Sunday, December 25, 2011

teach2000 and vocatrain

I use teach2000 to learn words for languages. It is a free program and you can download lists for it or make them yourself. I am going to add lists for my Japanese coach here :

http://www.vocatrain.com/chapters.php?book=987&chapter=1&part=&year=

btw on vocatrain you can also practice in the same way without downloading or making an account.

http://www.teach2000.org/
this is what teach2000 looks like :


vocatrain :

Friday, December 23, 2011

my japanese coach lesson 16 through 20


It gets more difficult now, the grammar is really complicated. But I have already learned a lot so I’m happy. I can’t imagine how much I know in a few months. It has been a month now since I started learning Japanese.

Lesson 16 – numbers 3 (yay I love numbers they’re easy)

Sixteen=juuroku
Seventeen=juunana
Eighteen=juuhachi
Nineteen=juukyuu
Twenty=nijuu
Thirty=sanjuu
Forty=yonjuu
Fifty=gojuu
Sixty=rokujuu
Seventy=nanajuu
Eighty=hachijuu
Ninety=kyuujuu
Hundred=hyaku
Number=suuji
42=yonyuuni
91=kyuujuuichi
175=hyakushichijuugo
298=nihyakukyuujuuhachi

Lesson 17 – kana 5

Lesson 18 – greetings

How are you?=genki desu ka?
I am fine=genki desu
And you?=anata wa?
Thank you very much=doumo arigatou
You’re welcome=douitashimashite
Good morning=ohayou
Good evening=konban wa
Hey=oi
Excuse me=sumimasen
Sorry=gomen

Lesson 19 – verbs in sentences (argh I don’t understand the grammar)

Will go=ikimasu
Will see=mimasu
Terakami ate sushi=terakamisan wa sushi wo tabemashita
Ueno will read a book=uenosan wa hon wo yomimasu
Eat=taberu
Read=yomu
Meet=au
Write=kaku
Hurry=isogu
Speak=hanasu
See=miru
Go=iku
Do=suru
Come=suru

Lesson 20 – kana 6

Saturday, December 10, 2011

My japanese coach lessons 6 trough 15

The kana lessons are about hiragana and katakana. First you learn the hiragana characters after that the katakana. In my opinion I didn’t learn any kana from it so I searched the internet for more useful options. I think this site is very useful :

Lesson 6 – kana 1
Lesson 7 – months (if you know the numbers till 12 this is really easy)

January=ichigatsu
February=nigatsu
March=sangatsu
April=shigatsu
May=gogatsu
June=rokugatsu
July=shishigatsu
August=hachigatsu
September=kugatsu
October=juugatsu
November=juuichigatsu
December=juunigatsu

Lesson 8 – kana 2
Lesson 9 – pronouns (annoying but good explanation)

Those=sorera
Me (male informal)= boku
Me (female informal)=atashi
You=anata
We=watashitachi
He=kare
She=kanajo
They (mas.)=karera
They (fem.)=kanojotachi
You(plural)=anatatachi

Lesson 10 – kana 3
Lesson 11 – desu (grammar is important but annoying)

Be=desu
Man=otoko no hito
Woman=onna no hito
Child=ko
American=amerikajin
Japanese person=nihonjin
Chair=isu
Car=kuruma
Book=hon
House=ie

Lesson 12 – desu tenses ( in the past and the cat ^^)

Was=deshita
Isn’t=dewa arimasen
Girl=onna no ko
Boy=otoku no ko
Animal=doubutsu
Energetic=genki
Person=hito
English=eigo
Japanese=nihongo
Cat=neko

Lesson 13 – kana 4
Lesson 14 – questions

Where=doko
When=itsu
Why=doushite
Who=dare
What=nani
Bathroom=otearai
Strong=tsujoi
Weak=yowai
Pretty=kirei na
Ugly=minikui

Lesson 15 – numbers 2 (object counters are also easy if you know the numbers)

One object=ikko
Two objects=niko
Three objects=sanko
Four objects=yonko
Five objects=goko
Six objects=rokko
Seven objects=nanako
Eight objects=hachiko
Nine objects=kyuuko
Ten objects=jukko

Another week, another chance

It’s 2 weeks later and I have already learned a lot. Not that’s it’s useful at the moment but you have to start somewhere. My first goal is to play space invaders in Japanese (you don’t need to know a lot of Japanese to play that XD )
Did a lot the last 2 weeks :
I did the test of mind your Japanese, which was crap again.
And I did 12 lessons of my Japanese coach.
Oh and the game says that I know 182 words now (but some of them are hiragana characters)