Let's go.

This lesson is about the "let's" or "mashou" form of verbs. Recall that 'masu' is the polite present ending for verbs. Taking off the masu and replacing it with mashou changes it to "let's --", where the -- is replaced by whatever the verb means. Examples: masu form English mashou form English tabemasu to eat tabemashou let's eat nomimasu to drink nomimashou let's drink yomimasu to read yomimashou let's read kakimasu to write kakimashou let's write ikimasu to go ikimashou let's go kaimasu to buy kaimashou let's buy mimasu to watch/see mimashou let's watch kikimasu to listen/hear kikimashou let's listen
Using the previous lessons and some vocabulary, you should now be able to say all of the following.
Examples: Kouen ni ikimashou. Eiga o mimashou. Ongaku o kikimashou. Tegami o kakimashou. Hon o yomimashou. Tabemashou. Nomimashou. Kuruma o kaimashou. Nihongo o benkyou shimashou.	Let's go to the park. Let's watch a movie. Let's listen to music. Let's write a letter. Let's read a book. Let's eat. Let's drink. Let's buy a car. Let's study Japanese.
The mashou form is also a nice way to ask people if they want to do something with you. Just add the particle ka to the end of the sentence to make it "shall we~?". Examples:
Kouen ni ikimashou ka.	Shall we go to the park?
Nihongo o benkyou shimashou ka.	Shall we study Japanese?
A more formal way to ask if someone will do something with you is to use the masen ka ending. This is more like asking "Won't you do this?"
Examples: Zasshi o yomimasen ka. Gakkou e ikimasen ka.	Won't you read a magazine? Won't you go to school?
Vocabulary: tabemasu nomimasu yomimasu kakimasu kikimasu mimasu kaimasu benkyou shimasu ikimasu -masu -mashou -mashou ka -masen ka eiga hon kouen kuruma ongaku tegami nihongo zasshi	to eat to drink to read to write to listen to watch to buy to study to go present/future positive verb ending "let's" verb ending "shall we" verb ending "won't you" verb ending movie book park car music letter Japanese language magazine