Blog #12

This week we learned different ways to say give/receive. There are two different verbs that mean to give as well as one verb that means to receive. The most difficult part about this is being able to keep the giver and the recipient in the right spot in the sentence, but, like all other things with Japanese, this can be solved with some practice.

In addition to that, we have a vocab/kanji quiz on Thursday. The vocabulary I am not worried about, but the kanji makes me very nervous. But with some review I should be okay.

In order to study for the quiz though, I am resisting the urge to go to gamestop to pick up a video game I have pre-ordered, but that is completely unrelated to Japanese.

Anyway, below I have included the examples of the verbs we learned about last class:



クリスマスに私はサイコロほしです 。
１．クリスマスに友だちがサイコロを私にあげるかもしれません。
２．クリスマスに私はサイコロを友だちにもらうかもしれません。
３．クリスマスに友だちがサイコロを私にくれるかもしれません。

Blog #11

This week we learned how to say what we want in Japanese. This is convenient since Christmas is coming up, and I am sure that the holidays will be a prominent topic of conversation in our Japanese class.

I think my biggest challenge in this class is becoming remembering and mixing all of the different grammar nuances that we are learning. Individually they make sense, but it can be a little confusing to use several different ones in the same sentence, especially with conjugation. I will look at example sentences, probably from the textbook, to help me get an idea of how to handle these combinations.

Besides what's going on in the class, I went to the Akron Comic con. While I was there, I ran into someone who was teaching themselves Japanese, and we talked a little in Japanese.

① What does your mother want for her birthday?

 母はセーターがほしです。

 

②子どもの時、何が一番(いちばん)ほしかったですか。

 子供のとき、プレイステーションがほしかったです。

 

③時間とお金と、どちらがほしいですか。なぜですか。Use Aので、B。

 かいものおすきので、お金がほしいです。