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(じょんさんはたけしくんの中学校ちゅうがっこうえいおしいました。つぎのぶんはじょうんさんからたけしくんへのメ-ルです。)

たけしくん

メ-ル、ありがとうまえのメ-ルに「えいべんきょうつまらない」とありましたが。まずことからはじとうですか。

ぼく日本語にほんごべんきょうはじのはちゅうがく1ねんときですともいえはじめて日本にっぽんまんがそのとき日本語にほんごぜんぜんわからなかったですが、えがあるからはなしだいたいわかりました日本語にほんごようなりたいおもぶんべんきょうはじかんじは、むずかしかったですが、まんがなにつもいたらかんたんなかんじおぼえていました

まんがよくないひといますが、どんなものにもいいものわるものあるおもだからまんがえらんでいいおもひといじめるようまんがよくないですが、サッカ-やバスケットボ-ルなどスポ-ツのまんがおもしろいし、げんなります

たけしくんは、なにきょうみがありますか。おんがくですか、えいですか。(   )

じゃまたメ-ルします

ジョン

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  1. 1ジョンさんが日本語の勉強を始めたのはどうしてですか。
  2. 2ジョンさんはまんがについてどう思っていますか。
  3. 3(   )には何を入れますか。

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Vocabulary10 words
  • 中学校ちゅうがっこう
    • ·junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
    N4
  • 始めるはじめるAs it appears here: 始めたら
    • ·to start; to begin; to commence; to initiate; to originate
    • ·to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to establish
    • ·to start ...; to begin to ...
    N4
  • ぼく
    • ·I; me
    • ·you
    • ·manservant
    N4
  • 始めるはじめるAs it appears here: 始めた
    • ·to start; to begin; to commence; to initiate; to originate
    • ·to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to establish
    • ·to start ...; to begin to ...
    N4
  • だいたい
    • ·generally; on the whole; mostly; almost; nearly; approximately; roughly; about
    • ·general; rough
    • ·outline; main points; gist; substance; essence
    • ·in the first place; first and foremost; from the start; to begin with
    N4
  • 思うおもうAs it appears here: 思って
    • ·to think; to consider; to believe; to reckon
    • ·to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
    • ·to judge; to assess; to regard
    • ·to imagine; to suppose; to dream
    • ·to expect; to look forward to
    • ·to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
    • ·to care (deeply) for; to yearn for; to worry about; to love
    • ·to recall; to remember
    N4
  • 始めるはじめるAs it appears here: 始めました
    • ·to start; to begin; to commence; to initiate; to originate
    • ·to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to establish
    • ·to start ...; to begin to ...
    N4
  • 思うおもうAs it appears here: 思います
    • ·to think; to consider; to believe; to reckon
    • ·to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
    • ·to judge; to assess; to regard
    • ·to imagine; to suppose; to dream
    • ·to expect; to look forward to
    • ·to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
    • ·to care (deeply) for; to yearn for; to worry about; to love
    • ·to recall; to remember
    N4
  • えらぶAs it appears here: えらんで
    • ·to choose; to select; to pick (out)
    N4
  • いじめる
    • ·to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to pick on; to tease; to be cruel to; to persecute
    • ·to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
    N4
Other levels48 words
  • 英語えいご
    • ·English (language)
    N5
  • 教えるおしえるAs it appears here: 教えて
    • ·to teach; to instruct
    • ·to tell; to inform; to show
    • ·to preach
    N5
    • ·eye; eyeball
    • ·eyesight; sight; vision
    • ·look; stare; gaze; glance
    • ·notice; attention; observation; eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
    • ·an experience
    • ·viewpoint
    • ·discrimination; discernment; judgement; eye (e.g. for quality)
    • ·(an) appearance
    • ·chance (of success); possibility (of a good result)
    • ·spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.); opening; stitch; texture; weave
    • ·grain (of wood, paper)
    • ·eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
    • ·intersection (on a go board); square (on a chessboard)
    • ·dot (on a dice); pip; rolled number
    • ·graduation; division (of a scale)
    • ·tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
    • ·ordinal number suffix
    • ·somewhat; -ish
    • ·point (e.g. of change)
    • ·eye (empty space inside a group of stones)
    N5
  • まえ
    • ·in front (of); before (e.g. a building)
    • ·before; earlier; previously; prior; ago; (minutes) to (the hour)
    • ·(the) front; frontal part; fore; head (e.g. of a line)
    • ·forward; ahead
    • ·(in the) presence (of); in front (of someone)
    • ·previous (e.g. page); prior (e.g. engagement); first (e.g. half); former (e.g. example)
    • ·portion; helping
    • ·front (of one's body or clothing); breast (of a coat, kimono, etc.)
    • ·privates; private parts
    • ·criminal record; previous conviction; (a) prior
    N5
  • 勉強べんきょう
    • ·study
    • ·diligence; working hard
    • ·experience; knowledge; lesson (for the future)
    • ·discount; price reduction
    N5
  • つまらない
    • ·dull; uninteresting; boring; tedious
    • ·insignificant; unimportant; trifling; trivial; worthless
    • ·absurd; foolish; silly; stupid
    • ·useless; pointless; disappointing
    N5
  • 書くかくAs it appears here: 書いて
    • ·to write; to compose; to pen
    • ·to draw; to paint
    N5
  • 好きすき
    • ·liking; being fond of; to one's liking; to one's taste; preferred; favourite
    • ·liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved
    • ·faddism; eccentricity
    • ·as one likes; as it suits one
    • ·lecherous; lustful; salacious
    N5
  • いえ
    • ·house; residence; dwelling; home
    • ·family; household
    • ·lineage; family name
    N5
  • はじめて
    • ·for the first time
    • ·only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; not until ... do you ...
    • ·first time; (one's) first
    N5
  • 見るみるAs it appears here: 見ました
    • ·to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
    • ·to examine; to look over; to assess; to check; to judge
    • ·to look after; to attend to; to take care of; to keep an eye on
    • ·to experience; to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.)
    • ·to try ...; to have a go at ...; to give ... a try
    • ·to see (that) ...; to find (that) ...
    N5
  • その
    • ·that; the
    • ·part (as in "part two")
    • ·um ...; er ...; uh ...
    N5
  • わかるAs it appears here: わからなかった
    • ·to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow
    • ·to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized (realised); to be found out; to make sense
    • ·I know!; I think so too!
    N5
  • ある
    • ·to be; to exist; to live
    • ·to have
    • ·to be located
    • ·to be equipped with
    • ·to happen; to come about
    • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
    N5
  • はなし
    • ·talk; speech; chat; conversation
    • ·topic; subject
    • ·discussions; negotiation; argument
    • ·rumor; talk; hearsay
    • ·tale; story; fable
    • ·circumstances; particulars
    N5
  • わかるAs it appears here: わかりました
    • ·to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow
    • ·to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized (realised); to be found out; to make sense
    • ·I know!; I think so too!
    N5
  • なるAs it appears here: なりたい
    • ·to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
    • ·to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
    • ·to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
    • ·to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
    • ·to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
    • ·to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
    • ·to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
    • ·to play (the part of); to act as
    • ·to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
    • ·to be promoted
    • ·to do ...
    N5
  • むずかしいAs it appears here: むずかしかった
    • ·difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.)
    • ·impossible; unfeasible
    • ·fussy; particular; fastidious; hard to please; displeased
    • ·gloomy; glum; sullen; serious (look)
    • ·dirty; unclean; filthy; detestable
    • ·unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky
    N5
  • 読むよむAs it appears here: 読んで
    • ·to read
    • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
    • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
    • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
    • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
    • ·to count; to estimate
    • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
    N5
  • おぼえるAs it appears here: おぼえて
    • ·to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
    • ·to learn; to pick up; to acquire
    • ·to feel
    • ·to think; to regard
    N5
  • よいAs it appears here: よくない
    • ·good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
    • ·sufficient; enough; ready; prepared
    • ·profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
    • ·OK; all right; fine; no problem
    • ·easy to ...
    N5
  • 言ういう
    • ·to say; to utter; to declare
    • ·to name; to call
    • ·to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
    N5
  • ひと
    • ·person; someone; somebody
    • ·human beings; mankind; man; people; humans
    • ·human (Homo sapiens)
    • ·(other) people; others
    • ·character; personality; nature
    • ·capable person; competent person; suitable person; right person
    • ·adult; grown-up
    • ·I; me; one
    N5
  • いるAs it appears here: います
    • ·to be (of animate objects); to exist
    • ·to stay
    • ·to be ...-ing
    • ·to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
    N5
  • もの
    • ·thing; object; article; stuff; substance
    • ·one's things; possessions; property; belongings
    • ·things; something; anything; everything; nothing
    • ·quality
    • ·reason; the way of things
    • ·used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen
    • ·item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
    • ·cause of ...; cause for ...
    • ·somehow; somewhat; for some reason
    • ·really; truly
    N5
  • 悪いわるい
    • ·bad; poor; undesirable
    • ·poor (quality); inferior; insufficient
    • ·evil; sinful
    • ·ugly; not beautiful
    • ·at fault; to blame; in the wrong
    • ·bad (at doing something)
    • ·unprofitable; unbeneficial
    • ·sorry; (my) bad; unforgivable
    N5
  • 読むよむAs it appears here: 読めば
    • ·to read
    • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
    • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
    • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
    • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
    • ·to count; to estimate
    • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
    N5
  • おもしろい
    • ·interesting; fascinating; intriguing; enthralling
    • ·amusing; funny; comical
    • ·enjoyable; fun; entertaining; pleasant; agreeable
    • ·good; satisfactory; favourable; desirable; encouraging
    N5
  • 読むよむ
    • ·to read
    • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
    • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
    • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
    • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
    • ·to count; to estimate
    • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
    N5
  • 元気げんき
    • ·lively; full of spirit; energetic; vigorous; vital; spirited
    • ·healthy; well; fit; in good health
    N5
  • なるAs it appears here: なります
    • ·to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
    • ·to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
    • ·to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
    • ·to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
    • ·to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
    • ·to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
    • ·to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
    • ·to play (the part of); to act as
    • ·to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
    • ·to be promoted
    • ·to do ...
    N5
  • きょう
    • ·today; this day
    • ·these days; recently; nowadays
    N5
  • みるAs it appears here:
    • ·to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
    • ·to examine; to look over; to assess; to check; to judge
    • ·to look after; to attend to; to take care of; to keep an eye on
    • ·to experience; to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.)
    • ·to try ...; to have a go at ...; to give ... a try
    • ·to see (that) ...; to find (that) ...
    N5
  • あるAs it appears here: あります
    • ·to be; to exist; to live
    • ·to have
    • ·to be located
    • ·to be equipped with
    • ·to happen; to come about
    • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
    N5
  • 音楽おんがく
    • ·music
    N5
  • 映画えいが
    • ·movie; film; motion picture
    N5
  • また
    • ·again; once more; once again; another time; some other time
    • ·also; too; as well; likewise
    • ·on the other hand; while
    • ·and; in addition; besides; moreover; furthermore
    • ·or; otherwise
    • ·really; how; (what, why) on earth
    • ·some time (in the future)
    • ·indirect
    N5
  • するAs it appears here: します
    • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
    • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
    • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
    • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
    • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
    • ·to decide on; to choose
    • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
    • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
    • ·to be worth; to cost
    • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
    • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
    • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
    • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
    • ·to feel A about B
    • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
    • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
    • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
    N5
  • まず
    • ·first (of all); firstly; to begin with; before anything else
    • ·probably; most likely; almost certainly; virtually
    • ·more or less (satisfactory); on the whole; reasonably
    • ·anyway; at any rate; for now (at least); for the time being
    N3
  • こと
    • ·thing; matter
    • ·incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
    • ·circumstances; situation; state of affairs
    • ·work; business; affair
    • ·after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
    • ·nominalizing suffix
    • ·pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
    • ·alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or
    • ·necessity; need
    • ·you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...
    N3
  • 中学ちゅうがく
    • ·junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
    N3
  • とき
    • ·time; hour; moment
    • ·occasion; case
    • ·chance; opportunity; season
    • ·the times; the age; the day
    • ·tense
    N3
  • ぜんぜん
    • ·(not) at all; (not) in the slightest
    • ·wholly; entirely; completely; totally
    • ·extremely; very
    N3
  • よう
    • ·appearing ...; looking ...
    • ·way to ...; method of ...ing
    • ·form; style; design
    • ·like; similar to
    • ·thing (thought or spoken)
    N3
  • かんじるAs it appears here: かんじ
    • ·to feel; to sense; to experience
    • ·to be moved (by); to be touched (by); to be impressed (by); to respond (to)
    • ·to become infected with (an illness); to catch
    N3
  • なに
    • ·what
    • ·you-know-what; that thing
    • ·whatsit; whachamacallit; what's-his-name; what's-her-name
    • ·penis; (one's) thing; dick
    • ·(not) at all; (not) in the slightest
    • ·what?; huh?
    • ·hey!; come on!
    • ·oh, no (it's fine); why (it's nothing); oh (certainly not)
    N3
  • サッカさっか
    • ·author; writer; novelist; artist
    N3
  • つむAs it appears here: つも
    • ·to pile up; to stack
    • ·to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack
    • ·to acquire; to accumulate
    N2
Grammar6 patterns

Example sentences are translated by AI.

  • たらN42 times in this passage

    Conditional/temporal ending on the plain-past stem meaning that once or if the first action happens, the second follows ('if / once / when ... then').

    まず好きなことから始めたらとうですか。

    Why don’t you start with something you like first?

  • ときN42 times in this passage

    Marks the time at which something happens — "when X, Y."

    ぼくが日本語の勉強を始めたのは中学1年のときです。

    I started studying Japanese when I was in my first year of junior high school.

  • ようになるN4

    Expresses a gradual change reaching a new state or acquired ability, "come to / become able to".

    日本語で読めるようになりたいと思って、自分で勉強を始めました。

    I wanted to be able to read manga in Japanese, so I started studying on my own.

  • と思う(とおもう)N43 times in this passage

    Quotative plus 'think', stating the speaker's opinion or guess — 'I think that'.

    日本語で読めるようになりたいと思って、自分で勉強を始めました。

    I wanted to be able to read manga in Japanese, so I started studying on my own.

  • ようだN4

    Expresses conjecture or resemblance drawn from evidence, "it seems / looks like".

    人をいじめるようなまんがはよくないですが、サッカ-やバスケットボ-ルなどスポ-ツのまんがはおもしろいし、読むと元気になります。

    Manga about bullying others is not good, but sports manga about soccer, basketball, and so on is interesting and makes you feel energized when you read it.

  • などN4

    Lists one or more representative items and implies others of the same kind exist — 'and so on / etc. / such as'.

    人をいじめるようなまんがはよくないですが、サッカ-やバスケットボ-ルなどスポ-ツのまんがはおもしろいし、読むと元気になります。

    Manga about bullying others is not good, but sports manga about soccer, basketball, and so on is interesting and makes you feel energized when you read it.

Other levels11 patterns
  • ものがあるN2

    Conveys the speaker's strong impression that something genuinely possesses a certain quality — 'there is something ... about it', 'it really does have...'.

    まんがはよくないと言う人もいますが、どんなものにもいいものと悪いものがあると思います。

    Some people say manga is not good, but I think everything has both good and bad sides.

  • ことからN3

    Introduces the fact or evidence from which a conclusion, name, or judgment follows — 'because of the fact that / which is why.'

    まず好きなことから始めたらとうですか。

    Why don’t you start with something you like first?

  • というN3

    Quotative marker plus 'say' that introduces a name, definition, or reported content — 'called', 'known as', 'that (one) says'.

    まんがはよくないと言う人もいますが、どんなものにもいいものと悪いものがあると思います。

    Some people say manga is not good, but I think everything has both good and bad sides.

  • 〜ばいいN3

    Offers a suggestion or solution via the conditional plus いい, "you should ~ / it'd be good to just ~."

    だから、まんがもえらんで読めばいいと思います。

    So I think it is fine as long as you choose what manga to read.

  • 〜ているN52 times in this passage

    Describes an action in progress or the state that remains after an action happened — “is doing” or “is in the state of having done”.

    (じょんさんはたけしくんの中学校で英語を教えていました。

    (John-san used to teach English at Takeshi-kun’s junior high school.

  • だ / ですN58 times in this passage

    The copula linking a noun or na-adjective to the subject — plain だ / polite です, 'is/am/are'.

    つぎのぶんはじょうんさんからたけしくんへのメ-ルです。)

    The following is an email from John-san to Takeshi-kun.)

  • 〜てあるN5

    Describes a state that persists because someone deliberately did something to bring it about — “has been done (and still is)”.

    前のメ-ルに「英語の勉強はつまらない」と書いてありましたが。

    In your previous email, you wrote, “Studying English is boring.”

  • がありますN52 times in this passage

    States the existence or possession of an inanimate thing, "there is / to have".

    そのときは日本語がぜんぜんわからなかったのですが、えがあるから話はだいたいわかりました。

    At the time, I could not understand any Japanese at all, but because there were pictures, I could roughly understand the story.

  • 〜たいN5

    Expresses the speaker's own desire to do something — “want to do”.

    日本語で読めるようになりたいと思って、自分で勉強を始めました。

    I wanted to be able to read manga in Japanese, so I started studying on my own.

  • んですN5

    Explanatory ending that supplies a reason, context, or emphasis — 'the thing is…', 'it's that…'.

    かんじは、むずかしかったですが、まんがを何さつも読んでいたら、かんたんなかんじはおぼえていました。

    Kanji was difficult, but after reading many manga, I learned the simple kanji characters.

  • どんなN5

    Asks or specifies what kind or sort of thing something is, "what kind of".

    まんがはよくないと言う人もいますが、どんなものにもいいものと悪いものがあると思います。

    Some people say manga is not good, but I think everything has both good and bad sides.

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