11th September, we are going for a drink to say massive Thank you and Good luck for Paul-san, who joined my Japanese conversation course from the beginning.
He was the only Advanced and most fluent Japanese speaking person!
Let's meet up a bit after 19:00 at Borders 1st floor and have drinks!
The class will be opened as usual from 18:30! Don't miss it!
I am very very very sorry....I cannot run a course on 21st August which is tomorrow!!!
As well as 21st, there is no Japanese course on 28th August.
So....see you all on 4th September @18:30!!!
SCHEDULE:
"NO CLASS"--- 21st and 28th August (Tue)
CLASS RE-OPEN--- 4th September (Tue) from 18:30 @ Borders Book Store
If you have not received my no-class SMS on Monday, please let me know!
Due to the change of Border's opening time, The Japanese Conversation Course at Borders schedule will be amended the following;
Basic (for people know Hiragana&Katakana)
starts from 18:30
Advanced (for people who can communicate in Japanese)
starts from 19:15
each course lasts for 45 mins.
More details?
Contact:
contact by e-mail
By the way, we are now studying how to call your family!!!
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"!!!
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!
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!
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.
