いろいろな事

I have many things to say in this blog. Here goes.

First, on kaiwa day this week, we did a class swapping. Although most of us stayed at the 10 o'clock class, there were two students from other class who came. But I already know Smith-san from last semester, so the only new student is Alex-san. He can speak Japanese really well and comfortably. I think his blog is interesting too. I like this idea of swapping and I want to have more class swapping this semester. But if the swapping occurs only on Wednesday, then I can never go to another section T^T , but on Tuesday and Thursday I think I can go to the 11am one.

About the difference, I can't point out much because in my opinion, it's pretty much the same. But I guess it seemed the same because it was a kaiwa day, so we didn't have a lot of chance to be as creative as a drill day. I think that if we swap on a drill day or grammar day, it will be more interesting and different. :) About class size, it definitely helps to have a smaller class, so each person can speak more.

So that's my opinion/impression about swapping class. Secondly, I want to ask Standbridge-san and Andreano-san about my speech draft feedback. Do my comments and fixes help you in the way you want them to? Are they confusing? Did I write too much? I want to know what you think so I can do a better job in the 2nd peer-review. Arigatou. ^^

And thirdly, I put a new background for my blog. Do you like the color? I did not draw this picture so please don't mistake it as my art. I cannot draw this well lol. Anyway, the artist is Shimobayashi 10 and the person in the picture is my favorite anime character at the moment. I put him there so he can encourage my study in Japanese, haha XD

Fourth, I wish you all the best of luck in the test tomorrow. Jaa, mata ne.

ですノート

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.