After going to 2 popular bookstore, 1 MPH and some wierd bookstore in Tanglin Mall(not sure if it's the place's name). I finally found a good book where i could learn Japanese! I suddenly had this passion to learn Jap. From what i see, Jap is a very interesting language to learn. Even though my languages sucks, I still wanted to learn Japanese.(Well, by right I should bulk up on my current languages before learning a new language right?=/ correct me if I'm wrong) I brought this book which cost $39T_T.. Quite expensive but I think its worth the money!

Anyway, today's was the CDS selection day. Sad to say, no one chose Japanese except one of my classmate. Thats good actually, I thought at first that there were no one to accompany me in taking the subject. Bleh.. School's reopening. Boringg!!!! Getting back my test papers. I know my TD sure fail. I think I going to be very emo when i receive my test paperT_T... Guess no 1 will cares anyway, so it doesn't matter<_<. class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">WEDNESDAY, THERE WOULD BE AN INPROMTU(unsure spelling) SPEECH! GOSH! I DID NOT READ ANY NEWSPAPER OR WHATSOEVER, I'M SO DEADT_T.

My Dad brought a 5 metre S-video cable for my computer. Now I'm able to watch my animes on my TV instead of the computer screen!!! So cool! I can even play my computer games using the TV screen. But, I still need another cable before I could really completely enjoy. For now, there is only display on my TV and there is no sound coming out from it. The sound are from my computer speaker, which is kind of weird when I watch my anime. The sounds were coming from my left side while the screening is in front of me<_<.

I think I'll end off with some Japanese which i had learnt from the book. I treat this as a practice as I'm really lazy to take a pencil and paper to write these stuff=X.

Lesson 1

Some basic words:

1. Domo - Refers to thanks or used for brief greetings
2. So, So - Refers to "yeah" when listening to someone in conversation.
3. Ie - Refers to "no"
4. Dame - Refers to can't or not allowed to do that.
5. Li desu ne - Refers to "thats a great idea!"
6. Yatta - Refers to " Yay~ I did it"
7. Gambatte - Refers to "do your best!" ( A lot people misspelled this word)
8. Omedato - Refers to congratulations
9. Yosoko - Refers to "Welcome!"
10. Makasete - Refers to " Count on me!"
11. Shinpai Shinaide - Refers to " Don't worry"
12. Sono Tori - Refers to "You are absolutely right!"

Seems most of it are dialong-type meaning. I guess that's the word's real meaning then. Anyway I forgetting those rarely used words, as least for now, such as "Sono Tori, Yosoko, li desu ne."

Pitches & Vowel lengths:

Different Pitches for the same word may mean different things. It kind of like chinese.

Vowel lenghts, what i meant? Like for example Obasan can mean 2 things. First is aunt and grandmother. To differentiate them is the drag of the vowel a after ob. So aunt would pronounced as O- Bahh-San, and grandmother would be pronounced as O-Baah-san.

Forming sentences:

In english, we make sentence as Subject-Verb-Object.

In Japanese, sentences are formed as Subject-Object-Verb. The verb must always be the last. "I like anime" would turn out to be "i anime like." The sentence can be constructed as Object-Subject-Verb too. Marker are used. For example, ga is used for subject pointer and o is used for object pointer. Interesting huh!

Well, I think thats all till where I studied till, Reading more of it tml=)