日本GO!

One man's journey with the Japanese language. 「ハンバーガーを勉強しません！　食べますよ！」

[goingnihon]

Last night at a party my Japanese friends gave me an ateji ( 当て字 ) reading of my name: 魏 矢 烈 斗

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Today in class we were going over what to call the different people in a family.  The textbook had four columns for familial titles: talking to other people about their family members, talking to other people about one’s own family members in both a formal and an informal context, and finally addressing the members of one’s own family directly.

The cell is blank for addressing one’s own younger brother, younger sister, and child.  I know that what they likely mean is that one would use the person’s name in this situation rather than a title, however I like the implication that it is just telling the reader to never address those people.

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I started taking my Japanese class this summer and the book we have is great, it’s got a central cast of characters in it.  There’s Mary-san, the main character who is an exchange student from America, the dialogues follow here and her adventures studying as “Sakura University.”  Takeshi-san is a student at the university and becomes fast friends with Mary-san, he being in many of the dialogues as well.  The story arc of the textbook following their budding love story.  There are a couple others, but the next most notable Robert-san, an exchange student from England.  He’s basically the butt-monkey of the group, he’s not a very good student and he’s totally crushing on Mary-san, but the voice actor they got for the CDs has the best “I’m trying my hardest but it’s just not good enough for this world” kind of voice.

(P.S. I’m still not exactly sure what I’m going to be putting up on this blog, probably just funny anecdotes from class, at least for right now)

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I got the Kanjidamage deck of flashcards on the AnkiDroid app and it seems like one of the best ways to learn kanji to me.  It’s all up on line normally as well.