練習するつもりです
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
The goal of this practice session is to make sure you know the difference between the two types of つもり’s. Also, we’ll make sure you can do and use the first kind of つもり (planning) well enough on your own to use it and start integrating it into other grammar.
Let’s start simple first. Translate the following sentences to English:
a牛丼 を たべる つもり だ
I plan to eat gyudon
aわたし は とても おもしろい つもり だ
I am convinced I’m very interesting
aすし を たくさん たべた つもり だ
I am convinced I ate a lot of sushi
aみず を たくさん のむ つもり です
I plan to drink a lot of water
aあの でんしゃ は はやい つもり だ
I’m convinced that train over there is fast
aえいが を みる つもり です
I plan to watch a movie
aあの えいが を みた つもり です
I’m convinced I watched that movie
So far so good? That should get you primed to practice some more, and write some of your own Japanese up on Lang-8. Here’s the topic for this lesson:
Write about what you’re planning to do tomorrow. You can start with:
明日、＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿つもりです。
Other things you could talk about:
- Do you like this thing you’re going to do?
- “If you go” what will you do? ＿＿＿＿＿に いったら ______________.
- What will you do when you’re there (if it’s a place)
- What will you do related to this thing you’re doing?
Really, there’s probably only going to be one つもり in this journal post, so make it good!
When you’ve written your post, move on to the next page. Time for 6-stroke kanji!