Japanese + Burger King

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

زمنٌ طويل .. أليس كذلك ؟ آآآه من المشاغل ، لا لست أعني مادة (المشاغل الهندسية) ؛ بل مشاغل الحياة .. دراسة .. عمل .. أهل .. ظروف .. كنتُ في البداية أخشى أن يمر شهر قبل أن أكتب موضوعاً جديداً - كما قد صارت عادتي مؤخراً - والآن مرت شهور عدة وصرتُ أخشى أن لا أكتب هنا مرة أخرى .. لكن لا عليكم .. قد عدتُ لكم الآن بهدية صغيرة لعلكم تسامحونني على غيابي الطويل . ا

هذا المقطع الصوتي هو اتصال من الكاميرا الخفية بمطعم (برغر كينغ) في لبنان ، المتصل يتظاهر أنه شخص ياباني ويحاول أن يطلب وجبة ، طبعاً هناك الكثير من الأخطاء اللغوية ولكن المقلب مضحك للغاية .. على الأقل لمن يدرس اليابانية ويفهم ما جرى من محاولات لاستخدام بعض الكلمات اليابانية هنا . ا

المقطع حجمه حوالي 2 ميغا فقط .. تفضلوا : ا

  .

http://www.mediafire.com/?mwwydgvd02z

----------------------------------

لعل ذلك المطعم يحتاج الآن مترجماً لليابانية ، من يريد التطوع للعمل هناك ؟

 سؤال : من منكم يستطيع أن يكتب اسم المتصل الياباني كاملاً ؟

دمتم بخير .. مع تحياتي ^^ ا

والسلام عليكم

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 lectures in Leaders Cultural Center

konnichi wa mina san ^^
I know this topic was supposed to be about one of the Animes I like; but I'll keep this to the next post in sha' ALLAH, now I have an interesting news to tell you :

Recently, Leaders Cultural Center (مركز القادة الثقافي) in Irbid invited me to teach Japanese there in monthly courses, they already have courses for English, German, French, Spanish & other languages; so I agreed - with some conditions - because the center is very close to my home at Irbid ( just about 3 minutes walking ＾＾ ) & the lecture times we chose are very suitable for me.

Usually the courses are held there as 5 lectures weekly (every lecture is 2 hours) for a month (which means 40 hours in the course through 1 month), but for me I can't give classes everyday so it will be 3 lectures per week (2 hours.. every SAT, MON, WED) for a period of 2 months (and this means 48 hours not 40), we haven't decided yet when we will start the course, but the center usually doesn't start any course with less than 4 or 5 students.

The center made a new bulletin board contains the 10 languages they give courses for; and the Japanese is the first one at the top of the board ＾＾
I knew today that there some students registered in the Nihongo course, I hope another people will participate ＾＾

Mina san.. you are welcome to join us in the nihongo courses in Leaders Cultural Center in Irbid, for more information :


العنوان : إربد - شارع الجامعة - بوابة اليرموك الغربية (الاقتصاد) - خلف فندق حجازي سابقاً - بجانب مطعم العمري - مركز القادة الثقافي

tel : 027269300/1/2
fax : 027269304
mobile : 0788699699

www.leaders-jo.com
info@leaders-jo.com

By the way.. this is one of LCC's programs regarding English language.
　　

Omoshiroi Kanji 2 : 雨

For the second time : Ohisashiburi* mina san .. sorry for not posting for a long time ^^;
* ohisashiburi : it's been a long time; long time no see

Last time in the first post of this series I talked about my favorite kanji ( 愛 ) which means ( love ) ... This time I'll talk about another interesting kanji which is ( 雨 ) .. its reading is ( ame ) and it means ( Rain ) .
　
I like this kanji because I think it somehow resembles the view of rain , look to the dots and the way of drawing them .. the other reason that make this kanji special to me is its presence in many KANJIs which refer to meanings very close to RAIN ; for example :

雪 ( yuki ) : snow
雷 ( kaminari ) : thunder
雲 ( kumo ) : cloud
霧 ( kiri ) : fog , mist

notice how every one of them include the kanji ( 雨 ) as an upper part of it ^_^

Drawing & stroke order :
The green dot is the starting point


nice ne ? like usual .. starting from up to down ; left to right & horizontal before vertical ^^
see you with other KANJIs later in sha' ALLAH (^_^)//
　

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
　

Omoshiroi KANJI 1 : 愛

Konnichi wa mina san , ogenki desu ka ? ^^
I'll talk from time to time about a KANJI letter I like ..
I'll start with my favorite Kanji .. this Kanji means ( love ) .. and its reading is ( ai ) .. very easy ne! ^_^


I like the shape of this kanji .. very interesting .. specially the part in the middle ( 心 = kokoro = heart ) 、we can find this part in most of (kanji)s which have the meanings of emotions & feelings .

Minna .. what's your favorite Kanji ?
I bet that the favorite kanji for my students is ( 電気 = denki = electricity ) .. because most of them are studing electric engineering (^_')
　　

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 ^^