A post from on campus
Not a lot new, but I felt like posting, so here I am.
Learning katakana is a lot of fun... it reminds me of how excited I was when I first learned to read. (I can still remember it!) I would read road signs out loud to my exasperated father while he tried to drive (Dad, it says speed limit 55 mph. But you're going 60!), I would read cereal boxes while I ate, I read the newspaper, I read anything I could get my hands on.
I've added people to my LJ who use Japanese in their postings and I read them excitedly. The other night I was reading an LJ post and working out the mora (syllables, basically) like: "Ni-n-te-n-?? -- gasp! That's Nintendo!" And it was so fun. (The ?? is because I don't know the kana for 'do' yet, so I had to guess.) I know 20 kana so far, and we learn them pretty quickly.
Had my first Oral Interview exam in Japanese class. I think it went okay, but it could have gone a lot better. I'm really bad at numbers, and so every time they asked me a question involving numbers I'd freeze up. I also called a magazine a dictionary, and used present/future tense when I should have used past tense. In addition to saying "uhhhhhh" a lot.
I expect I'll get a B, which should make me happy but really I'm just disappointed that I try so hard and still can't make an A. Ah well. It's still possible that I could squeak an A out of the class, but I just don't see it as highly probable.
Konnichi wa!
Learning katakana is a lot of fun... it reminds me of how excited I was when I first learned to read. (I can still remember it!) I would read road signs out loud to my exasperated father while he tried to drive (Dad, it says speed limit 55 mph. But you're going 60!), I would read cereal boxes while I ate, I read the newspaper, I read anything I could get my hands on.
I've added people to my LJ who use Japanese in their postings and I read them excitedly. The other night I was reading an LJ post and working out the mora (syllables, basically) like: "Ni-n-te-n-?? -- gasp! That's Nintendo!" And it was so fun. (The ?? is because I don't know the kana for 'do' yet, so I had to guess.) I know 20 kana so far, and we learn them pretty quickly.
Had my first Oral Interview exam in Japanese class. I think it went okay, but it could have gone a lot better. I'm really bad at numbers, and so every time they asked me a question involving numbers I'd freeze up. I also called a magazine a dictionary, and used present/future tense when I should have used past tense. In addition to saying "uhhhhhh" a lot.
I expect I'll get a B, which should make me happy but really I'm just disappointed that I try so hard and still can't make an A. Ah well. It's still possible that I could squeak an A out of the class, but I just don't see it as highly probable.
Konnichi wa!