Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Japanese blog or rather 日本語のブログ

Ok, bit of news first. I've had a sickly and injury filled February. It started with a cold, that cleared up and I got a beautiful black eye at my dojo, then I got some sort of strange stomach bug. I've just got over the last of these which basically pretty much took up my 9 day holiday from school and prevented me from doing anything exciting. I did lose 2.5kg though! that more than counters all the chocolate I ate this month. I got 8 Valentines presents (men get presents in Japan and return the favour in March on 'White Day') and a parcel of British chocolate from my home (Yay! thanks Mum!).

Anyway, looking forwards, I've decided to try and incorporate a bit of Japanese into my blog. Every day I teach people English and give them advice on how they can improve and vary the way they learn but I don't do many of these things myself, so now it's time for me to try! So here we go...

Recently I haven’t been writing in my blog much and I also haven’t been studying Japanese much, so I think I’m going to try and write my blog in Japanese. Killing two birds with one stone!

Most of my friends can’t read Japanese so of course I’ll continue to write in English too.
I think that just working is boring. I always work towards small targets in exercise or culture. I like to have targets in fitness or studying. Last year I started jujitsu at my dojo, studied for JLPT level 3 test, visited China, Vietnam, Thailand, Hiroshima and Kyoto. I also climbed Mount Fuji.

This year I’ve also got targets.
1. Do a kickboxing or MMA fight.
2. Start to learn another foreign language.
3. Review my Japanese and become more fluent.
4. Do another English teaching course.
5. Continue Jujitsu and get better.

But doing the English course will take a lot of time so doing all these 5 things might be difficult!

So that little paragraph is the English version and below is the Japanese. For those people outside of Japan without any Japanese this may not be that interesting, but if you want to see what i'm writing you might have to have to install some sort of Japanese language function to your Internet Explorer. Basically if you open your IE browser, select "Tools" and head for the "Windows Update". Just check all Japanese language tools and start the download. Then when it's installed select "View" > "Encoding" and select Japanese. Another point is Kanji. It's difficult, very difficult in fact. So in an effort to try and learn it a bit more I'm posting the blog in kanji and all hiragana which should force myself to learn a few more, acts as a reference for me to check the kanji and will hopefully mean other learners can cross-reference too. It took me a hell of a long time to get this paragraph into what I hope is a comprehensible passage, but hopefully it will get easier, longer and more ambitious as I continue....either that or i'll give up. :-)

さいきんブログを書いてなかったし日本語の勉強をすこししているので 日本語でブログ書こうと思います一石二鳥です。
ほとんどの友達は日本語が読めません。だから英語もかきつづけています。
ぼくは、ただ 働くだけはつまらないと思う。いつも小さな目標にしています仕事だけではりない。目標はきょうようか運動で。

運動か勉強によって、自分自身を上達させたいので
,去年道場で柔術を始めました。そして日本語能力試験3級の勉強をしました。中国,ベトナム,タイ,広島、京都に旅行したし,富士山にも登った。

今年の目標があります。
1. キックボクシングか格闘技の試合をしてみたい。
2. もう一つ新しい外国語を勉強したい。
3. 日本語を復習したいしもっと流暢に話したい。
4. 英語教授法の講習を受ける予定です。
5. 柔術をつづけて、もっと上手になりたい。

でも、英語教授法の講習は沢山の時間がかかるから,この五つの目標全部をするのは難しいです!

Kanji free version now, just Hiragana below...

さいきんぼくはブログをかいてなかったし、にほんごのべんきょうをすこししているのでにほんごでブログをかこうとおもいます。いっせきにちょうです。
ほとんどのともだちはにほんごがよめません。だからえいごもかきつづけています。
ぼくは、ただはたらくだけはつまらないとおもう。いつもちさいなもくひょうにしています。しごとだけではみのりない。もくひょうはきょうようかうんどうで。

うんどうかべんきょうによって、じぶんじしんをじょうたつさせたいので、きょねんどうじょうでじゅうじゅつをはじめました。そしてにほんごのうりょくしけん3きゅうのべんきょうをしました。ちゅうごく、ベトナム、タイ、ひろしま、きょうとにりょこうしたし、ふじさんにものぼった。

ことしのもくひょうがあります

1. キックボクシングかかくとうぎのしあいをしてみたい。
2. もうひとつあたらしいがいこくごをべんきょうしたい。
3. にほんごをふくしゅうしたいしもっとりゅうちょうにはなしたい。
4. えいごきょうじゅほうのこうしゅうをうけるよていです。
5. じゅうじゅつをつづけて、もっとじょうずになりたい。

でも、えいごきょうじゅほうのこうしゅうはたくさんのじかんがかかるから、このいつつのもくひょうぜんぶをするのはむずかしいです!

You wouldn't believe how long it took me to edit this post. I had a few photos at the end too but chopped them off in an attempt to get it to publish properly, I'll post them seperately soon.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

wow! you can write Japanese very well. I like your approach that many small 「目標」makes big diffrence.