more basics.
sorry about this.
POPULAR SPORT: baseball and sumo. great combination
OTHER SPORTS: judo, kendo (fencing)
FAVORITE MUSICIANS: j-pop
TRADITIONAL FORMS OF MUSIC: koto, shamisen
POPULAR GAMES: goh,
FAVORITE FOODS: sushi, tempura, all seafood
ENTERTAINMENT: kabuki, video games
thank you for sitting through that.
here is a machine throwing tennis balls for a beagle.
The almighty global online course wants me to tell you guys about Japan's geography. You ready?
CONTINENT: asia
CAPITAL: tokyo
SIZE: 377385 sq.km.
NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES: china&korea but you already knew that
CLIMATE: chill
NATURAL DISASTERS: well that's a sensitive topic
NATURAL RESOURCES: wood
POPULATION: 127287277
LIFE EXPECTANCY: men - 78.8,women - 85.6
FERTILITY RATE: 1.39 kids
MORTALITY RATE: 3.32 people
ETHNIC GROUPS: japanese - 99%,other - 1%
RELIGIOUS GROUPS: buddhism/Shintoism
LANGUAGES: japanese, english
LITERACY RATE: 99%
PERCENTAGE THAT GOES TO UNIVERSITY: 44.8%
NATIONAL HOLIDAY: could not find it
CONSTITUTION DAY: may 3
COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY GAINED INDEPENDENCE: none
YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE: always
PRIME MINISTER: yoshiko noda
POLITICAL PARTIES: -democratic party of japan
-liberal democratic party
-people's life first
-new komeito
-your party
-japanese communist party
-social democratic party
and like 50 million others
POLITICAL SYSTEM: parlimentary with a constitutional monarchy
71 days until I leave
Holllllllllllly sh-
This is one of my favorite websites
www.wtfjapanseriously.com
Happy Friday!!
If I make it through tomorrow, I can do anything.
Tomorrow, I have an oral test in Japanese where I recite FROM MEMORY this huge paragraph I wrote. IMMEDIATELY following that, I will drive BY MYSELF to UMD so I can attend the very end of their Maryland Marquee Day (and maybe chat up some Arabic/Persian/Hebrew students).
AAAAAGGGHHHH.
This is nuts.
Also. This is the paragraph:
みなさん、こんにちは！私の名前はソフィアです。１７歳で高校の四年生です。私の家族は四人です。母と父と弟がいます。そぼの家も近いです。母の家族はイタ
リアから来て父の家族はプエルトリコから来ます。スペイン語とイタリア語を話せません。スペイン語はにが手全くです。でも、日本語を勉強するが好き。母は
ギターをえんそうするのとどくしょがしゅみです。母はバンジョもひくのはほとんどだれにもは知っていません。けどちちは家具をつくるのはみなはしります。
父もギターをえんそうするがしゅみです。弟のしゅみはだいにじせかいたいせんについて読んで学ぶのです。それでも私たちは Mad Men
を見るがだいすき。聞くのは本当ありがとう。
Should have capped it at 10 sentences.
So the kids of the Night-time JPN201 class got bored yesterday and came up with a nonsensical tongue twister in Japanese.
Some Things You Need To Understand
kami = hair
kami = paper
kami = god, divine (as in kamikaze, divine wind)
hana o kamu = to blow one's nose, which conjugates to "kamimasu" (see where I'm going?)
kamoshirenai = might or might not
and thus, we get:
神の髪は紙があるのはよく鼻を嚼むかもしれない。
かみのかみはかみがあるのはよくはなをかむかもしれない。
Kami no kami wa kami ga aru no wa yoku hana o kamu kamoshirenai.
As for the god whose hair is made out of paper, she may blow her nose often.
I'm 100% sure that this is 93% right.
Also, we came up with the Japanese word for "weave" (as in the hair thing). and that is
ウイブ or "uibu" which sort of sounds like it. In Japanese, everything is written in syllables, and there is no character for the syllable "wi" or "wee". Also, the "v" sound doesn't exist.
Go figure.
じゃあ、
今日は、日本語でポストしています。
ええ。
私は日本語でポストしています。
日本語が少し分かって話して書くできますから、このポストはとても長さが短い。
あの〜〜〜。。。
さあ、書いてみる！！
日本語でブロッグすることは難しいだよ！
Transcription:
Jaa,
Kyou wa Nihongo de posuto shiteimas(u).
Ee.
Watashi wa Nihongo de posuto shiteimas(u).
Nihongo ga sukoshi wakatte hanashite kaku dekimasu kara, kono posuto wa totemo nagasa ga mijikai.
Anooooooooo . . .
Saa, kaitemiru!!
Nihongo de buroggingu-suru koto wa muzukashii.
Translation:
Well,
Today I am posting in Japanese.
Yep.
I'm posting in Japanese.
Since I speak/understand/can write a little Japanese, this post will be short.
Sooooooooo . . .
See! I'm trying!
Blogging in Japanese is hard.
