ロボットの授業

In class we had been talking about Robots in Japan, and this actually lasted about 2 and half weeks worth of information. Also, Yuki-sensei was ill at the time so we took a little extra time to learn about them.

We then had to come up with an idea about Robots that were useful and could potentially be useful to us in Japan.

I came up with the ポッケト友だち：じてんエーアボ, the Pocket Friend: Bike Pumpbot
It could come with one of 4 different styles and faces, and worked as a bicycle tire air pump, included some built in automatic bike tools, a manual button, a lock switch for the button and voice commands. It also danced and came with a laser projected interface to set it's options, digital planner, alarm clock, and other digital features. All while being small enough to fit between the spokes of a bike tire. It could also talk to you, walk, and dance.

I was trying to learn some terms for bicycles in Japanese as well in order to learn more and write some of the things related to it down.

http://www.japancycling.org/v2/info/lang/japaneses.shtml

However, I wasn't sure how accurate this was, but it seemed pretty accurate.

An Entry

I have not been doing well in class, I got sick the first week of classes and it took me a full two week to try and recover. I missed breathing at the time.

Then I just honestly well out of any study habit I had. I'm not going to make excuses, and I know I need to be a more tentative student. I've just been trying to at least go to class and for some reason thats really hard for me. I've also a little more self-aware than I was a few months ago, when I started to simply slip up in a couple classes, and that self awareness made me realize some of the problems I have with studying, and why my short term to long term memory is really hazy. I remember doing things, but not how I do them or where.


SO. THE BLOGS. I need to catch up and I need to get started somewhere. So I'm just going to start here. I have.... 7 blogs to catch up on now properly and I need to keep a schedule. So Mondays will be the days I write my blogs since it matches up with other times that I have to do more... responsible things and it'll seem to keep my attention.

STEP 1: Schedule
STEP 2: Work
STEP 3: Auto-maitence
STEP 4: Study
STEP 5: Sleep
STEP 6: Study

Entry 1

Happy New Years~

My goal of this class is just to get a better understanding of the Japanese language and pass with a B or higher... I really this I need to surround myself with more productive people than myself, but I feel like, with the few people I actually talk to in class, I end up unfocusing them. When I talk to Japanese people I can't always understand and they can't always think of a way for me to understand either. I JUST WANT TO GO TO JAPAN.

Unfortunately after this semester, I have to stop being a student. I can't stay in school and Kent is going to cost me more money and stress than I can afford.

It really sucks right now, I had a sinus infection last week and it Evolved!
サイヌスイーンフェクシュン
しんか〜〜！
ブローンカイタース。。。。
So yea... Bronchitis is stupid.

So... next week, when I hope AAAALL of this is gone, I gotta work my butt off. No movies, no games, no facebook.... I. NEED. TO. WORK.

私のクイズを作った。

 1) 私はたくさん勉強ので、_______が日本語が上手になりました。

2) 授業の前に私のせいせきを______ます。

3) 私の______はけっして正しくありません。

4) 漢字の意味は漢字の使い方によって______ます。

5) ________になっても、泣きません。

6)「私の_______を閉じこめるために」が日本人らしいです。

7) われの________は百人のうち十人がやさいが大きらいと言うが言いました。

漢字のベーンク

違う、悲しい、調べる、調査、結果、感情、答え

Blog Entry 8

Blog Entry 7

Blog Entry 6

めぐみつぼい 活動の聞き

Blog Entry 5

For this past week we studied some new adjectives for chapter 22, which include: うるさい、心配、びんぼう、ペらペら、変、らく(楽), and then were quizzed on them.

AばB
We also learned and reviewed ~ば what it means and compared it to たら.
〜ば is used as AばBです。If A then B. It follows more of a logical flow, without the use of opinions. Where たら is used more for opinions, and hypothetical phrases and questions. To make something in the 〜ば form, for verbs, you must remove the final vowel sound from a word in the dictionary form and add an エ sound. くbecomes け, then proceed to add 〜けば.  For い adjectives and anything in the negative (which must be short form) you replace the い with け, because the い becomes く, then follows the former rule dropping the ウ to become け. For な adjectives and nouns, take the dictionary form and add 〜であれば.　たら means the same thing as 〜ば, but たら is for hypothetical situations, so its commonly used with になるand てする.

AのにB
Then we learned のに, which I'm still not entirely clear on, and compared it to けど, and ので.
AのにB means Although A, B. For facts or events that have happened.
AけどB means A but B.
AのでB means B because A.

ふじまるかな 活動の聞き

Kana Fujimaru is a 22 year old Rikkyo student from Chiba that is studying Tourism. She is studying English as a second language while staying here in Kent so she can be  a flight attendant. She likes music and enjoys karaoke, she's also going to the Green Day concert in January. She really doesn't like animals.

She already knows Aaron, Razille, and me.

Blog Entry 4

This is the fourth blog entry and the third Reflection Blog

This week in Japanese class. We reviewed Passive as we talked about Causative Passive and we also did a little review over potential form. We submitted our first 新聞 assignment, and took the first Kanji quiz of the semester. We will be taking a review quiz over the same Kanji quiz on Tuesday.

This was all the big step in moving from Chapter 21 to Chapter 22.
I expect that we will do vocab and have 2 different quizzes over Nouns and then Verbs sometime next week.

I've been really sleepy recently, I think its because Winter is coming and I'm ready to hibernate. Thats the challenge I need to overcome, I've really ben trying to sleep earlier, but it doesn't seem to be helping very much. I need to drink more blueberry juice, maybe it'll help my brian focus.

Kanji:　信、経、台、風、犬、重、初、若、送、幸、計、遅、配、弟、妹

Blog Entry 3

We learned てほしい and that you use when you want someone to do something, its always related to you because you want it, or you don't (〜てほしくありません).

This week we reviewed over chapter 21 and started doing Kanji for chapter 21. Reading Kanji becomes easier over a short time, however writing Kanji is always a difficult task. Thinking of a creative way to remember Kanji is easier if the Kanji itself has different parts to it. Writing these kanji and coming up with a way to remember them are just the start. Having a way to review them is really helpful, flash cards are ok for me, but they never really helped, using the site readthekanji.com has helped a great deal since it is an interactive way to read Kanji and gives meanings, context, stroke orders.

Blog Entry 2

What I learned this week was about the passive form and how to make it. The passive form, translated to English means that something has an action that person B has done, has inconvenienced person A, and now they are upset about it. You can't always use the passive form with all verbs, however.
I also, relearned that I do no like being sick and going to class. Its very difficult to pay attention. I enjoyed doing the yonkomanga while using the passive form.

Blog Entry 1, Introduction

こんにちは！初めまして、私はネイト　ケスタです。二十三歳です。しゅみは日本語とゲームとVoice Actingです。ポッケトモンスタスのモンスタスが大好きです。もの中で一番が好きなニドキングです。近頃、私の音楽がちがいました。今、テクノが好きですよ。ゲームと寝るのが上手です。スポーツが下手だけど、テニスが好きです。　どうぞよろしく。