MJC : Week 1

Hello all. As promised before, I will write something regarding my currently taking Japanese class. Before we proceed, some of you might be wondering what on earth is that MJC stand for? Ok its actually a short form from “My Japanese Class” or “My Japanese Course”. Huhu.. whatever. So, here I will try to share with you what I learn during this class week by week. Why week by week? Its because my Japanese class only 2 hours per day and I only have it from Monday till Wednesday only. Huhu.. Its 6 hours total per week. Just 6 hours only which is not enough according to my sensei. And this course only for 2 months, about 8 weeks, minus exam week and etc, it would be just 6 or 7 weeks only. So, it will only cover the basic part of Japanese language. If I want to proceed, I need to take another part in the next special semester. Talking about special semester, it’s really boring. My Japanese class will start at 8pm every Monday to Wednesday and before that time, I don’t have anything to do. *yes, go watch some movies! or maybe I should do part time job? One of my friends asked me to join him to do part time job at one company in Cyberjaya. It is an online-base company. *Well, I’ll take it into consideration.

Ok, for the first week, nothing much I learnt, just some basic class expressions and learnt how to write all those freaking-difficult-to-remember hiragana, katakana and kanji characters. Owh, maybe I need to spend my ‘free’ time to ‘watch’ those characters and remember every one of them rather than go watch some movie. Hmm.. nice idea. Whatever it is, I need to remember all of them because next week, we’ll start to write in hiragana and katakana.

For the first time also, I need to introduce myself in Japanese language. It’s the first day and I’m the first! How lucky I am! wtf. With some nervousness in me, I tried to introduce myself in Japanese language in front of others 30 students who also took Japanese class. *Luckily, we already got some demo on how to do it from my sensei.

This is what I said that day to introduce myself,

Minna-san. Hajimemashite? Konbanwa. Watashi no namae wa Muhamad Izzat (silent for a while..don’t know what to speak) des… (wtf?!) Dozo yoroshiku ( Huh..Yes, I did it!)

the meaning is this

Hi everybody. How are you? Good Evening. (Hajimemashite also means “nice to meet you”). My name is Muhamad Izzat. Nice to meet you.

Huhu.. easy right?

Ok, lets have some more,

Hajimemashou means “Let’s begin”
Owarimashou means “Let’s finish”
Yasumimashou means “Let’s take a break”

if you want to ask like “Can we begin?”, the sentence will be like this..
Hajimemashou ka? - Can we begin?
Hai, hajimemashou - to answer “Yes, let’s begin”.

Then, the most popular phrase is “Do you understand?”
so in Japanese it would be like this
Wakarimasuka? - Do you understand?
Hai, wakarimasu - Yes, I’m understand
Iie, wakarimasen - No, I don’t understand (Iie pronounced as e-ye)
or maybe you want to ask if there any question, in Japanese it would be like this,
Shitsumon ga arimasuka? - Do you have any question?
Hai, arimasuka - Yes, I have some questions.
Iie, arimasen - No, I don’t have any.

haha interesting? Ya, it is an interesting language and I enjoyed learning it.

Ok some daily greetings..
Ohayou gozaimasu - Good Morning.
Konnichiwa - Good Afternoon.
Konbanwa - Good Evening.
Oyasuminasai - Good Night.
Onegaishimasu - Please give me a favour/Please give me some help.
Sumimasen - I’m sorry.

Maybe not too much for the first week, I learnt more on how to write hiragana and katakana and some basic class expressions. Next week will become more tougher as I’ll start to write all those Japanese phrase in hiragana and katakana. Yeah, it’ll become more interesting! Isn’t?

Ok that’s all for now. Bye! Wait for next entry about my MJC.. ehehehe Hai, sayounara minna-san. Mata ashita. (Matta ashita means see you again)

Probably related posts:

1. MJC : Week 2
2. MJC : Final Week Part 1
3. MJC : Week 3 & 4
4. MJC : Final Week Part 2
5. MJC : Week 5 & 6