Jan 27, 2006 17:26
today was my last day of japanese lessons. on monday i leave for osaka. i asked my japanese teacher if i could make a train reservation not for monday, and she said yes and told me i`d probably want to go to tokyo station because there would probably be people there who spoke english. to my self i thought "you`re my japanese teacher, shouldn`t you want me to make the reservation IN JAPANESE." i don`t understand a lot of what`s going on, but i can do something like reserve a train seat... that`s a straight textbook situation.
i probably should have asked that we go over more difficult material in my lessons, but i suppose i was lazy. it wasn`t all easy, a lot of the vocab was hard, but i didn`t see any grammar i hadn`t learned before. japanese is so hard.
on monday, i wanted to ask if a suitcase was a display item, or if i could take that specific one. but i totally couldn`t figure out how to say it. someone had to translate for me and the girls working there. i felt really stupid. i felt even more stupid when i understood what the guy was saying to the girls in japanese. how come the things that come out of my mouth are so hard to understand? even in english.
for those of you who haven`t met me in person, i look really american! rob and i had a conversation about accents and we came to the conclusion that never will i ever be able to pretend to be canadian. the way i say certain things deviates from the north american standard accent and i seriously cannot make certain vowel sounds the "normal" way.
i have to get off before i`m out of internet cafe time.