not answer your message right away. I somehow overlooked it. I am not sure there is such a dictionary. But in this case the dictionary form is 想像する (そうぞう する)which means to imagine. I hope this answers your question. If not, just let me know.
Thank you, I’m very appreciated your help.
You are doing a great service to spread the language further across the planet. Usually it is difficult to practise Japanese outside Japan. This is due to lack of resources. But your website helps a lot.
Please continue your great efforts.
I am so glad you feel that way. It makes me feel good about this site. Thank you!
ありがとうございます!! Your website is amazing! This helps me a lot、thousand times thanks!
What a nice complement! Thank you.
I don’t understand what だた after the チーズの球 means.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much!
Actually, it was 「だと」. The 「だ」is simply the informal form of 「です」. The「と」is used for quotes in Japanese. Think of「と」as something like “that” in English.
Consider the following example:
わたし は きょう は にちようび だ と おもいます。
watashi wa kyou wa nichiyoubi da to omoimasu.
Meaning: I think that today is Sunday.
These are very helpful, thanks!
I am very glad you are find the site useful.
This site is certainly useful for Japanese learners. It is nice that there is alow and a fast version. With the slow version, we can start to understnad; with the fast, we can get used to the normal rate of speaking. If we had only the fast, it would take to long to understand what was being said. The two-step process is appropriate.
A professor in the United States likes this site, and he thought it would be nice to apply its ideas also to the international language Esperanto. I agree. Esperanto is quite easy, but an additional learning aide like that presented here in Slow Japanese would be useful for Esperanto, for Chinese, for any language.
I am an adult educator. Perhaps the goal of this site is to earn a secondary income. That is normal and appropriate. Perhaps the goal, however, is more toward the idea of Open Source and Education for All. If the objective is to help all people, I think that is even more noble. We need Japanese, we need Esperanto, we need every language that we can.
I hope the author of this site would like to share, in the tradition of education and science, but if not, that is understandable.
Thanks for your comment. If you would like some advice or tips I would be happy to help if I can. Please contact me through the “Contact Me” Tab at the top of the page.
I’m amazed at how much I can understand when listening at an appropriate speed. Thank you for all your hard work!
I remember how frustrated I got when I was first started studying English and I had trouble listening to fast speakers.
Thank you for all the pieces of news and wonderful reading.
You are so welcome. I am glad you are enjoying the site.
わかり易くて面白い本文ですね。
メッセージ、ありがとうございます。
これからも、分かり易い文を書いていきます。
Nice. I am now able not only to read but also understand the meaning very clearly. Please post more stories like this. Thank you Sakura.
You are welcome. I will start posting more basic listening material from now on.