Post by MidoriAbby on Oct 14, 2013 5:20:25 GMT
I've seen this kind of thing on several forums including our old forums, so I thought I'd bring it to Gaiwa.
It's a way to practice vocab. Whenever I study a piece of vocab, whether it be an adjective, verb, noun, or pronoun, I always think of the opposite after learning it and try to learn that too, since it's more productive that way- you learn 2 words in one try instead of one. For example after learning the Japanese adjective phrase 頭がいい（あたまがいい- atama ga ii）which means 'smart', it was only natural for me to learn 頭が悪い（あたまがわるい- atama ga warui) which means 'not bright' or 'dumb'. It works with nouns too, learning things in pairs like 'student/teacher', 'cat/dog'... or with pronouns even 'me/you' (although those are quite simple examples, we can get way more complex especially with the adjectives, like 'foggy/clear' or 'flood/drought', 'prosperous/impoverished' etcetera.)
So learning words in pairs is fun and productive in my opinion! So I thought we could practice vocab together in this way on this thread. So the rules:
post a word and its opposite, the meaning, and if you can, an example sentence of each. I'll start.
Note: some words have more than one opposite or more than one way to say it, you can include those if you like or not.
深い （ふかい- fukai)= deep
example:
深い森の中を歩いていた
I was walking through the deep woods.
浅い (あさい- shallow)
その湖はとても浅いです。
That lake is very shallow.
Another common phase used with 浅い is 経験が浅い (keiken ga asai)- which literally means 'experience is shallow.' You can use it to say that you don't have much experience with something.
For example, 彼は教師としての経験が浅い。 He has little experience as a teacher/He has little teaching experience.
Now you guys come up with some, lets practice vocab with opposites~ They can be as easy or advanced as you want.
It's a way to practice vocab. Whenever I study a piece of vocab, whether it be an adjective, verb, noun, or pronoun, I always think of the opposite after learning it and try to learn that too, since it's more productive that way- you learn 2 words in one try instead of one. For example after learning the Japanese adjective phrase 頭がいい（あたまがいい- atama ga ii）which means 'smart', it was only natural for me to learn 頭が悪い（あたまがわるい- atama ga warui) which means 'not bright' or 'dumb'. It works with nouns too, learning things in pairs like 'student/teacher', 'cat/dog'... or with pronouns even 'me/you' (although those are quite simple examples, we can get way more complex especially with the adjectives, like 'foggy/clear' or 'flood/drought', 'prosperous/impoverished' etcetera.)
So learning words in pairs is fun and productive in my opinion! So I thought we could practice vocab together in this way on this thread. So the rules:
post a word and its opposite, the meaning, and if you can, an example sentence of each. I'll start.
Note: some words have more than one opposite or more than one way to say it, you can include those if you like or not.
深い （ふかい- fukai)= deep
example:
深い森の中を歩いていた
I was walking through the deep woods.
浅い (あさい- shallow)
その湖はとても浅いです。
That lake is very shallow.
Another common phase used with 浅い is 経験が浅い (keiken ga asai)- which literally means 'experience is shallow.' You can use it to say that you don't have much experience with something.
For example, 彼は教師としての経験が浅い。 He has little experience as a teacher/He has little teaching experience.
Now you guys come up with some, lets practice vocab with opposites~ They can be as easy or advanced as you want.
