Yay post!

こんにちは！！！(konnichiwa)

So, today I'll e talking about two things!

First! I was just practicing にほんご(nihongo) in the library the other day and I wanted to share what I wrote because I thought it was funny! I will not put the romanji in until the end because I actually wrote in parenthesise for part of it and I don't want it to be confusing... not that that sentence wasn't confusing, but... ^-^

Second! I finished another of the books I told you about in my post called ほんです(hon desu) and I want to share some of the parts that I thought were funny from that book!

Here we go!!!

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おはようございます！げんきですか？

げんきです！<3

あの。。。

きょうはもくようびです。あの。。。あたし。。。あああ。。。0.o

I don't have my dictionary with me and I haven't practiced my にほんご in a while, so sense I have the time and I finished reading for history and my math homework... ah, run on sentence that I can't tie together anymore... あ。

さ！。。。ココロ？kokoro? =0

くがつです！(It's September!)

Hm... maybe I should work on memorizing the months next... 0.o

あおいがすきです！ <3

a ア i イ u ウ e エ o オ
my first katakana! >-<

・「おい。。。あなたはともだちですか？」
・「はい！ともだちです！<3」
・「やった！」

Don't know where that came from... 0.o

^-^ iku-suru-kuru! (go-do-come!)

...Don't know where that came from either... 0.o

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So! the romanazation of all the hiragana will be here in order of appearance in the actual... whatever it is, let's call it a note! ^-^

Ohayou gozaimasu! Genki desu ka? (good morning! how are you?)
Genki desu! (Fine, thanks!)
Ano... (um)
Kyou wa mokuyoubi desu. ano... atashi... aaa... (today is Thursday. um... I... aaa...)

sa! kokoro? (so! ( I was experimenting with how to write kokoro so the meaning is not relevant in this case. It has no meaning right now, but kokoro is one of my fav. words!))
kugatsu desu! (It's September!)

Aoi ga suki desu! (I like Blue!)

"oi... anata wa tomodachi desu ka?" (hey, you're my friend, right?)
"hai! tomodachi desu!"(yes, I'm you're friend!)
"yatta!"(yay!)

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OK! So, in the post mentioned above, I talked about a book called Making Sense of Japanese, What The Textbooks Don't Tell You by Jay Rubin. Well, I finished it and I want to share some quotes from it! ^-^ enjoy!

- Ame ni furarete komatta / "Being fallen on by rain, I was distressed" / "Damn, I got rained on."

- "Pardon me, officer, but I've just been rareru'ed," you say to the policeman.
"Oh, sorry to hear that, sir, but what were you rareru'ed?"
"I was rareru'ed someody's having stolen my suitcase."
"How's that again?"
"I was stolen my suitcase!"
"What an odd way to put it!"
"Of course it's odd. I'm Japanese, and that's how we phrase these things when our English is a little shaky!"

-Well, where's the steak? It had vanished. Or rather, it never existed. I denied myself the steak, told myself that I was being good and doing the right thing by saving my money instead. I mentally enjoyed the imaginary steak to compensate for the unexciting act of handing my money over to the teller. Sigh.

- Amerika no kata desu ka / "Are you an American?"
Amerika-jin no tsumori desu kedo... / "Well, I was last time I looked..."

- ...Itadakimasu, meaning more or less literally, "I humbly receive." (Literally, it means to place something above your head or hold something over your head, a gesture intended as a humble expression of awestruck gratitude, but don't do this with your food.)

That's all! All of these are form the second half of the book because I didn't think to share them until I was past the half-way point. ^-^ I hope you liked them! If you are learning Japanese and you are pretty far along then I suggest this book. As I said in my post that I have linked to, this book is a bit ahead of me. It was very fun and educational despite my insufficient skill right now! So! Um... Ya, this is all for now! I hope you liked my post for today! ありがとうございます！！！さようなら！(arigatou gozaimasu! sayounara!)

おやすみなさい。。。(oyasumi nasai)

あああああ。。。 こんばんは(konbanwa)...

So, I'm tired. I got in bed and was about to go to sleep when I remembered I wrote something on my hand earlier, so I thought about it and realized that I wrote "Post on Blog! おねがいします！！！" (onegai shimasu)

So I'm laying here on my bed in complete darkness other than form my lappy. I'm sacrificing my sleep for you!!! XD

Anyways, I've been practicing some new words for the past few days so I may write another mini story on きんようび(kinyoubi)... Do you like the mini stories with にほんご(nihongo) words? I think they're fun to write so I'll continue writing them! ^-^

Thank you for reading!!! ありがとうございます！！！(arigatou gozaimasu) I'll post again on きにょうび！(kinyoubi) For now, おやすみなさい！！！(oyasumi nasai)

ピカピカする!(pika-pika suru)

こんばんは！(konbanwa)

Hello everyone! おげんきですか？(o-genki desu ka)

So, I have been practicing my にほんご(nihongo)these past few days and I have a new favourite word!!!

ピカピカする(pika-pika suru)

ピカピカする means "glittering" or "shining"! I like shiny things, so obviously I like this word (or is it multiple words... "pika-pika" and "suru"? but put together they mean one thing... and "suru" means "to do"...)

So, はい！(hai)

That's all for today! ごめなさい(gomenasai), this post is very short. Thank you for your time!!! ありがとうございます！！！(arigatou gozaimasu) I'll write again on げつようび(getsuyoubi) hopefully! (I have some down time between classes, but the computers at the school don't have the ひらがな(hiragana) setting on them and I don't feel like copy-and-pasting characters from Wikepedia so, the post may or may not have にほんご(nihongo) in it!) じゃまった(Ja matta)... I'll be going now! Have a wonderful weekend! さようなら！(sayounara)

(Side note: If you are awesome and know Japanese very well and you happen to read this and find flaws in my Japanese, please tell me! I still have a lot to learn and I know that half the stuff I write is probably a bit off. Thank you very much also for reading my posts!)

ひらがな(hiragana)

This past week I have been working to master ひらがな(hiragana). Well, I think I finally have! The only ones I have a hard time with anymore are ね、ぬ、ゆ、む(ne, nu, yu, mu). Aside from those, I can tell what they are after looking at them! I don't have to think so hard about them any more!!! ^-^ やった！！！(yatta) So, it's a pretty big accomplishment because it's taken me this long to learn them. I'm glad! Now I can move on to かたかな(katakana). Of course, I'm not going to use the katakana setting  in these posts yet if I don't know any! XD

So! はい(hai).

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Ah, I should stop procrastinating on my homework... Maybe my goal for this semester is to not procrastinate... hmmm, might be worth a try. Well, I have to get up early tomorrow so, さようなら！(sayounara) Thanks so much for reading again! And thanks for reading if it's your first time too!!! ありがとうございます！！！(arigatou gozaimasu)

An Obsession...

こんにちは！！！(konnichiwa)

So, hello there! きょう(kyou) I'm talking about one of my many obsessions. (There are a lot!) So here I go!

Ouran High School Host Club.

Ouran High School Host Club　がすきです！！！(ga suki desu)

So, I really like Ouran! I love the あにめ(anime)! (I've actually never read the まんが(manga), but I've been told so many things about it: it's confusing, it's not that great, it's amazing, etc...) But I really like the あにめ(anime).

So, I shared the あにめ(anime) with my amazing friend who is learning Korean (let's call her Stella!)... I don't think she watched it when I showed her...

Anyways, a few weeks ago, Stella asks me, "Didn't you like an anime called Ouran High School Host Club?" That got me explaining how amazing it was. SO! Stella then sent me a link. This link is the amazing-awesome link that lead to the much happiness of...

Ouran High School Host Club Japanese Drama!!!

(Did I mention that Stella likes Japanese and Korean dramas?)

YAY! So, I fell in love! The drama is currently airing in Japan on Friday nights! (but I still have to wait for the English subtitles to come out because I'm not very good still.....)

So, I will share this joy with you and send you to the first episode!

OK, I'm going to do my にほんご(nihongo) lessons this weekend like a good おんなのこ(onna no ko) so please expect にほんご(nihongo) on げつようび！(getsuyoubi) (I can say that because I don't have classes on Monday! :D)

ありがおうございます！！！(arigatou gozaimasu) Thanks for reading, as always!!! I appreciate it very much! さようなら！(sayounara)

So hi there

Hello

Im not using punctuation to demonstrate how tired I am right now

This Monday thing is not working out

Spending fourteen hours in a row at school for five hours of classes is not working I should say

I may end up moving my Monday posts to Tuesdays for a little while

I'll tell you my decision on Friday

I happen to like the Monday Friday posts so I really want to continue the posts on Mondays but I dont want to forget because of being tired

This is a really weird post

Its hard to type with no punctuations

I have to think about it now so its harder

dot dot dot

yeah Im gonna go now

before it gets worse

smile face

Good night

Thanks for reading as always

Bye

ほんです(hon desu)

こんにちは！(Konnichiwa!) Hello everyone! Yay にほんご！(nihongo)

So! At my school there is a pretty impressive library! It's become my home away from home because I spend so much time there. So the first thin I did when I got there was look for a にほんご(nihongo) section. Unfortunately, their にほんご(nihongo) section is not as impressive as the rest of the library... BUT! I am committed to reading every book in that にほんご(nihongo) section by the end of this school year!!! Well, it won't hurt to expose myself to にほんご(nihongo) literature and a few resources to aid in learning.... like the topic for today's post!!!

I found a book! ほん！ほん！ほん！(hon! hon! hon!)

This ほん(hon) is called Making Sense of Japanese, What The Textbooks Don't Tell You. It's by Jay Ruben who is apparently a にほんご(nihongo) teacher from what I've read in this book so far. Anyways, this book is really meant for someone in an actual class who has learned enough にほんご(nihongo) to move from textbook examples to actual にほんご(nihongo) literature and stuff. It's a bit ahead of me sense I've never taken a class... I am self taught and self teaching. So this book is a it of a challenge for me, but some of it I can grasp right now and that makes me very happy!

So, Along with that book, I stumbled upon Botchan by Natsume Soseki. In the research I have done on にほん(nihon) and it's culture, Botchan has been mentioned many times. I've always been curious about it. So when I found this, I snatched it of the shelf!!! And now I'm reading it! ^-^ Parts of it may have been used in tests that I have taken before because I recognize some of the parts. (Because for some reason my memory retains stories that I have read a heck of a lot better than it does historical facts!!!) But yes, now I am reading it! So now I will understand when they talk about Botchan in the "culture" or "literature" sections!

I also picked up another of Natsume Soseki's novels called Kokoro. I picked this one up because of the title. I knew already that こころ(kokoro) means the heart or the spirit of something, so I want to find out what this book has to tell. (I haven't started this one yet, but I started both of the others! ^-^)

So! That's all!!! Thank you so much for reading!!! ありがとうございます！！！(arigatou gozaimasu) Until Monday (hopefully!) さようなら！！！(sayounara)