Universal Counter

Vocabulary

Key Examples

Japanese

EX1: 石鹸は一つあります

EX2: リンゴを三つ下さい

EX3: 餃子は五つで500円になります

Romaji

sekken wa hitotsu arimasu

ringo o mittsu kudasai

gyouza wa itsutsu de gohyaku en ni narimasu

English

There is one bar of soap

Please give me three apples

Five pieces of gyoza will be 500 yen

Recordings (Japanese)

EX1

EX2

EX3

EX1

Japanese

石鹸は一つあります

Romaji

sekken wa hitotsu arimasu

English

There is one bar of soap

EX2

Japanese

リンゴを三つ下さい

Romaji

ringo o mittsu kudasai

English

Please give me three apples

EX3

Japanese

餃子は五つで500円になります

Romaji

gyouza wa itsutsu de gohyaku en ni narimasu

English

Five pieces of gyoza will be 500 yen

Conversation Practice

A: 椅子はいくつありますか?

(isu wa ikutsu arimasu ka?)

[How many chairs do you have?]

B: 四つあります 

(mittsu arimasu)

[I have three]

A2: 餃子はおいくらですか? 

(gyouza wa oikura desu ka?)

[How much is the gyoza?]

B2: 餃子は五つで500円になります 

(gyouza wa itsutsu de gohyaku en ni narimasu)

[Five pieces of gyoza will be 500 yen]

A3: リンゴをいくつご購入されますか? 

(ringo o ikutsu gokounyuu saremasu ka)

[How many apples will you purchase?]

B3: 三つ下さい 

(mittsu kudasai)

[Please give me three]

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Learning Objectives

State your name, age and nationality

Ask for and understand simple directions

State things that like doing (i.e running, reading, studying, etc.)

Ask Japanese people about their English language ability, and communicate your Japanese ability