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Japanese class
« on: Sep 05, 2007, 12:18:13 PM »
Last week the dean of the language department emails me to let me know I'm in the Jap class.

The teacher's name is Yukari, and I have no idea why I was expecting it to be a man since Yukari's a female name, and it's really a hot 20-30ish female! (probably more like 40 considering the Japanese age really slowly.) She insists we call her Sensei.


I got it bad, got it bad, got it bad... I'm hot for teacher!

The thing that really scares me about the class is not learning to say the words, but learning to write/read the language. The sylabus says we will learn to write in hiragana and katakana AND (nooooo!!!) kanji. Not the kanji!

When she has us learn new phrases, she says them way too fast. I would perfer she say them slowly and a sylable at a time, so I can more easily pick up on it. so instead of ko-ni-chi-wa Yu-kar-i - sen-sei, she says it fast like konichiwayukarisensei. @_@

Also, she romanizes the words incorrectly, like arigatoo and ohayoo. Perhaps she does it on purpose to help us.

I already know that one of the other students is an anime fan.. the stickers, patches, and pins of Inuyasha and Naruto characters on her backpack clued me in. And she's good looking too. :3

Yukari-sensei, ohayo gozaimasu. Hajime Mashite. Watachi wa Doug desu (NEEDS MORE DESU!). Doozo yoroshiku. Nuri-san, ogenki desu ka? Wakari masu ka?
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #1 on: Sep 05, 2007, 12:49:58 PM »
watch out chiyo!


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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #2 on: Sep 05, 2007, 07:34:56 PM »
I haven't noticed any precocious child prodigies around here yet. They better consider themselves lucky.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #3 on: Sep 05, 2007, 08:19:43 PM »
Wakari masu ka?

わかりましたか?

Rampy can touch the rest.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #4 on: Sep 06, 2007, 11:15:57 AM »
I just met our teaching assistant:


Oh shi-, this isn't a good sign.

Yesterday, I could only see the back of the girl with the anime-covered backpack. Today I got to see her from the front. I was right, she's fucking hot. I mean as in "IDE would pick her first out of the entire room" fucking hot. Yowza! And she's at MY school. Sorry IDE, no hot anime-loving chick for you.

But I have no oppertunity to sit next to her yet... I have to get there early next time. But I bet she's taken... it always happens that way.

Toughest thing so far is memorization of words and phrases as well as knowing how to prounounce them right. We've already started to learn hiragana vowels.


The other class I'm taking is a robotics class which seems really really really fun. The laid back teacher even said "We're here to play with toys". We'll build autonomous robots that will be able to avoid objects, follow lines, navigate mazes, and do tasks like grab objects and move them to different areas.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #5 on: Sep 06, 2007, 04:19:32 PM »
Sorry IDE, no hot anime-loving chick for you.

I never get the opportunity to bag that girl...

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #6 on: Sep 09, 2007, 03:25:32 AM »
Watachi wa Doug desu (NEEDS MORE DESU!).
It's "watashi," but I bet you just made a typo.

In my first Japanese class, the teacher romanized the stuff similarly, with the "arigatoo" and "ohayoo." I don't know why this would be helpful, really, since there are words that actually have an "u" sound in them and some that have "o." Like, ありがとう would really be "arigatou," while とおい would be "tooi" (it's an i-adjective meaning "far/distant").
Oh well, but you'll be ditching the romaji before too long, I guess, so uh... you won't have to deal with funky romanizations forever, I guess.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #7 on: Sep 09, 2007, 08:57:00 AM »
I'm glad my teacher never did that.  What an ass-pain.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #8 on: Sep 11, 2007, 11:22:26 AM »
Gah!!!!!

This class is chapping my ass, I swear.

I missed class yesterday because of this blasted cold. Last week we had learned the base vowel hiragana (a,i,u,e,o) and the k hiragana (ka,ki,ku,ke,ko). So I assumed we'd learn 5-10 hiragana a week. Seems reasonable.

When I come into class, the sensei had us do a quiz on 10 more hiragana (the s and t ones) which the class had learned on monday, and then had us learn 10 more hiragana today (the h and n ones), and tomorrow we'll learn 10 more.

Whoa whoa whoa, slow down psychobitch! I cannot fucking learn 10 hiragana a day! Not only do I have to memorize the sounds but also how to properly write and read each fucking letter. It's impossible to learn at that speed when you're learning an entirely new language from the ground up.

What's worse is that all the local bookstores do not have the books available (all sold out), so I'm screwed as I don't have the workbooks.

And my financial aid has yet to come in. I filed it at the beginning of August and they showed me I had been awarded $12k for the year, but they can't give it to me until every scrap of paperwork has been approved. I heard someone who filed their financial aid in May hasn't gotten their money either, so I assume I'll get mine in the middle of December.

And the school has sent me a bill. I'll send it to the financial aid office to tell them to get off their lazy asses. So right now, I have enough money to either pay rent, or pay for books. Hard choice. :/
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Modern anime is a stagnant cesspool of regurgitated ideas.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #9 on: Sep 11, 2007, 12:20:01 PM »
You can't go that slow with hiragana, then it'll take forever to get to words and phrases.  Nobody in their right mind would waste a month of a semester on hiragana.  Plus you need the katakana.  Dude, just go online and find some flash cards or something.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #10 on: Sep 11, 2007, 01:35:48 PM »
weeaboo?
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #11 on: Sep 11, 2007, 02:04:45 PM »
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When I come into class, the sensei had us do a quiz on 10 more hiragana (the s and t ones) which the class had learned on monday, and then had us learn 10 more hiragana today (the h and n ones), and tomorrow we'll learn 10 more.

Whoa whoa whoa, slow down psychobitch! I cannot fucking learn 10 hiragana a day! Not only do I have to memorize the sounds but also how to properly write and read each fucking letter. It's impossible to learn at that speed when you're learning an entirely new language from the ground up.

Incorrect.  In my class we learned the whole hiragana syllabary in a week.  Katakana the next week.  That's pretty basic stuff, dude.  And you have to memorize the sounds?  Oh no, a consonant followed by the same damn 5 vowel sounds!  Really tough.

Sounds like the teacher's moving along at a pretty reasonable pace.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #12 on: Sep 11, 2007, 05:21:44 PM »
Yeah, so シャート ダ ファーク ウップ。 Or something.  
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #13 on: Sep 11, 2007, 10:33:24 PM »
That's a paddlin.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #14 on: Sep 11, 2007, 11:04:28 PM »
Here you go, D

http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.en.html


And you'd better respond to this in some way instead of not saying anything when I uploaded the Ichigo Go Go song for you.


This one is also quite helpful for learning the vocabulary:
http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/japanwebpages/Genkiexercises.htm

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #15 on: Sep 12, 2007, 12:10:45 AM »
Here are some helpful phrases for Doug:

おげんきですか、ビtチュ?

フェダロルパリシオンからきました!

こどもたちだいすき!

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #16 on: Sep 12, 2007, 12:17:08 AM »
That's a paddlin.

Was he staring at the professor's shoes again?

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #17 on: Sep 12, 2007, 09:14:26 AM »
Weeaboos!
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #18 on: Sep 12, 2007, 08:19:10 PM »
Gah!!!!!

This class is chapping my ass, I swear.

I missed class yesterday because of this blasted cold. Last week we had learned the base vowel hiragana (a,i,u,e,o) and the k hiragana (ka,ki,ku,ke,ko). So I assumed we'd learn 5-10 hiragana a week. Seems reasonable.

When I come into class, the sensei had us do a quiz on 10 more hiragana (the s and t ones) which the class had learned on monday, and then had us learn 10 more hiragana today (the h and n ones), and tomorrow we'll learn 10 more.

Whoa whoa whoa, slow down psychobitch! I cannot fucking learn 10 hiragana a day! Not only do I have to memorize the sounds but also how to properly write and read each fucking letter. It's impossible to learn at that speed when you're learning an entirely new language from the ground up.

What's worse is that all the local bookstores do not have the books available (all sold out), so I'm screwed as I don't have the workbooks.

And my financial aid has yet to come in. I filed it at the beginning of August and they showed me I had been awarded $12k for the year, but they can't give it to me until every scrap of paperwork has been approved. I heard someone who filed their financial aid in May hasn't gotten their money either, so I assume I'll get mine in the middle of December.

And the school has sent me a bill. I'll send it to the financial aid office to tell them to get off their lazy asses. So right now, I have enough money to either pay rent, or pay for books. Hard choice. :/



Funny, you claim you don't have time to study and yet you find time to post here and lord knows where else.
Get your priorities straight and quit your bitching!

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #19 on: Sep 13, 2007, 12:11:18 PM »
And you have to memorize the sounds?  Oh no, a consonant followed by the same damn 5 vowel sounds!  Really tough.

I'm having trouble memorizing the letters, not the sounds.

The hardest part right now isn't having time to study, it's having the study material to study. Besides the online stuff, I cannot afford the books I need for this class, and I cannot afford extra study material.

Financial aid needs to give me my fucking money.

Here you go, D

http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.en.html


And you'd better respond to this in some way instead of not saying anything when I uploaded the Ichigo Go Go song for you.


This one is also quite helpful for learning the vocabulary:
http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/mpeek/japanwebpages/Genkiexercises.htm

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #20 on: Sep 13, 2007, 03:05:42 PM »
And you'd better respond to this in some way instead of not saying anything when I uploaded the Ichigo Go Go song for you.

Moo.

That's par for the course.   :poo:

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #21 on: Sep 13, 2007, 03:53:28 PM »
Maybe there is a copy on reserve at the library.  If not then ask a classmate if you can xerox the pages you need.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #22 on: Sep 14, 2007, 01:15:11 PM »
Yeah, and even then I'd imagine he'd only need it if he had assignments from the book.  Rampy gave him perfectly good sources to use for learning it.

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #23 on: Sep 14, 2007, 01:44:21 PM »
According to another student there's supposed to be some kind of game on that Genki site where you match the hiragana with the sound, but I can't find it.

The Genki are actually the workbooks the class uses.

Just paid rent, and now have $40 in bank. :(

I have the vowels and k-sounds down.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #24 on: Sep 15, 2007, 03:21:53 PM »
According to another student there's supposed to be some kind of game on that Genki site where you match the hiragana with the sound, but I can't find it.
"Flash Cards
In each set of exercises, 15 hiragana/katakana are shown one by one. Choose the correct reading for each character from the three options provided. [by Eri Banno]"

"Listening Quiz
Choose the character from the three options that represents the sound of hiragana/katakana you listen to. [by Akimasa Kinoshita]"

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #25 on: Sep 15, 2007, 03:25:55 PM »
According to another student there's supposed to be some kind of game on that Genki site where you match the hiragana with the sound, but I can't find it.
"Flash Cards
In each set of exercises, 15 hiragana/katakana are shown one by one. Choose the correct reading for each character from the three options provided. [by Eri Banno]"

"Listening Quiz
Choose the character from the three options that represents the sound of hiragana/katakana you listen to. [by Akimasa Kinoshita]"

You tard

Well, he described it as something different than that, but then again maybe he just fucked up his description.
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #26 on: Sep 16, 2007, 03:54:32 PM »
"Flash Cards
In each set of exercises, 15 hiragana/katakana are shown one by one. Choose the correct reading for each character from the three options provided. [by Eri Banno]"

"Listening Quiz
Choose the character from the three options that represents the sound of hiragana/katakana you listen to. [by Akimasa Kinoshita]"

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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #27 on: Sep 16, 2007, 10:55:51 PM »
I can't believe this. There's two teachers in our class and I didn't notice it. I thought there was something different about the teacher near the end of the week. It wasn't until Fri that I found out there's two Japanese teachers that run the class. There's our main teacher who teaches the first three days, and then a teaching assistant the other two days. And they're both Japanese, with long black hair, and the same height, and it's confusing. It's true, all asians look the same!  :keelover: :laugh:

Today our teacher wanted us to go to this bbq run by the school's japanese association, and I was expecting 90% of the people there to be japanese. But about half of the students were american, probably students taking language classes or with a japanese culture major. The otaku girl from my class was there, and although she recognized me (BONUS!), she instantly became friends with three japanese girls and she talked their ears off all day, so I had no chance to get close to her.

Also, all the female japanese students are HOT! Proof that all japanese girls are fucking hot as hell.

But I did make some friends. I was talking to two girls, one somewhat attractive, about their Bleach bag they had, and my mother had to call and tell me she wanted to head over to her house to do something for her. COCKBLOCKED!! By my own mother! :keelover: And just when I was starting to make friends with them.

I hope they have more BBQs.  :D I need to make some more friends there. ^_^
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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #28 on: Sep 16, 2007, 11:19:48 PM »
Next time mom calls try and end those types of conversations with something like:

You: I gotta go. What are you doing this weekend we should hang out

Her: Yeah

You: Gimme your number





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Re: Japanese class
« Reply #29 on: Sep 17, 2007, 12:57:50 AM »
Two different people and D didn't notice.  I'm completely unsurprised by this.  It probably happens more often than he realizes.