にほんごのじゅぎょうは５じ４０ぷんから６じ４５ふんまでです。じゅぎょうはKent びるにがあります。さとうさんはにほんごのじゅぎょうのせんせいです。じゅぎょうはむずかしです、でもじゅぎょうはとてもたのしいです。わたしたちはまいにちにほんごのべんきょうをします。
コロンビアだいがくはニューヨークにあります。ちかてつやバスはべんりですから、ニューヨークはにぎやかなところです。おおきいビルやきれいこうえんがあります。わたしはコロンビアだいがくとニューヨークをあいしている！
このクラスのだいがくせいはおもしろいですね！クラスのはじめのまえに、あまりはなしをしません。しずかですが、みんなさんはともだちです。たくさん日本ごのクラスのだいがくせいはアニメがだいすきです。ナルトはすきなアニメです。そして、「スミスさん」と「たなかさん」は「うちはくん」と「ガーラさま」になる。たのしいです。クラスはおわりますから、かなしいです。じゃね！
TEAM アキコ！
2007年12月10日月曜日
2007年11月30日金曜日
This past week...
こんにちは！
わたしは きのう ともだちと れすとらんに いきいました。わたしたち しゃぶしゃぶ (shabu shabu)を たべました。しゃぶしゃぶは とても おいしいかったです！ そして ばんごはんの あとで えいがを みて、popcornを かいました。でも いま Shakespeareの れぽうとを かいています。。。れぽうとは むずかしです！
じゃ また。
わたしは きのう ともだちと れすとらんに いきいました。わたしたち しゃぶしゃぶ (shabu shabu)を たべました。しゃぶしゃぶは とても おいしいかったです！ そして ばんごはんの あとで えいがを みて、popcornを かいました。でも いま Shakespeareの れぽうとを かいています。。。れぽうとは むずかしです！
じゃ また。
2007年11月23日金曜日
わたしの しゅうまつ！
こんにちは！
わたしは ちかご(Chicago)に いきました。わたしの かぞくから ちかご(Chicago)に きました。わたしは もくようびに かぞくと turkeyを たべます。おいしかったです！ そして、きのうの ばんごはんは にぎやかでした。でも、きのうは とても さむかったです。どようびに かぞくと ちかご(Chicago)びじゅつかんに いきます。でも、わたしは ちかご(Chicago)びじゅつかんで えいごの パンフレットを つかいます！
いってらっしゃい！
わたしは ちかご(Chicago)に いきました。わたしの かぞくから ちかご(Chicago)に きました。わたしは もくようびに かぞくと turkeyを たべます。おいしかったです！ そして、きのうの ばんごはんは にぎやかでした。でも、きのうは とても さむかったです。どようびに かぞくと ちかご(Chicago)びじゅつかんに いきます。でも、わたしは ちかご(Chicago)びじゅつかんで えいごの パンフレットを つかいます！
いってらっしゃい！
2007年11月16日金曜日
Class this past week!
Konnichiwa,
I thought class this week was great! じゅぎょおは とても おもしろかったです！I think I deffinitley need to work on my Japanese conversational skills, so having the Japanese visitors come on Monday was ideal. At first, I was deffinitely nervous. However, after making that first step in introducing myself in Japanese, I was slowly able to just focus on the Japanese I knew and less on my fear of messing up. The Japanese visitors were also so nice and encouraging, which really allowed me to forget about how self-concious I was about my verbal skills. I would really enjoy, and would of course benefit from it, if they came back. How did everyone else feel?
I also thought watching the Japanese soap opera in class was great! It's so hard right now to imagine ever being good enough at Japanese to fully understand all the dialogue, but it has deffinitely motivated me! I would love to one day be able to watch tv shows and movies with full comphresion.
Also, are any of guys in interested in placing into the Japanese I (second semester)? If so, let me know and we should approach Sato Sensei about the class and how to place into it.
Ja mata!
I thought class this week was great! じゅぎょおは とても おもしろかったです！I think I deffinitley need to work on my Japanese conversational skills, so having the Japanese visitors come on Monday was ideal. At first, I was deffinitely nervous. However, after making that first step in introducing myself in Japanese, I was slowly able to just focus on the Japanese I knew and less on my fear of messing up. The Japanese visitors were also so nice and encouraging, which really allowed me to forget about how self-concious I was about my verbal skills. I would really enjoy, and would of course benefit from it, if they came back. How did everyone else feel?
I also thought watching the Japanese soap opera in class was great! It's so hard right now to imagine ever being good enough at Japanese to fully understand all the dialogue, but it has deffinitely motivated me! I would love to one day be able to watch tv shows and movies with full comphresion.
Also, are any of guys in interested in placing into the Japanese I (second semester)? If so, let me know and we should approach Sato Sensei about the class and how to place into it.
Ja mata!
2007年10月29日月曜日
My Introduction! よんでくだちい。
はじめまして。キえんです。New York ししゃの キえんです。わたしの めいしです。どうぞ。わたしの でんわばんごうと めいあどれすは めいしに あります。わたしは あめりかじんです。わたhしは あめりかじんです。Columbiaの だがくせいです。べんきょおを しました。せんこうは びじゅつしです。どうぞ よろしく。
2007年10月28日日曜日
Manga!
Konbanwa!
For those of you who love/know manga well, could any of you possibly explain how it differs from Japanese anime?
Are they different, and if so, how? I might possibly incorporate it in my thesis, and so I was just wondering if any of you guys could fill me in. Also, are any of the manga/ anime characters androgynous, i.e. neither clearly masculine or feminine in appearence or coded to be read as both female and male?
Also, is anyone nervous about the listening comprehension part of the test?
I'm a bit scared that after only hearing it played once, I won't fully understand what's being said and thus won't know how to respond. I've been listening to the c-d, but still I have to play it twice or three times in order to complete some of the exercises. If anyone has any other suggestions about getting better at this, let me know! But I have a feeling it's just a matter of listening to the exercises over and over again. Yikes!
Ja-mata!
For those of you who love/know manga well, could any of you possibly explain how it differs from Japanese anime?
Are they different, and if so, how? I might possibly incorporate it in my thesis, and so I was just wondering if any of you guys could fill me in. Also, are any of the manga/ anime characters androgynous, i.e. neither clearly masculine or feminine in appearence or coded to be read as both female and male?
Also, is anyone nervous about the listening comprehension part of the test?
I'm a bit scared that after only hearing it played once, I won't fully understand what's being said and thus won't know how to respond. I've been listening to the c-d, but still I have to play it twice or three times in order to complete some of the exercises. If anyone has any other suggestions about getting better at this, let me know! But I have a feeling it's just a matter of listening to the exercises over and over again. Yikes!
Ja-mata!
2007年10月21日日曜日
Konbanwa!
I thought I give some information regarding the contemporary Japanese artist, Morimura Yasumasa, to which I am writing my thesis on. This is my interpretation of him in my thesis, and importantly, not fact, for those of you who read this. But let me know what you think, and if have are interested in hearing more or have any questions, please let me know either via blog or in class.
Essentially, Morimura records and, in turn, incites his psychologically ambiguous experience with self-identity in the modern world by replacing the iconographic space reserved for protagonists in European art history and mass media culture with his own face and body. Thus, rather than discarding the Western canvasses which he states, “exclusively” dominated his academic “curriculum” in the aftermath of WWII, he decisively occupies them, forcing them to assume new ambiguous meanings concerning self-identification as his mere presence inherently dismantles gender and cultural boundaries in regards to identity. Having been born into a society of rapid industrialization, critically accelerated by the onslaught of American influences since the Second World War, his Japanese identity as portrayed by his self-portraits is not just another product of complete Western expropriation. Rather, his superior consciousness of identity is one of seemingly manifest contradictions as he exhibits himself as being neither male nor female and neither Eastern nor Western. This is exemplified in the self-portraits of him that I posted as he is subversively a blatantly Asian-looking male adult assuming the identity of a youthful Western female in his self-portrait, Daughter of Art History: Princess A, based on a portrait of the Infanta Margarita (1656) by Velázquez (image #1). Morimura is also without a doubt a man even though he is transposing himself as an infamous French female prostitute in Edouard Manet’s Olympia (image #2) as his chest is clearly that of a male’s and his challengingly direct gaze is that of an Asian man sitting on what is a Japanese Kimono.
Thus, currently as a part of my thesis, I am positing that Morimura’s self-portraits need not be viewed as an objective critique of the sanctity of Western art, but rather as a critical exploration of not only self-identification, but identity as ambiguous roles amenable to change, mutation, and instability as a result of the heightened self-importance and dominance of its cultural imperial rulers in the wake of WWII. This again, is just part of my project and discussion on Morimura. There is more, but unless you are really interested in art history, it may seem fruitless. Again, if you guys would like me to elaborate, clarify, or have any questions, please let me know! Hope you like the photographs!
2007年10月14日日曜日
Morimura Yasumasa
Kombanwa,
I don't believe I have told anybody about this in class, but the reason for my interest in Japanese is because I am currently writing my senior thesis on post-modern Japanese art, concentrating specifically on the body of work done by Yasumasa Morimura. I don't know if anybody knows much about him, but he a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose works primarily consists of self-portriats. I don't know if anyone is interested in him or his body of work, but if you are PLEASE let me know. I would love to talk about him with any of you, instead of writing my thesis topic word for word on a blog.
But anyhow, this past weekend as I was researching him in Avery and the East Asian Library, I was so happy to find that I could recognize and read some of the words in Hiragana in the texts written in Japanese. While what I could read was clearly VERY little, it was great to see how much I've learned in our class in such a small amount of time.
see you all in class!
Ja-mata!
I don't believe I have told anybody about this in class, but the reason for my interest in Japanese is because I am currently writing my senior thesis on post-modern Japanese art, concentrating specifically on the body of work done by Yasumasa Morimura. I don't know if anybody knows much about him, but he a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose works primarily consists of self-portriats. I don't know if anyone is interested in him or his body of work, but if you are PLEASE let me know. I would love to talk about him with any of you, instead of writing my thesis topic word for word on a blog.
But anyhow, this past weekend as I was researching him in Avery and the East Asian Library, I was so happy to find that I could recognize and read some of the words in Hiragana in the texts written in Japanese. While what I could read was clearly VERY little, it was great to see how much I've learned in our class in such a small amount of time.
see you all in class!
Ja-mata!
2007年10月8日月曜日
Konnichiwa!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
I was unable again to make the Japanese Chat Club meeting this past Friday. But this coming Friday I will for sure be there. But for those who did go, did you guys find them helpful/ interesting/ fun !?! Did you feel comfortable in practicing your Japanese in front of students who have been taking the language a lot longer than us? I know for me at least, I sometimes get nervous when speaking Japanese and unfortunately loose track of what I wanted to say or rather, how to say it. This somethimes happens to me in class when Sato Sensei calls on me. It's strange, because I'll know exactly what to say in my head, but because I get a little nervous, I can't form what I know verbally. Hopefully, this will soon go away by talking more in class and getting used to it. Also, because I get a little nervous when speaking in front of the whole class, I find it really beneficial when we break up into smaller groups. In these situations I tend to feel a bit more relaxed and thus comfortable with speaking, as well as making mistakes, especially now that we are learning how to form long sentences in Japanese. Do any of you feel this way...? Hopefully I am not the only one...
See everyone in class!
Shitsureishimasu!!!!
I was unable again to make the Japanese Chat Club meeting this past Friday. But this coming Friday I will for sure be there. But for those who did go, did you guys find them helpful/ interesting/ fun !?! Did you feel comfortable in practicing your Japanese in front of students who have been taking the language a lot longer than us? I know for me at least, I sometimes get nervous when speaking Japanese and unfortunately loose track of what I wanted to say or rather, how to say it. This somethimes happens to me in class when Sato Sensei calls on me. It's strange, because I'll know exactly what to say in my head, but because I get a little nervous, I can't form what I know verbally. Hopefully, this will soon go away by talking more in class and getting used to it. Also, because I get a little nervous when speaking in front of the whole class, I find it really beneficial when we break up into smaller groups. In these situations I tend to feel a bit more relaxed and thus comfortable with speaking, as well as making mistakes, especially now that we are learning how to form long sentences in Japanese. Do any of you feel this way...? Hopefully I am not the only one...
See everyone in class!
Shitsureishimasu!!!!
2007年9月30日日曜日
The Adventures of Pan and James!
Konbonwa!
Hope everyone is doing well!
I am in the midst of memorizing the Hiragana, and it is surprisingly going well. I especially found the Hiragana mnemonics sheet which Sato sensei gave us extremely helpful! However, for right now at least, I always have to associate the character with the picture and then the picture with the sound. Hopefully, I won't be long until I'll automatically know the sound. I am also glad we added the "key sentences" to our daily vocab quizes. At first I was a little hesitant about our class decision, but after studying the key sentences and further familiarizing myself with the Japanese sentence structure, I think it will most definitely be beneficial to our comprehension of the language.
Also this past weekend, after following a friends refferal, I found a Japanese TV show on YouTube involving of all things, a monkey named Pan and his bulldog friend, James. Not only are the segments involving Pan and James in Japanese and thus great to hear the language spoken, but the segments are hysterical. Most of them involve them taking part in "human" tasks such as doing push-ups, grocery shopping, and catching insects, and it is so wonderful/ amusuing to watch! I believe the TV show is called "The Adventures of Pan and James: Chimpanzee and Bulldog on Errands," but I am not positive. But, if you just type "Pan and James" into the search engine in YouTube their many crazy adventures should pop up. Everyone should take a look! Really.
Ja mata!
Hope everyone is doing well!
I am in the midst of memorizing the Hiragana, and it is surprisingly going well. I especially found the Hiragana mnemonics sheet which Sato sensei gave us extremely helpful! However, for right now at least, I always have to associate the character with the picture and then the picture with the sound. Hopefully, I won't be long until I'll automatically know the sound. I am also glad we added the "key sentences" to our daily vocab quizes. At first I was a little hesitant about our class decision, but after studying the key sentences and further familiarizing myself with the Japanese sentence structure, I think it will most definitely be beneficial to our comprehension of the language.
Also this past weekend, after following a friends refferal, I found a Japanese TV show on YouTube involving of all things, a monkey named Pan and his bulldog friend, James. Not only are the segments involving Pan and James in Japanese and thus great to hear the language spoken, but the segments are hysterical. Most of them involve them taking part in "human" tasks such as doing push-ups, grocery shopping, and catching insects, and it is so wonderful/ amusuing to watch! I believe the TV show is called "The Adventures of Pan and James: Chimpanzee and Bulldog on Errands," but I am not positive. But, if you just type "Pan and James" into the search engine in YouTube their many crazy adventures should pop up. Everyone should take a look! Really.
Ja mata!
2007年9月14日金曜日
Dana Kien's Blog! Japanese A
konnichiwa!
I am extremely excited to be taking Japanese and cannot believe the amount of vocabulary/Japanese we have already learned in just two weeks! To be honest, I was very nervous about taking Japanese. Only having taken Romance languages, I was - and still am to some extent - a bit worried if I would be able to grasp the spoken Japanese language, as well as the written aspect (three alphabets is quite daunting). However, after this past week and gradually getting to know the pace of the class, as well as Sato Sensei and our classmates, my hesitation about my ability to learn Japanese has slowly dissappeared. While I believe my concerns have subsided just by the actual act of learning, memorizing, and further being able to speak in Japanese in class, I feel a lot of my new-found ease is due to the receptive and comforting environment of our classroom. What I mean by this, is that I think everyone in the class, especially our Sensei, seems friendly, thoughtful, and patient, which makes for an ideal environment to learn a completely new language in. It is so necessary to feel comfortable in the space that you're learning and practicing a new language, and after having been to the class for about two weeks now, I am happy to say that I feel very comfortable expressing myself in the little Japanese that I now know. I hope everyone feels this way, and if not now, then hopefully soon as we gradually get to know each other better in class. I am very much looking forward to it!
Hope everyone has an amazing weekend and see you all soon!
I am extremely excited to be taking Japanese and cannot believe the amount of vocabulary/Japanese we have already learned in just two weeks! To be honest, I was very nervous about taking Japanese. Only having taken Romance languages, I was - and still am to some extent - a bit worried if I would be able to grasp the spoken Japanese language, as well as the written aspect (three alphabets is quite daunting). However, after this past week and gradually getting to know the pace of the class, as well as Sato Sensei and our classmates, my hesitation about my ability to learn Japanese has slowly dissappeared. While I believe my concerns have subsided just by the actual act of learning, memorizing, and further being able to speak in Japanese in class, I feel a lot of my new-found ease is due to the receptive and comforting environment of our classroom. What I mean by this, is that I think everyone in the class, especially our Sensei, seems friendly, thoughtful, and patient, which makes for an ideal environment to learn a completely new language in. It is so necessary to feel comfortable in the space that you're learning and practicing a new language, and after having been to the class for about two weeks now, I am happy to say that I feel very comfortable expressing myself in the little Japanese that I now know. I hope everyone feels this way, and if not now, then hopefully soon as we gradually get to know each other better in class. I am very much looking forward to it!
Hope everyone has an amazing weekend and see you all soon!
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