On this page, you can learn how to talk about relationship between people in your family in Japanese.
Key Sentence
First box: English, Second box: Romaji, Last box: Japanese writing and audio
| My younger sister and I are twins. |
| i mo u to to wa ta shi wa fu ta go de su |
| 妹と私はふたごです。 |
One by one
- 妹（いもうと） → my younger sister
- と → and
- 私 → I
- は → no meaning
- ふたご → twins
- です → are
Vocabulary
【Japanese Vocabulary】My family
What you learn: my mother, my father, my older sister, my older brother, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, my uncle / Extension: Use 一番上の for the oldest and 一番下の for the youngest to describe people in your family. Put a counter for people after brothers or sisters if you want to talk about more than one brother or sister.
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2016.11.12
【Vocabulary】Family relationship
Do you know brothers, sisters, twins or cousins in Japanese? Let's check them all here.
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Grammar
【Japanese grammar】verb て form + います (imasu) = be + verb-ing: Present Continuous
Let's learn how to say those sentences in Japanese: My mother is eating pasta with my older sister. I am playing with friends in a park. My father is listening to music in a living room now. My older brother is drinking sake with friends now. My uncle is playing baseball at a stadium now.
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2016.11.08
Review
Task 1: Change into Japanese.
- Ken and I are cousins.
- Makoto and Hideki are brothers.
Task 2: Change into English.
- かおりとまみこは姉妹です。
- 兄と私はふたごです。
Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.