final project

Today we start our presentation. We are consists of 6 groups. 2 boys groups. 4 girls groups. Both boys groups present about anime. They focus about sports anime responded my people around the world. And also about Naruto. While the girls, they talk about foods in Japan, Japan short movie, houses and manners in classroom. That was an awesome presentation and sensei enjoy them. We also get many new information from our classmates presentation. That is also a good strategy in learning to gain more knowledge at one time. It’s good to see everyone smiling in this very last class for Japanese language. We snap some photos with sensei. And that’s the end for this course. I’ll never forget sensei. She is very kind and strict teacher. Everything was fun in her class. I hope I can learn about Japanese more. I wish I had the opportunity some other time. For those who are interested in learning for new language, try to take this course. Believe it was absolutely superb. It’s worth your time to adapt into Japanese culture time by time. Thank you to Zoraida sensei for everything you have taught us, and also to my classmates BJA5.. good luck for final even though we didn’t have final this course. Ganbatte, minna-san. Mata ne.. arigato gozaimasu. Suki desu.

last lesson..hmm

Unfortunately, this our last lesson for this course.sobsob.. and I didn’t attend last week class. So today, revising last week topic about ‘nan-ji ni okimasu ka?’(what time do you wake up?). we need to present our watashi no ichi nichi.

• -          Watashi no ichi nichi
• -          Watashi wa asa roku jihan ni okimasu
• -          Asa shichijihan goro asa gohan o tabemasu
• -          Hachiji ni gakko e ikimasu
• -          Jugyoo wa go ji ni owarimasu
• -          yoru ichijihan ni hiru gohan o tabemasu
• -          yoru shichijih ni shawaa o abimasu
• -          yoru hachiji ni benkyoo shimasu
• -          yoru juu-ichi ji ni nemasu

sensei that we are not creative in presenting our watashi no ichi niche. She said that we need HOTS skill. Huhu.. let’s try again in our video assignment on this. Ganbatte, minna.

Then, proceed to our last topic. ‘itsu ga ii desu ka?’(when is the right time?).

‘nanyoobi desuka?’ ‘kayoobi wa yoru gakko ni ikimasu.’

• ·         Monday – getsuyoobi
• ·         Tuesday – kayoobi
• ·         Wednesday – suiyoobi
• ·         Thursday – mokuyoobi
• ·         Friday – kin’yoobi
• ·         Saturday – doyoobi
• ·         Sunday – nichiyoobi

Just follow the audio from marugoto and complete the exercise. ‘itsu ga ii desuka?’ ‘itsu de mo ii desu’ we can say this when a friend invite us to join event and we are free anytime. And here are some vocabs about this topic… ‘maishuu’(every week), ‘senshuu’(last week), ‘konshuu’(this week), ‘raishuu’(next week).

Next, hear carefully on the audio about inviting friends to party next week. Here are some sentence that I got from there.

• -          Nichiyoobi ga ii desu
• -          Doyoobi wa dame desu. Sumimasen.
• -          Nichiyoobi wa daijoobu desu.
• -          Itsu de mo ii desu.
• -          Baasudee-paathii wa nichiyoobi ga ii desu.

Well, I guess that’s the wrap of this topic. Sensei gives some briefing about final project on presentation based on the topic we have chosen. We will present next week.

topic 8

Continue about next topic under home. ‘ii heya desune..’ this lesson is the extension of previous lesson regarding room and what we have in room. Instead of simple statement of what we have in the room, we can also describe where do we have the things in room by using simple position words.

• ·         ‘ue’ (on)
• ·         ‘naka’ (inside)
• ·         ‘shita’ (under)
• ·         ‘yoko’ (next to)

What things are there in the room?

‘hako’(box), ‘kappu’(cup), ‘shashin’(picture), ‘ningyoo’(doll), ‘teeburu’(table), ‘tokee’(clock)

The position words are commonly used together with a noun and particle ‘ni’ as a connectors for places…..’ningyoo wa hako no naka ni arimasu’

When a friend comes to visit and want to help with tidy up the room,, it’s going to be like this:

• -          Ningyoo wa doko desuka?
• -          Hako no naka ni onegaishimasu
• -          Hako no naka desune.. wakarimashita.

We also do some activities about this. With the help of slide and audio, we need to hear and arrange things according to the instructions. And the most exciting things is we get to experience demonstration of Japanese house located next to Japanese tutorial class. We get to enter the room for the first time and it is very beautiful. It’s very Japanese because of washitsu, tatami >.< we need to do some acting according to the books on how to visit and welcome a friend to our house and show them around. That’s fun huhu,, and that’s all for today.

Last week, we have been given an assignment on this week topic. Drawing our future house plan. According to the book, we need to have ‘genkan’(entrance), ‘toire’(toilet), ‘ofuro’(bath tub), ‘daidokoro’(kitchen), ‘heya’(room), ‘niwa’(small garden).

And then, learn a bit on how to recognize the name and address on signs. As we are in Malaysia, we rarely see people put name signs in front of their house because we didn’t have same last name like Japanese people.

We get to learn about ‘haiku’(short poem). Some introduction given by sensei. She told us about her experience when she study in Japan. She learns about classical japan and she need to learn and read the writings. I find it very hard to read the writings as it is very complicated. And then, we learn some famous haiku.huhu subarashi… we need to make haiku on our own. Following haiku rules, 5,7,5 syllable. We give it a try. They made it very good and nice. Good job gais.

topic 7

Heya ga mittsu arimasu. Our topic today,, we learn about ‘ie’(house). Sensei ask us what kind of house do we live in? well, in Japan, they have ‘apaato’ to ‘manshon’ to ‘ikkodate’ desu. While in Malaysia, we have many types of house such as ‘furatto’, ‘kondominiamu’, ‘rinku hasu’, ‘semi dii’, ‘bangaroo’. Sensei told us that Japanese home for single person is very small and usually they live in ‘apaato’. Other than that, ‘manshon’ and ‘ikkodate’ are bigger for family home. Sometimes it depends on places like Hokkaidoo, Osaka, and Tokyo. And here are some adjectives to describe the house such as ‘semai’(narrow), ‘hiroi’(large), ‘akarui’(bright), ‘kurai’(dark), ‘atarashi’(new), ‘furui’(old), ‘chiisai’(small), and ‘ooki’(big).

Next, as usual, do in pair and talk about our house and take note what kind of house that your partner lives in. so this is how I describe about my house:

·         Watashi wa serangoru ni sunde imasu

·         Watashi no ie wa ikkodate desu

·         Kazoku to sunde imasu

·         Watashi no ie wa chiisai desu

We can ask our friend’s house like ‘donna ie desuka?’ And my friend’s house is like :

·         Mari-san wa keda ni sunde imasu

·         Mari-san no ie wa ikkodate desu

·         Otto to sunde imasu

·         Mari-san ni ie wa atarashi desu

Then, let’s take a look about what things in our home. ‘ie ni nani ga arimasuka?’’ikutsu arimasuka?’ here’s how we answer it..‘terebi ga arimasu’ ‘sofa ga hitotsu arimasu’.

‘ie ni heya ga arimasuka?’(what do you have in your room?)

• ·         Watashi no ie niwa
• ·         Heya ga mittsu arimasu.
• ·         Beddo ga arimasu.
• ·         Terebi wa arimasen
• ·         Eakon mo arimasen.

We learn some new simple kanji on this topic that is ooki, chiisai, atarashi, and furui.

And then, we learn how to send an email to invite friend to come to our house.. ‘asobi ni kite kudasai’. As a homework, we need to send an email to sensei and invite her to our house.