2011年8月8日

Today we had some new Grammar points:

A のほうがBより(property).　「A is more (property) than B.」

AとBとどっちのほうがやすいですか。

[(class of items)の中で]Aがいちばん (property)。=　A is the most (property)[among (a class of items)].

And 4 new Kanji: 住、正、年、売

2011年8月5日

Friday was an easy day. We did a Kanji review for our Kanji quiz on月曜日 by reading a letter in the text but seemed to be a little less painless to read out loud than some of the other ones which can mean several things. I, for one, am nowhere near a reasonable realm of fluency in Japanese but overall I think this class has given us the foundation to continue forward in a very difficult language so that is pretty cool.

ベッツィー先生　also looked over our rough drafts which we will be presenting on Thursday. I will definitely be making a video for mine then the next day is our final. This is crazy we are already headed into the final week.

2011年8月4日

I missed today along with the grammar point and the last few Kanji for which we have a quiz for on 月曜日.

The new Kanji was:　古、知、来

The grammar point was incorporating ～から into sentences rather than creating separate sentences themselves such as あしたしけんがから、私は今べんきょうします。

2011年8月3日

Today was vocabulary review for unit 9 and new grammmar point(s).

The new grammar was: 

もう。。。＝have done the activity already.

まだ。。。～ていません。＝have not done the activity yet.

There were also some corrections for a grammar point we went over a few days ago for past tense short forms　～かわいかったです。

We also learned 四つあたらしい漢字。。。
間、家、話、少

We also got to go home early today to work on our final projects!!! Yay...

2011年8月2日

ケイチィさんはおさけをのんでいる人です。

サムさんはテリビをみている人です。

メアリーさんはしている人です。

Past Tense Short Form

私はおもしろくだったです。

私はかわいかったです。

私はいじわじゃなかったです。

私はやさいを食べなかったです。

2011年8月1日

Today we had a Kanji quiz which was less than stellar for me, alot less. Tomorrow is another grammar quiz and today we had unit 9 vocabulary and we learned 4 new Kanji. All the material is becoming alot to handle. The grammar we learned today was:

-Short Form, Past Affirmative-

                             Short                             compare with:

Verbs:                 よんだ                         よんで     

い-Adjectives:   かわいかった            かわいい

な-Adjectives:  しずかだった             しずかだ

Noun+です       がくせいだった　　がくせいだ

-Short Form, Past Negative- 

                            Short                     　     compare with:

Verbs:                よまなかった                   よまない

い-Adjectives:  かわいくなかった     　 かわいくない

な-Adjectives:  しずかじゃなかった      しずかじゃない

Noun+です       がくせいじゃなかった がくせいじゃない

Tomorrow is a grammar quiz and we have a rough draft of our final project due 金曜日.