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.

つまらない～－。－

はる休みはよかったけど、しゅくだいをしないのはちょっとつまらなかったと思うよ。だから、月曜日に学校がまたはじまって、たのしいよ。それはへんだね。

つまらなかったから、クイズをした：

1. YOUR NAME:
Quyen L. Tran

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Quyizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav colour and fav animal)
The Blue Seal (haha that sounds cool)

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, and current street)
Le Robin (ohohoho it's so Frenchy XD)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, last 3 letters of mum's maiden name)
Traqule (how do you pronounce that? D: )

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
Brown Iced Tea (nice!)

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your mums maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, last letter of your mums middle name)
Ualeale (that's kinda cool XP)

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mum/dads middle name)
Thi

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one your pets)
I don't have a pet :( Anyway here goes: Black Pikachu!

10. YOUR HAXOR NAME: (your name and replace letters with any other key that looks simillar)
QLIY3|\|

じゃあ、また来しゅう！

あはははは(笑) ¦D

Look how Google translated my Sakubun last chapter. It's so funny XDDDD. Lam-san and I are in the library right now and we kept laughing so hard because of this.

I was stunned Virginia DAI two Delhi fault. I do not work the way it is appalled. This is my fault and toss to irises.
I am appalled wished to toss eight soldier it. Oh that much TABEMASEN cooked rice. I usually around nine o'clock warm you to the real YOMIMASU. In a bowl toss it from 9:45 to KYABERUHORU of dirt 432 to. We saw it in a real HANASHIMASU.
Well I am a 11-NYUKONBUHORU Duckling to TABEMASU cooked rice. In MOGETSU BIMOSUIYOUBIMOGOGO as a temporary Duckling TABEMASU to cooked rice. Then I had two good when KUREMONSU and chews cane to walk home. But also like many busy two or appalled at the labs. I usually six to TABEMASU cooked rice to pan. Well seven o'clock to lets out. Then all of the class to date POWs. 12 NEMASU around.
The YUUMATSUHAWATASHIHATAITEI computers. Sometimes BARAKKUSU shopping. The YUUMATSUNOBANNIWATASHIHAYOKUUCHIDE cartoons again. Sugar honor of this story that Zhou what? Your cartoons? "Breach" What?

Lol, how about we all go date PoWs, with all our sugar honor. Then after that we can chew cane to walk home, with our PoWs lol XDD I don't know why this translation has so many military terms in it.

So apparently Sato-sensei is Google translated into "sugar honor". And what's with Delhi? Alright, wanna know how it translate わたしはときどきダンスはしますよ、でもぜんぜんヒップホップダンスはしませんよ。すみません。? Here you go: "Yes. Sometimes I dance for you, but not very hip. Excuse me." XD Oh God!

You guys should put your skit or sakubun in Google translator and see what you got XP. Ok, I'm done now.

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.

わたしとブログについて

はじめましてみなさん。わたしはクイエン・トランです。ベトナムじんです。いまわたしはバージニアだいがくのにねんせいです。せんもんはかがくです。どうぞよろしくおねがいします。がんばります！：９

Hello everyone. This is my first post in this blog. I like blogs but I never keep up with them. Hopefully I will frequently update this one. It's also a chance to practice my Japanese so I will do my best. Please help me correct any mistakes in my Japanese entries.

ありがとうございます。じゃあ、またね。