きょうは full moon festival. Unfortunately I am sick and don't think I will recover until tomorrow. Head hurts, neck hurts, throat hurts...イタイ(ouch). Hopefully I'll be fine before the football game tomorrow.
I am both glad and scared that we are starting to learn verbs now. At least now I can say more things in Japanese...but there's also a lot of stuff to remember...I think I confused きく with くる because when conjugated in the present affirmative, きく is ききます whereas くる is きます. I accidentally flipped to chapter 4 vocab and it goes onto a 3rd page...
So...while this is a bit shorter than my other posts I am going to nap now...
To all those facing midterms/tests....みなさんがんばって。
わたしはいまねます。
じゃあまた。
2007年9月28日金曜日
2007年9月21日金曜日
にばんのポスト- カタカナ しょして いちばんのsemester
みあさんこんにちは。
カタカナはむずかしいですね。
Sometimes I wish Japan never made contact with the outside world because then katakana would not exist. However, if that were the case then I probably wouldnt be learning Japanese either. So, despite my difficulties with katakana, I have no choice but to soldier on. Hmm, I don't really have tips for memorizing katakana but I assume by this point everyone has no problem writing katakana. The problem for me comes with transcription. Why is catch spelled as kyacchi (キャッチ)? Why is restaurant spelled as resutoran (レストラん) and not resutoranto (レストラント)? What is the meaning of life?
Actually I know the answer to the first two...I'm just trying to show that they are about as hard to understand as the third question. Well, not really but pretty difficult. My plan of action this weekend is to find, read, and transcribe as much katakana as I can. Sato-sensei said if there's anything that's particularly difficult, just try to get used to it. So...I guess my advice is to read, write, speak, and think in katakana.
As for my first semester....I'm not particularly proud of anything except for the fact that I'm not failing anything.
My engineering courses seem like a breeze compared to Japanese. I find that about 90% of the homework I do is Japanese-based. This does not surprise me, as I'm pretty sure learning a foreign language is supposed to be more difficult than physics or math. I'm getting used to the fast pace of college because there is so much more free time compared to high school. Out of all my classes, Japanese is the most difficult. But I love Japanese so no matter how difficult it becomes I will do my best............that was lame.
Anyways random tidbit before I post this entry. Did you know the letter 'w' is the Japanese equivalent of 'LoL'? Apparently, w stands for warau (わらう), which means to laugh in Japanese.
Random Picture of the week:
This is old news but...here is a panda dog in Chengdu, China. Owner has been arrested 36 times because authorities keep thinking he is keeping a panda in captivity.
カタカナはむずかしいですね。
Sometimes I wish Japan never made contact with the outside world because then katakana would not exist. However, if that were the case then I probably wouldnt be learning Japanese either. So, despite my difficulties with katakana, I have no choice but to soldier on. Hmm, I don't really have tips for memorizing katakana but I assume by this point everyone has no problem writing katakana. The problem for me comes with transcription. Why is catch spelled as kyacchi (キャッチ)? Why is restaurant spelled as resutoran (レストラん) and not resutoranto (レストラント)? What is the meaning of life?
Actually I know the answer to the first two...I'm just trying to show that they are about as hard to understand as the third question. Well, not really but pretty difficult. My plan of action this weekend is to find, read, and transcribe as much katakana as I can. Sato-sensei said if there's anything that's particularly difficult, just try to get used to it. So...I guess my advice is to read, write, speak, and think in katakana.
As for my first semester....I'm not particularly proud of anything except for the fact that I'm not failing anything.
My engineering courses seem like a breeze compared to Japanese. I find that about 90% of the homework I do is Japanese-based. This does not surprise me, as I'm pretty sure learning a foreign language is supposed to be more difficult than physics or math. I'm getting used to the fast pace of college because there is so much more free time compared to high school. Out of all my classes, Japanese is the most difficult. But I love Japanese so no matter how difficult it becomes I will do my best............that was lame.
Anyways random tidbit before I post this entry. Did you know the letter 'w' is the Japanese equivalent of 'LoL'? Apparently, w stands for warau (わらう), which means to laugh in Japanese.
Random Picture of the week:
This is old news but...here is a panda dog in Chengdu, China. Owner has been arrested 36 times because authorities keep thinking he is keeping a panda in captivity.
2007年9月13日木曜日
わたしのいちばんのpost- Introduction
おはようございます、こんにちは、こんばんは。みなさんはじめまして。わたしはわたしです。ばあじにやだいがくのいちねんせいです。せんもんはせいたいこうがくです。わたしはたいわんじんです。ばあじにやのきりふとんからきました。あの。。。。。じゅうはっさいです。どうぞうよろしくおねがいします。
えいごでいいですか。
Hello everyone welcome to my first blog post. I am a FRESHMAN at UVA. I am studying Japanese because in my opinion Japan has one of the most interesting cultures. The Japanese culture's emphasis on mutual respect and filial piety is awesome. I visited Japan in the summer of 2007 and everyone there was so polite. I hope to one day live/study/work in Japan, especially Tokyo (although seeing the prices for housing in Tokyo it seems like it will be a long time before that happens).
Anyways here's a picture of the fortune I got from a temple in the Kantou region of Japan...somewhere around Tokyo I guess.
I'm still waiting for my "best fortune" to come....
しつもんがあります。
How does spacing in Japanese work? When do you put spaces?
Is Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka in romaji Tookyo/Kyooto/Oosaka?
じゃあまた。
えいごでいいですか。
Hello everyone welcome to my first blog post. I am a FRESHMAN at UVA. I am studying Japanese because in my opinion Japan has one of the most interesting cultures. The Japanese culture's emphasis on mutual respect and filial piety is awesome. I visited Japan in the summer of 2007 and everyone there was so polite. I hope to one day live/study/work in Japan, especially Tokyo (although seeing the prices for housing in Tokyo it seems like it will be a long time before that happens).
Anyways here's a picture of the fortune I got from a temple in the Kantou region of Japan...somewhere around Tokyo I guess.
I'm still waiting for my "best fortune" to come....
しつもんがあります。
How does spacing in Japanese work? When do you put spaces?
Is Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka in romaji Tookyo/Kyooto/Oosaka?
じゃあまた。
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