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Days and Months of the week.
こんばんはみなさん.
きょうのにほんごのレッスンはにちとがべきょうしたです.
Good Evening everyone
Today's Japanese Lesson I studied the days and months. (Actually it was a lesson earlier this week, but I decided to post this note today.
Before I talk about that, I hope someone who is reading this won't mind correcting the potential mistake in the second sentence. While I know the subject needs to go first (in this case kyou no nihongo no ressun -Today's Japanese Lesson-) and Benkyou shita is meant to be the past indicative 'informal' version of 'to study' I wasn't sure if I needed to add 'Watashi' anywhere to show that I was the one who studied... And maybe I should have added 'during' to the sentence to make it sound more natural...
Anyway~ I have to admit that while the months is easy, the weekdays are a lot more difficult, so let's try to refresh my memory.
January = いちがつ or 一月
February = にがつ or 二月
March = さんがつ or 三月
April = しがつ or 四月
May = ごがつ or 五月
June = ろくがつ or 六月
July = しちがつ or 七月
August = はちがつ or 八月
September = くがつ or 九月
October = じゅうがつ or 十月
November = じゅういちがつ or 十一月
December= じゅうにがつ or 十二月
It's pretty much counting to ten and adding gatsu~ But I got to make sure to keep in mind that it's Shigatsu, and not Yongatsu, and Shichigatsu and not Nanagatsu. I'm going to try to memorize the kanji also.
Now the difficult part: The days of the week~
Sunday=にちようび
Monday=げつようび
Tuesday=かようび
Wednesday=すいようび
Thursday=もくようび
Friday=きんようび
Saturday=どようび
According to my friend the kanji are easy to remember if you keep in mind they represent various elements
Sunday = Sun
Monday = Moon
Tuesday = Fire
Wednesday = Water
Thursday = Wood
Friday = Gold
Saturday = Earth
Complicated but... I'll memorize them in due time~ For now I'm glad I can recognize and pronounce them.
おやすみなさい
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Introducing myself in Japanese~
はじめまして
わたしはバ一トです
わたしはベルギ一じんです
わたしはぼらんちあょうがっくです
よろしくおねがいします
Yay~ my first notebook entry~
So today I had my first trial lesson, it was a lot of fun! Pronouncing can be kind of difficult, since I sort of raise my tone near the end of a sentence, making them sound like questions. I found myself waking up and humming those sentences to myself this morning, so decided to make this notebook entry.
The first thing I memorized was that sensei told me that you can omit the constant repeating of 'watashi wa' because we already know the subject is me.
There is also the tricky bit where the particle for 'Wa' looks like 'Ha' but luckily I'm no longer being fooled by that so far~ ^^
Let's see~ Also! there isn't an 'rt' vowel for my name, so Bart could translate to Baruto but that sounds too much like Naruto >_< so I was happy sensei used Baato instead
one of the greatest obstacles this lesson for me was pronouncing certain things.
when I tried to say berugi-jin the Gi sounded like He, so I need to keep practicing on that~
The next sentence was a bit different from what we learned in the way that I replaced the word student with 'volunteer at a elementary school' I read stories to children and such. Funny fact, it's cause of that they often compare my name Bart to Bard, just don't make me sing~
oh! the last bit yoroshikuonegaishimasu~ it's a bit of a long word, so I'm still struggling with pronouncing it~
I also learned some other fun things. But those shall be for another entry~
さんよなら~
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How do you correctly translate this in Japanese?
So~ In preparations for my first lessons I decided to practice recognizing hiragana and katakana~ Kanji are still out of my league, so I found a small blessing in the form of a Digimon game on the PSP, that has Furigana above the Kanji, but something been confusing me~ You see, in the below text
….ね….
….ねえ！
ほらほら！
起きろ!
よかった！
気がついたんたね！
I understand that it basically translates to
Hey....
Hey!
Oraora!
Wake up!
but now my question. Yokatta is the word they use when they are relieved about something right? sort of like 'phew I'm glad' but then the next sentence totally confused me. Due to the scene (the character is being woken up after fainting) I assumed it is related to their health, since the kanji can also mean 'mind, mood, air, atmosphere or spirit' So perhaps my thought that it means something akin to 'How are you feeling?'
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