Ever heard of a ですノート? Here ya go. [linkie] I found the idea kinda humorous. Death to the 「です」! Say hi to the 「ます」, and then next chapter we will have 「ました」.
Sorry for the rant above. I just read the grammar for chapter 4 and the あります/いますis so special it confuses me. I haven't started on the grammar sheet yet, but I hope it will make everything clearer. Also, sorry for a stupid question, but what does TGIF mean? I saw that a lot in blogs and I have no idea what it stands for.
I rushed at the end on my Japanese test today. I wrote the last part in bad hiragana writing and I just put いいですね for every suggestions. I wanted to put a ちょっと somewhere but there wasn't enough time. Next test I will learn from this experience and work faster.
For the rest of the entry, I think I'll write about what I did during Fall break, Japanese wise. The material on chapter 3 allows me to do a lot of things. I chat on AIM with my friend in Japanese for the first time. She is in JAPN201 right now and you can visit her blog here. I learned a bit of new material from this conversation. Here is a part of it. My nickname is Narika, and hers is Ariander.
Narika says :
わたしはにほんごをちょっとはなしますよ。^^;;;
でも、がんばります。(^-^)b
Ariander says :
ああ、ナリカちゃんはとてもじょうず(Skillful)ですよ! がんばってね ^^
Narika says :
いいえ、わたしはしょうずじゃありません。
リンさんわわたしのせんせいです。
は*
Ariander says :
(笑) いいえ!さとうせんせいはナリカさんのせんせいですよ XD
Narika says :
XD リンさんも
Narika says :
あの、リンさんはゲームをしませんね。ぜんねんですね。
Ariander says :
はい、わたしはいまかなしい(Sad)ですよ。 ゲームをしたいです! D: (Verb stem + たいです=Want To・・・)
*ざんねん
Narika says :
ざんねんですか。Oops
わたしはとてもケーキを食べたいです。:D
Ariander says :
わたしも!ケーキはおいしいですよね!
Narika says :
はい,おいしいですよね。
I think I will AIM in Japanese a lot from now on. Also, during Fall break, I made an audio file based on my skit with イエさん, and I turned it into anime style, Lucky Star style. I have always wanted to do some voice acting in Japanese, so I gave it a try. I had a lot of fun doing this. Lucky Star is an anime about regular lives of high school students so it's very easy to integrate my skit into it. You can watch an episode of it here [linkie] to see what it is like and get accustomed to the characters.
Here is the audio file. It is about 7 min long. Sorry for any retarded noises, bad voice acting, wrong pronunciation, terrible sense of humor, and many other things that are in this audio file. If you don't understand some parts, don't worry about it because they are most likely jokes based on the anime. All the voices are done by me except for the opening song, the guy voices, background voices in the beginning, the "Mikuru beam" thing, and the super high voice saying "LUCKY CHANNEL!" Those voices are from the anime. Okay, enough talking. I hope you enjoy. I may make more in the future.