MJC : Final Week Part 2

Salam and hello to all. After 7 weeks, our Japanese Language course finally over. Huhu, and for the last day we had to perform a song and we had performed it the best as we can. All students look so happy and enjoyed the performance from other groups and sensei also look satisfied with what we had performed. And, we’re satisfied too!

So, here is the video of my group, called Ryo Kuyou (りょくよう) which means Green Leaves. Why Green Leaves? According to our group leader, Chua, it is because we’re still young and we had learnt the basic of Nihon-go and we still have a long journey and more to learn. So, we’re still “green” and “young”. Anyway, the idea of the group name is not from me, but from one of our senior in the group, Amalina. Huhu.. IMHO, the name is suit well to our group.

Sorry for bad quality of video. So that’s the video of our performance. Simple, right? As I said before in previous post, we had the simplest performance. Hehe. Anyway, just ignore the part while out of the sudden we stopped singing. I don’t know what happened, maybe the microphone was turned off.

After we had the performances from all the groups, then we had photo session! *smile everyone!*

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MJC : Final Week Part 1

Salam and hello to all. Yosh.. After about 7 weeks, so this week is the last week for our にほんご　のコルス. Haha, did I write correctly? What I tried to write is Nihon-go no Course. Haha.. Sorry if there are any mistakes. Please correct me then.

Finally, after I explored a bit in Microsoft Help for how to change my keyboard layout so that I’ll able to write in Nihon-go without to use any kind of font, now, I able to write my name in にほんご using the ordinary keyboard. For example, my name in にほんご is written like this.

ムハマド　イッザト　ビン　ルスラン。

In roman, it will be Muhamado Izzato Bin Rusuran. I need to write this way so the Microsoft IME will translates what I write correctly. So, if you want to know how to change your keyboard layout so that you can write in Japan language. Here, I provide the steps on how to do this. Its actually simple and only takes a few minutes to do it.

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MJC : Week 5 & 6

Salam and hello all. Haha, another post about MJC and this post is same as previous MJC post, combined 2 weeks of MJC. So what’s going on in these 2 weeks?

Week 5 (20 & 21 May 2008)
Same as the previous week, I learnt more about Nihon-go grammar. I learnt how to tell time in Nihon-go, how to tell days in Nihon-go and others new things. But since this week got Wesak day, so there was no class on Monday hence I only had 2 classes for this week, Tuesday and Wednesday. This week I also learnt some new Kanji characters which are for me, a bit confusing and difficult to remember. Wa..Its more and more difficult compare to remember Hiragana and Katakana characters. Whatever it is, I need to remember it.

Week 6 (26-28 May 2008)
I have been told by my sensei last week that, we had to perform a group performance during the last day of the lecture. So among the students, we’ll be divided into 4 groups which are about 7 peoples in a group. What we had to perform is a song. Wah, its a Japanese song. The title of the song is Kokoro Bana by Warai King. Warai King according to my sensei is a group of king of comedy in Japan. The meaning of the song’s title if I’m not mistaken is Flower Heart (Bunga Hati). Please correct me if I’m wrong, but Kokoro means heart and Bana is flower. Hoho.. Can it be translated like that? But the song is really interesting and I like the song. The song usually sung during farewell day, according to my sensei again. So, we had divided into 4 groups. And guess what my group leader task me to do? The dance part! Wa… No idea. But its not really a dance, but just some basic body gestures that we’ll do during singing the song. Anyway the task was given to two group members, me and another one member. Hopefully, the other one can come out with some ideas. I’m still thinking what to do. LOLS..
Want to listen to the song? Here it is.

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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..

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MJC : Week 2

Hello all, I think its still not too late to share about what I had on my second week of my MJC. Hmm.. Those who don’t know what MJC is all about, you can read my previous post about it here. Okay, so what I had for the second week? Of course something new and interesting, right? Hehe.. Yes, its really interesting. So, I want to share here a little bit, what I had for this week.

As for the first week, I learnt on how to write all those hiragana and katakana. We learnt on how to write, the steps and so on. But for the second week, I already need to memorize all those hiragana and katakana characters as I have quiz for this week. Not one but two and everyday from Monday and Wednesday. OMG! To be honest, my first quiz on Monday was really… err I don’t know what to say. I’m not ready yet for the quiz. I still not remember all those hiragana characters because at first I thought the quiz would be on next day or maybe the next after the next day, but unluckily it was on that Monday! So, what to do? Just main tembak and fortunately I remembered some of the characters, so at least my quiz paper will not just return back in blank. Huhu

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