カスルスピチむずかしいよ。よく「あります」や「です」話したい。言った授業が二つEAS319とHIS322だった。EAS319文学にある東京についてだ。HIS322は日本のれきしの授業だ。1900年から今まだ。
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
来がっきの予定
カスルスピチむずかしいよ。よく「あります」や「です」話したい。言った授業が二つEAS319とHIS322だった。EAS319文学にある東京についてだ。HIS322は日本のれきしの授業だ。1900年から今まだ。
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
かみを切る
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| よくかみがながい |
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| 時どきかみがみじかくなる |
今日ブログに書きたいでど、何について書ける？クラスのブログにトピクがあるんだが、ぼくの春休みちょっとつまらなかったよ。夏にどこかにつとめているようにマリーランドの大学の先生へメル書いた。それするのがすきじゃなかった。でも、春休みの後に、おもしろいことがあるんだ。春休みの一週前に友達ぼくに変なしつもんした。「かみきってもいい？」「はい」言った。どして？分かりなかった。そして、まだ分かりない。
それから、一番目日曜日春休みの後とじゅぎょうの前にりょうにすんでいる友達かみきるようにいっしょにロンジュに行った。スズィさんとカテェーンさんかみを切って、トードさんやアレクスさん見た。スズィさんもカテェーンさんもとても上手にかみ切った。一時後ぐらい、私はかみがみじかくなった。今みなかみがきれいだと思いている。ありがとうスズィさん！ありがとうカテェーンさん！
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
しつもんをする
Asking Questions
話すいぬ、
好きな数字は？
ワンと言う。
数字＝すうじ＝number
Oh great talking dog,
What number do you most love?
One*, the dog replies.
*T/N: In Japanese, the sound a dog makes is “ワンワン” rather than “bow wow” or “woof.”
うたうカモ。
な前は何だ？
レディーガガ。
There's a singing duck.
What do you think its name is?
It's Lady Gaga*.
*T/N: Japanese ducks go "ガーガー." Unfortunately I had to cut short the vowels for it to fit within the syllable restrictions.
クリスマス。
フクロウわらう？
ホーホーだ。
It is a Christmas.
The owl laughs with Santa?
There is a ho ho*.
*T/N: Owls say "ホーホー." That is all.
I had to take liberties with the translations so that they could still fit the pattern. I was surprised by how much I had to add. It seems like an English syllable counts for a lot more than a Japanese letter.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
こおり（ice)とほのお（fire）のうた
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| HBOのセリズのウィターフェル |
一番目の本の中で、キングのロベルト•バラティオン王（おう：king）は友だちのエダード•スタークさまにしつもんをしにしろ（castle）のウィンターフェルに来ます。バレティオン王はスタークさまをウェストロスの京（きょう：capital）にとりたがっています。王の手（王のアシスタント）がいませんから、エダードさまは王の手になります。でも、だれか王の手がいか人をころす(kill)かもしれませんでした。この本をよむのがたのしくて、にぎやかです。そして、HBOはテレビのセリズにしました。なまえはぎょくざのゲーム（Game of Thrones)です。ぼくはあまり見ませんが、好きです。
Sunday, March 11, 2012
カタカナ リタレリ ウォーク
しつもんをする
話すいぬ、
好きな数字は？
ワンと言う。
数字＝すうじ＝number
He Asks a Question
Oh great talking dog,
What number do you most love?
One*, the dog replies.
*T/N: In Japanese, the sound a dog makes is “wan wan” rather than “bow wow” or “woof.”
Monday, March 5, 2012
Katakana Analysis バージョン ツ
Most Japanese textbooks seem to describe katakana very simply. They claim that katakana is used for emphasis, loan words, and onomatopoeia, maybe mentioning that there are a few other uses. Nevertheless, it seems that this is a oversimplification. Based on the great complexity of when katakana is used, this simplification was probably intended to cover the primary places a first year Japanese student would see or use katakana without confusing them with all the rarer examples.
My group found lots of interesting katakana examples. Most of them fell into the category of foreign loan words, such as キャバレ for cabaret in a Japanese novel called Where the Bowling Pins Stand, or ファミレス in a newspaper article in 毎日新聞のニュース, referring to a family restaurant. There were also some clear examples of onomatopoeia. For example, ガーン, representing shock, showed up over a character's head in the anime Axis Powers: Hetalia, and a pakino machine in a manga called 大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル(Greater Tokyo Poverty Living Manual) uses the katakana パピコン to represent its electronic dings.
However, some of the other examples are harder to classify. On the back of a Japanese Red Sox souvenir jersey is written マツザカ even though Matsuzaka is a Japanese name which would normally be written using hiragana or kanji. At first I thought the katakana were used because the Red Sox are an American team and it would seem out of place for only one name to be written in kanji or hiragana when all the others are written in katakana. To help figure this out, I looked at the Japanese league's jerseys. They use Romanji to spell the names! Why would the makers of this jersey specifically alter it so that it doesn't match normal jerseys either here or in Japan? As it would seem silly to emphasize the only word on the back of the shirt I must conclude that this is a new use of katakana. One idea comes from a branching off from the "loan word" use of katakana: the use of katakana might represent an idea of foreignness, even if the word itself is Japanese. In this case, Matsuzaka's name is written in katakana to reflect that he now lives in a foreign country and plays on an American team. Another possibility is that katakana is used to demonstrate that the name is not a normal word, so no one will misread it as 松座だか, "is it a pine seat?" for example. This would be a differentiation, but neither a true emphasis or loan word, as it does not place more importance on the name than anything else, but it does show that its different. This idea does have problems however, as most Japanese would be able to easily tell from the context that the word on the Jersey was an name.
On the other hand, this idea is reinforced by the title of the manga mentioned earlier. In 大 東京ビンボー生活マニュアル, ビンボー (poverty) is a native Japanese word and even has its own kanji, (貧乏) but it is written in katakana in the manga's title. According to Wikipedia, this is partially to emphasize the word, but also partially to show that it is being used in a sense different from the normal meaning, in this case as a life of voluntary withdrawal from material life rather than a forced impoverishment.
From this I conclude that katakana are used to say something is different. Either simply emphasizing or demonstrating some type of difference difference, such as a different language of origin or an unusual usage, katakana shows that a word is somehow different from the norm.
I'd like to thank all the commentators on my draft. Your comments all provided an alternative perspective and useful information that really made writing this revision much easier.
My group found lots of interesting katakana examples. Most of them fell into the category of foreign loan words, such as キャバレ for cabaret in a Japanese novel called Where the Bowling Pins Stand, or ファミレス in a newspaper article in 毎日新聞のニュース, referring to a family restaurant. There were also some clear examples of onomatopoeia. For example, ガーン, representing shock, showed up over a character's head in the anime Axis Powers: Hetalia, and a pakino machine in a manga called 大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル(Greater Tokyo Poverty Living Manual) uses the katakana パピコン to represent its electronic dings.
However, some of the other examples are harder to classify. On the back of a Japanese Red Sox souvenir jersey is written マツザカ even though Matsuzaka is a Japanese name which would normally be written using hiragana or kanji. At first I thought the katakana were used because the Red Sox are an American team and it would seem out of place for only one name to be written in kanji or hiragana when all the others are written in katakana. To help figure this out, I looked at the Japanese league's jerseys. They use Romanji to spell the names! Why would the makers of this jersey specifically alter it so that it doesn't match normal jerseys either here or in Japan? As it would seem silly to emphasize the only word on the back of the shirt I must conclude that this is a new use of katakana. One idea comes from a branching off from the "loan word" use of katakana: the use of katakana might represent an idea of foreignness, even if the word itself is Japanese. In this case, Matsuzaka's name is written in katakana to reflect that he now lives in a foreign country and plays on an American team. Another possibility is that katakana is used to demonstrate that the name is not a normal word, so no one will misread it as 松座だか, "is it a pine seat?" for example. This would be a differentiation, but neither a true emphasis or loan word, as it does not place more importance on the name than anything else, but it does show that its different. This idea does have problems however, as most Japanese would be able to easily tell from the context that the word on the Jersey was an name.
On the other hand, this idea is reinforced by the title of the manga mentioned earlier. In 大 東京ビンボー生活マニュアル, ビンボー (poverty) is a native Japanese word and even has its own kanji, (貧乏) but it is written in katakana in the manga's title. According to Wikipedia, this is partially to emphasize the word, but also partially to show that it is being used in a sense different from the normal meaning, in this case as a life of voluntary withdrawal from material life rather than a forced impoverishment.
From this I conclude that katakana are used to say something is different. Either simply emphasizing or demonstrating some type of difference difference, such as a different language of origin or an unusual usage, katakana shows that a word is somehow different from the norm.
I'd like to thank all the commentators on my draft. Your comments all provided an alternative perspective and useful information that really made writing this revision much easier.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
私の家族
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| 私は家族（母はしゃしんをとります。） |
私の家族はいい家族です。六人です。母と父と妹が一人と弟が二人います。家族はマリーランドに住んでいます。そして、祖母と祖父がいます。ニュージャージーにすんでいます。かみがグレーでくろいめがねをかけている人は父です。父はきがつよくて、やさしい人です。じえいぎょうです。やきゅうとおいしいクレープを作るのが上手です。母はひだりにあるしゃしんをとりましたから、それにいません。でも、みぎにあるしゃしんにはかみがちゃいろくて、めがねをかける女の人は母です。母はうちきで、きがながい、親せつな人です。ＮＩＨにつとめています。すこし日本語とドイツ語が分かります。ひだりのしゃしんに、せが一番高くて一番みぎの人は私です
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| 母と妹と弟 |
が、せが二番高い人は弟のピターくんです。ピターくんはきがとてもつよいですが、たのしいです。ときどきたくさんもんく（complaints)を言います。コンピュータゲームをするのとトランペットをふくのがとても上手です。一番下の人は弟のティーオちゃんです。ティーオちゃん三さいです。いつもとてもかわいいです！まん中にピンクで、しろいシャーツをきている人は妹のマギちゃんです。マギちゃんはやさしくて、げんきな小学生です。やきゅうとサッカーが上手です。ぼうしをかぶっている人は祖父です。祖父のとなりに祖母です。祖父はのんびりしていて、きがながいです。でんしゃが大好きです。家に小さいでんしゃがあります。祖母はしごとうがありませんが、いそがしいです。よく貝ものに行きます。クロスワードパズルするのが上手です。私は家族が大好きです。
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Katakana Analysis Draft
My group found lots of interesting katakana examples. Most of them fell into the category of foreign loan words, such as キャバレ for cabaret in a Japanese novel called Where the Bowling Pins Stand, or ファミレス in a newspaper article in 毎日新聞のニュース, referring to a family restaurant. There were also some clear examples of onomatopoeia. For example, ガーン, representing shock showed up over a character's head in the anime Axis Powers: Hetalia, and a pakino machine in a manga called 大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル(Greater Tokyo Poverty Living Manual) uses the katakana パピコン to represent its electronic dings.
However, some of the other examples are harder to classify. On the back of a Japanese Red Sox jersey is written マツザカ even though Matsuzaka is a Japanese name which would normally be written using hiragana or kanji. At first I thought the katakana were used because the Red Sox are an American team and it would seem out of place for only one name to be written in kanji or hiragana when all the others are written in katakana. To help figure this out, I looked at the Japanese league's jerseys. They use Romanji to spell the names! Why would the makers of this jersey specifically alter it so that it doesn't match normal jerseys either here or in Japan? As it would seem silly to emphasize the only word on the back of the shirt I must conclude that this is a new use of katakana. One possibility is that katakana is used to demonstrate that the name is not a normal word, so no one will misread it as 松座だか, "is it a pine seat?" for example. This would be a differentiation, but neither a true emphasis or loan word, as it does not place more importance on the name than anything else, but it does show that its different.
This idea is reinforced by the title of the manga mentioned earlier. In 大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル, ビンボー is a native Japanese word and even has its own kanji, (貧乏) but it is written in katakana in the manga's title. According to Wikipedia, this is partially to emphasize the word, but also partially to show that it is being used in a sense different from the normal meaning.
From this I conclude that katakana are used to say something is different. Either simply emphasizing or demonstrating some difference, such as a different language or usage, katakana shows that a word is somehow different from the rest.
However, some of the other examples are harder to classify. On the back of a Japanese Red Sox jersey is written マツザカ even though Matsuzaka is a Japanese name which would normally be written using hiragana or kanji. At first I thought the katakana were used because the Red Sox are an American team and it would seem out of place for only one name to be written in kanji or hiragana when all the others are written in katakana. To help figure this out, I looked at the Japanese league's jerseys. They use Romanji to spell the names! Why would the makers of this jersey specifically alter it so that it doesn't match normal jerseys either here or in Japan? As it would seem silly to emphasize the only word on the back of the shirt I must conclude that this is a new use of katakana. One possibility is that katakana is used to demonstrate that the name is not a normal word, so no one will misread it as 松座だか, "is it a pine seat?" for example. This would be a differentiation, but neither a true emphasis or loan word, as it does not place more importance on the name than anything else, but it does show that its different.
This idea is reinforced by the title of the manga mentioned earlier. In 大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル, ビンボー is a native Japanese word and even has its own kanji, (貧乏) but it is written in katakana in the manga's title. According to Wikipedia, this is partially to emphasize the word, but also partially to show that it is being used in a sense different from the normal meaning.
From this I conclude that katakana are used to say something is different. Either simply emphasizing or demonstrating some difference, such as a different language or usage, katakana shows that a word is somehow different from the rest.
Monday, February 13, 2012
新しい年と好きなじゅぎょう！
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| これは私のじゅぎょうじゃありまえん。 |
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Cycle 3 Reflections
Well, another cycle came and is gone. This time I feel that although I didn't follow my schedule in shadowing as well as I should have, something else took its place. The Pritele project ensured that I spoke Japanese regularly and repeatedly. Meanwhile, I did follow my schedule for anime-watching. While I didn't repeat after the character's speaking, I did listen carefully and try to work out exactly which mora they were using, sometimes rewinding to make sure I got it right. I feel much more confident listening to Japanese, even if I still get tripped up by fast dialogue, small つ, or unfamiliar vocab.
Over all the cycles I do not think my PE were as helpful as they could have been, simply because I didn't do the exercises as much as I could have. Whenever I did actually do them, it felt like they helped a lot, and due to that my Japanese speaking and listening is massively better than it was even right before the break, but I don't do it enough.
Over all the cycles I do not think my PE were as helpful as they could have been, simply because I didn't do the exercises as much as I could have. Whenever I did actually do them, it felt like they helped a lot, and due to that my Japanese speaking and listening is massively better than it was even right before the break, but I don't do it enough.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
私のしゅみ
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| 風の谷のナウシカ |
私のしゅみ 何ですか。 あにめを みるのが 好きです。みやざきさんのえいがが 大好きです。ぼくの好きなえいがは かぜのたにのナウシカ （えいごで Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)。 ふゆ休みに その えいがの DVDを かうので、今日 プリンストン大学に 友だちと もう 一ど みりました。かぜのたにのナウシカは ふるくて いいえいがです。
フェンシングも 好きです。 毎週 フェンシングを しに ディロンのたいいくかんに いきます。私は フェンシングが あまり じょうすくないので、 たいへんだ、でも フェンシングは とても たのしい スポーツです。
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| 私と 友だちは ゴンザガ高校で フェンシングを しました |
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