MJC : Week 3 & 4

Salam and hello all. Yosh, I totally forgot to post about MJC since the last post about it. Lols. Anyway, this post combined two weeks of MJC, week 3 and 4. Hmm.. What can I simplified here is, in these 2 weeks I learnt a lot of kanji characters and Nihon-go grammar too. And I had a lot of quizzes too. *headache

Yesterday, I had 3 quizzez..huhu *Headache again* 1 Kanji, 1 vocab and 1 grammar quiz. Looks like my sensei wanna kill me already. Luckily, I can answered 2 of the quiz but kanji… . Chinese students look really happy while answering kanji quiz. I know they had the same as in Chinese kanji, only pronounciation is different. huhu.. Anyway, the quiz for kanji characters is actually for number 1 till 10 only. Maybe some people said, “Alah.. only 1 to 10, not so difficult..LOLS” .. Yup, its not difficult, but my problem is I DON’T REMEMBER HOW TO WRITE AND WHICH KANJI FOR THOSE NUMBERS. So? huhu.. *Just tembak again. I don’t know how many kanji characters that I newly created yesterday.

My sensei said, to able you to pursue your study to Japan university, you need to at least knows 10,000 kanji. What?!!?!! 10,000 kanji?? 10 kanji I already don’t remember.haha *But, I wish to continue my study there*

Ok enough for those kanji things. Kanji needs more practice after all.

Wanna learn some Nihon-go grammar? Ok, class begins..

Hai, Hajimemashou.

1. Kore wa _____ desu. means This is _____.

examples:

Kore wa enpitsu desu. means This is a pencil.
Kore wa kagi desu. means This is a key.
Kore wa borupen desu. means This is a ballpen.

Note: When using “Kore”, the things should be with the speaker.

2. Sore wa _____ desu. means That is _____.

examples:

Sore wa kasa desu. means That is an umbrella.
Sore wa jisho desu. means That is a dictionary.
Sore wa zasshi desu. means That is a magazine.

Note: When using “Sore”, the things should be with the listener.

3. Are wa _____ desu. means That (over there) is _____.

examples:

Are wa konpyu-ta desu. means That (over there) is a computer.
Are wa jidosha desu. means That (over there) is a car.
Are wa tsukue desu. means That (over there) is a table.

Ok, lets say if you want to ask people, Is it a car? Or is it a computer? Its really simple actually, what you’ve to do is just by adding “ka” at the end of the sentence. By adding “ka” means you change the sentence into a question.

examples:

Sore wa jidosha desuka. means Is it a car?

or maybe you want to ask about two things.

examples:

Kore wa borupen desuka. shapu-penshiru desuka. means This is ballpen or mechanical pencil?

easy right?

Then, how to ask, for example; where this computer made in from? It would be like this,

Kore wa konpyuta no doko desuka. means This computer made in from where?
Malaysia no konpyuta desu. means Made in Malaysia.

Another example,

Kore wa jidosha no Proton desu. Proton no Malaysia desu.
means This is a Proton’s car. Proton made in Malaysia.

Wakarimasuka?

Lets have some more.

If you want to ask people where they are from, you can say this to ask them.

Anata no nan jin desuka. means What is your nationality?
Watashi wa Malaysia-jin desu. means I’m Malaysian.

Anata no doko desuka. means Where are you from?
Watashi wa Terengganu-desu. means I’m from Terengganu.
or you can say like this,
Watashi wa Malaysia no Terengganu desu. means, I’m from Terengganu, Malaysia.

Note: “Jin” means nationality. For examples, Singapore-jin means Singaporean.

Wanna learn more? Hmm… Ok, lets continue about numbers from last time.

100 – Hyaku
600 – Robbyaku
800 – Happyaku

Then where is 200, 300 and else? For others number like 200, 300 and others, its simply be like this.

200 – Ni Hyaku ( remember in the last post, 2 is “Ni”)
300 – San Hyaku
400 – Yon Hyaku
700 – Nana Hyaku

Only 100, 600 and 800 got some “special” pronounciation here.

Then, how to say this number in Japanese?

768 ? It’ll pronounce as Nana Hyaku Roku Ju Hacchi.
666 ? Robbyaku Roku Ju Roku.

Wakarimasuka?

Before I end this post. hehe..

Do you know what the meaning of this sentence and how to answer it? Please reply it at the comment section.

Anata no Malaysia-jin desuka? Singapore-jin desuka?

Huhu.. I think its enough for this time. I’ll continue share some more Nihon-go grammar with you all next time in my next MJC post. Ok, till next time. Sayounara, mata ashita.

p/s: Anybody knows how to able me to write Japanese characters in WordPress? I mean the Hiragana and Katakana characters, anyone knows? Please tell me then. Thanks