Japanese class
Oct. 3rd, 2006 11:05 pmToday was our first Japanese class. It was fun! I had browsed through the book, and saw the hiragana and almost put the book away in terror. Oh dear, TEH angst! But when we got there, our teacher, Ogata Naozumi, said he'd focus mostly on conversation, and not follow the book completely. He doesn't think it important we learn the hiragana, katakana or kanji yet. Perhaps next year.
*wipes away sweat*
So, today we learned sentences like:
Watashi wa Jane desu - I am Jane
Watashi wa Oranda jin desu - I am Dutch
Watashi wa NoKey ni hon o ageru - I give NoKey the book
And the basics of how to build a sentence, a scheme that looks somewhat like {subject}+ wa ...
But the most fun was the scheme of Kore, Sore, Are/ano (this, that, that over there), and Koko, soko, asoko (here, there, all the way over there) - and the next scheme:
me - watashi
you - anata
him - kare
her - kanojo
we - watashi tachi
you (plural) - anata tachi
them (male or mixed) - karera
them (just females) - kanojo tachi
Revelations for the day: Japanese is yodaspeak. Watashi wa Jane desu translates as: 'I Jane am'
*wipes away sweat*
So, today we learned sentences like:
Watashi wa Jane desu - I am Jane
Watashi wa Oranda jin desu - I am Dutch
Watashi wa NoKey ni hon o ageru - I give NoKey the book
And the basics of how to build a sentence, a scheme that looks somewhat like {subject}+ wa ...
But the most fun was the scheme of Kore, Sore, Are/ano (this, that, that over there), and Koko, soko, asoko (here, there, all the way over there) - and the next scheme:
me - watashi
you - anata
him - kare
her - kanojo
we - watashi tachi
you (plural) - anata tachi
them (male or mixed) - karera
them (just females) - kanojo tachi
Revelations for the day: Japanese is yodaspeak. Watashi wa Jane desu translates as: 'I Jane am'
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:41 am (UTC)With my 10 to 20 hours of anima a week I got the basics you put up here, but any real Japanese is beyond me. I'm wondering, where do you take these lessons and are they expensive? Not that I have the time or money right now, but Tom is a bit of a language freak and it would be nice to do something like this together in the near future.
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:42 am (UTC)Het is nog enigzins betaalbaar, maar het gaat wel met een heeeeeele laaaaaangzame pas, zodat iedereen het werkelijk bijhoudt. Waarschijnlijk als er over twee jaar wat moeizameren afgevallen zijn pikt het wel wat op. Zo heeft NoKey ook zijn Grieks geleerd.
Kohi kudasai!
no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 12:48 pm (UTC)Ik heb even gekeken en het lijkt inderdaad goed betaalbaar. Bedankt voor de info. ^_^