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ish.. aku dah taip entry pepanjang semalam...
anyways.. there are an abundance of selflearning japanese site...
if only my connection is faster!!

japanesepod101... dengar conversation. tapi slow la aku nak d.load..
i like iknow.co.jp ... drilling vocab everyday...
slow to load... tapi lepas dah load, lancarsss!!

also ade banyak kanji practise games on Nintendo DS..
http://naruhodojapan.blogspot.com/search/label/nintendo%20ds
but!!! aku tak reti jepun so tak reti nak guna...
but will bookmark it for later

also... aku download kanji recall for mobile phone...
sebab there's always that time when ur stuck alone with nothing todo ..
like waiting for someone kat cafe.. or waiting room dr/dentist...
u dont have ur books/DS... but u alwaysss have HP...
so this is a nice way to practise kanji when u have time...
and amazingly, aku ingat lak tu.. (baru basic 30-40 aa in 1 session)
tapi still dunno the strokes order etc etc.. but can read aa.. cant write..

がんばって！！！

hiyaah... finally figured out my IME...
phew phew.... it's like duh!!!!
pastu today also tak dpt blajar jepun.. IT came to my PC to install some software..
it was havoc coz windows kept trying to type everythingin japanese...
thats why I had to figure out what was wrong ...
sooo now all figure out already.... awesomee...!
cant wait to continue my studies....
日本語 is very exciting...
かんじ　もです

私は忙しいです

too busy to study my nihongo...
usually do it over lunch.. but asik keluar je lunch...
after office... too busy too...
hopefully next week can continue...
i can totally remember hiragana... but katakana slow... I know the symbols but sometimes cannot remember...

tambah pulak with my office PC being upgraded..
dulu windows 2000.. now windows xp...
and dunno why XP punye IME to type japan is so complicated!!! arghhh im ready to tear my brains out....
coz it screwed up all my PC...
aku tanak tulis jepun.. pun tetiba jadik jepun.. so freakin lecehh...
why cant it be simple like win2000.....
Im too busy to figure it out.. later lah....

but ive already printed and jilidkan my colloqial japanese book..
seriusly.... best aa buku tu......
if only I have time to read it!!!

アニメ

discouraging bila bukak anime.. lajunye cakap...
haprak tak faham.. and depa cakap guna bahasa harian...
dalam buku n class ajar formal language....

tapi i found out that Samurai X... slow sket and jelas sket percakapan die...
sebab nak bagi berdebar and dramatic kot.. so characters die cakap slow..
and can catch a few words.....

To stay motivate: focus on what you know... not on what u dont know....

にほんご の ほん

Went for my second class... so far nothing new...
All I can do based on self-learning...
but I still like the class to drill pronounciation into my head...
And something to look forward to during weekends...

I've been googling up books... and I found.. ***** website...
(I cant say it here, afraid it will get shut down hahah)
damn .. its like youtube for books...
and I found tons of book... even Japanese for Busy People.. Kana workbooks etc.. for free... (i think the authorities havent found it yet, or they would shut it down due to copyrights violation)...
so now im downloading as much as I can.... before people find out hahahha...

I am loving this book

Colloquial Japanese, A complete course for beginners.
by: HDB Clarke, Motoko Hanamura

because there's explanations.. I have so mane questions unanswered... and I dont like them unanswered.. and this book's method is good (so far)....and I am even slowly learning kanji....

which get me to my next topik... books about kanji... found a book that tells you how the kanji is formed.. thus making u remember it better...

for example

川: This is a picture of a river... water flowing... River in japanese Kawa
田: This is a picture of rice paddy field... Ta or -da
山: This is a picture of a mountain, so this is Yama

the book tells you how the pictograms evolve into kanji... its interesting....

にほんご が すき です

already registered to beginner I japaneese class..

already went to my first class..
sensei tu cam tanak cakap english langsung...
konfius aku.... asik guna gamba... flash card gamba to describe ayat etc ect...

i understand what shes trying to do...
sebab aku tak suka kena go to english then go to japanese....
aku nak terus think in japanese...
aku arab dulu... translate kena gi BM dulu baru aku faham....

maybe itu yang die nak buat, skip translating process tu..

anyways... ni aku ajar balik to rafiq...

Vocab hari ini
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gakusei - がくせい　　 -＞ student
ryuugakusee - りゅうがくせい　－＞ international student
daigaku - だいがく　　 -＞ college/university
senmon - せんもん　　　　 -> major
...nensei - ...ねんせい -> ... year student　　(2nd year = ninensei)
...sai - ...さい　 ->.. years old (19 years old = juukyuusai)
denwa - でんわ　 -> phone
bangou - ばんごう -> number

Fakta
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Mary, american
2nd year student at arizona university
Age 19 years
Major: Japanese language
Phone no: 283-9547

In Japanese
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Maeri san wa amerikajin desu.
Maeri san wa ninensei desu.
Maeri san wa juukyuusai desu.
Maeri san no senmon wa nihongo desu
Maeri san no denwa bangou wa ni hachi san no kyuu go yon nana


NOTE: の　(no) menunjukkan ownership... maeri san no kuruma.. (mary's car)
and boleh guna dalam phone number untuk dash (-).... kat jepun la..

spend 5 mins on this... review at home...

にほんご の がくせい ですか

i have borrowed 2 japanese text book from dirah...
liking the Umich one, coz they have explanation on how and why.......
but aiyo, so slow la me learning it...

I also bought Japanese for Busy People... but cannot start that after I master all the hiragana and katakana....

thinking of joining once a week class at ICLS, they have in subang SS15.... dirah + teh said they took the once a week class... duration 3 months.. cozt around RM300 for 3 mths.. not bad rite??? can afford that....

dah lama aku nak amek klass jepun... time sama nak start gym dulu la.... its either japanese classes or bellydancing class (gaji trainee).. so I join fitnessfirst coz they have bellydancing classes... end up, tak pegi pun belly dancing class tu... but went to fitness classes...which I tremendously enjoy.. now, gaji dah naik... can do japanese class and fitness class...

currently: finished all the 46 hiraganas... also all the GA, ZA, DA, BA and PA...

today want to start all the Kya, Ja, cha etc..... the 2 characters hiragana with 1 sound..

i can read hiragana now, but so slowly.... especially if it involves the G,Z,D,B and P....

ひらがな Ｐ２

today I wanted to learn Ka Ki Ku Ke Ko only...
coz busy with work..
also remembering A I U E O.....
now can spell akai (red)





but rafiq said he already learned the first 15 hiragana..
so I have to catch up.. so that we can learn together...
so I also learn Sa Shi Su Se So...

so today I can spell sakae sushi... hahahha

かな （ひらがな） (hiragana)

today I decide to start nihongo no (my japanese) lessons...
at first I started with studyjapanese.org...
so learn a few basic phrases in romaji (romanized words)
but I found out it will be better if I learn all the hiragana characters and some katakana so that I can learn japanese using kana...

I plan to buy the Japanese for Busy People, Kana version..

So I have to master reading (if possible writing) all the hiragana, to save money I plan to do this using practise sheets online.....

today's hiragana lesson: A I U E O

today's other lesson: the basic sentence....
watashi wa ariana desu - about me, aliana is (My name is aliana)