📅 DAY 4 – "Level Up Communication"
Main Goals:
- Master Lesson 2 grammar/vocab with output
- Build your first roleplay script (super useful for convo)
- Strengthen listening + natural expression
- Continue daily immersion habit (sound, culture, thought)
🕒 TOTAL STUDY TIME: 5.5–6.5 hours
🧭 PLAN BREAKDOWN
1. 📘 Finish Minna Lesson 2 – Output Attack
Time: 90 mins Materials: Minna Main Book + Workbook
✅ Tasks:
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Drill:
- これ / それ / あれ
- この / その / あの + noun
- NOUN の NOUN structure
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Write and speak aloud 15+ original sentences using objects around you
✅ Practice Dialogues:
- Rewrite Minna L2’s 会話 using your own items (e.g. phone, keys, PC)
- Record yourself speaking both roles (like voice acting!)
✅ Shadowing Tips: Use Minna CD audio or shadow with this sample: 📺 YouTube → search "Minna no Nihongo Lesson 2 会話" and shadow.
2. 🗣️ Speaking Simulation Task – “Living in Japan”
Time: 60 mins (split across the day)
🚆 Task: Japanese Train Station Simulation
- Play: Train Announcement YouTube
- Write down what you hear (even if just a few words)
- Mimic the tone + phrasing — even the ding-dong 🤓
✅ Add phrases like:
- 「次は、渋谷、渋谷です。」
- 「ドアが閉まります。ご注意ください。」
🎯 Why? Trains are part of daily life in Japan and make killer listening + memory training.
3. 🔤 Vocabulary & Anki (L1 + L2)
Time: 45–60 mins
✅ Tasks:
- Add all Lesson 2 vocab to Anki
- Review at least 50–100 cards
- Speak + type them out, not just passive review
4. ✍️ Writing: Diary Entry + Roleplay
Time: 45 mins
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Write a short diary about today in Japanese (5–8 sentences)
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Include:
- What you studied
- What objects you used
- Bonus: add “これは何ですか?” type questions
✅ Roleplay Task Create a short conversation between a customer & shop staff using Lesson 2 grammar:
A: これはなんですか?
B: それはノートです。
A: いくらですか?
B: 300円です。
→ Say it out loud with acting!
5. 🎧 Immersion Chill Block (Fun & No Pressure)
Time: 30 mins Options:
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Watch anime with Japanese subs (not English!)
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Listen to a Japanese podcast (Nihongo Con Teppei for beginners)
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Play Japanese YouTube like:
- Comprehensible Japanese
- Yuko Sensei
- Learn Japanese with Noriko
✅ Set phone/laptop language to Japanese (if not already)
✅ DAILY CHECKLIST (REVIEW AT NIGHT)
- Grammar drilled & used out loud
- Wrote + spoke original sentences
- Added vocab to Anki & reviewed
- Shadowed Japanese audio
- Did simulation immersion task
- Wrote diary + did roleplay
- Had fun (seriously important)
Day 4 Motto: 📢「話せるようになりたいなら、今、声を出せ!」 (If you want to speak, then speak now!)