7/7/11

Today in class we celebrated a sorta holiday which is about a story of these two stars which fall in love. We made origami, mine was of a lantern and we made wishes sticking them to the bamboo tree Yuki Sensei creatures for us on the white board. The whole thing was cute if I say so myself. It is the final stretch and I am at my wits end really, more so I am doing my best to keep everything in my head and not let it slip. I didn't so very well on my presentation, but there is no helping with that really. What I must do is do well on this test! I believe this study group that the class is doing will be a big help, sense I have missed two days of important class! I am already planning that after the class I am going to practice my volcabulary everyday, little by little, and include proper sentences in order to retain everything. I am a bit of a slow learner, but I have learned so much in this one month of class, than the 4 to 5 years of self teaching I have done. Although when nervous everything seems to fly out of my mind, if I practice practice practice, just like with my drawing, I will become fluent in no time! Throughout the semester we have done so many projects, bonded, and laughed along with learning a language which each of us want to learn. Having common ground is always the best start, and we are all so different, and yet we've come together these last 5 weeks. I have learned how to talk about myself, and introduce my name, major, school, age, grade, and say greetings within the first week of school! Than we learned of volcabulary, and how romanji isn't really the best way to learn, but it help when just starting. We just need to remember that in Hiragana it is spelled differently. Like Sensee is せんせい and etc. We than started to learn about the particles, I still am having troubles with this, but slowly and surly I am getting it down. Rereading the text book is helping me as well. の is not only for possessive, but also it is used to connect two nouns. Noun1 の Noun2. は is for (Is/Am) as well as making sure you know that the noun before it is the Topic/Subject. を is after an Object in the sentence. What the Subject is talking about. と is to connect objects and nouns, と is the aqivalent of And in Japanese. も is also, わたしもねこすきです。I've missed apparently some very intensive days with kanji and learning of Arimasu and imasu. Arimasu is for objects while Imasu is for people. Arimasu= There is/Are. Everything so far has been a big help, I am sadly suffering having things try and fly from my mind, but refreshing it helps. I hope I'll do well on the test...I'm going to study right before a nice long nights sleep! I can't afford to be sleepy tomorrow! じゃまったね！