Japanese Lunch
This came in my mail a few days back.
Lunch with my Japanese sensei(s) (teachers) together with other students and conversing in Japanese! That’s pretty cool. I decided to join in. Calling up my classmates from my Japanese class, the three of us turned up at the lunch.
We met Yoko-sensei (My sensei for Japanese Basic A/101) & Chishiho-sensei (My sensei for Japanese Basic B/102) outside the cafeteria before proceeding in. There were 3 other students from the Intermediate A/Basic 103 class (All males) , and Makoto-kun, who’s our guest.
Sidenote: When we take Japanese language as our enrichment programme, We start from Basic A/103 followed by Basic B, thereafter Intermediate A, B and finally Advanced A, B.
Int A Guys: “あの 先生、 ゲストはどこにですか？”
Chishiho-sensei: ”あら、それわまことーくん。”
Int A Guys: ”女ことじゃない？”
Chishiho-sensei: ”女ことじゃないて。”
Int A Guys: ”ああ。そか、残念ですようね。”
The guys from Int A reckoned that Makoto was a girl till Chishiho-sensei introduced him. We had a good laugh at that.
Makoto-kun is actually (half) Japanese I think. He is in Advanced B. Makoto-kun’s Japanese is rather fluent. He had home-stayed in Osaka, Japan with a family and is still in good contact with them. A Int-A dude asked for Makoto-kun’s email address.
We (They) talked about lots of stuff, from Makoto-kun’s homestay to the number of years our sensei has been in Singapore. Makoto-kun did most of the talking and I listened to their conversation quietly. I was able to understand most of their conversation, despite being in Basic B. It’s probably the watching of J-dramas/Anime and reading of ‘Someday’s Dreamer”. Vocabulary is utmost one of the most essential thing to know in order to converse properly in Japanese I reckon. That would add a lot more flavour in the conversation.
I asked Yoko-sensei about what qualifications are needed when studying in Japan. She replied that if you’re taking a diploma of the same level as you are at now, you will need to study Japanese in Japan for a year. That is what I recall. I will have to check with Chishiho-sensei about this, and ask if she has Makoto-kun’s email address.
We ended the session at about 10 minutes to 2pm and I headed back to my block for my afternoon classes.
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Konata still looks funny even though its a ‘serious’ poster.
Yes, I found this gem on /a/ too, and was just searching for the artist to say how awesome he is for making this. I was also thinking about learning how to design models for L4D but apparently it’s not supported or can only be used in single player. :<
An Akira witch sound pack would be p. funny.
@Kairu Ishimaru: I guess it’s because Konata is smiling while the rest are in ‘serious’ mode ^^
@annoymous: Yeah, an Akira witch sound pack would be awesome… and Shirashi could do voice overs for the smoker!
Oh God…if Lucky Star was actually like this, it’d be just what it’d take to get me to like the series O.o