に.三 review and に.四 - Past Tense nouns

Tonight I finally got back in touch with TextFugu.

Have been meaning to for awhile. I am still avidly continuing WaniKani (level 八 今!!)

So 夜, I re-read the last completed lesson (に.三) to get a refresher and then continued into the following lesson on past-tense nouns.

Basically, the past-tense form of です is でした. I learned that this is really pronounced 'deshta' because you should drop the i from the し hiragana.

This was really pretty easy, except for when you try to combine it with a word like でんしゃ and ask a question! (でんしゃでしたか?) That was so hard for me. Kept seeming like I had a 口 full of mush.

Anyway, I created a new Anki deck for Vocab which contained these common nouns and studied them:

    ともだち (friend)
    みず (water)
    でんしゃ (train)
    せんせい (teacher)
    ねこ (cat)
    いぬ (dog)
    じてんしゃ (bicycle)
    くるま (car)
    りんご (apple)
     しんぶん (newspaper)

Then こういち-さん introduced some two stroke kanji that I was already familiar with both through previous TextFugu studies and WaniKani. I created a couple of Anki decks for these (the kanji themselves and the associated vocab):

一    (一人, 一つ)
二    (二人, 二つ)
七    (七人, 七つ)
九    (九人, 九つ)

Then did a lot of practicing with でした with the nouns above and also with some previous vocab both just on screen and with a new sentences Anki deck.

All in all, it was a very productive evening, despite Blogger's new post interface pissing me off royal.

I still have a little bit of に.四 to finish up but it's getting late so that's for another time.

またね!