
1. Practice saying the following phone numbers until you can cite them smoothly.
Note: When citing a phone number, one syllable numbers (2, 5) are often extended for prosodic reasons:
i.e., に → にい
ご → ごう
1)Your instructor's office phone: (901)726−3952
きゅう ぜろ いち、 なな にい ろく の さん きゅう ごう にい
Your current residence:
Your parents' residence:
2. (Number) Transcribe the following numbers in ひらがな.
れい 831 はっぴゃくさんじゅういち
605
179
3493
1980
8246
3. Write the Japanese reading of the following years in ひらがな, and recite them until you can do so smoothly.
れい Columbus' arrival to North America: 1492ねん (せん よん ひゃく きゅう じゅう に ねん) Independence of the U.S.: 1776ねん End of the Civil War: 1865ねん A man will reach the Jupiter (according to A. Clark's novel): 2001ねん This year: ねん Your birthyear: ねん
Last updated on 1999/01/06 (Y/M/D)
Copyright: SASAKI, Y.
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