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Second meeting: Lesson 1, Konnichiwa (こんにちは/ Greeting Expression)

On this meeting, the first thing that we learn is about Japanese writing letter. For our information, Japanese have 3 types of writing character which is Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. For usual writing which the word come from originally Japanese, they will use Hiragana. For Katakana they use for foreign word such as ハンバーガー (hanbaagaa/ hamburger) which the word not originally Japanese or other example such as people name just like me. Faris will be write using katakana instead of hiragana which it writes as ファリス (Farisu). Sensee told us that it is really heart breaking if we use hiragana to write our name. 😅 hehe. Next, is about Japanese grammar. It is just a brief about it grammar such the word arrangement, the connector and capula. Usually, in Japanese language they will start with nouns instead of verb. For example, if we want to say, ‘I am eating a rice’ it will be ‘watashi wa gohan wo tabemasu’ or ‘ わたしはごはんをたべます ’. The word tabemasu which mean eating at the end of sentence....

First meeting: Jikoshoukai (ice-breaking)

This is the first meeting with our Japanese teacher. I’m feeling so excited to learn this language since I really love Japanese culture, technology and so on about Japanese. At the first time, I’m the only one from all my friends from same programme registered this course. It made me a little bit nervous. Due to my interest on learning Japanese, I try to be strong. When I meet the teacher, I’m so relief because she is so nice person but little bit strict on some circumstance such on attendance and submission of the assessment tasks. Her name is Dr Zoraida binti Mustafa and told us to call her Zoraida-sensee. Sensee ( せんせい , read as sensei) means a teacher, doctor, master and so on. There is various meaning can be used for the word sensei, not just for teacher only. Everybody in the class have been asked by sensee why we’re choosing this course and why we want to learn this subject. The reason for me is I’m really attached with Japanese culture, art, technology and so on. I also want...