Test on Monday

Good Luck to everyone on Monday's test. Gambatte!!!!!

Pulling Teeth

Sometimes being in Japanese class, trying to remember what particle goes where and whether or not to use kore, sore, dare, or doko (and remember the spacial relationship between each).....is like getting your teeth pulled!!!!

What Makes a Good Blog

I think a good blog should: tell something about the student's personality (reflect hobbies and interests); give an honest self-evalutaion of one's own progress within the language; and one should make an effort to use the different types of kana or Romanji (in accordance with what they know about vocabulary and sentence structure).

Language Lab

I enjoyed the language lab session. I like the program that runs the exercises; it's very helpful to hear the distinction between the sounds.

Some Kendo Videos

Aside from soccer, I'm also a practitioner of Kendo, the art of Japanese fencing. Kendo translates as "Way of the Sword." It was Kendo that first made me interested in Japanese history and language. Enjoy!!

Something Cool

As I mentioned in my self-introduction, I'm a huge soccer fan and my favorite player is Zinedine Zidane. I found this video that I thought was cool, so... Enjoy!!

First 3 Weeks

So far the first three weeks of class have gone by so fast. I enjoy reading and writing hiragana. the only thing that is frustrating me at the moment is using the proper grammatical constructions in forming sentences. Does anyone else find sentence construction difficult?

Difficulties

It's difficult to lean a new language especially when it's not based on the Roman alphabet. Anyone agree, disagree, or indifferent?

Self Introduction

こんにちは。　わたしのなまえはケンです。アイルランドからきました。けんどうかです。サーカーがすきです。わたしのいちばンサーカーかわジネヂネジダネです。にほんへいつたことがありません。
コロンビアだいがくのがくせいです。にねんせいです。にほんごがあまりわかりません。

Hello everyone. My name is Ken. I'm from Ireland, but I've been living in New York for the past few years. My main interest in this class is to learn how to speak and read Japanese. I am very interested in Japanese history. this interest probably stems from my training in Kendo. Kendo is the Japanese martial art of fencing. Aside from Kendo, I also like soccer and my favorite player is Zinedine Zidane.　Despite my interest in Japanese history and martial arts, I have never been to Japan.