Recount on the first day of Japanese Course --- 19th post

29/4/09


There isn't much to type about today, so instead, i will type about what happen my first Japanese lesson yesterday :p.


Well, we really had an authentic Japanese teacher (well since she is a Japanese). She introduced herself as Maiko (Ishii). Wondered what was the first thing she gave us? Well here it is,



As you can see, it's a Japanese leaflet, majority of the class was stunned. We had thought that we need to read/understand/discuss (or any adj. you deem fit) the leaflet. Luckily, that was not true (at least not for that lesson). After almost everyone came, Maiko-sensei started taking attendance. What surprise me was that as she called our names, she wrote our names in japanese (in katagana) and we are to remember it so that we can "write our name" on future assignments. *yay, luckily, my name was not hard to write :p* (another person whose name was Alexandra had a hard time i guess, :p)





My name and Esther's name



Should you were wondering if Maiko-Sensei spoke in what language, well she speaks in English which might be a little hard to understand at times, but otherwise, it is still understandable. BUT, she said that she will be speaking in pure Japanese after the second lesson !_! (i wonder if we can understand her at that time ~.~)

After that, she taught us some basic greetings, and some common jobs names. (which i will not go into details in this post).
So, do we have homework in this Japanese course? YES, we do, something like 习字 where you had to write Japanese words and also a chart where you have to memorise the basic Japanese "ABC". (which is like sooooooooooooooo hard) In addition, we have a quiz on every week ~.~ (not including the first week)

Alright that's about it for this post, below are two photos of the notes I took down in class yesterday.







PS: My hand phone camera went bonkers again, ARGH! Hope it recovers tomorrow... want to take photos of my brother's birthday.