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Assalamualaikum and こんいちは!

This entry is my third attempt in writing this journal. Our third class was replaced with talks. Unfortunately, I’ve got classes on core subject, law of contract and Islamic constitution and administration, which of I can’t attend the talks. A friend was kind enough to give me a gist of the talks, where the talks gave us an idea on some of the Japanese cultures. Some might resemble with ours but in a different way and some might not. I hope I can have the chance to attend this kind of talk in the future.

Further, I’ve finished the hiragana course, an online task in the ‘minato’ website. I did attach the website’s link in my first entry. It’s fun. Frankly speaking, I felt like going back to my kindergarten days while completing the course. But, no worries cause they are really helpful. I got my report card for this course as well!

Sorry, i dont know how to crop it in blog

                                                                            

I finally memorised all the hiragana characters. But, I still confuse with some of the characters. Whatever it is, they can slowly be improvised. Right? We are now doing the katakana course. The characters are edgy and more difficult to remember. Yet, if we try harder, there are no obstacles that we can’t go through. :*

Despite of that, I also did some research on how to learn Japanese faster. Especially for beginner like me. One of it is through read easy comic or manga. There’s one titled Shirokuma Café. I downloaded its pdf, it will be quite difficult to find it in the bookstores, I guess. It contains four part if I’m not mistaken. Oh ya! Shirokuma means polar bear. This comic is a children comic but somehow it’s useful. This shirokuma café was also adapted into cartoon. Huhuhu. I’m not sure to call it cartoon or anime. For those who are interested to watch, you can search it in youtube. I got some of them from my friend. Don’t worry if you can’t understand them because they have subtitles.

 Aren’t they cute!

This is the anime version. They used simple words that we could understand some of it immediately without reading the subtitles!                                      

That’s should be all. Let’s meet again in another entry! Have a nice day!

さよなら！

わたしわ ハフィザ です

Assalamualaikum and おはいよう!

This is my second attempt on writing the portfolio. Recently, I’ve been searching for lots of Japanese Dictionary that will suit me, the beginner. And, I’ve found one. It is one good dictionary apps and it also provides phrases for particular word that we search. My first impression was ‘wow, this is good!’ It is Takoboto. If you mind to have a look on it, it’s in the play store.

Despite of dictionary, as most of our Japanese class are using online task for our assignments, which is based on the Japan Foundation, there are some other apps that is quite helpful to memorise the hiragana, katakana and kanji characters built by the Japan Foundation developer. They are interesting. My free time finally preoccupied with beneficial things. Hahaha. So, here are they. The name with memory hint are the apps that will boost your memory on the Japanese characters. You can just search japan foundation on the play store, they will eventually pop out.

 You guys can see the takoboto dictionary is having the red short octopus-like picture

                       

Next, okay okay. For me, this is the best part. Where we learnt new way to greet people, which is out of our usual manner. They are the same, but the things different are on the language and culture. For example:

はじめまして -  hajimemashite

Hajimemashite can only be used once for self-introduction. When you want to introduce yourself to other people, you can start with this expression. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) Then,

いただきます -  itadakimasu

This expression used by the Japanese before they start to eat their meal. It’s resemble to ‘let’s eat’ in English or ‘jemput makan’ in Malay. (Again, please correct me if I’m wrong)

We also have learn to write our name in katakana characters. Why katakana? Because our names, who live outside Japan considered to be foreign. Katakana characters usually for foreign words. Katakana was created by the foreigners when they first came to Japan.

わたしわ　ハフィザ　です- My name is Hafizah

Hahaha. So, that’s my name.

I guess, that is all for now. Have a nice day!

さよなら！