Sunday, September 14, 2014

9/14

こんにちわ

This week we attended a lecture by はまだせんせい about the rebuilding of the Catholic school that she worked at after its destruction in the bombing of Nagasaki. It was extremely interesting to hear her story from first hand account of what happened and how it affected her and her community. We always hear about the war and bombings, but never of the aftermath in rebuilding. I also found the research that はまだせんせい was doing about Bishop O'Hara, his reasons for funding the rebuilding, and his connection with Notre Dame extremely interesting. I hope that the lecture tomorrow will be equally as intriguing and informative as this one!

In the classroom this week, we had two tests: Hiragana and chapter 2. Now we are beginning chapter 3 and learning about daily routines. As for now, it is にちようび ごごじゅうにじゅうさん。I think that I have finally mastered the Hiragana characters, now onto Katakana! I still have trouble with listening and speaking Japanese, but I am getting better each day.

-Emily

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  1. You can do it! がんばって!

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  2. How was the second lecture? Hope you liked it!

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    1. It was interesting! I wish みやもとせんせい had more time; it seemed like she had to leave out information!

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  3. Once you master hiragana, it helps your speaking and listening a lot. がんばりましょう:)

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  4. ハンさん、

    Lecture 1 was indeed very interesting!
    I'm glad you finally feel comfortable with ひらがな。It was a bit of a struggle for us, right? haha but we are getting there. And I'm pretty sure we will succeed very fast with かたかな。

    we could としょかんで べんきょうします!
    ハンさん なんじ べんきょうしますか。

    また ねい、

    なりまつ。

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    1. こんばん くじに べんきょうします。あした はちじに べんきょうします。なりまつは?

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  5. Corrections:
    こにちは。
    にちようびです。
    ごご じゅうにじじゅっぷんです。

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