[✐1. Adagio] Basic adverbs
“It remained online due to corona.”
[00:08]
Hello, everyone. We will practice adverbs today.
Repeat after me
[00:14]
1. often drink
2. be sure to/certainly/without fail drink
3. sometimes drink
4. occasionally/once in a while drink
5. not drink much
6. not drink at all
[01:09]
Now make a sentence as follows.
For example,
What do you drink in the morning?
/ always, coffee → I always drink coffee.
Ready?
[01:24]
1. What do you drink in the morning?
/ always, tea
→ I always drink (black) tea.
2. What do you eat in the morning?
/ often, bread
→ I often eat bread.
3. What do you eat in the morning?
/ sometimes, rice, miso soup
→ I sometimes eat rice and miso soup.
4. Do you watch news in the morning?
/ usually, net news
→ I usually watch net news.
5. What do you do before breakfast?
/ occasionally, jogging
→ I occasionally go jogging.
6. Do you read the newspaper in the morning?
/ not at all
→ I don’t read at all.
[03:48]
Do you go to work or school every day?
Repeat after me
[03:55]
1. I go to the office every day.
2. I go to the company(work) 2 days a week.
3. I come into work twice a week.
(shussha = attendance > shussha suru = come into work)
(shuu2 = twice a week)
4. Telework is three times a week.
5. Telework and attendance(come to work) are fifty-fifty. (han han = fifty-fifty, in halves)
6. There are sometimes online classes.
7. I go to college 3 days a week.
8. I go to college every day.
9. Due to corona, it remained (all the time) online.
10. Most were online because of the corona.

★★★★★
Become a patron: More episodes with full translation and Japanese transcripts. You’ll get access to the members-only podcast feed that you can subscribe to in your smartphone app. Japanese Swotter on Patreon
Note: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese. I hope it also helps you to capture the pattern of the sentence structure.

Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JapaneseSwotter)