たいきれいですね

Columbiaのカンパス。。。

Good podcast?

I actually don't know what a podcast is, but since it involves us recording our speech, I'll do the best i can to outline my guiding principles....

1. Fluency - clarity and accuracy, but how natural you say it is key!
2. Creativity - using our (limited) knowledge of Japanese in creative and new ways.
3. Team participation - it cannot be one person talking all the time, but rather an even share
4. Effort - how much effort you put into the project...

Hope that helps~!

Self-Introduction

はじめまして。ユーです。韓国人です。LAからきました。コルンビヤ大学の三年生です。わたしははたちです。どうぞよろしくおねがいします。

Good/Bad Blog?

Actually, this is the first time I ever have a blog...

so i'm not the most qualified person to talk about this...

but for the purposes of this blog assignment, I guess a good/bad blog consists mainly of how much effort you put into it in order to improve Japanese. However much effort you put in, that's how much you are going to benefit.

My criteria:

1) minimum number of posts, depending on assignments
2) effort in applying grammar/new words learned in japanese to posting (up to your own ability)
3) quality of the posts, because a ("Hi, i did this this and this today, BYE!") wouldn't really demonstrate much effort
4) keeping posts relevant....
...eh, on that note

um....

wow, i was looking over other classmates' blogs from my "group" and I have no idea what they are saying...

i wish i can comment on their blogs, but i have no idea what to comment on...

so....

lyrics from my favorite japanese song (i have no idea what it means tho)


三日月

ずっと一緒にいた　二人で歩いた一本道
二つに分かれて　別々の方歩いてく

寂しさで溢れたこの胸かかえて
今にも泣き出しそうな空見上げて
あなたを想った…

※君がいない夜だって
そう no more cry もう泣かないよ
がんばっているからねって　強くなるからねって
君も見ているだろう
この消えそうな三日月
つながっているからねって　愛してるからねって※

冷えきった手を一人で温める日々
君の温もり　恋しくて恋しくて

どれだけ電話で「好き」と言われたって
君によりかかる事はできない
涙をぬぐった…

君がいない夜だって
そう no more cry もう泣かないよ
がんばっているからねって　強くなるからねって

今度いつ会えるんだろう　それまでの電池は
抱きしめながら言った　あなたの愛してるの一言

Reflections on Japanese

learning japanese for the first time has been interesting.

we cover material very quickly, and it is sometimes difficult to keep up with all the new vocabulary that we learn. there is something very familiar about japanese though, which I think is the grammar. similar to korean, the structure of the sentences is very different from english, and the sounds take getting used to.

for me, i think the method of learning japanese is effective, and i want to continue to strive in order to learn the language. honestly, school is the only time you can really invest the time and effort in learning a language, and i don't want to waste that.

Reasons for learning Japanese...

So sometimes my grandmother would take me out to eat lunch with her friends sometimes, and the conversation would be, you know, mostly in Korean. If there is some kind of secret that they don't want me to hear, they'll start speaking in Japanese... as they know I won't understand...

SO, i hope that i can start to listen in and understand their secrets... and then reply back to them in Japanese to shock them... hehe

kind of a twisted reason to learn japanese, no?

+ first post

this is the beginning of my first year japanese class blog.

within here, i will try and update my feelings and progress of learning japanese (in japanese whenever possible). so, first, a little about me....

初めまして！
わたしはジョニユです。