Anime that I'm watching this summer

1. Sword Art Online

Wow I regret not starting this one sooner! Okay so this is an anime where all these characters are stuck in a VR game that is more or less World of Warcraft. In order to escape this world, the 10,000 players must clear all 100 floors of the game! I geniunely adore Kirito, he is by far my favourite anime character! I'm still on season 1 but so far it's amazing! 

2. Free! Iwatobi Swim Club - Eternal Summer / 50% Splash Free

This is like every fan girl's dream anime. Nothing but pure fan service mixed in with a fantastic storyline! (If you don't ship Haru with water, are you really a Free! fan?) I watched the first season two years ago but never got around to Eternal Summer so I'm excited to see the rest of the gang. I also must start rewatching  50% Splash Free, the adbridged version of Free! It's worth watching just for Nagisa's newfound gangsterness. 

3. Attack on Titan

I started watching this last summer but only got to about episode 10 so I'm finishing it off this summer. The Mannah was unreal and the anime matches up to it! I'm really excited for season 2, which is coming out in 2017! Hopefully the manga will be finished then and we'll know what happens to Eren and the gang soon. 

I'll probably end up finding more anime soon thanks to Crunchyroll but for the moment I'm gonna focus on these three and get up to date! If you have any suggestions for me or want to discuss any anime please drop a comment ^.^ 

Useful kanji I learned for my LC exam Part 1

 Hello all I'm just after one week's freedom from the Leaving Cert! It's so strange to think I did my Japanese exam last week. It went perfectly fine but mostly because I threw myself into the language and soaked up as many new words as I could! 

Useful Kanji that aren't on the LC course 

1. 京 means 'capital'

   Used in;

   東京 (Tokyo)

   京都 (Kyoto)

   北京 (Beijing)

   京子 - Kyoko (Name)

2. 友 means 'friend' 

    Used in; 

   友だち (friend)

3. 才 means 'years old'

    Used in;

    17才です (17 years old)

4 . 犬 means 'dog'

    

5. 海 means 'sea' or 'ocean'

    Used in ; 

    海り - Kairi (Name)

    北海道 (Hokkaido)

    海がめ (Turtle)

6. 兄 means 'big brother'

7. 牛 means 'cow' 

   used in; 

   牛 (Cow)

   子牛 (Calf)

8. 力 means 'power'

   Used in;

   人力車 (rickshaw)

Saturday Japanese classes!

こんにちは！

Registration has now opened up for the 2018 Leaving Cert class! (September 2016 - May 2018) The Saturday classes are available in Dublin city and Cork city. 

Register here at : http://www.languagesinitiative.ie/languages/japanese/japanese-student

レビンーセートのテスト！

こんにちは！

I'm just after finishing all three of my orals including my Japanese one! It was たのしかったですね！My examiner was a sweetheart and it was definitely my favourite oral exam by far. I got my favourite speech, 日本に行ったら, but sadly I got my least favourite picture, the しゅうがくりょこう! たいへんでつね！

I'll be starting to post tips for the Japanese oral for the 2017 crowd, who I will be glad to share my notes with! I'll also be putting up some sample essays of what you could prepare for the 2016 written exam aswell. 私はいそがしいでしょう!

きっとかつ！(Kit-kats)

Hello again!

I'm just after finishing my mock Leaving Cert exams and I had to say goodbye to one of my lovely Japanese subs, Ueno せんせい, last Tuesday. As a going away gift, she gave us all green tea flavoured kit-kats.

 I hadn't a notion of what it meant until I decided to research the kit-kats online! So in Japan, you give kit-kats to students doing university entrance exams, the Japanese  equivalent of the Leaving Certificate. The kit-kats are pronounced きっとかつ in Japanese, which is also Japanese for good luck!

In Japan, they have many unusual flavours of Kit-Kats, including green tea, strawberry cake, white chocolate and blueberry. Isn't that way more interesting than just plain milk chocolate? Maybe someday when I go to Japan, I'll just buy all the different kit-kat flavours. おいしいです！ 

Blog Twitter!

So I just created a Twitter for this blog so hopefully I can keep it more up to date so please follow me at @airurandojin_ on Twitter please!!

Trip to Tokyo 東京

So just before Christmas I got asked to write a little essay on what I'd like to do in Tokyo, which included a place to visit, a place to eat and a place to meet up with a friend. In this I chose Tokyo Disneyland, Sasuki and the Hachiko statue. 

私は東京ディズニーランドが行きたいです。シンダレッレアを見たいです！かのじょはきれいです。

私はさつきで食べます。ケーキを食べて、バブルティーを飲みます！

そして、私はあなたと東京ディズニーランドを行きます。のは、しぶやであうましょう。はちこであうましょう！あんたはしぶやのこおさてんにいきます！ちょくしんをします。左に行きます。

Update!

Hi guys I'm delighted to say I've officially finished the Leaving Cert Japanese course! I still have a long way to go in terms of my oral work and my exam techniques but I'm almost there! Which means hopefully a lot more blog posts in the coming months :)