Day 4 October 2, 2014

Today, we learned new vocabulary but, mainly, we learned how to use "no" （の）. "No" is basically translated to "of" and is used for ownership or belonging to. For example, we can say, "Watashi no namae wa Justin desu." This would mean "My name is Justin." However, we can also say, "Anata wa Nihongo no sensei." This would mean "You are a teacher of the Japanese language." We incorporated the use of "wa" as well. For example, you could say, "Mearii-san no senkoo (which means "major") wa nihongo desy." We also learned that becoming 20 years old allows you to drink alcohol in Japan. This age is called "hatachi" or "ni-jusshi." The term for fourth year student is also special, it is "yonensei" and not "yonnensei." We learned how to say the names of some countries. the people of those countries, and the language of those countries. The use of "no" was challenging because I am also learning Italian. In Italian, the term "di" has, essentially, the same meaning as "no." However, the syntax of the subject and the noun being owned or belonging to the subject is opposite. This caused me to become confused because I was so used to the syntax in Italian as opposed to the syntax in Japanese. Although, I did get the hang of it and I should be fine now. I'm look forward to the next calligraphy worksheet!

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-Justin Tse

-Time logged: 1.67 hours

-Total time logged: 6.53 hours