Ongoing actions and a shopping street

[music playing] Konnichiwa. Minasan, o-genki desu ka? Nihongo no benkyou wa dou desu ka? Nihongo o tsukatte imasu ka? Hiragana to katakana to kanji o renshuu shite imasu ka? Sate, minasan ni shitsumon ga arimasu. Eigo de iimasu yo. [sound effect] Can you describe what this person is doing? 'To cook' is 'ryouri suru'. So, how would you say, "This man is cooking'? Maybe this? Kono otoko no hito wa ryouri o shimasu. That's close, but there's something new I want you to notice and learn. That statement has 'ryouri o shimasu' in the present tense, and in Japanese, this verb in the present tense means either he 'cooks' regularly like often or every day or he 'will/ is going to cook' in the future. But what we call the 'present tense' form cannot describe an action that's currently going on right now. For an action currently in progress, we need to use what is called the progressive form. Actually, at the beginning of this lesson, I already used progressive verb forms. In those sentences, I…