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.

4/11/2016

Ohayo gozaimasu~~~

Hey we meet again ! thank you for visiting my blog.

So about yesterday class… sensei wa sugoi desune.. tanoshii hihi

And again, we talk about food but in new topic ‘doko de tabemasuka?’ means where do we eat

Actually, I like Japanese food.. usually I got them from Sushi King. Huhu…. So delicious.. oishii desuu~ my favorite dish is takoyaki, tamago sushi, salmon sushi, nori, udon, bento, soba.. there are very variety of food that we can feel Japanese aura here eventhough we are in Malaysia…

Sensei ask us what kind of favorite food that we often eat.. well of course malay dish that we can get everywhere anytime here in Malaysia. But it is good if sometime we try to change our appetite to taste dish from another country as we know there are many kind of dish from outside had been brought here. So that, we can always get that easily.

First task, present with friends by pair on where to go for lunch. ‘hiru gohanwo dokode tabemasuka?’while pointing to the restaurant ‘ano mise de tabemashoo’ and so on.. that’s how to invite friends for lunch. From here we got some vocabs that are ‘yasui’(cheap), ‘oishii’(delicious), ‘hayai’(fast). Then, we learn how to read a menu in restaurant. ‘hanbaagaa’(hamburger) ‘nihyaku-hachijuu-en’(280yen). That is an example of food in the ‘menyuu’(menu). To order for count such as if we want to order 1hanbaagaa, we can say ‘hanbaaga hitotsu kudasai’. Hitotsu means 1. Futatsu mittsu, yottsu and so on. And the same goes for drinks. If we want to order both food and drinks, we must use connectors ‘to’ between them. Some refreshment about kanji that we have learn last week to make sure we could recognize them well. That’s settle it. Till we meet again next time.