Japanese class project

Hello everybody! I am writing this in English since it is finals time and I am scrabbling to finish all my papers etc... I am really happy with my groups Japanese class project. We wanted to make it entertaining since I think Sato-sensei said he would be posting on the blog, regardless it is more fun to make an interesting project than a boring one! We tried to make ourselves like a little snip of a television show. I am now trying to get ready for the speaking exam later on... Good luck everyone~

educational rap

AZN terebi is the Asian television network in America. I think it is only on sometimes though and it flips between languages so the odds of catching it during a Japanese program are pretty slim. If you know someone who had DVR it is easier to record the shows and then just watch them later...

http://vanillacherryice.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/learn-japanese-numbers-1-20-inrap/
I found this website that has a few different songs posted with Japanese lessons in them. They are a little silly and mostly numbers etc vocabulary we already have learned but it's funny to watch.

AZN terebi

A Z N terebi wa no "Ainori" sho o arimasu. Omoshiroi desu! Konshu otoko ya onna Hawaii de ikikmasu.

こんいちわ

初めまして。エ巫女添川です。私輪アメリカ人です。コるmビアの大学背。私輪今年に友達と居とにいきました。居と輪きれいなデス。よろしくおねがいします。

Food !

I have been trying to copy the hiragana from the book which is super helpful.
My roommate Liz who is also a waitress at the restaurant Sharaku, downtown, said I should listen to people on tv and in conversation to get the hang of ga and wa as examples because while I am learning vocabulary I feel like I am horrible at forming sentences... so I am scrolling the tv for a Japanese news show that comes on sunday nights...
I miss Japanese food and Sharaku is yasui desu and I am going there on thursday night! I am so happy. Now I love all the food my parents tried to make me eat all my life...

Kyoto

Nihon Chat Club ikimasuka!

Nihon "chat club," ni ikimashita. Genki! (I think this is how you say something is good, because there was a super genki festival when I was in Japan and my roommate said that meant really happy- but she could be wrong). I met onna no hito o ni
(2 women) there studying English, one was Kankoku-jin the other was Nihon-jin. There were many other people and everyone was very friendly. It is a great opportunity to learn quickly because the Nihon speakers were helping me formulate my sentences when I had trouble. I am going to the next one :)

My first attempt at writing in Japanese on this blog

Watashi wa kotoshi Nihon ni ikimashita. Kyoto di ski. Watashi no oishi inigiri & taco yakki tabemashita. Atsui natsu.

Homework and learning

I feel like doing homework the night before or day of class makes it much harder to absorb the vocab and put it into sentence form. I was in a computer class a few weeks ago and the teacher said that the human mind has an inability to stay focused on using only one section of the brain for more than 20 minutes. After that other parts of the brain need to be stimulated or the mind starts to roam outside the topic on hand. This could be a true or false statement but now since I think it is true I am going to incorporate it into my life. I think studying for tinier pockets of time is the way to go.

"Linda Linda Linda" from Netflix

I am really excited about taking this Japanese for business class at Columbia this fall semester. I decided to make an attempt to watch Japanese movies to help integrate more of the correct accent in my ears. The worst part of taking class in America is having the accent of everyone in your class marching through your head and not that of native speakers. I searched Netflix.com for films and the selection aside from animation is really weak. There is one film called, "Linda Linda Linda," which has a soundtrack compiled by one of the Smashing Pumpkins so I decided to select it.

It is not the best of films but with the slow pace and over telling teenage expressions it really helps with language comprehension and immersion. I think it is a good learning aid. I am trying to find a new Japanese teenage soap which I saw clips of in Japan and really liked for its Beverly Hills 90210 drama slant. If anyone has reccomendations let me know!