Torrents for learning Japanese

Yesterday the semester finished and we started this short vacation which is just about two weeks, I don't have a specific plans for what to do during these days, maybe I have to improve my Japanese more & more because recently I was very slow in "receiving" new nihongo words or grammar.

Not long ago, I found two torrents files for learning Japanese, even though I haven't download them yet but they look very interesting, the files are about 6 GB !! yes they are big files & they need time to download specially with the very slow internet we have, but of course there's no need to fully download them; we can choose what we need then download, these files contains many books & guides as pdf files, flash files, pictures, audio files (including subliminal audio files) & maybe video files (I'm not sure about the videos ^^;) for learning kana, kanji, words, grammar, speaking & many things.

The first torrent : Learn Japanese (6 GB)

Includes : art of writing Japanese, Japanese for busy people, Japanese is possible, lonely planet Japanese phrase book, read Japanese today, remembering the Kanji by names, guide to passing to JLPT, MLC original study materials (Beginners level, low-intermediate level, high-intermediate level), Japanese basic (I & II), let's learn Japanese Basic, how to learn any language quickly; easily; inexpensively; enjoyably & on your own, Pimsleur Japanese (I, II & III) , Subliminal Japanese (1 & 2).

The second torrent : Pimsleur Japanese I, II & III (1.8 GB)

It contains the same 1.8 GB of Pimsleur Japanese (I, II & III) in the previous torrent; so just download them once from one of these torrents; but it also includes some other files about Japanese which is just about 30 MB :

Includes : Pimsleur Japanese (I, II & III), common Kanji by grades, guides for drawing kanji, Japanese for busy people, Japanese phrasebook, tips for learning.

I'm downloading now some files from both torrents, and I hope everybody will make full use of them too ^^

Good luck in learning Japanese.. 頑張ってください皆さん　＾＾
　

Nihongo lecture in the Nature !

Today's Nihongo lecture was special .. we didn't take it in a class ; we took it over the grass ^^


Since a week; CSDC started their maintenance works (varnishing the walls , rearranging things don't need to be rearranged , .. etc) .. and because of that we had to find another place to give Nihongo lessons at ; so we were going to an empty class room and starting writing Nihongo with chalks :p

The problem is that they have to close those class rooms early (usually before 3:00 PM) ; knowing that we start our lecture at 2:15 Pm , we hadn't enough time to take a real informative lecture , so firstly I changed the number of lectures from 2 lectures (MON-WED) to 3 lectures (SUN-TUE-THU) , and today I had to change even the place to keep giving the class ^^;

In our preferred room at CSDC

After getting out of the class room ; we searched hopelessly for another opened one but we didn't find any , I looked to the greenish G-square in front of CSDC then said "guys.. I'll give you the lecture here .. on the grass (3al7asheesh)" :p

We stayed for 3:30 PM talking about "to issho ni" & "te-form + imasu" , even though I taught them these rules at the last semester but I felt they need to review them again , it was a nice lecture today .. sitting in the shadow of trees .. enjoying the scenery of green grass and waving our hands right & left to get the damn flies off our faces :p
For me .. this was the first time to sit on the grass in my whole university life :p
　

夏の日本語クラス - Nihongo Class for Summer

Yesterday we started Nihongo lessons for this summer semester , after thinking .. I'll not give this time a class for beginners because this semester is very short and there's no much time to teach them a good material ; and I don't want students to learn a huge amount of information in one month .. that's why I'll just continue teaching more Nihnogo grammar for the previous semester's students .

Previous semester's announcement for Nihongo lessons

This week lessons will be a review for the material we had taken last semester , and next week we will start learning more useful information in sha' ALLAH , and I'll not start by teaching normal lessons .. no, we agreed to give them an ENTRANCE EXAM in Nihongo to see how much they had learned from the previous semester's lessons .. I hope the average will be good and not like our averages in university exams ^^;

By the way .. I just remembered something funny happened with us last semester ; when I was teaching the students the Numbers in Nihongo I said that number 10 is (juu) then talked about the bigger numbers like 53 for example how its reading will be (go juu san = 5, 10, 3) .. and when I wanted to say "number 100 is ..." ; one of the students interrupted me & said immediately : "yea, it should be (juu juu)" :p
　

Summer Semester .. あつい夏だよ～

In this week the summer semester started .. not too many materials I have but still hate this semester too much , I don't mean this specific semester .. no , I hate summer at all .. I hate this weather .. I hate warm days .. I hate humidity .... I always prefer cold weather - even if it sometimes causes "sharsha7a & bahdaleh" :p - but it's still better than feeling like hating my clothes & even my own skin (@_@")


And now .. using 4 buses to go & return from university every day proves this more and more .. I just can ask ALLAH to help us pass this semester fine ^^

==> Question for My students : can you still spell "atatakai" ? :p
　

The last Nihongo lesson !

On Wednesday I gave the last Nihongo lesson for this semester .. a very special lesson (^_')b
We stayed more than 2 hours { from 2:15 till 4:30 (o_O) } , to be the longest nihongo lesson I ever taught ; hontouni at the end nodo ga kawakimashita ^^;

At the previous lecture we started with the sentences sheet ; reaching sentence no. 38 , then we continued in this last lesson the 107 sentences of the sheet .
I wanted to teach them at first some rules like ( because , I want to , .. ) & some particles like ( ni , de , e , .. ) then getting in this interesting sheet as a review for what we had taken ; but there was no time for such plans because it's the end of the semester & we all need to study for final exams , that's why I taught the students these grammar rules while reading the sentences , and that's why we agreed to continue this class at summer semester in sha' ALLAH (^_')b

In this special lesson we had a lot of fun .. we talked about many things .. nihongo , Meitantei Conan , buying apples in Japan (^_') , using hashi , and I can't forget the most important thing in this lecture which is the "tashyeer" that Muhammad san was making while reading sentences .. in fact everything he said was right ; I believe that he has the gift of (tashyeer)ing :p .. really .. we enjoyed this lesson the most ^_^

من اليمين : رامي سان ، محمد سان ، أنا ^^ ، رازي سان ، يزن سان ، أحمد سان

:p سؤال الأسبوع : اكتشف عشرة فروقات بين الصورتين

My Friends .. Ahmad abu Radi san , Muhammad Saleh san , Abdullah san , Rami san , Ahmad Al-Bassuoni san , Razi san , Iman chan , Deema chan , Nader san & everyone attended Nihongo lessons ( even if it was just one lecture ) .. I appreciate your support and your love for Japanese language , and I'm very glad to know you , see you in summer in sha' ALLAH ^^
　　
　

Japanese lessons are back

Finally .. we continued yesterday our Nihongo* Classes after a long break lasted for two weeks because of exams .

* Nihongo = Japanese language , please memorize this word at least because I'll use it frequently .

In this nihongo lectures I talked about the basics of Japanese language , starting with a simple description about writing systems ( hiragana, katakana, romaji, kanji ) , then - of course - started with hiragana letters ; how to write them ; their pronounciation ; thier combinations and some words about every letter .

Next , learning some common words like ( konnichi wa , ohayou , gomen , mata ne , douzo , .. ) , and other words like ( ima , hito , tomodachi , daigaku , .. ) .
I also gave them demonstrative pronouns ( kono , sono , ano , kore , sore , are ) , how to use ( の no ) for possession , weekdays and colours .

After that we moved to the sentences , how to make a simple sentence using ( は wa ) , how to use nouns , adjectives or combinations of "adj.+noun" or "nounのnoun" , how to make these sentences in past , negative or negative past .. and how to make questions .

Then I talked about using verbs in sentences ( masu-form ) , how to make them in past , negative or negative past , how to add an object ( مفعول به ) to the sentence and how to make questions from verb-sentences .

Yesterday we talked a little about ( dare , doko , koko , itsu , nande , .. ) , then we talked about numbers ( the students liked them very much ^^ ) and how to read them starting from 1 reaching more than 億 ( oku = 10^8 ) .

To read the nihongo lessons we had learned : Nihongo Lessons
To install the sheets we are learning : Sheets

a pic for the first Nihongo lecture

Well , I think we still can take 3 or 4 more lectures before the final exams , I'm intending to teach them the sentences sheet that our sensei Kanji chan made because it has many useful various sentences ^^
　　

Two exams in one day !!!

Finally .. My second exams ended but with "Mu3anaah" ^^;

Today I had two exams , the first was at 8:30-9:30 AM in "Al-6ebbeyya" M4202 , and the other exam at 10:00-11:00 AM in "AL-handaseyya" E2008 !!! on the extremities of the Uni. (T_T)

I went to the Uni. without eating breakfast to find restaurants there didn't open yet even it was 8:10 AM !! I was very hungry but Thanks ALLAH I found them making some "Mu3ajjanaat" .. "yalla A7san men wala shi" , and even the buses were not exist at this early time ( basu wa arimasen ) .. so I had to enjoy walking between "handaseyya" & "6ebbeyya" ^^

The good news that I finished my 1st exam in less than 15 minutes , but the bad news that the 2nd exam needed 3 or 4 hours to finish solving its mazes ~ .. I mean "matricies" ^^;

I know such things happen usually in our Uni. , and the laws allow to have 3 exams in one day !!! but I think this is unfair , even if I studied the material many times before ; study before exams still important .. how can I have any time to study for two exams together knowing that I had another exam 2 days ago ?!!

DON'T YOU THINK THAT THIS IS UNFAIR ?