Japanese 1: Greetings

Talking About Where You Live
Listening and Writing Practice
Assignments

Talking About Where You Live

Now you can greet people and ask them their names and where they are from. Another think you will most likely want to ask people in this course is “where do you live”.

Click Where do you live? presentation to see how people ask and answer in order to get this information. Remember to repeat after the speaker!

Did you hear how to ask how to ask “Where do you (does someone) live” (どこに　すんでいますか。[Doko ni sunde imasu ka]) and how to respond saying, “I live (someone lives) in …” (…に　すんでいます。[…ni sunde imasu])?

Here is a print version of this activity. You will still need to use the online version to hear the words.

Listening and Writing Practice

Using the name of the individuals below, ask the people, both in written and in spoken form, where they live. Write another sentence, pretending you are that person, responding. The first one is done for you.

Click the Play button to hear the audio to make sure you can pronounce the sentences correctly. When you finish, click each link, which is the person's name, to see the correct response.

1. たなか／とうきょう(Tanaka/Tokyo)