skills/rehearse-japanese-speaking/references/summary-tasks.md

# Summary tasks

Summary practice uses Japanese source material only and combines:

**comprehension → selection → reformulation → spoken delivery**

## Task schema

```yaml
source_type:
audience:
audience_need:
soft_target:
required_information:
important_qualifications:
details_safe_to_omit:
personal_opinion_policy:
primary_focus:
secondary_focus:
```

## Comprehension checkpoint

Before the first full summary, ask orally in Japanese:

1. State the main point in one sentence.
2. Give one or two essential supporting points.

Distinguish:

- source comprehension;
- summary judgment and information selection;
- spoken Japanese.

Do not classify a comprehension failure as merely a language error.

## First-attempt support

Allow:

- Japanese source visible;
- up to three isolated-word lookups;
- keyword notes;
- verification of names, numbers, chronology, attribution, and qualifications.

Do not allow:

- a complete written summary;
- sentence-by-sentence translation;
- an AI-generated summary;
- full-sentence lookup;
- reading a prepared script aloud.

## Replay

Ask the learner to hide:

- source;
- dictionary;
- detailed notes;
- complete sentence cues.

Allow brief mental planning. Keep only audience, goal, and soft target.

If one isolated fact is forgotten, provide it briefly. If comprehension was never resolved, reopen only the relevant passage, repair comprehension, hide it, and repeat the affected section.

## Diagnostic priority

1. reversal or serious distortion;
2. wrong attribution or degree of certainty;
3. omission of the central point;
4. weak information selection;
5. incoherent organization;
6. concision and spoken retrieval;
7. minor grammar and naturalness.

Do not reward fluent distortion.

## Templates

### Japanese article for a friend

Include:
- what happened or what is argued;
- important background or reason;
- why it matters.

Typical sequence:
60–90-second supported attempt → ~60-second replay → two-sentence variation.

### Conversation for an absent person

Preserve:
- who participated;
- decision or central disagreement;
- unresolved action;
- who said or believed what.

Common risk: presenting one participant’s view as agreed fact.

### Meeting or project update

Structure:
status → change → risk/blocker → next action → decision/request needed.

Common repair: lead with status or decision instead of narrating chronology.

### Argument versus personal opinion

Make source attribution explicit:

- `筆者は〜と主張しています。`
- `〜という見方を示しています。`
- `私自身は…`

### Progressive compression

Sequence:
90 seconds → 60 seconds → 20–30 seconds → one-sentence takeaway.

Do not remove qualifications required for fidelity.