Day N4 - 15 - Working on a New Project
Visual exercise: Daily N4 - Day 15
What this practice will help you express
This practice reviews previously studied grammar while introducing new vocabulary related to company projects, products, overseas business, exports, interpreters, and usefulness. You will reuse familiar structures to report information, describe expectations and arrangements, express limitations, ask for assistance, and explain decisions in workplace situations involving international business.
The grammar review focuses on reporting information with そうです and らしい, expressing limited options with しか, and requesting help with Vてもらえませんか. You will also revisit the difference between personal decisions with ~ことにします, externally determined arrangements with ~ことになります, and established schedules or rules with ~ことになっています. ~のに is used to explain what is useful or necessary for a purpose, while はずです expresses an expectation based on available information.
The new vocabulary centers on company projects, products, overseas markets, exports, interpreters, decisions, and whether something is useful. These ideas are developed through a company preparing to export a new product and assigning employees to an overseas project.
After completing this review, you should be better able to discuss workplace plans, report information about international projects, explain assigned responsibilities, request practical help, and describe decisions and preparations connected with overseas business.
Shadowing Exercise
Summary: Yamamoto is very busy because he is working on a new project at his company. He learns that the company will start exporting a new product next month and may need people to use English. Although he is not very confident speaking in front of others, he decides to be more confident and do his best.
This exercise complements the shadowing training in the YomiNihongo app.
Then, observe the images below and try to reconstruct what was said.
2. Try to reconstruct the dialogue in the app
Now open the app and go to the Dynamic Text feature.
Look carefully at each scene and try to remember what the characters said.
Try to reconstruct the conversation in your own words while keeping the general meaning of the dialogue.
You do not need to use the exact same vocabulary, grammar, or sentence order as the original text.
Write
Write the Japanese sentences you remember.
Analyze
Check each word and its translation.
Ask AI
Use the AI Assistant to review your sentences.
Compare
Compare your version with the original text.
3. Listening Dictation
Listen carefully to each sentence and transcribe exactly what you hear. Repeat the audio if necessary and pay close attention to pronunciation, particles, and grammar. After finishing, compare your transcription with the original sentence and review any mistakes.
4. Grammar & Vocabulary Output Practice
Answer the questions below out loud or write your answers in Dynamic Text in the app before checking the example answer. You can answer about your real life or make up a simple answer for practice.
Try to use the grammar: Plain form そうです
Q1: 会社の新しい商品は、これからどうなるそうですか。
Show example answer
1. 新しい商品を海外へ輸出するそうです。
2. 海外で人気が出るそうです。
Try to use the grammar: >〜らしい
Q2: 通訳をしている友達は、これから何をするらしいですか。
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1. 新しいプロジェクトに参加するらしいです。
2. 来年から海外で働くらしいです。
Try to use the grammar: しか
Q3: 昼休みは、いつも何を飲みますか。
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1. ミルクしか飲みません。
2. 水しか飲みません。
Try to use the grammar: V[て-form]もらえませんか
Q4: 引っ越しで重い家具を運ぶとき、友達にどう言いますか。
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1. この家具を運んでもらえませんか。
2. 重い箱を一緒に運んでもらえませんか。
Try to use the grammar: V[dictionary form]ことにします
Q5: これから、日本語をどう勉強することにしますか。
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1. 毎日復習することにします。
2. 毎日、発音を一生懸命練習することにします。
Try to use the grammar: V[dictionary form]ことになります
Q6: 来月から、仕事で何をすることになりましたか。
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1. 海外へ商品を輸出するプロジェクトに参加することになりました。
2. 新しい商品の準備を手伝うことになりました。
Try to use the grammar: V dictionary form ことになっています
Q7: あなたの学校では、遅刻するとき、どうすることになっていますか。
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1. 遅刻するときは、学校に連絡することになっています。
2. 遅刻するときは、先生に連絡することになっています。
Try to use the grammar: V[dictionary form]のに〜
Q8: あなたの会社では、海外へ商品を輸出するのに、何が必要ですか。
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1. 海外へ商品を輸出するのに、通訳が必要です。
2. 海外へ商品を輸出するのに、いろいろな準備が必要です。
Try to use the grammar: はずです
Q9: 申し込んだイベントの案内は、いつ届くはずですか。
Show example answer
1. スケジュールでは、本日届くはずです。
2. 来週届くはずです。
5. Visual Writing Exercise
If you finished the Text Recreation Exercise, try this additional Visual Writing Exercise. The picture shows the actions and situation only. There is no dialogue in the image. Use the scenes to imagine what the characters are saying.
Then, write your own short Japanese text or dialogue describing the situation.
Try to use the target vocabulary and grammar, but you may also use other words and grammar you know.
Theme: New Export Project
Situation: Two employees are talking about a new company project. One of them heard that a product will be exported next month and that he will have to work as an interpreter, although he is not yet confident speaking English. He asks his colleague to help him practice and decides to study a little every day before the meetings.
Try to use some of these words in your text or dialogue.
Show example answer
A:会社で新しいプロジェクトをすることになりました。
B:はい。来月、新しい商品を海外に輸出するそうです。
B:それから、マリアさんが通訳をすることになっているらしいです。
A:私ですか。でも、通訳ができるほど英語が上手ではありません。
B:大丈夫です。まだ上手ではなくても、毎日練習すれば上手になりますよ。
A:はい。今日から毎日練習することにします。
Complete the shadowing practice first, then challenge yourself with:
👉 Language Practice: Daily N4 - Day 15
6. Grammars used
This text includes grammar points that were introduced in previous lessons. They are used again here to help reinforce your understanding and provide additional practice in a natural context.
| Grammar | Link |
|---|---|
| Plain form そうです → I heard that ~ | Explanation |
| 〜らしい → seems like | Explanation |
| しか → only / nothing but | Explanation |
| V[て-form]もらえませんか → could you do? | Explanation |
| V[dictionary form]ことにします → decide to do | Explanation |
| V[dictionary form]ことになります → it has been decided to do | Explanation |
| V dictionary form ことになっています → is scheduled to | Explanation |
| V[dictionary form]のに〜 → to (do something); in order to ~ | Explanation |
| V[dictionary form]のに〜 → although, in spite of, even though ~ | Explanation |
| はずです → should be / expected to be | Explanation |
Go back to the app, listen again, and keep improving your Japanese.


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