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…

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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…

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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…

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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”…

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