Swedish anime...
Things I need to learn: big numbers in Japanese. Ha ha, counting is difficult! I talked to a Japanese woman on Lang-8.com once, and she mentioned finding “big numbers” hard in English. I didn’t really understand what she meant by that, since I didn’t know a lot yet - but now I get it. Must be the same thing for her except, you know, the other way around. More than five numbers confuse me! *lol* Our teacher is nice, though, she says: “don’t worry, this is why we practise!”
Yesterday, she also showed us (pictures of) Japanese money, and told us briefly about the people on the bills. Then she said that the first time she saw our Swedish 20 SEK bill, she was surprised that she recognized the picture on it! A very tiny boy flying on the back of a goose… She said that she watched this as an anime as a child! *lol* I had no idea that The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson had been made into an anime. Nils no Fushigi na Tabi. (It’s a story that originally was written as a school book, by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; she was a huge star back in her time - and she’s one of my favourite writers.)
Now that I think about it, though, I have a vague recollection of a Japanese Nobel Prize winner who actually mentioned this book in his big speech… but I’m pretty sure he talked about the book, not the anime! ;) Or did he? ha ha.
Now I’m curious if any other works by Swedes have been watched by Japanese children! :D
(I said that I like Selma Lagerlöf, but this is actually my least favourite book by her, even though it seems to be the most famous, internationally! I know the story of course, and I have read excerpts, but I’ve only tried to read the full novel once, I was maybe fourteen… and I didn’t finish it. The book was written to teach school children about the geography and history of Sweden, and at the same time give the kids an exciting adventure story.)
Since this is an online class, we have to submit our homework by scanning or photographing it, because so far it’s hiragana writing practice and that’s the only way to show it. I find it very difficult to get the characters all in the same size, the correct size, all the strokes in the right place, etc, etc… Starting with last week’s homework, the teacher said, she is going to grade everything. Much to my surprise, I scored 100%! I did not expect that. I thought my writing was “okay” at best, but I’m not going to argue if she thinks its’ better than that! :)
Yesterday, she also showed us (pictures of) Japanese money, and told us briefly about the people on the bills. Then she said that the first time she saw our Swedish 20 SEK bill, she was surprised that she recognized the picture on it! A very tiny boy flying on the back of a goose… She said that she watched this as an anime as a child! *lol* I had no idea that The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson had been made into an anime. Nils no Fushigi na Tabi. (It’s a story that originally was written as a school book, by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; she was a huge star back in her time - and she’s one of my favourite writers.)
Now that I think about it, though, I have a vague recollection of a Japanese Nobel Prize winner who actually mentioned this book in his big speech… but I’m pretty sure he talked about the book, not the anime! ;) Or did he? ha ha.
Now I’m curious if any other works by Swedes have been watched by Japanese children! :D
(I said that I like Selma Lagerlöf, but this is actually my least favourite book by her, even though it seems to be the most famous, internationally! I know the story of course, and I have read excerpts, but I’ve only tried to read the full novel once, I was maybe fourteen… and I didn’t finish it. The book was written to teach school children about the geography and history of Sweden, and at the same time give the kids an exciting adventure story.)
Since this is an online class, we have to submit our homework by scanning or photographing it, because so far it’s hiragana writing practice and that’s the only way to show it. I find it very difficult to get the characters all in the same size, the correct size, all the strokes in the right place, etc, etc… Starting with last week’s homework, the teacher said, she is going to grade everything. Much to my surprise, I scored 100%! I did not expect that. I thought my writing was “okay” at best, but I’m not going to argue if she thinks its’ better than that! :)