NEW COURSE!

Thanks to Deborah's PR in Japanese shop (@York),
we have more new members in Japanese Conversation Course at Borders!

Since we have new beginners, I decided to make
1 more class on Tuesday!

Beginners : from 18:30
*Starts from Hiragana, greeting, basic verbs etc.

Improvers : from 19:15
*Katakana, basic sentences, basic Kanji etc.

Advanced : from 20:00
*Conversation in Japanese 88% etc.
Grammar and Kanji

Each lesson --- 45 minutes
Fee --- £3/lesson

*I would like to introduce several books that I use in the course.*


Thank you and see you soon!

Thank you!!!

"The Spring Night Session" was so much funnnnnn!!!! Thank you very much for coming to Buzz to share the wonderful time!!!

Nice smile! Did you enjoy your food?

Wooo! Look the bottom... So funny!

Eat Eat Eat and Talk Talk Talk!

Thank you and see you next Tuesday at Borders Book Store!

By the way, "Radio Taiso"...you can find definition in wikipedia
Radio Taiso

Then...watch

Algorithm Taiso/March

Taiso with QRIO Version


March with Ninja

I could not find a perfect example for the"Radio Taiso"...I will try film it when I go back to Japan!
Algorithm series are huge in Japan. They do this in other countries and regions even in South Pole!

Week 13

Yahoo! The Beginners course has just finished HIRAGANA! We can read HIRAGANA now!
We will start KATAKANA soon and more verbs! Of course basic Kanji as well.

Sorry for Improvers...I brought a bit difficult article...
But I am glad that many of you are already "independent"(=jiritsu).

We also had a group discussion about....Japanese Food since we are going to Buzz next Tuesday!

Thank you for coming to the Japanese Conversation Course @ Borders, Tom-san, Epo-san, Hiro-san, Deborah-san, John-san and Mary-sensei!!!


And....Don't miss the event next Tuesday on 24th!!!

How about on 24th?

Will you be interested in joining us

"The Japanese Conversation Course at Japanese Restaurant Buzz in York"

on 24th April (Tue) starting at 18:30?

If Yes...Please respond me by writing comments on this blog, e-mail or telling me face-to-face!

Week 13

Woops, I did not up-date the blog for 5 days...SUMIMASEN.

18:30-
Hiragana : RA (LA) RI (LI) RU(LU) RE(LE) RO(LO)

Survival Japanese: Where is toilet? Toile wa doko desuka?

ooo...we did more things in the class...

19:30-
Many Kanji...and we talked about School holidays in the UK and Japan!
In Japan, 4 gatsu (April) is the month of START!

***10th April (TUE), the Japanese course is CLOSED***
We will re-open on 17th (TUE) as usual.

By the way, we will have an event "Japanese course @ BUZZ" sometime soon!
It will be open to anyone, so if you are interested in meeting people from the course, please join us.

One of our mates, Paul-san, he had a live-show in York.
Show wa dou deshitaka???

Week 12

WOW, March is nearly finishing!

It must be nice to go to Japan for "HANAMI"!

The Week 12, we did followings...

Beginner:

1-Breakfast, 2-Lunch 3-Dinner
4-This pen is blue, 5-What do you like? 6-I like flowers

Improver:

1-I will go to the football game even it rains (even arrows rain!!!)
2-Even I can understand that sort of things
3-Is Japanese interesting?
4-the survival of the fittest,the law of the jungle,dog-eat-dog/the beauties of nature

Well...I said this as an example for "JAKUNIKUKYOSHOKU(No.4)
"Lion eats rabit...and rabit eats...what?"
then Paul-san told me "Rabit eats carrots!!!" yes, it's right. We laughed! I liked the moment so much.

I also mentioned about "TORA-san". Check "Fu-ten no tra-san" movie and it will give you an idea about "SHITA-MACHI".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_tsurai_yo

We see you on 3nd April (TUE) 18:30〜！

By the way, I would like to arrange an event "The course in Buzz!" sometime in April.
I will post more info. soon!

Week 11

In Beginners course, we studied MA MI MU ME MO and parts of face!!!

"MIMI"=ear, ears
"ME"=eye, eyes
"KUCHI"=mouth
"HOPPETA/HOHO/HOO"=cheek
"HA"=teeth, tooth


In Improvers course, we did casual conversation about "TRAVELING IN JAPAN"
Look back our life in Japan...where you went. How do you go? How long does it take?

Week 12 will be held as usual at Borders on 27th March(TUE) from 18:30!