17th July!

Yeah! It was too cold to be out side!!!!

However, I had 2 great new starters! The wonderful mother and his son.
Thank you very much for coming and I hope you enjoyed my conversation course!

In the Beginner & Intermediate courses, we did pretty much same thing.
But in the Inter., we did a little bit about Past(kako).


Let's see....

Manga is same.... Manga
Magazine - Zasshi
Book - Hon
Novel - Shosetsu


Yesterday - Kino(u)
2 days ago - Ototoi, Ototsui, Futsu ka mae

Tomorrow - Ashita
Day after tomorrow - Asatte....



In Advance....we had a really really fun conversation!!!!
We talked about Yukio Mishima, Meiji chocolate, how Japanese gov. makes "Heisei" "Showa" "Taisho..." names for each emperor's era. We even talked about who's gonna be the next emperor!

By the way, you have to be careful driving in Japan!!! the speed limit is 100km/hour on Highway!!!! Otherwise, (if you exceed limits=Speed Ihan) you will end up paying "Bakkin"!!!

10th July 2007

Hey! Thank you for joining us, Matthew, Rachael and Tegan!
I hope you enjoyed your first class today!

woops...mistake! right ones are..
*strawberry- ICHIGO
*chocolate- pron. ---->chocole-to

We again studied a lot of vocabs!!!

---- wo(o) kudasai = (please) give me -----.
(you can put ---- food! then you can order something to eat or drink!)

If you want to ask "give me 2 cups of tea"...= "Ocha wo 2 hai kudasai"

woo...counting is another magical thing in Japanese!!!

In the advanced class, Paul san taught me a very interesting thing...
the "bunka no chigai" (culture difference)

In the situation of "Fire drills"

in the UK....------> you have to stay calm and WALK!!!!(ARUKU)

in Japan...--------> you have to stay calm and RUN!!!!(HASHIRU)

It's interesting, isn't it????


Next Tuesday, we will do....how to say " I don't...." and how to count!

Yeah! We are back!!!

Hello hello!!! Kon ni chi wa!
Genki desuka???

The Japanese course at Borders opened again yesterday!!!
I brought a box of Japanese sweet and I was glad to know that many of you liked it!
The name of OKASHI (sweet) is "MUSHA GAESHI" from KUMAMOTO.

Yesterday, we studied some "Kanji".

"FIRST"= ichi, hito...
*ichi
*ichigatsu
*hitori

Then, we made sentences using "SHUMI(hobby)".
What's your hobby?
My hobby is...



In the Advanced course, we read an article about "FIRST FOOD".
What is the most well-known Japanese food? How about in the UK?

We also looked at some "MONKU(sort of complains, negative feeling expressions)"!!!


See you next Tuesday!!!

By the way, we will get together again for "THE SUMMER NIGHT SESSION" soon!
(possibly the end of July)
If you are interested in joining us, let me know!

Iro iro iro...& onegaishimasu/Class Schedule

It's been a while to up-date this blog!

Unfortunately, I currently cannot use Mac to create Japanese info but I do my best to explain what we did today.

"Gochumon wa okimari desuka?"(have you decided your order?)
"Hai,(yes) Ramen wo onegai shimasu"

Colours:
Ao = blue
Aka = red
Kiiro = Yellow....etc etc.

"Ao iro (colour) no pen wo kudasai" (I want a/the blue pen)


And I interviewed my advanced students about "advice for Japanese who want to live/study in abroad"

Paul san said a very good thing "Enjoy the challenge and enjoy cultural differences!"
I agreed with him!

"Be positive!"

I will bring more advice and information for the people who are coming to my exhibition and event in Fukuoka.

***CLASS SCHEDULE***

The course will be closed on 12th, 19th and 26th June

The course will re-open on 3rd July at 18:30

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!!!