こんばんわ! I was thinking it might be nice to share a Japanese song every once in a while, maybe even every week? Giving a task like this to myself can also motivate me to listen to more Japanese music, and practice my listening. So, here's my song for the week: I found this song on Tumblr a couple years ago, and I'm still in love with it. I figured it would be nice to share it as my first Japanese song for the week.
Also, the music video is.... quite surprising~ じゃね! ばにら
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I have a couple goals to achieve regarding Japanese PE exercises until the end of the semester: 1) Listening Comprehension: I believe translations get in the way of the original meanings and messages in media. After this semester, I want to be able to understand Japanese anime, movies, and songs with as minimal need for subtitles as possible. 2) Speaking and Conversation: I want to be able to hold casual and friendly conversations with native Japanese speakers without freezing mid-sentence or asking for the meaning of certain words or phrases. 3) Close to natural: I want to sound close to a native speaker of Japanese with my pitch, pronunciation and intonation. I feel like I can often get the pronunciation alright, but my Japanese speaking is pretty dull. I need to get more confident with my speech and get used to the pitch/intonation changes through sentences. I have a couple action plans to achieve my goals: 1) Go to Japanese tables at least once every two weeks: I would love to go more often, but I have a really busy class schedule this semester. I feel like having casual dinner conversations in Japanese could be a very helpful practice.
2) Watch anime and listen to Japanese songs: A Japanese 101 student from last year mentioned they were thinking of doing shadowing exercises with anime, and I think that is a really good idea. I want to do that with anime and songs this semester. I listen to music when walking to classes, so I can listen to Japanese songs often, and watching at least one 20 minute anime episode every week is doable. 3) Practice speaking with friends: I have friends who took Japanese 101 last year, and some who are native speakers. Speaking with them can be a really helpful practice! ばにら みなさんこんにちわ! はじめまして!わたしはばにらです。 とるこのいずみるからきました。 ぷりんすとんだいがくのにねんせいです。 にほんごのいちねんせいです。 せんこうはこんぴゅうたあこうがくです。 にほんごがだいすきです。 どうぞよろしく! じゃまた! みなさんこんばんわ!
I found an Android App to practice Hiragana, called Obenkyo. The app teaches you how to draw each character in the correct stroke order, and let's you practice on a grid. I am using it just for Hiragana for the time being, however you can also practice Katakana, and Kanji! Besides teaching you the stroke order, the app also lets you test your Kana knowledge in a variety of ways. The following are possible quiz modes for Hiragana:
じゃね! こんいちわ!
I am Banira, and I made this blog to talk about my experiences as a Japanese 101 student in Princeton University. My first exposure to Japanese language and culture was when I was introduced to anime and manga for the first time. Following several series showed me that Japanese culture was really different from the Western culture that I was exposed to in a regular basis. This difference made me want to learn more about Japanese culture, and pushed me to read, research, and watch documentaries about Japan. Throughout my interest, I found out that Turkish (my main tongue) and Japanese languages have quite a lot in common. They follow similar grammatical structures, and also both of them have phonetic alphabets. Overall, I am interested in taking this course, because Japanese culture fascinates me, and the fact that Japanese sounds and feels quite familiar to me as a Turkish speaker makes me really excited. First week just ended, and we learned how to introduce ourselves in Japanese, a few greetings, along with 30 Hiragana characters. はじめまして!ばにらです。ぷりんすとんだいがくのにんえんせいがくせいです。にほんごのいちねんせいです。どうぞうよらしく! I don't know many of these characters yet, but my sentences got translated into Hiragana because my computer knows more Japanese than I do. Still, It's nice to recognize some of them! I'm really excited about learning Hiragana, and about the fact that I can carry on a simple, introductory conversation. However, I'm really scared of learning Kanji, because there are thousands of characters to memorize! じゃまた! |