APPRECIATION POST

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone.

In this extra I just want to say thank you to Zoraida sensee, who have taught me and all members of class BB3 well on Japanese Language although I did not excel in class. I would also to say thank you to all BB3 classmates for helping me in many things during our time in class.

Zoraida sensee, most right in pink

Me, Nazmin (ナズミン）during Japan Cultural Day

BB3 classmates in final class

I hope we will meet again everyone! 

SAYONARA....

MY LAST POST

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!　

Sad to say, this will be my last post for this semester. (crying)

Much knowledge on Japanese language have been shared here and hope that it will benefit others. I still have some things to share for today.

Firstly about lessons. The final two classes we learned about verbs in Japanese. For examples,

This is important when you want to talk about daily activities. For example, writing a blog (literally) in Japanese is 'burogu o kakimasu' or ブログを　かきます。

The o is just a linking words like no, ga, ni and others. In my opinion, it will need time to actually master the use of linking words as sometimes we don't need to use them.

Then we also learned on date, days and months and in Japanese. Basically it is easy as they are similar to each other.

For days,

For months, just use number + gatsu (month) to say the month.

For dates in a month

So for this example, if you want to say 1st of January, you should say 'ichigatsu no tsuitachi' while referring to notes above.

To congratulate birthday or tanjoobi （たんじょうび）of any of your friend, you can say 'o tanjoobi omedetoo' which is equivalent to happy birthday.

That is all for this semester!! Sayonara!!

My home (わたしのいえ）

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!　

Does this house look familiar to you? It's Nobita and Doraemon's house.

Every week in our childhood we saw this house. For your information this type of house is called the ikkodate (いっこだて) which is one of the common type of houses in Japan. Besides that, there are others such as bangaroo, semidii, fuurato and kondominiamu. I think you all can guess how they look like right?

For me, my house is a terrace house which is linked to other houses, rinku hausu (リンクハウス）. This is basic floor plan of my house. It is not big (ookii) but is long( nagai) and narrow (semai). Nevertheless, home sweet home.

We also learned some prepositions in Japanese, to say positions of things. Here are some examples.

That is all for today. Sayounara!!

FOOODDDD!!!（たべものとのみもの）

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!　

Today is all food!!!

Who does not like to eat? No one!! Not even japanese!! In fact, Japanese have their own delicacies and dishes that are very delicious such as ramen, udon and of course sushi.

 Ramen （ラメン）

 Sushi　（すし）

Udon　（うどん）

In class we learned about the usual food and drinks. But I want to tell you all about my favourite food which is the............BURGER!!! 

JUST LOOK AT THAT. YUM.

This is actually a scene from the anime movie Paprika (2006). I am an otaku after all. Burger or hamburgers are very tasty and satisfying to eat. Usually the burger that I like to eat is beef burger but sometimes I try others too. I don't usually eat burgers from fast food outlets such as McDonald's or KFC but I buy them from roadside stalls.

In class we also learned some adjectives to describe food such as yasui (やすい), oishii(おいしい) and hayai(はやい). Here are some other adjectives:

THAT IS ALL. BURP. YUM.

Watashi no kazoku (わたしのかぞく）

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!

So what is kazoku? Kazoku means family. In class, Zoraida sensee told about the royal family of Japan before starting with the lesson.

So it's all about family today!

Today I want to talk about my family in Japanese. We were actually given a task to find family photo for introducing family members in class. I come from a small family, only 6 members but my father died in 2014 so that makes 5 only. This is my family photo from 2009, in Indonesia. I (watashi) am the one in red. I have a brother (ani) and two sisters (ane). My father (chichi) and mother (haha) are in the middle.

This is a basic family tree to help you. I do not have younger siblings as I am the last child.

That is for today. Sayonara!!! (this is the best I could find)

Doozo yoroshiku (どうぞ よろしく）

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!

Japanese language is learned everywhere in the world nowadays right? So by right, we should we able to introduce ourselves in Japanese besides in English. How?

Firstly, you must say 

Fill in your name in blank. For example: Watashi wa Nazmin-desu (ナズミン　です）。

This is only the first step.

To say your nationality, say watashi wa (your country) -jin desu. Jin means people. For Americans:

For other countries:

For me, I would say, watashi wa mareeshia (Malaysia) -jin desu.

To be more specific in Malaysia, I can say Pera (Perak) kara kimashita, this is because I am from Ipoh, Perak in Malaysia. This is the flag of Perak:

Next, we also learned about some occupations in Japanese, these are some of them.

That is all for now, Assalamualaikum and sayonara!!

あなたのうえにへいあんであれ!!!!

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh 

or in Japanese: anata no ue ni heian de are...☺ or あなたのうえにへいあんであれ

this I learned by accidentally watching a livestream Japanese class on Facebook. The sensei who was teaching wore a mask while teaching so many the live video commented more the mask than what was being taught in class...

The sensee was teaching about basic sentence structure in Japanese language. She also taught about verb forms. I only remembered about the -masu form. Here are some examples:

That is all that I can share for today. I hope I have more time for blogging for this semester. Sorry for the long silence. Sorry, すみません.

Moo ichido onegaishimasu!!

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!

What is the title though? Moo ichido onegaishimasu!! (もおいちど　おねがいします）

It actually means ' one more time please'. A phrase that is very important in a language class. This is because usually we cannot understand something the first time we heard it right? So we can politely, as polite as a Japanese, ask to repeat something by saying 'moo ichido onegaishimasu'.

In the 2nd class, we learnt about expressions in classroom such the I said before.

In class, before the class starts, the class representative will say 'kiritsu' (きりつ) to ask all students to stand up and greet the sensee and then 'chakuseki'（ちゃくせき）to ask all to sit down.

We learnt many classroom expressions such as teacher's instructions. This video summarizes what we have learnt in class. Some of it.

That is all for today. Sayounara!!

Konnichiwa (こんにちは）!!!

Assalamualaikum and konnichiwa (こんにちは）everyone!!

This is my second post on this blog and first regarding this subject of Japanese language. As I said before, I have minimal knowledge on this language so I was a bit scared. In the first class, I looked at other students to estimate my own level of knowledge. Like this:

I hope to survive in this class.

Then the class began. Our tutor or sensee (せんせい）Zoraida sensee is an experienced teacher on Japanese so I expect to be talking fluently in Japanese in the end of this course. Sensee told us, her students that we will only learn half of the A1 level of Japanese language.

We learned the basic greetings in Japanese, here are some greetings:

We also learned that there are several ways to write in Japanese which are hiragana, katakana and kanji. The difference is that hiragana is for native Japanese words, katakana is for foreign words and kanji is for native too but it is harder. See for yourself:

That is why some anime titles are hard to read, as they are integrate all three writings, for example JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in Japanese is JoJo (katakana) no (hiragana) Kimyou na Bouken (kanji) as seen below

I hope I can slowly practice writing all the kana and master them.

That is all for now, goodbye or さようなら！！！ (you can refer to the greetings before)

First words from me

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

みなさん、こんにちは!

Hello everyone!

I am Mohd Nazmin Bin Bakri from class

 BB3 of Japanese Language 日本 

(nihongo) BJA 2012 at USIM. I am a 3rd

 Year from FST. Even though  I am a

 science student, one of my strengths is

 language. Previously, I learnt Arabic and

 French basics at the university and now I

 think I am ready to learn Japanese. It will 

be hard because I have little to none basics 

in Japanese although I watch anime from

 time to time.

Now I think is the best opportunity to learn

 before I get busy in work. 

Throughout the semester I will try my best

 to share what I got from classes with my

instructor, Zoraida-sensee and also from 

daily life. This is in fact my first time 

blogging and I'm sorry for all mistakes that 

I may do after this. ごめんなさい 

(gomennasai).

 Until then, I hope I can 

write much for this semester.

Thank you, 

ありがとう!