Lesson 14 of 16
Which Way From Here
about 12 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Say where you are going, coming from or heading back to.
- Ask someone where they are going.
Words this lesson teaches
- へ
- toward (marks a destination)
- いきます
- to go
- きます
- to come
- かえります
- to head back; to return home
- こうえん
- park
- みせ
- shop; the place you work
- にしぐち
- west exit
What it explains
へ and に both point at where you end up
With いきます, きます and かえります, the place goes in front and the marker goes between: こうえんへ いきます, みせに かえります. へ leans slightly toward the direction and に toward the arrival, and in this sentence either one is correct. Note that へ is read え when it is doing this job — it is the one hiragana that is read differently as a particle.
Where you are going is how you say goodbye
Announcing a destination as you part is ordinary politeness rather than an itinerary. It tells the others which way to look for you and closes the conversation cleanly, which is why nobody at the exit says anything longer than four words.
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.
