Stories, experiences, and feelings in this journey of life.
I finally got a perfect score in my chapter test! As you can see in the pic (and maybe from my previous stories), in the previous three chapters, I always got my scores reduced. But this time, in Chapter 4 Test, it was perfect! I am so happy š Well, actually I wasn’t really expecting…
Hi, it’s been a while, but here are some updates. Now we are beginning to learn Chapter 5. It means I’ve got a new partner and a new seat. But this time the change is a bit different. We still got to pick up the numbered stick as usual, but this time we can pick…
And, oh, last Thursday and Friday we learned adjectives. One of the things we learned was color in Japanese. So, in Japanese, we add āiā to the color to make it adjective. Thus, black is ākuro(i)ā, white is āshiro(i)ā, red is āaka(i)ā, yellow is ākiiro(i)ā, etc. (There are some exceptions where instead of adding āiā…
As you might have guessed, now that weāre done with Chapter 3 and had the chapter test, we I come to be assigned a new seat and, thus, a new partner for Chapter 4. So, on Thursday after the midterm oral test, I got to pick the stick with the number. Gosh, I got number…
Yesterday was the last day of classes before Spring Break. Weāre going to start Spring Break earlier this year: March 5-9, 2018. This is a bit unusual because usually Spring Break is much later in the semester, probably around the end of March or beginning of April, but this year the break is adjusted to…
Okay, so, Chapter 3 has ended. We just had the test today. There have been two things that happened for the first time. First, last Thursday, for the first time ever, Sensei A was late. As usual, I had never arrived too early in the class. I would usually arrive 5 minutes or less before…
A quick update: we have finished Chapter 2 about Katakana. Alas, Iām sure I wonāt get 100 this time. Thatās because there were some questions whose answers I didnāt know. As usual, we had listening part, vocabulary, structure, and reading. Iām okay with listening and vocabulary, especially because the teachers told us the list of…
Here are some other points that I observe from my auditing Japanese 101. Learning the fifth language So Iām learning Japanese as my fifth language. I learn this not via Bahasa Indonesia or my other first languages, but via English, my fourth language. (English can be considered my second/third language though, since I acquire my…
Ok, first, you might want to know how I did in Chapter 1 test. Boom, no, I didnāt get 100% point ā¹ My points were deducted .25 because I did not write hiragana for ākiā ācorrectlyā (or maybe the way the teachers wanted me to). You can see the pic. *sigh They look similar, donāt…
Did you wonder what I got for my second quiz? Well, I actually got 100 for my second quiz, where I wrote āMunā instead of āMonā. Haha I was so happy but it was for a bit because the teacher quickly made a revision and changed it to 90 šššš I knew because every time…