Konnichi Wa Club Spring 2009: Nihongo ga hanaseru youni narimasu youni

Are you fascinated with Japanese comic books and animated movies but wondered “just what are they saying” or “why are they doing that”? Ever wanted to try Sushi but were intimidated by the menu? Now is your chance to break the barrier and learn about the culture and the language of Japan.

Japanese culture has had a far reaching influence for a long time and in recent years the interests in its arts, teachings and language have increased. The old culture of Samurai's and Shogun's has made way for a vast growing economy with a Pop culture generation that is attracting new comers from all over the world
This semester you will learn the basics of the Japanese language and will participate in Japanese culture through the hands on experience of martial arts, origami and Japanese cuisine, just to name a few

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

IT'S SOOOOOOO COOL! I LOVE THIS LANGUAGE ^_^

Konnichiwa! O genki desu ka? Watashi no namae wa Juliette-san. Haji memmashite! ^_^
Do you know what I said? If not I'll translate it for you, lol
It means: "Hello, How are you? My name is Juliette. It's nice to meet you!"

As you can tell Japanese is a very cool and a unique language to learn, but it is also complicated to learn. There are so many Kanji and Hiragana to learn that it literally blows my mind at where it all comes from but it's fun to figure out the strokes of writing each one and also learning of where they originate from. To me it's unbelievable that the word for car (kuruma) derives from the picture of a wagon (see the Kanji on the left) if you look at the kanji.

IT'S SOOOOOOO COOL!
I LOVE THIS LANGUAGE ^_^

In this club we will learn of Japanese culture and history. We will also learn of the different Japanese characters and how to write each one of them. I'm sorry that this had to be so short but more students will post every week with their reflections.

Signing Off
Juliette