Lesson 1 Slideshow

• 人 means {{10401917438310071::person}}
  • four common readings
    • じん
    • にん
    • ひと
    • ひとり（一人）
  • 「じん」man, person
    • わたし　は　にほん人　です。↔I am a Japanese person.
      • わたし↔I
      • にほん↔Japan
  • 「にん」man, person
    • あなた　の　きょうだい　は　なん人　います　か。↔How many siblings do you have?
      • あなた↔you
      • きょうだい↔siblings, brothers and sisters
      • います↔exist (living things/animate)
  • 「ひと」man, person
    • すずき　さん　は　いい　人　です。↔Mr. Suzuki is a nice person.
      • いい↔nice
  • 「ひとり（一人）」one person
    • あした　わたし　一人　で　えいが　お　みます。↔Tomorrow, I will watch a movie by myself.
      • か can be added to the end of any sentence to make it a question
        • すずき　さん　です　か。↔Are you Mr. Suzuki?
      • は is placed after the subject of a sentence to mark it as a sentence
      • です is the ます (normal polite) form of "to be"
      • placing で after 一人 turns it from "one person" to "alone"
      • を is pronounced "o"
      • を marks the direct object
      • の when placed between two nouns, indicates that the second noun belongs to the first
        • わたし　の　たんじょうび↔my birthday
      • when に follows a date or time, it means "at" that date/time
      • when に is between a place and the verb, it means the place is the destination