~ those days when i learnt... ~

my 1st entry for 2013 is about Korean (to b exact, Korean songs that i listen to). this 2nd entry is gonna be about Japanese language (to b exact, what i learnt at school).

 

i learnt Japanese language for 4 years at school. we had to choose from Japanese, French and Arabic, and i chose Japanese. for 4 years, i was taught d basic skills of learning a foreign language - read, write, listen and speak. and while i was doing spring cleaning for my room recently, i found this...

 

 ~ my Japanese language text book for 4 years ~

 

i had Japanese teachers from Form 1 to 3, and a Malay teacher when i was in Form 4. speaking from experience, if u wanna learn a forein language, it's better if u learn from their people. lbh berkesan. & since we had to learn 3 different Japanese characters/alphabets/letters (smthing alien to me at first time), i think that it was good that the curriculum requires Japanese teachers to teach us the language.

 

 ~ Hiragana for Form 1 ~

 

we were drilled to remember each alphabet/character so that we can read and write in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Hiragana for Form 1, Katakana for Form 2, Kanji for Form 3. to make it more effective for us to remember all the alphabets, we had dictation. yeah, those exercises where our Japanese teachers showed the flashcards of d words we learnt from d previous class and we had to write it down. jgn igt msa tadika je guna flashcards okay =) 

 

~ i can still read these. thank u, teachers ~

 

to make d class more interesting, once a while we were allowed to watch Japanese videos. most of the times we requested for videos from SMAP, d group where Takuya Kimura (or Kimu-Taku) was one of the members =) sometimes we watched short drama, without d subtitles. had no choice but to listen to whatever being said by d actors & actresses in order to understand d drama. this in a way trained our listening skill. asal tgk videoclip je suka, tp bila tgk drama rs nk nanges, hahahahaha. another method that makes d class more interesting would b d sing-a-song session, including this world-famous song...

 

~ "it's a small world afterall (3X)...it's a small, small world" in Japanese language ~

 

just to test whether i can still recall simple words in Japanese, i tried a game from Kids Web Japan. i tested the Hiragana Picture Matching Game, where u hv to match the word with the picture shown. and the word is of course written in Hiragana.

 

 

and my score? perfect =)

 

 

.Japanese and Chinese have d same characters for numbers.