Monday, May 13, 2013

First homework assignment

Last night I finished my first homework assignment, and actually today I’m almost finished with my homework until Sunday!
昨日最初宿題ができた!日曜日の宿題も今すぐ終わり!

The first assignment was to make a timeline of L2 learning (for me Japanese). Many of the events are recent and while I've been in Japan. Here are a few of them.
最初のは日本語を習うのタイムラインを作る。たくさんイベントは日本でした。この後少ないのある。

Leaving for the JET program, with not nearly as much Japanese as I would actually want to have.
JET Programのため日本へ引っ越した。その時日本語あまりできなかった。自己紹介だけぐらい。

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The garbage poster. Figuring out how to sort my garbage was a difficult thing.
ごみは難しかったけど、必要。

Garbage 01

Riding the train. I was so worried about getting lost that I used wikipedia to look up all the city kanji and put them in my phone’s ‘notes.’ 
電車を乗る。最初時にウィキペディアで全部市の漢字が探した。携帯に漢字を入れた。

09-23 Sapporo 6

Coming back my first year and realizing how much my Japanese abilities had grown (my first ski lessons were my first weekend back).
最初の冬休みの後の方が来る時より日本語できた。そして、最初スキー教室した。

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Joining choir. I could barely keep up when I first got here, and even though I’m still far from perfect, I have a lot of fun singing with these ladies.
合唱。最初にあまりできなかった。今も完璧じゃないけど、とても楽しい!

2010-09-17 Choir 1

Going to see the lavender fields and telling people we were doing ‘hanami,’ which means ‘flower viewing’ but it’s specific to cherry blossoms.
最初の夏に友達とラベンダー場へ行った。先生と話に「今週末花見するつもり」と言った。理由は花と見があるから、花を見る時に花見でしょうと思った。違った。桜だけは花見。

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My car accident. It was a major pain, BUT I was able to explain what happened in Japanese! 
Thankfully God provided and I didn't have to try to explain to my supervisor – a family in town showed up and took care of me.
車の事故。ててもめんどくさい。でも、警察に説明ができた!キリストは与えた。町から家族が来た、私が手伝った。

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Moving on up to intermediate level textbooks!
中級の教科書がはじめた。

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Learning the word for snow plow and finally being able to use it. I have no snow plow pictures that I could find, so the dump truck of snow was the best picture – dump trucks of snow were completely unfathomable when I lived in the Portland area.
除雪車の言葉が習った。その写真がない。でも、日本来るの前にこのぐらい雪は考えなかった。

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Finishing two novels – Alice in Wonderland and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
日本語で2つ小説が読んだ!

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And, best of all, making Japanese friends and being able to talk to them!
1番楽しいことは日本の友達と話している!

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