Japan 111R Eleventh Class

Today was our second last class. Next class will be just an hour or lecture then presentation!! I'm worried sick !

At this point, our script isn't done, we haven't rehearsed, we have no idea on our props. We pretty much haven't done anything!

But looking at it another way.
We have the script made, just need to translate it from english to japanese. And then we just need to memorize the lines and get together and practice. We should be able to do that over the weekend. So it should turn out fine.

On another note, the midterm was disastrous LOL. I knew I missed a few questions but LOL. 81%? WHAT? *SHOCK*

Whats done is done. Just gotta do better for final. Nothing much I could say about it. Careless mistakes and just a few questions which I got it wrong.

Today, we learned how to conjugate the 2 types of adjectives to their past tense forms.
For "i" adjectives:
ookii desu (present tense)
ookikunai desu (present tense negative)
ookikatta desu (past tense)
ookikunakatta desu (past tense negative)

For "na" adjectives:
shizuka desu (present tense)
shizuka dewa arimasen (present tense negative)
shizuka deshita (past tense)
shizuka dewa arimasen deshita (past tense negative)

For "na" adjectives, they are nearly treated like nouns. ie. kuruma desu (its a car).

But thats all we learned. We played some game where I forgot the name. Something similar to slap jack. TA calls out a hiragana character, we gotta find it on the table (scattered).

Things learned:
- Conjugation of adjectives for past tense and past tense negative
- for both "i" and "na" adjectives

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Japan 111R Tenth Class

We had our midterm !! And with it came lots of tears.

Hopefully I breezed through it. I did mess up something, so I'm sure it wasn't perfect. Forgot what "cleaning" it was "souji" D: !

Aside from the midterm, alot of new material was taught. Actually the only new material was adjectives. A whole sheet of them. We also learned how to conjugate those adjectives to their negative forms and "adjective" forms.
eg/ kirei (pretty) [exception 1 (even though it ends in "i"), type na adjective]
Declarative form
sono neko wa kirei desu ne.
(that cat is pretty, right?)

Negative form
ano hito wa kirei dewa arimasen.
(that person over there is not pretty.)

"Adjective" form
kono kireina e wa totemo takai desu.
(this pretty drawing is very expensive.)

Likewise, we learned the same for the "i" adjectives.

Another fun class. I think.

Kyou no kurasu ha tanoshii deshita.
(Today's class was fun.)

Things learned:
- Adjectives
- group "i" adjective
- group "na" adjective
- Conjugation of adjectives (both types)
- "ha dou desu ka" (question that usually result in adjective response)

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Japan 111R Ninth Class

As far as I know, today we learned nothing fundamentally new. Just continuation of the previous class.

We got a few more verbs in our knowledge bank now. We also learned more nouns as well. But thats all. A boring lecture (atleast in terms of knowledge).

What we learned:
- Nothing much
- more verbs and nouns, no new fundamental rules

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Japan 111R Eighth Class

Unlike last week, this week was much less work. I guess things balance out.

Several major things happened today in class.

1. We got our groups for the final presentation
2. Midterm date was pushed from Nov 10 to Nov 17
3. We had our oral test
4. Verb quiz is next week

In terms of teaching, we went over verbs again.

A lot of time was left to us to decide our groups and start brainstorming an idea.

What we learned today:
- Difference between "de" and "ni" for location marker
- "de" is used if the verb is an action verb
- "ni" is used if the verb is imasu or arimasu
- I just restated what the professor said, I am still not so sure about it.
- Frequency words
- such as mainichi, maiasa, maiban, maishuu

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Writing on the go: Extremely Heavy Fog Today

In Waterloo, Ontario.


If you're driving today, becareful.

It's also quite cold.



- Written on the go from iPhone 3GS

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Writing on the go: Black Rock Shooter Origin?

Found that at some cartoon store in Ottawa many months ago.


What do you think that is?

Looks kind of like Black Rock Shooter, no?

Colour
Clothes
Name

- Written on the go from iPhone 3GS

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