Friday, July 30, 2010

Konichiwa!

Konichiwa!
At school we have just recently started language classes. Most of my friends are in french class except Lily is in japanese as well so that's cool. At the beginning of each lesson we have to say, "Arigato gazimasu McNeil Sensei!" and bow, it's really funny and at the end we have to say, "Arigato gazimashda McNeil Sensei, Sayonara." It's really annoying cause everyone in the corridors is yelling out random japanese words and we're like, "Shut up!" It would be less annoying if it wasn't the word "Hello stranger" even though they're saying it to their friends... We also have to sing these really embarrassing songs the first song is called the Hai song which consists of "hai hai hai, ohayo gozaimasu, hai hai hai, konichiwa!" repeating again and again! I forgot how to spell the rest of the japanese but the song in english goes
VERSE 1:
"yes yes yes, good morning, yes yes yes, hello"
"yes yes yes, good morning, yes yes yes, hello"
VERSE 2:
"yes yes yes, give me chocolate, yes yes yes, thanks"
"yes yes yes, give me chocolate, yes yes yes, thanks"
VERSE 3:
"yes yes yes, good morning, yes yes yes, hello"
"yes yes yes, good morning, yes yes yes, hello"
x2
Those are the actual lyrics... no lie... There's also another one called "The song of Hiragana" about the japanese vowels (even worse) I tried not to make the japanese teacher offended by cracking up. I only just realised when my friend Rachel told me that her right hand is disabled so she keeps it in her pocket all the time.
THE SONG OF HIRAGANA:
a i u e o
ka ki ku ke ko
sa shi su se so
ma mi mu me mo
 
sa shi su se so
ta chi tsu te to
na ni nu ne no
ha hi fu he ho
ohh hiragana 


(mind you this is sang by an adult man in a silly voice)

JAPANESE VOCAB I KNOW:
Rei: Bow
Chak seke: Sit
Kiri tsu: Stand
Ohayo gozaimasu: Good morning
Konichiwa: Good afternoon
Combangwa: Good evening
Sayonara: Good bye
Sumemasen: Sorry
Me: Eyes
Meme: Ears
Kuchi: Mouth
Te: Hands
Arigato gozaimasu: Thank you
Sensei: Teacher
Hon: Books
Hai: Yes


Well... that's all.... Sayonara!

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