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Sun, 31 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [371]
Class on Monday had two parts. The first part had us review kanji, the second part had us meet with high schoolers and introduce ourselves. Both parts had homework.
The homework for the kanji part was to write four sentences using kanji on pages ... Read more >
Tags: classes, high school, japanese, kanji
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [368]
During orientation, they stressed several times that we should be checking our e-mails. That they would try and post signs on doors about important events, but we should be checking our e-mails to make sure we didn’t miss things. Naively, and ... Read more >
Tags: drum, hair, kimono, obi, yukata
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [593]
On Saturday, I decided to take a train into Umeda.
I’ve been talking a bit about “living in Osaka,” which is a slight exaggeration. Not quite as great as the exaggeration I make when I say I live in Chicago, but it is true for ... Read more >
Tags: city, doll, skyline, tea, train, umeda
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [316]
Thursday we reviewed vocabulary and basic ideas that would be necessary in an emergency. (Basic idea that seems so counterintuitive to me: in an emergency, get outside. This works for earthquakes, since the building you're in might collapse. It works ... Read more >
Tags: earthquake, fire, moving in, safety
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [608]
Wednesday the first few hours were dedicated to train vocabulary. How to buy train tickets, how to buy shinkansen tickets, commuter passes, etc. After a little over an hour in the classroom, we headed out to one of the nearby train stations to get tickets ... Read more >
Tags: food, french, japanese, pens, river, train, transportation
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [291]
Tuesday’s Survival Japanese began with an hour of discussing travel plans. So I now had the vocabulary to explain why my phone was asking me questions like “Did you have a nice trip in Osaka? Are you ready to fly back to Paris?” (not ... Read more >
Tags: japanese, konbini, library, origami, shampoo, super
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [276]
Monday marked the start of my first full week of Japanese class. We were with Suzuki-sensei the entire time (as we would be for most of the week). For this week, we’re in the “survival Japanese” phase, which mostly involves learning ... Read more >
Tags: classes, food, j-drama, japanese, mail
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [548]
On Saturday, I woke up with the knowledge that I didn't need to do anything with the group until some time after 5 PM when we were meeting up to go bowling. After the two days before, it was beautiful knowledge. Since “alone time” joined ... Read more >
Tags: bowling, graph theory, ramen, rivers, walking
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By monika | Views [565]
The companies, where we are doing our internships now, also provided accomodation for the time of the language course. Most people stay in the same place for the whole year, but some companies are too far away from the school in Shibuya. These people ... Read more >
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By monika | Views [894] | Comments [1]
After my Abitur I said: "I'm never going back to school". Well, I did. But although we had compulsory attendance, homework and both written and oral tests, it was slightly different from my German school. ..
First of all, my class consisted ... Read more >
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [319]
Our Japanese lessons began at 9:00 AM Friday morning. Our teacher, Yamaguchi-sensei, besides having one of the easiest to write Japanese names ever, (Yama- mountain and Guchi-mouth are both in the first 20 kanji you probably learn, more or less concurrent ... Read more >
Tags: food, japanese, language, proseminar
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By monika | Photo Gallery
Back to school for 4 months... Learning Japanese at Naganuma School in Shibuya.
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Tags: japanese, naganuma, school
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By monika | Views [459]
Hi everyone, First of all: Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I hope you had nice holidays and lots of delicious Christmas cookies (and thanks again for the cookie delivery service).
Then: Yes - I'm still alive, just a little bit busy... ... Read more >
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [262]
At 8:35, the exchange students in my class all met up with a few roommates outside the building to head over to the international center building for our placement test. It takes about 10 minutes to get to the international center if you need to wait ... Read more >
Tags: academics, housing, introductions, orientation, tests
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Photo Gallery
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