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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

First Japanese Class

Here it is...I decided to join japanese class this afternoon. The class is held every wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m-2.30 p.m at Kita Kominkan (Community Centre) which is near my apart.
Yeach, considering I stay alone at here, nobody doesn't speak English and
i cannot read and speak Japanese..those force me to learn this language in order to survive!! At least I can read hiragana or katakana, and speak a little bit Japanese example for asking something, ordering food.
Yep, I remember when I was at Thailand, first time I came there, cannot speak Thai at all. Then, I got Thai friends, had group discussion, parties..so I learned a little bit Thai lang. AT least to survive!! Order food...!! that's important man, if you eat in the cafetaria or food court in the mall, that's fine no problem, they have English menu or we can point our finger to which you want to eat. BUt...if you're out somewhere...!! speak Thai to order food...but Thai people are very friendly, nice. Ya, when we worked at Sriracha a city near Pattaya, we always eat at open resto..(i don't how to call it: it's like "kaki lima pinggir jalan"), the woman who cooks the food can speak English a little bit, and she also taught us the name of Thai foods. Hiihhihihi...And about bargain at shopping market..yeah a little bit also..at least to reduce the price, but when they say something bla..bla...ok forget it..hehehehe.
But, yesterday..I had a little bit difficulty on how to carry my stroller with my baby inside to the 2nd floor...huaaa...And other, I was worry how about if Kiyo's crying while I study?....
Fortunately, there were one guy who helped me to carry the stroller and Kiyo inside hehehe, actually we cannot bring the stroller inside the rooms, because they use "tatami" but that's only for the 1st floor.
The lesson was starting with what is this, who is this...hehehe learned about some vocabularies and how to ask "do you like this and that....?" Yesterday was only one hour, after that we have small demonstration how to use "kimono". In Japan, my teacher said there are two kind of kimono wore at winter and summer. If summer, we call it "yukata".
Oh yah, because I'm still beginner in Japanese lang, I was taught privately hehhehe. The others have one group consists Chinnese people. Yes because I think they have similarity in Kanji characteristic. So they learn from that.
And..yeah I also met one Phillipino, waa lastly I met somebody who can speak English in that class beside my teacher. She offered me to copy her book about learning Japanese lang. I said oke..and she promised to bring it next wednesday. Hmmm......Yeah the Chinese people don't speak English, and I can;t speak their languange, even I;m chinese but..poor. I ever learned Chinese lang one semester when I was at AIT butz useless never speak and never use it anymore.
After class...how to carry again the stroller ?? I'm not enough strong to walk down the stairs and carry Kiyo plus his stroller . I'm not my hubby..hhehehe who is very strong to carry them together. Then, I only carried Kiyo and fortunately one of the Chinese people helped me to carry the stroller..oh thanks friend.
Ahhhh...finally learning other language again!!! Actually I'm very lazy to do it, especially learn about Hiragana and KAtakana huaaaaaaah. Butz my hubby always forces me to learn and learn. It's important thing you stay at here.
Huhhh I wish I could..............baby...I don't have talent to learn multi languages...hix. My English is also worst--low quality. Now,learn other lang again!!

3 comments:

a2pl3 said...

Hehehehe...

Am also learning another language ... Chinese... :d The first and foremost reason is so that I can survive in Singapore later on, but then I also know that being a Chinese descendant and cannot speak a word in Chinese, have the tendency to somehow encourage people to sneer at me.

:D Learning langunages can be fun ... :D And some more, it is gonna be to your advantage ... True your hubby is the one who may force you, but you are the one who will reap your rewards later on. :) Yeah... it may be hard at first, but... try to enjoy it! :D IT is fun! :D

I used to learn Japanese, but coz I learnt it for the wrong reason, I didn't enjoy it. :) To me, Chinese is better than Japanese, but ... who knows ... that opinion may change later on ... :P Coz I might learn Japanese to watch anime... :P Hehehehehe...

Hehehehe... oh btw, 'makanan yang dipinggir jalan' ... that's called 'hawker' in English. ;) I also learnt it not long ago ... :D I learnt it from Terrence since his English is way way better than mine. :D

All in all, good luck! :D Enjoy it! :D

Benny Suryanto said...

Thanks for the comments, ah it sounds you'll move to s'pore. I love too.

oya hawker..biasanya tuh tukang jual es campina keliling itu jg nyebutnya hawker tuh?..apa ada kesamaan?

imoet said...

Emang kalo tinggal dinegara lain paling gak butuh tau bahasa biar bisa survuve. Setidaknya bisa dapat harga memuaskan kalo pas tawar menawar hohohoho :p

Aku sendiri ya suka bahasa, tapi sekarang jadinya gak bsia mendalami 1 bahasa terterntu. Jadinya tau dikit2 semua. Inggris, belanda, jepang, korea. Entah abis ini apa lagi. Tergantung suami dikirim kemana lagi ama perusahaan hehehe