たいへんですね。

Who is this little guy? たなかさん maybe?



Seems like he's having a bad day. たなかさんの　たべものは　おいしくなかったです。　ざんねんですね。 I kind of feel sorry for the guy. Although it looks like the bitter stuff made him grow arms! (*_*)

Here たなかさん,　ケーキを　たべませんか。 とても　おいしいです。



Aww look. He likes it!

そろそろ　しつれいします。　じゃ　また。

Katakana Analysis

Okay, lets talk about Katakana!

For one of my Katakana sources, I brought Final Fantasy IV, one of the best in the series for those who know (Melissa maybe?). There's a lot of talk about crystals in the game, and whenever they're mentioned, the game writes it as クリストル. I tried to see if there was a word for crystal in Japanese and as far as I can tell, there is. Writing it in katakana doesn't really put any emphasis on the word in this case and it doesn't have to be a loan word so I was a little confused. Then I realized everything in the game was written in hiragana and katakana. No kanji. I'm not sure why this was done, maybe to save space in the original game cart. Anyway I can only assume that since the correct way to spell crystal in Japanese requires kanji, Squaresoft (the company who made the game) decided to use katakana so the word wouldn't look misspelled.

Yuxi brought song lyrics to class which included the words シアクセ　（Happiness), and イイヒト (good person). I believe both words can be written in Hiragana. But when people express their emotions in songs. Considering both of these words are things that could be expressed with emphasis, I guess writing them in Katakana makes the emotions in the song a little stronger. It's a little weird though, because it's impossible to tell how something is written when you're only listening to it. I don't know the song though. I guess the emotions would be apparent in the way it's being sung. If that's true, then the Katakana is probably there to make the written form match the way the song sounds.

さとうせんせい　told us Japanese was one of the hardest languages for native English speakers to learn. I guess every textbook has it's own approach to teaching it. I saw one that only used loan words for nouns in the first two chapters. This kind of book would have to give a pretty in depth description of katakana early on. Our book doesn't make a very big deal about the katakana, probably because most of it is in hiragana and kanji. I guess it all depends on how much the textbook intends to use katakana while teaching Japanese.

へやは あたらしい です

いま　わたしの　へやは　ニューヨークに　べんきょします。　きょう　かえります。　

What I'm basically trying to say is that I moved to an apartment in New York today. I'm still waiting for my roommate to show up (if I even have one).

If anyone wants to study for げつようびの　テスト, にちようびの　ろくじに　Lerner Hallの　さんかいで　べんきょしますよ。

じゃ　また。

にわで はたらきました

みなさん　こんにちは

せんしょう　の　どようび　わたし　の　ともだちに　コルンビアだいがく　の　にわで　あいました。　CUFSUと　にわで　はたらきました。　それから　ひるごはんを　たべました。　ごはんと　やさいを　たべました。　ごご　じゅうじに　ちかてつで　かえりました。

じゃまた

ブロッコリーのやさい

Youtubeで　これを　みつけました。

どうぞ



(I know it's nowhere near Christmas, but this is too weird not to post.)

インターネットは　へん　ですね。

So Columbia offered me housing on 108th st. I think I'm going to take it. It will be great to not take the subway every day to school.

わたしの しゅくだいは ダメます

だれのせんこうは コンピュータサイエンス　ですか。 アィさんの　ですね。　Anyway, if you don't know java, just skip to══╗
                                   ║
╔══════════════════════════════════╝
║ I had an assignment that was supposed to run さん algorithms
║ in an HTML page. I did it, but I commented　out 　　　
║　the line of code that switches between algorithms while I
║ was testing it and I forgot to uncomment it before I turned
║ it in. Instead of さん different algorithms, it did いち　
║ algorithm さんかい. じゅう POINTS OFF!!!!! For に　lousy slashes.
║ ダメます！
║
╚══(there)══╗
            ║
╔═══════════╝
↓

Anyway I think the flashcard site I linked to is a little inconvenient. I'm going to try to build my own flash card applet that will hopefully be cleaner and easier to manage. Would anyone use this? I might be able to make it work on an iPod/iPhone too if that makes it any better.

わたしは　はたらきます.　So that's all for now.

まいにち べんきょうします。

こんにちは

ちかにかいで　べんきょうします。　ここは　しずかなです。　ごぜん　よんじはん　にます。　ごぜん　ななじ　にます。　こんばんは　やすみます。

じゃまた。

Flash Cards

If anyone is interested, I made some online flashcards with all the vocab for the first test.

http://bit.ly/2fz7Zz

あにめを みってください

みらさん　こんにちは。

Who else think this video was hilariously awkward?




Anyway it sems like I'm the only one who hasn't posted some kind of anime yet. So...　どうぞ。



This is the first series I ever watched, back when I was じゅうよんさい. Unfortunately, I could only find an えいご　dub to post here. わるいです, but the にほんご　version おもしろい　です。

I didn't know there were different kinds of Anime at first, しょにん　or しょじょ,　and a friend of mine suggested I watch this one. I didn't realize it was a しょじょ at the time.



Still, a small group of people with mystical powers saving the world from bad guys who also have mystical powers? Sounds sort of like Buffy or Harry, and the fight scenes were pretty good.

Okay, back to studying. げつようび　is right around the corner.