Japan lesson for beginners

[elkica]

Lesson III

 

The third group of 10 Hiragana

 

Writing:

 

 

The exercise and new words:

 

 

And some new structure of sentences:

 

Watashi wa nihon-jin desu. (I'm Japanese)

Watashi wa Ida desu. (I'm Ida)

 

We combine that in

Watashi wa nihon no Ida desu. (no-pronoun;  that means that noun (Nihon - Japan) becomes adjective (Nihon no -Japanese)).

 

Some examples:

 

Kono hito wa dare desu ka? (Who is this person?)

Kono hito wa Surobenia no Koshiru desu? (This is Slovene Koshir)

 

Watashi wa Ryuburyana daigaku no Ida desu. (I’m from Ljubljana’s university Ida or I’m Ida from Ljubljana university. Ryuburyana-Ljubljana, daigaku-university)

Kono hito wa Ryuburyana daigaku no Koshiru-san desu. (This is Koshir from Ljubljana university or This is from Ljubljana university Koshir. )

Watashi wa Ryuburyana daigaku no sensei desu. (I’m from teacher from Ljubljanske university.)

Kono hito wa Ryuburyana daigaku no gakusei desu. (This is student from Ljubljana university).

 

For practise look at the image A (you can find it under lesson I).

 

Recapitulation of numbers:

 

1-ichi            11-ju-ichi              21-ni-ju-chi

2-ni              12-ju-ni                22-ni-ju-ni

3-san             13-ju-san               23-ni-ju-san

4-you, shi        14-ju-you, ju-shi       24-ni-ju-you, ni-ju-yhi

5-go              15-ju-go                25-ni-ju-go

6-roku            16-ju-roku              26-ni-ju-roku

7-nana, shichi    17-ju-nana, ju-shichi   27-ni-ju-nana, ni-ju-shichi 

8-hachi           18-ju-hachi             28-ni-ju-hachi

9-kyu,ku          19-ju-kyu, ju-ku        29-ni-ju-kyu, ni-ju-ku

10-ju             20-ni-ju                30-san-ju

and so on (the rules are the same)

     

Filip-san wa nan-sai desu ka? (How old is Filip. nan –how, sai-old)

 

Filip-san wa 9 sai desu. (Filip is 9 years old., sai- years old/years/old)

 

Anata wa nan-sai desu ka? (How old are you?)

 

Watashi wa 29 sai desu. (I’m 29 year old)

 

Now the particularity

                        pronunciation:

 

10 - ju           10sai - jusai                11sai - juisaj   

20 - ni-ju        20sai - ni-jussai             21sai - ni-juisaj

30 - san-ju       30sai - san-jussai           31sai - san-juisaj

40 - you-ju       40sai - you-jussai           41sai - you-juisaj

50 - go-ju        50sai - go-jussai             51sai - go-juisaj

60 - roku-ju      60sai - jroku-ussai          61sai - roku-juisaj

70 - nana-ju      70sai - nana-jussai           71sai - nana-juisaj

80 - hachi-ju     80sai - hachi-jussai          81sai - hachi-juisaj

90 - kyu-ju       90sai - kyu-jussai           91sai - kyu-juisaj

 

Lesson IV

 

The fourth group of 8 Hiragana

 

Writing:

 

 

The exercise and new words:

 

 

Words:

Kore wa nan desu ka? (What is this? kore – this, nan –what)

 

hon – book

nato – notebook

zasshi –magazine [zaši]

shinbun – newspaper [širibu]

jisho – dictionary [žišu]

pen – pen

empitsu – pencil [empicl]

borupen – ballpoint pen

tokei – watch, clock

terebi – TV

megane –glasses

e-hagaki – postcard with the picture (e-picture, hagaki-postcard)

rajio –radio

kagi – key

kaban –bag

mizu – cold water

tsukue – desk [tskue]

isu – chair [is]

doa – door

mado – window

 

The answer: Kore wa hon desu ka? This is a book. and so on.

 

The teacher gave us a book to copy. There is not a word of English or Slovenian in it, except the introduction on the second page, everything else, all the 211 pages ARE in Hiragana. I guess that we will do a lot of work from it. Just shoot me now and spare me the agony.

And somebody said that we are going to have exam at the end of the school year together with the regular students. Are they crazy? Those guys have 14 hours per week of class. We only have 4 per week. Like I said, just shoot me now and spare me the agony.

A joke that I heard:

A boy wanted to be hunter, so he went and joined the hunting club. For first six months he had to study about forest animals, feed them, clean after them and all that boring stuff the new recruits do.

But then at the end of his training period, they send him in the woods with a rifle with six bullets to kill a bear and told him: “If you miss a shot at the bear, just pull your pants down and bent and you will be fine.”

Here he was on the clearing, when he spots the bear and shoots at him.

He missed, so he does as he is told, pull his pants down, bents… and the bear does his thing with him.

After it’s done and a bear a few feet away, a boy pulls his pans up and tries to kill a bear again. He misses, pulls his pants down and bents, for a bear to do his thing again.

When this is done, the boy pulls his pans up, again and tries to kill a bear for the third time. He misses. The procedure follows.

Then the fourth time, he misses. The bear does his thing again.

The fifth time. The sixth time with his last bullet. He misses.

A bear is slightly annoyed by now and he asks the boy: “Did you came here to hunt or for sex?”

Comments

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

wow - you did it again! thanx!!
and i wonder if it is possible for me to learn smth like that...
what do you do during lessons?


lol - funnny joke XD

[elkica.livejournal.com]

I think it's possible for you to learn this. I'm putting the stuff up the way she teaches us.
So we do all those things + repeating them a lot. We say word or sentences, over and over and over again.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

well i can try ^^

about that guy at my pic. i'm gonna type it right now it will be a very long post XD
thw remember the guy you liked at the pic - dark-haired? here he is as well http://anc-q.livejournal.com/111804.html?nc=4

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

meh - you wanted a fanfic? XD i think you'll get it XD well - i'll provide you a lot of reading after you said you'd like to know the plot XD it turned out to be a long comment - but you wanted didn't you didn't you? ))))))))))

a half of a year ago i wrote my biggest story. That was "Soldier of the Sun". You might see the video here http://anc-q.livejournal.com/126677.html#cutid1
I have a lot of pics for this story. And it is the mix of fantasy and the Middle Ages. Well it's nowadays but the main characters find themselves in a new world called Threeland. (i'm not sure about translation) They are Sea World, Celestial World and Solar World. Also it has one more world - Icy World, but it doesn't count I’ll tell you later why
the story has three parts now. (In the beginning it had only one XD, but i was so sad it was the end that i decided to write more)
the first part are consisted of 15 chapters and its title is Soldier of the Sun,
the second part's title is Among Icy Crags - 11 chapters, and the last one will be the Lord of the Worlds
talking about the Soldier of the Sun again at first it was just a pic in my mind, i don't remember whether i imagined it or whether it was a dream. Here it is
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2650/taronwall15jm.jpg
it was the first time i drew smth using my computer. and after this pic i created a very big story about him and his friends.
So the main character is Taron and Lina. Friends of Lina are Sally, Yana and Alex.
You can see them here http://annswalls.narod.ru/Anime2_2.htm

the beginning: Lina Alex Yana and Sally are common citizens of our world having party and fun XD but then they see smth they mustn’t (I suppose it was a crime). They run away to the forest. Those men chase them maybe to kill XD It is night and they don’t know what to do. They start to abuse with each other and Lina says she wishes Taron were there to help them and he appears. (ah, my sweet boy ^^) others shoked – they see a man wearing strange clothes(for them of course but not for Lina) then Alex Sally and Yana find out that Lina is not from their (our) world and she’s a princess and Taron was her guard. Taron is a soldier… well not exactly, I would say he’s a knight, Royal knight, who serves the king of the Sea World and has no parents or his own past. All he remembers is that he was grown up in the castle of Lina’s father as a member of elite troops. It took a night for Taron to find those chasers (persecutors) and cope with them, but it wasn’t so important =) it was just a beginning! )))) then Lina’s father comes to our world and asks Taron why he’s late with Lina’s returning home. And she learns the real reason of Taron’s coming here. He must return her to Sea World coz her father wants her to marry Clod (NOT CLOUD XD) prince of Celestial (Sky) World. http://anc-q.livejournal.com/41892.html?nc=11
then her father goes back and Lina says she doesn’t want to marry the prince and ask why Taron do that against her will(I must mention they were true friends in the childhood but then Lina went to our world and they didn’t see each other till this moment) he says he serves the king. Of course she’s angry with him XD well He brings her back to Sea World with all her friends. They offer Lina to escape but they don’t know how to cape with Taron, well they try and all of a sudden Taron says he lets them go and that he will face the detachment that was sent to meet them in the Sea World. While he tries to cape with them he finds out who he is. He learns that he is the king of Solar world that was destroyed by Clod’s father. (Sky World) And
troops of Sea world took part in that war too but they were just helpers for Sky World who started the war and wanted to conquer the Solar World. It ended with destroying but not conquest. Taron finds out that his general rescued him from Solar Palace when Taron’s parents were killed and the general brought him to the Sea Castle to hide. Then Taron reaches the others (Lina Alex Sally Yana) and they try to find the door to the Solar World to escape there. The door is one of the mirrors in the old house on the boards of the Sea World. http://anc-q.livejournal.com/31852.html?nc=21

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

the problem was that the door opens only in the morning when the Sun raises (also they need to find the mirror they need) The house was surrounded by Sea troops but of course they found the mirror and escaped. I have to add. Taron Lina and Sally went to the Solar World but Yana and Alex returned to our world. They said they had nothing to do in the Solar World.
Addition =) of course I didn’t forget about love lines XD I think you can guess the pairing of Taron and Lina. Also Alex didn’t go to Solar world coz he loved Lina as well. Yana didn’t go coz she loved Alex. I hope they are happy together coz they will not appear in other parts of the story. Sally went with Lina and Taron coz he had nothing to lose – he was just a friend XD
Also Taron was rescued by that general coz he loved his mother – Solar Queen. BUT he wasn’t Taron’s father (I say it coz this theme had a lot of questions XD )
About Clod – he didn’t love Lina he just wanted to be a powerful king and rules two worlds.
So this is the Soldier of the Sun in short XD

next i'll tell you about the second part of this story if you still want XD

[elkica.livejournal.com]

but you wanted didn't you didn't you? Yes I did, yes I did.
You have quit a story here and I remeber your movie about the Solder of the sun, there was this room with mirrors, which you did great.
As I understand you finished it, how long did you needed for that?
It sounds interesting with all the plot and I'm interested did Taron become king?
I will have to check pictures later, because this connection is a piece of shit. But thank you for giving me the links to them and the plot of the story. And of course I want the second part of the story, if you are willing to write it.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

=)) so the i'll post about the second part ^^
yeah - that mirrors - this is it! )))

no i didn't finishe that clip =(

you'll know about his becoming or not ^^

ok =) check them later - i don't mind ^_-

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

so the second part “Among Icy Crags”
pics are here http://annswalls.narod.ru/Anime2_3.htm

2 years passed. Taron became the king and raised his kingdom from the ruins with the help of Lina and Sally. Sally became a knight and changed his clothes XD
As a king Taron rules the world and “switch on and off” the Sun. One day Sally asks Taron to show him this ceremony and Taron does. After that they noticed Clod’s forces near the door to the Solar world and hurry to go back to palace to gather the army to cape with them. And they did it and then they go to the door but there is no one. While they are out Clod steals into the Solar Palace and abducts Lina and goes back to Celestial World. He make Lina marry him but then she manages to escape. She goes to Icy Crags and when she reaches it her horse runs away (btw they have horses, no cars) and she walks alone to the mountains. She finds a cave where she can stay for a night and she falls asleep.
When Taron goes back to palace he realizes that Clod were there and chases them, (taron went alone coz his troop didn’t manage to go through the door among the worlds it was late morning and the door closed after Taron entered) and he meets Clod, who says that Lina went to Icy Crags and he’s not a fool to chase her there. Clod’s troop capes with Taron and then just leave him unconscious. Next day taron’s troop finds him and he says he will go to Icy Crags to find Lina. One of the officers says that he shouldn’t do that. Taron asks why and gets the answer that this is the land of the dead and no one has returned once he entered it. And after these words Taron orders the troop to go back to the Solar World and if smth will happen he wants Sally be in his place. He listens to no one and goes to the Mountains. He is walking for a few days and night but the surrounding doesn’t change. But then all of a sudden it changes to a snow desert with no ends. Blizzard starts and he doesn’t know where to go he can see nothing and the wind knocks him down everytime he tries to go on walking. He starts to freeze up. And now he can see only the darkness around him – nothing else. And he sees a light of fire coming up to him. It’s his mother. He meets her and she hugs him to warm. (awe – such a touching scene XD

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

*wipes a tear and sniffs*) she tells him that she knows what he’s searching for and before she will tell him where Lina is she warns him that he will die. She says he must follow the violet star and if he does he will find her. And then she vanishes. He did as she said. Taron walks through the snow forest and Icy Mountains following that star and then he finds Lina. She is sleeping imprisoned in the thickness of ice and he tries to free her but nothing works and he hears the voice who says that it is his Kingdom and asks what taron needs here. After some explanations the Wind (so this is the king of Icy World) says that he will not let Lina go and the battle begins. Taron can’t cape with the Wind coz he doesn’t see him. The Wind just playing with him and when he sees Taron can do nothing, all of a sudden became bored he finishes the battle. Taron tells him to continue (yeah he’s stubborn XD) but the Wind refuses. Then Taron asks whether he still alive or dead already. The Wind says he’s still alive but Lina is almost dead. And Taron offers his life instead of Lina’s one. (I know I like ideal things XD) and the Wind agrees. Now Taron can take Lina out of the ice and he leaves her on the snow. When she wake up she sees him but his body is almost freezed. He whispers that he loves her and then he became an ice statue. Now Sally appears and grabs her hand saying “we must go” and leads her away.
Later in the evening (they stayed in the Sea World coz door can be open in the morning only) she goes to the sea and suddenly meets Taron there. He says he has some time to say goodbye. Of course she doesn’t want to let him go blah blah blah but he says he have to and kisses her goodbye and then he becomes water/vanishes and little stars appers in the night sky =) so this is “Among Icy Crags”

Later I will tell you about the Lord of the Worlds =) I have to go to do my French homework ^^

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

now i have to say maybe my stories aren't perfect but i do it for myself - i like to reread them ^^ for me it's my magical world.
You know i'm the biggest daydreamer XD i like to imagine smth - so i can say my stories are my adventures ^_^
And am not I crazy after that? XD sorry a lot of readind for you ^^ i think you didn't expect i would write a big answer!

[elkica.livejournal.com]

That nothing wrong in being the daydreamer. Well at least for me, but maybe I should introduce myself. I'm Ela, with my head in the clouds and my feet firmly on the ground (so that I can't fly away).
You have really done some hard work with description, I thank you for that. And as I said, it sounds very interesting and beautiful in the sad way and I'm a sucker for fantasy so I like what I have read. And don't worry about a lot of reading for me, I read english very well, devouring all of those romantic story in English has finally paid off. But yes I didn't expected from you to write so much.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

=)) sometimes it's hard to face reality for the ppl who we can call daydreamers =)
thanks ^^
i'll tell you about the third part when i'll think up the end of the story =)

[elkica.livejournal.com]

I think reality is hard, if your expectation are too high.
i'll tell you about the third part when i'll think up the end of the story =) Yes please.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

maybe - i can say here nothing

ok =) but i have one difficulty - this night i drew ane more sketch and... thought up a new story (one more) of this pic XD meh - i'm torn apart between them XD

[elkica.livejournal.com]

Huh, problem with too many ideas.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

=) yeah - smth like that ^^

btw how's your work? it seems it started to take a lot of time

[elkica.livejournal.com]

I'm still running around, but at least now we work in Ljubljana, so I go to the office for two hours, then go out in company's shops to do inventory, than in the afternoon back in my office. This will last now for two weeks. But it's alright. I will mange, somehow. :)
And you, you have been busy too, I saw Cloud's smiles. They are so, soooo adorable.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

and you worked in other cities? that sounds so tiring!
i believe in you! ^^
thankies ^^ but i wouldn't say i was so busy XD i have a lot to do but i don't want to do that XD рурб lazyness!

[fantasia0829.livejournal.com]

Maybe this isn't important, cuz it's romanji and all... but shouldn't magazines be read as zasshi? And sometimes, I really love Japanese because of how similar some of the words are to Chinese. XDDD Zasshi sounds a lot like 'za zhi', which is Chinese for magazines.

I miss Japanese so much!

[elkica.livejournal.com]

It really zasshi, not zassshi, I type one s too many. I will correct this. Thank you for informing me.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

4-you, shi
7-nana, shichi
9-kyu,ku

how are we supposed to know which word to use?
and how 9 and 4 are pronounced?


what is that book your teacher gave you? ) what's there?


oh - and exams ) I wish I had one instead my French XD
combatane! ))) you'll do it for sure ^_-

[elkica.livejournal.com]

If it isn't specified, you can use which ever you want.
4 - ju, 9- kju

Well...I haven't scanned the book the teacher give us, but I will have to in the future lessons...and there are mostly conversation, how to ask for direction, how to buy somethings and things like that.

You are learning french? That's great.
you'll do it for sure I don't think so, I don't even know if I will go to it.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

thanks!

so I see now ) I was just curious

Didn't you know I study French as well? to be true I hate it )))

aaah, Ella, you're running away from exams? )))