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| Ok, let’s take a look at the key vocabulary for this lesson. |
| The vocabulary for this lesson is weather-related words. Let’s go one by one. |
| First is, |
| あつい (atsui) |
| あつい (atsui) meanas “hot” |
| あつい (atsui) |
| Next is, さむい (samui). |
| さむい (samui) means "cold” |
| さむい (samui) |
| さむい (samui) |
| Next is, むしあつい (mushiatsui) |
| This means "muggy” or “humid” |
| むしあつい (mushiatsui) |
| むしあつい (mushiatsui) |
| Next is, あめ (ame) |
| あめ (ame) "rainy” or “rain” |
| あめ (ame) |
| Next is, ゆき (yuki) |
| ゆき (yuki), this means “snow” or "snowy” |
| ゆき (yuki) |
| Next is, かぜがつよい (kaze ga tsuyoi) |
| かぜがつよい (kaze ga tsuyoi), this means "windy” |
| かぜがつよい (kaze ga tsuyoi) |
| Next we have, あたたかい (atatakai) |
| あたたかい (atatakai), this means "warm” |
| あたたかい (atatakai) |
| Finally is, すずしい (suzushii) |
| すずしい (suzushii), this means "cool” |
| すずしい (suzushii) |
| Ok, so with these vocabulary in our minds, let’s take a look at a dialogue for this lesson. |
| Ok, let’s take a look at the dialogue for this lesson. |
| Imagine this dialogue is between two neighbours who meet in the elevator. |
| One of them says, |
| きょうは あついですね。(Kyō wa atsui desu ne.) |
| And the other person says, |
| そうですね。(Sō desu ne.) |
| This means "It's hot today, isn't it?" |
| きょうは あついですね。(Kyō wa atsui desu ne.) |
| And the reply is, "It is, isn't it?" |
| そうですね。(Sō desu ne.) |
| In the first sentence, we see あつい (atsui) “hot,” one of the weather related words. Let’s take a look at few more example sentences now. |
| Ok, let’s take a look at few more example sentences. |
| First we have, |
| きょうは さむいですね。 (Kyō wa samui desu ne.) |
| Which means "It's cold today, isn't it?" |
| In this sentence, the weather word is さむい (samui). |
| さむい (samui) “cold” |
| It comes before this ですね (desu ne) |
| ですね (desu ne) |
| So this です (desu) represents, in English, kinda like “is” feeling for the sentence. And this ね (ne) at the end makes it kind of a confirmation question. |
| "It's cold today, isn't it?" |
| きょうは さむいですね。 (Kyō wa samui desu ne.) |
| Next we have, |
| きょうは むしあついですね。(Kyō wa mushiatsui desu ne.) |
| So, “today is muggy, isn't it?” If we break the parts of the sentence down. |
| In this sentence, we have むしあつい (mushiatsui) |
| むしあつい (mushiatsui), which means "muggy” or “humid”; so this sentence means “It's muggy today, isn't it?” |
| きょうは むしあついですね。(Kyō wa mushiatsui desu ne.) |
| Finally, we have, |
| きょうは あめですね。 (Kyō wa ame desu ne.) |
| きょうは あめですね。 (Kyō wa ame desu ne.) |
| Which means "It's rainy today, isn't it?" |
| きょうは あめですね。 (Kyō wa ame desu ne.) |
| So you might think, あめ (ame), doesn’t that mean “rain?” |
| It can also mean “rainy?” Yes! We can use them in the same way. |
| So in this context, we can imagine it being “It’s rain today, isn’t it?” if you want to be super direct. But in natural English, we say "It's rainy today, isn't it?" |
| きょうは あめですね。 (Kyō wa ame desu ne.) |
| Ok, let’s take a look at a sentence pattern you can use to create sentences like these on your own. |
| We have… |
| きょうは [WEATHER CONDITION] ですね。(Kyō wa [WEATHER CONDITION] desu ne.) |
| きょうは [WEATHER CONDITION] ですね。(Kyō wa [WEATHER CONDITION] desu ne.) |
| Which means “It's [WEATHER CONDITION] today, isn't it?” |
| So in this pattern, we see きょうは (Kyō wa), marking “today.” Today is what we’re talking about. きょうは (Kyō wa) |
| And then a weather condition is something we can choose from this list of vocabulary here. So we can choose one of these words to put in this part of the sentence. |
| きょうは あついですね。(Kyō wa atsui desu ne.) |
| きょうは ゆきですね。 (Kyō wa yuki desu ne.) |
| Whatever you want to express, you can put it in this part of the sentence. Then you can end it with ですね (desu ne). |
| Make sure to add this ね (ne) to have that kind of friendly agreement sort of feeling, like you’re making a conversation with someone. |
| So this will create the sentence “It's [WEATHER CONDITION] today, isn't it?” |
| We saw this in the original dialogue sentence, |
| きょうは あついですね。(Kyō wa atsui desu ne.) |
| “Today is hot, isn’t it?” or "It's hot today, isn't it?" |
| We also saw this pattern here in these examples. |
| きょうは さむいですね。 (Kyō wa samui desu ne.) |
| きょうは むしあついですね。(Kyō wa mushiatsui desu ne.) |
| きょうは あめですね。 (Kyō wa ame desu ne.) |
| They all follow the same pattern of introducing “today” as the topic, some weather condition, and then ending with ですね (desu ne) to show that it’s kind of a conversational point. |
| So you can create your own sentences with this pattern. |
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