Conversational Japanese; Wednesday, Fourth Period [01/10].

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It was a very good thing that Yukari's class was in the latter part of the day, because she had pretty much spent the last few days since arriving on this island getting herself set up in her new apartment, which also meant setting up her gaming systems, which then also meant wasting almost all her time playing video games well into the night while drinking a bunch of American beers that she had to try, which meant that she barely woke up in time and only realized she needed to be in class a few hours before it, when she blearily asked herself the million dollar questions, "What time is it? What day is it??"

Which was fine! She'd taught on way less than that before! And while teaching adults and peers was considerably more intimidating than teaching a bunch of high schoolers that she could easily lord over in her superiority, the fact that she only had to teach one class a week was pretty freaking sweet, if you asked her! No more of this every day at hours no one should be awake at for her! She could really get used to this whole college professor thing!

So, as it was, despite only remembering about her class a few mere hours ago, she was bright-eyed and eager to get started when class time actually came.

"Konnichiwa!" she started brightly. "O-genki desu ka! E yōkoso Kaiwa-tekina nihongo! Namae wa Yukari-sensei desu! And if you understood all of that, congratulations! You're already on the right foot to a great semester!

"Either that," she continued brightly, "or you're a ringer and already know the language and are just taking this class to show off! But, either way, welcome, everyone, to Conversational Japanese. My name is Yukari Tanizaki, and I will be your instructor for the semester! In this class, we will be learning some of the most basic elements of Conversational Japanese to hopefully allow you to speak the language comfortably enough to hold a conversation! And since this is the first class, it makes sense to start with the very basics: greetings and how to introduce yourself, as well as how to address others, because in Japan, it is often proper to use honorifics to address other people. For example, I am your teacher, and so you could call me -sensei. You are my students, and if we were still in high school, I might call you -chan or -kun, but since we are all, presumably, adults here, it would be more appropriate to use -san, as that is more honorable and dignified."

So keep that in mind if she ever did call you one of those first honorifics!

"But I'm getting ahead of myself. I am going to pass out a list of phrases and pronunciations for you and we're going to go over each one, and then I would like you to be able to construct and introduction that is the equivalent of Appropriate Greeting, My name is.... and then followed by some little interesting thing to know about yourself. That doesn't have to be in Japanese. Again, because this is a beginner's class, and if you're coming at at me with Konnichiwa, namae wa BILL desu! Piza o taberu no ga suki!, you're probably just here to show off and screw up the grading curve!"

And possibly make her look bad!

Which she didn't need! She was going to do just fine with that all her own!

"Now, then, let's get started with the very first word on the sheet...."