Practice Makes Perfect (or so we've been told), aka Fourth Post

Today's assignment: to consider what makes for a good blog (or otherwise).

As far as this class is concerned - or the Japanese language, for that matter - I guess keeping a blog allows for additional practice, outside of mandatory class exercises and homework, with the freedom to try making the lessons applicable personally, ie. to oneself. Granted, at this stage there isn't much to be done with our very limited skills, but, still, its good to at least try. :)

Oh, and the knowledge that this isn't being subjected to close scrutiny (as opposed to, say, a friendly eye out for mistakes) and grading helps enormously.

Renshuushimashoo !

Third Post

So we learned something new and very pertinent (at least to me, at this stage) in class today: to add the particle "ni" after specific expressions of time and days of the week. It is the polite thing to do, which is to say it is the Japanese thing to do. Good to know. I went back and added it - or them, since there were two - to the previous post: "Toyoobi ni ...", "Nichiyoobi ni ..."

Watashi no nihongo wa (ga?) koutenshimasu !

Second Post

Senshuu wa kibun ga warui deshita. :(

It was a particularly virulent strain of the flu, apparently. Felt better over the weekend though. Thank goodness.

Toyoobi ni tomodachi to isshoni Metropolitan bijutsukan ni ikimashita. "The Age of Rembrandt" (tokubetsuten) o mimashita. Otte nihonshoku no resutoran ni ikimashita. Watashi wa negima o tabemashita. Oryoori wa maamaa deshita. (Pity ...) Nichiyoobi ni nihongo no eega mite, nihongo no shukudai o shimashita. Eega wa Ozu Yasujiro no "Banshun" deshita.

First Post (again)

Apologies for starting over with a new blog - as it turns out I had problems accessing the old one because I'd made a mistake with my e-mail address (go figure how that happened). So I'm posting my first entry again, and replying to subsequent comments made:


Hmmm.

This is a rather odd exercise ... Anyways, here goes:


Watashi no namae wa Louis desu.

Columbia Daigaku no gakusei desu.

Kyoo wa suiyoobi desu. Otenki wa hare desu. Yay !


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Comment No.1 :

Fukai said...
Louisさん、おはようございます。どうぞよろしく。

Why do you say it's an odd exercise??? I'm just curious...

Yes, we indeed had a great weather yesterday, didn't we? It's a shame that we had to stay inside...

Look forward to reading your posts soon!

2007/09/13 7:51

Reply: Well, its just we haven't done very much so far - although I understand from friends who've taken this class before that we're going to pick up the pace pretty soon - so I don't have too much to say, either in Japanese or English. I'm sure once we really get going I'll have plenty to share.


Comment No.2 :

ダニエル said...
さいきん、まいにちいいてんきですね？　have you been in class recently?

2007/09/18 23:36

Reply:

Nope, was down with the flu all of last week. Much better now though ! :)