Podcast 17: How to express your opinion in Japanese
Learn Japanese Pod
Alex Brooke
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🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson Ami and I teach you how to ask and give your opinions on various topics using the verb 思う Omou – To think. This is usually used to say “I think that…”.
思う is a very useful phrase you use all the time in conversation in Japanese. The main grammatical structure we will be using is this:
Something or someone…どう思う？Dō omou which means what do you think about so and so… For example:
彼女どう思う？ Kanojo wa dō omou What do you think of her?
彼どう思う？ Kare wa dō omou What do you think of him?
Then to answer you could say your opinion plus と思う which means I think so and so. So, for example you can say 可愛いと思うよ Kawaii to omou yo which means I think she’s cute or カッコイイと思うよ Kakko ii to omou which means I think he’s cool.
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| 0:00.0 | No, Ami sense, Kimina was Doomo. |
| 0:04.0 | O'Mshroyo more, yeah? |
| 0:06.0 | Nandes soo, no? |
| 0:08.0 | Story-g-g-a-magic, |
| 0:10.0 | that's gonna'er. Hello and welcome to learn Japanese pod with me Alex and me |
| 0:20.0 | ami and as always ami sensei and I will |
| 0:27.3 | be teaching you some natural Japanese conversation that you actually hear on the streets in Japan and in today's |
| 0:35.1 | podcast we're going to look at how to express your opinion using the verb or |
| 0:39.7 | mall which means I think so and so but before that amissense say I can do |
| 0:47.1 | so I can this guy can this car |
| 0:50.5 | Tokyo a you can put a bit I this net Tokyo is a ukiga futata it is not |
| 0:53.0 | and go to me since |
| 0:56.0 | oh yukya for imaheda |
| 0:58.0 | to mow yukya fumasht. Tokyo that oukya futet |
| 1:01.0 | h-eh-e, hicha futet? Haih-tensh-denschaketomat. This y'o nah. There. Hight. Denscha got to-mata. |
| 1:04.0 | There's no? |
| 1:05.0 | Day panics, not. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, I got on a jayor, |
| 1:08.0 | kairotos, |
| 1:09.0 | that, |
| 1:10.0 | but I know what I'm not going to be here. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm going a single, but I'm not. |
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