3 posts tagged “japanese”

sigh... we feel that our japanese class is covering too much things in each lesson!

I heard from a friend who is learning at ikoma that they don't teach so fast there?

2 lessons down...3rd lesson coming up in a few more hours:

hiragana - covered 51 characters!!
あいうえお
かきくえこ
さしすせそ
たちｔずてと
なにぬねの
はひふへほ
まみむめも
やゆよ
わをん
がぎぐげご
ざじずぜぞ

verbs
iku - to go, kuru - to come, suru - to do

and also, hours and minutes, numbers, some vocabulary, grammer points....

argh~~~ is this the normal load/progress?!?!

I'll start by saying that I burnt the pack of corn soup that I bought from muji while following the instructions to heat it in the microwave oven!

anyone tried the packet soups from muji before? it is strange that the instructions didn't say to add water to the powdered soup...but nevertheless, I trusted the instructions and well, burnt it. :( luckily it didn't catch fire or anything~

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realised that I have not blogged since almost 1 month. so you know, there's nothing very exciting going on in my busy life...

I finally signed up for inline skating lessons after thinking and talking about them for ages. I am on the 1 month unlimited package from Skateline and so far, I have attended 4 lessons at Bishan Park over the weekends. It's tiring to travel 1.5h to the park and attend the 1h lesson. and it's like the more lessons you go, the better value it is so I'm aiming to go for 2 lessons a week.

I am rather amazed at myself for my Sat schedule - If I'm going for the 8:30am lesson, I wake up and leave home at about 7:15am (even earlier than going to work!), take a bus to JE station followed by train to AMK and bus to Bishan Park; after the lesson ends at about 9:45am, I get home at about 11:15am, shower and rest a bit then leave at 1:15pm for my French class.

actually it is more efficient to go directly for my class after skating but it means I have to bring a change of clothes and try to shower at the washroom at the park. moreover, it's tiring to lug the skates around.

anyway, I just want to learn the proper skating technique to skate more efficiently and probably won't continue the lessons past the 1 month plan. however, so far, the only useful point I learnt is how to heel brake correctly and I'm still not good at that.

oh, let me rant!!! there was 1 lesson where a instructor failed me at the lesson (i.e. have to re-take that lesson!) and it was a simple lesson of skating/moving...whatyoucallit..argh. I was so angry because I think I was FINE and he made me waste 1 lesson to re-take when I can move on. after I skated for his evaluation, another lady in the class said I'd pass for sure and he failed me citing poor balance! and the next day I went to retake that lesson, the instructor said I'm already very good at skating, no problem and I lamented to him that yesterday the other instructor failed me! GRRR~~! luckily, this instructor taught me a bit more in preparation for the next lesson so I felt I got a bit more value out of it.

now, whenever I go for lesson, I hope and hope I don't get that particular instructor - I don't like his attitude. when the lesson just started that day and he was starting to talk to us, a parent crossed his path and he gave him a look and let out an exasperated/irritated sigh kinda sound...if you can imagine..I don't like this type of people!! I think the parent was wrong to do that but he can speak to the parent instead of expressing his irritation in this manner!

Next lesson is on A-frame turn but it doesn't seem like a very useful skill.. :S

I need skating kakis!

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we went for our 1st japanese lesson last week and there's so many things to learn. I keep trying to recall how I learnt chinese previously. I think japanese is more difficult than french in the aspect that the characters don't make any sense whereas some french words can be easily deduced. however, grammar in japanese is simpler. let's see how it goes. argh, the 3h lesson only has a 10min break - I had thought there'd be some time to get food in the middle of the lesson. so now, I must eat something in office before going for class or my tummy will start growling again..oops~

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did I mention that I had thought of going US for a holiday? anyway, the plan is scrapped because it is so expensive - airfare and accomodation are killers. so, I decided to bring my parents to Taiwan for a holiday instead~~ yay, I love Taiwan!!

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I'm glad the weather has cooled down a bit in the past month. at least, now I don't reach office/home in perspiration. august should be a busy month for work... 加油！

we are going to start learning Japanese at Bunka in July! pretty excited about learning a new language, hope I don't drop out of the course too soon, haha.

I wonder how difficult it is - some say it's easy yet some say it's difficult. anyway, I'm sure Japanese is more useful than French in Singapore so perhaps I can actually use it in future jobs etc.