http://konoha-flash.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] konoha-flash.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2007-09-04 09:25 pm
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Basic Japanese - Week 1 - Wednesday Sept 5th 3rd period

“Hello everyone,” Yondaime smiled from the front of the class. “Welcome to Beginning Japanese. We’ve got a lot to cover in the fifteen weeks that we have together so I apologize for jumping right into it.” He paused to hand out a large packet to everyone, moving with lightening speed through the room before continuing.

“We’re going to be doing introductions, but they’re going to be in Japanese,” he smiled and flashed back and forth from the back of the room to the front as he spoke. “In your packets are common greetings, words, numbers, phrases you’re going to hear me say a lot and the chart of hiragana which are the basic Japanese alphabet. I don’t expect you all to know these by heart for the next class, the packets that I’m giving out can be used as notes on the final with the exception of the hiragana chart.”

“First of all, there are a few ways you can address me. Just sensei is the most common way, since I’m the only teacher in the class room, but if you wanted to be more specific you could call me Yondaime-sensei or even Uzumaki-sensei. Calling me by my first name or even my last name with no suffixes added onto it is considered the height of rudeness and if we were in Japan or even back in my home you’d get detention for it,” He smirked and paused by the desk. “But not here. So greetings and introducing yourself! Since this class is before noon, when you all come in I would greet you with ‘Ohaiyo gozaimasu’ which of course means ‘Good Morning’ and I would hope that you each would respond back with the same.” Yondaime went to the chalkboard and wrote out the word in normal alphabet and hiragana. “Today, I’m going to break you up into pairs so you can work on introducing yourselves to each other, then we’re going to go over asking what something is in Japanese and then just a brief run through of numbers since they’re really simple.” Yeah, except to him all of this was really simple.

Riiiiiight.

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Re: Introductions

[identity profile] abhorsentobe.livejournal.com 2007-09-05 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sabriel," Sabriel replied confidently. She paused and scanned the paper for something else to say. As far as conversations went, this wasn't the smoothest she'd had. "Douzo yoroshiku."

Re: Introductions

[identity profile] ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com 2007-09-05 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as conversation went, this was the only one Adah had had since Atlanta. Her head ducked, a small smile on her face as Sabriel introduced herself. Why, Adah, however did you know? I can read minds; just call me River.

"Arigatou," Adah's head bobbed a little with barely a glance down toward the vocabulary. "Douzo yoroshiku..." It trailed off a little, and Adah frowned, nose wrinkling. It felt so...incomplete without a 'too,' an 'also,' an 'as well,' but a quick riffling through the papers showed that there was no qualifier like that for them to use at this point. It bothered her, leaving it feeling so incomplete.

Re: Introductions

[identity profile] abhorsentobe.livejournal.com 2007-09-05 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a long pause before Sabriel finally said, "I don't know what else to say."

Re: Introductions

[identity profile] ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com 2007-09-05 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hearing that was really a relief for Adah. She smiled a little, lifting her shoulder in a shrug, her expression suggesting that, well, if that is the case, then why say anything more?