4 posts tagged “japanese”
i'm so happy i finally figured out how to get Japanese characters to show up (since I don't have a bilingual keyboard or anything) . I hope they're showing up?
Today I heard the best news about Ikuta-san and his new drama. I'm familiar with Honey & Clover and I think he'll be so good in the part of Takemoto. I'm really looking forward to seeing him be more quiet & serious. I hope they cover parts of both series of the anime because its in the 2nd one that Takemoto really gets to grow as a person I think. And I'm also looking very much forward to see who they cast as Morita.
I made some Ikuta-san backgrounds the other day and thought I'd share with everyone. I love that he's getting popular & getting covered in magazines where they take nice big photos, ^_^ Anyway, I have my monitor set really high resolution, so these are for big wide screens (1680x1050) but would probably look ok smaller & with a little cropping if thats what you need. Feel free to change them around for yourself. Dark & Mysterious Ikuta & Bright & Beachy Ikuta. I'll be making some more when I get some time. I have sources for some really nice ones.
i really don't post often enough. stuff goes on, i just don't think that much to write about it. what happened recently i thought i'd write about and maybe my neighbors can give some feedback.
i've been studying Japanese for awhile now, not as intensely as i'd like (work, life, etc. getting in the way) but I know some stuff, and and I think I can handle a very basic conversation, and apologize my way out of whatever I don't understand. so the other day i'm in the mall, and theres this store there that has asian-y stuff, kind of a jumble. want to buy a stone dragon, a porcelain doll, some brass bells & a katana? this is your store. and the couple that runs it, i don't know in which nation they originated. this story's getting long....
anyway, the elderly man that was running the place became my first conversation in japanese. and at first i thought i did pretty well but the more i thought about it, the worse i started sounding. he was surprised i knew the word "bento" so i said i knew about Japanese stuff, and could speak a little. "sukoshi wakarimasu ne" he said, and i said "so desu ne". and then when i left he said "domo arigato gozaimasu" and i said "domo arigato." not much of a conversation i know. and i just want to die of embarassment. i DEFINITELY should have used the gozaimasu and i have no idea why i didn't, especially with him being older and a stranger. i'm an idiot. i also think i should have been a little bit forward and asked something like "anata wa Nihonjin desu ka?" and i didn't do that either. again: idiot. feeling stupid is one of the very worst things to me, and i just feel like the big dumb american who sucks at everything.
so my question to you is (if you read all of that boring rambling) how did you first conversation go, and can i overcome the shame of completely messing up my first one?
nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu.
i've been listening to these "learn japanese" CD's i got, on the way home from work. so far so good. i can understand and repeat some simple sentences about understanding english or japanese. Eigo ga, wakarimasu. happy to be learning.
mostly, all i've been doing lately is work, playing the Sims again (i missed it so!) and waiting for the finale of Hana Yori Dango.
Its springtime here! i'm going to be taking some photos of flowers and things later in the week, i'll put some pictures up then.
lookit what i got. fast, so fast. so blue. so so nice.
yeah, i ordered all the parts a month or so ago and my boss actually put it together (ok, he chose the parts too). he was totally having fun with it, and excited to put it together. nerd.
i don't know the first thing about building my own computer. but i'm happy i know people who do. :)
its got the biggest freaking hard drive ever--all the more room for doramas and music, ne?
also i'm beggining a HUGE project in the next few weeks, i'm going to start studying Japanese for real. i'd like to be fluent and that means studing reading/writing too. i know a few words, and i recognize a few hiragana, but thats about it. i'd like to dive in, and once my books get here, i will. i have such a multi platform plan, books, audio, video, computer. it'll take years i know but it will be interesting!
