Fall 2019 semester has just ended, so has my Japanese class. I feel so sad. JPN 202 might be the last Japanese class that I’d be able to take. I was registered for at least 9 units before; that’s why I could take Japanese classes as an audit and my sponsor still allowed it because …
JPN 201: Learning Japanese Further
It’s summer break now. My Japanese class actually ended in the beginning of last May. I mean, I should’ve written about this sooner but my hand was kinda tied. Last semester might have been the toughest semester for me. I had to do comps and I even had to skip my Japanese classes for a …
HelloTalk: Learning a Language through an App
I don’t usually review a product, but I guess sharing is caring, no? And the best way to advertise is to make your users/customers happy, right? And I’m that happy user/customer now. But as usual, I really need to tell the background story, (which you can actually skip through paragraph 4). Long story short, I …
JPN 102: Japanese, the next level
I should’ve written about this sooner since it’s been over since last December. There might have been more I wanted to write back then too but I simply couldn’t make time for that, so I might forget some details especially now that I’m starting to audit JPN 201, the next level. I’m not sure if …
Japanese 101: Final Exams
We were scheduled to have oral exams starting from Friday, April 27, 2018 till Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Everyone was assigned an 8-minute oral exam individually on the assigned day. We didn’t pick the schedule ourselves like we did for the mid-term oral exam. The teachers made sure that we had different schedule from that …
JPN 101: The Last Chapter, the Last Encounter
Hi, I know it’s been long overdue. My Japanese class ended about three weeks ago. There were so many things I wanted to write but things were crazy around the end of the semester. You know, deadlines, papers, and those visa things I should take care of. I just couldn’t make time to write here. …
JPN 101: Chapter 5 is Over
So, well, Chapter 5 is over. We had the test last Thursday. As usual, we had listening, writing, grammar, and reading sections. The listening section was so fast! So really fast I wasn’t sure about what I heard and thus not sure about my answers. I think if I got them right, that’s mostly because …
A Perfect Score!
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 😁 Well, actually I wasn’t really expecting …
New Chapter, New Seat, New Partner: More Inquiries
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 …
Adjectives: Am I Being Jerky?
And, oh, last Thursday and Friday we learned adjectives. One of the things we learned was color in Japanese. So, in Japanese, we add “i” to the color to make it adjective. Thus, black is “kuro(i)”, white is “shiro(i)”, red is “aka(i)”, yellow is “kiiro(i)”, etc. (There are some exceptions where instead of adding “i” …