I sort of have made that English greeting my “thing” at work to students. When I first arrived, I would always use it without thinking. I was always met with confused faces or the response of “Good” or “I’m fine”. While it was funny for a while, I soon started explaining the correct answer. So now the whole school uses it like crazy! It’s really cool to see what I have started. Students walk in and say What’s Up? to and that’s really cool. It’s cool to have an effect. I guess that’s why I like teaching. Sometimes all the other sales shit, paperwork, and answering phones gets old, but teaching gives you an opportunity to affect people in a positive way, and thats what I love about the job.
Japanese of the Day.. Extended Today Since I’m in a studying mood…..
Some interesting Kanjis will suffice…..
川 – river – kawa or sen 州 – state – shuu or su
For river, it looks like a river. Easy. For state, think of the river as a boundary in between the different lands. For example I am in Kyushu. 九州 kyu=9 shu= state. 9 state maybe?
日本語 – Japanese – Nihongo
語(go) = word, so that part is easy enough…but what about the rest?
日(nichi,jitsu,hi,ka)=can mean a few things….usually day but in this case it means sun
本(hon,moto)= also a few meanings.. most popular is “book” (hon) but it can also mean “origin”
Sun+Origin+Word=Japanese.. Land of the rising sun words?? Make sense? I didn’t think so either.
花 = Flower
化 ＝change 
= grass ….. So Change + Grass = Flower! Easy enough right?
東京 – Tokyo
東 = Eastern – Higashi
京 = Capital – (yeah in my dictionary the word for capital is totally different, ,more research will need to happen to fully explain this-please comment if you can explain better)
Tokyo is the Eastern(Tokyo is the Eastern(東) Capital(京) Bitches!
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“Gaijin thinks Japanese is difficult, he make me laugh”
Music of the Day….noo ideas really…..Good Song… Yui – “Life” Shes pretty in the “I dont care about how I look” pretty. Understand? lol Enjoy People.
