Writing a Journal in Japanese - Japanese Conversational Phrases

Do you feel like you don't speak enough Japanese? That you need to know more words? Then stick around. With these lessons, you'll pick up some of the most common words in just a few minutes. Now, this video is a small portion of our learning program. To get the full lessons, translations, and fluency fast study tools, click the link in the description and sign up for your free lifetime account. Hi everyone, I'm Alisha. Welcome to Conversational Phrases. In this lesson, you'll learn conversational phrases to answer the question, What are you doing? After watching this video, you'll be able to answer this question and tell someone something about what you're writing. Now, let's take a look at some conversational phrases. I'm writing my journal. First of all, you'll need to learn how to say, What are you doing? That's Listen to it again. This Japanese sentence literally translates as, What doing is it? But it means, What are you doing? Now, how do you answer this question? The pattern is, This Japanese sentence literally translates as, Object writing I am. But it means, I'm writing object. For example, I'm writing my journal. Here are a few more phrases you can use with the same pattern. Let's look at some examples. Listen and repeat, or speak along with the native speakers. What are you doing? I'm writing my goals. What are you doing? I'm writing my dreams. What are you doing? I'm writing a to-do list. Okay, now it's your turn. Do you remember how to say, What are you doing? Imagine you're writing your goals. Do you remember how to say, Goal? Say, I'm writing my goals. Now answer the question saying you're writing your goals. Now imagine you're writing your dreams. Do you remember how to say, Dream? Say, I'm writing my dreams. Now answer the question saying you're writing your dreams. What are you doing? Now imagine you're writing a to-do list. Do you remember how to say, To-do list? Say, I'm writing a to-do list. Now answer the question saying you're writing a to-do list. What are you doing? I'm writing a to-do list. In this lesson, you learned new vocabulary and phrases you can use to talk about what you're writing about. You're now able to talk about your writing like a native speaker. Start by practicing in the comments below. Tell me and your fellow learners what you did today. Lastly, don't forget to click the link in the description and download your PDF cheat sheets. You'll get useful phrases you need for everyday life for free. See you in the next lesson. Bye! Remember, here's what you can do to learn all of these words by heart. Drill these words with our space repetition flashcards, which will help cement these words into your long-term memory. Save them to the word bank, your personal vocabulary collection, where you can print out your own study sheets, or review the words with our looped vocabulary slideshow and play it until you know all of the words. So click the link in the description right now and sign up for your free lifetime account to get these lessons and study tools.