Friday 18th January 2008

OK, writing up about all the lessons I have been listening to since last time. I didn't have any time to do this, since I was revising (or maybe not revising). One more test in a couple of weeks and then I can be back to business. Full speed.

かのじょ - Girlfriend

おや - Parent
ゆび - Finger
おやゆび - Thumb

たくし - Taxi
のりば - Terminal
たくしのりば - Place to pick up taxi
すみません、たくしのりばは？
まで - To
けいおプラザまで - To the keio plaza
りょうしゅうしょ - Receipt

ちょうしはどうですか？- How are you doing? (How is your condition?)
いい - Good
ちょうしはいいです - I am doing good. (My condition is good.)
おかげさまでげんきです - Thanks to you, I am good.
めちゃめちゃ - Really / very
わるい - Bad
ちょうしはわるいです - I am doing bad
まあまあ - So so / alright

Informal.
げんきですか？ -> げんき？
げんきです -> げんきだよ
おかげさまでげんきです -> おかげさまでげんき
ちょうしはど？ -> ちょうしはど？

あさ - Morning
めし - Meal
まえ - Before
あさめしまえ - Before breakfast (Piece of cake).

(ご)かぞく - Family
The word is かぞく. The prefix, ご, is used for politeness, only when talking about someone else's family.
にん - Counter for people.
なんにん - How many people (what number of people).
ごかぞくはなんにんですか？ - How many people are in your family?
ふたり - Two people
ひとり - One person
(Every other possibility is just the number+にん, exactly like time).
ちち - Father
はは - Mother
いもうと - Younger sister
おとうと - Younger brother
あね - Older sister
あに - Older brother
おおい - Many
と - And

やさしい - Kind
たのしい - Fun
かわいい - Cute
いそがしい - Busy
うつくしい - Beautiful
かっこういい - Cool (good looking)
おもしろい - Funny / interesting
おとうとはかわいくておもしろいいです - When you want to use more than one adjective ending in い, you can drop the last い and change it to くて. This means "my sister is cute and interesting".

かれはだれですか？ - Who is this?
おとうさん - Father (someone else's, polite)
おかあさん - Mother (someone else's, polite)
おにいさん - Older brother (someone else's, polite)
おねえさん - Older sister (someone else's, polite)
おとすとさん - Younger brother (someone else's, polite)
いもうとさん - Younger sister (someone else's, polite)
Someone might also refer to their own older family members using this polite form.

ひさしぶり - It's been a long time,
ひさびさ - It's been a long time (informal).
ただ - Only just
こんしゅう - This week

これはなんといますか？ - How do you say this? (what is this?)
これはなんとよみますか？ - How do you read this?

ふん - Minutes
Adding the number for minutes is normal apart from
1 - いっぷん
3 - さんぶん
6 - ろっくぶん
8 - はぷん
10 - じうっぷん
(All those might actually be wrong...gotta look up this counting thing properly)

ちょっと - A little

さむくない - Not cold
You can take the い off adjectives and change it to くない to get a negative version.

I definitely skipped some, but hopefully nothing to important to myself.

Tuesday 8th January 2008

More revision, no learning.

I am still listening to the japanesepod101 podcasts, but I won't be able to summarise them until at least the 18th.

Thursday 3rd January 2008

More coursework. We really weren't taught this gui stuff well at all, because I don't have a clue what is meant to be done. I just want to finish this one, somehow get the csound one done, so then I can start to revise.

Tuesday 1st January 2008

Got coursework to do. I was able to make the layout and actually plan what needs to be done. I just need to write the code now. Might be tricky, since I don't really have a clue how this mac OS X gui stuff is done.

Saturday 29th December 2007

Japanese.
See you - じゃあね / またね
See you tomorrow - またあしたね

かずぎみ - Sick
かずぎみです - I am sick.
きょ - Today
さむい - Cold
きょはさむいですね - It is cold today.
すごくさむい - Extremely cold
とてもさむい - Very cold
ど - Degrees
きょはなんどですか？ - How cold is it today? (How many degrees is it?)
でしょ - Like です but less certain (I think, might be, etc.)
きょは三どでしょ - I think it is 3 degrees.
なんて___ - How something! (As in, "wow, that's cold!")
なんてさむい！ - How cold!

げんき - Well
おげんきですか？ - Very formal and polite way of asking "how are you?"
げんきですか？ - Less polite, but still enough for most situations.
ぜっこうじょうです - I am feeling amazing (top of the world).
げんきいっぱいです - I am feeling so great (full of げんき).
すごくげんきです - I am extremely well.
げんきです - I am well.
まあまあです - So so.
あまり(げんきです) - Not so (good)
だめです - Terrible

げんき？ - Informal way of asking "how are you?"
ぜっこちょ - Amazing
げんきいっぱい - So great.
すごくげんき - Extremely well.
まあまあ - So so (alright).
あまりげんきじゃない - Not very well.
げんきじゃない - Not well.

To change the polite negative to the informal negative, the "ありません" can just be replaced with "ない"
げんきではありません ---> げんきではない
Add です to this informal version and you will have the polite form again.

けいたい - Mobile (short for mobile phone)
でんわ - Phone
けいたいでんわ - Mobile phone
もしもし - Phone greeting (only really said by the person making the call).
あけましておめでとうございます - Happy new year.
いま - Now
いまどこですか？ - Where are you right now?
だけ - Just / only.
それだけです - That's it.
けど - but.

Long entry, since I haven't updated for a long time for various reasons. I have still been learning though :D.

Tuesday 26th December 2007

Chinese.
Good morning - Zaoshang hao!
How are you? - Ni hao ma?
I am fine, and you? - Wo hen hao, ni ne?
Xiexie - Thanks.
I am not really going to learn Chinese for a while. Not until both my Japanese and French get to a reasonable level.

Monday 24th December 2007

Japanese.
Where is your hometown? - ごしゅっしんはどこですか？
London, England. - イギリスのロンドンわです
Where are you from? - どこからきましたか？
I am from London, England. - イギリスのロンドンからきました.

Friday 21st December 2007

Went through the exercise of chapter 6 of the thinking in C lessons.
- Functions.
These lessons are not very good. The details are not explained well enough and they are really hard to listen to, since they are boring. I am going to stop going through them now and come back to them after the tests. I might do a little in betwen though.

For the future.
I am going to start my introduction to programming coursework on Sunday without finishing these lessons. We weren't taught this stuff in the first place after all. I won't be doing anything tomorrow because of work, although I might be able to go through the katakana and learn a few lines.

I am also going to make a page for the chess games I have played with Manoj and Devan, in order to practice my CSS.

Thursday 20th December 2007

Went through lesson 6 of the thinking in C lessons.
- Functions.
Didn't get to do the exercise, I need to finish that later.

Japanese.
Like - すき
日本たべめのはすきです - I like japanese food.
Hate - きらい
すしはきらいです - I hate sushi (I don't).
Dislike - すきではありません
なっとすきではありません - I don't like natto (I have never even tried it, but I hear it is nasty).

Wednesday 19th December 2007

No learning today, been downloading all day. It is the last day of the premium rapidshare account I obtained, so I have to get everything I want to get before it runs out...

Tuesday 18th December 2007

Went through chapters 3-5 of the thinking in C lessons
- Binary, unary and ternary operators
- Controlling program flow, decision making, repetition.
- Compound data types, arrays, strings, structures.
I am learning all these the C way, since my C++ book reccomends it. However, once I start reading the book, I will be using the C++ ways again, so I don't know how much of a good idea that really is.

For the future.
Found a good electronics book I need to buy and read.
Learned about asterisk, which I definitely need to install in the future.

Monday 17th December 2007

Went through chapters 1-2 of the Thinking in C lessons.
- Examing statements, comments, include files and standard I/O.
- Fundamental data types. Converting from one type to another.
I knew most of this already, but there are some differences still. Having to listen to the chapters rather than being able to read them is booooring.

Read chapter 12 (positioning elements) of CSS - the missing manual and completed the exercises.
- Absolute positioning.
- Relative positioning.
- Can be used to create sidebars, image captions, etc.
Advanced CSS next. The bit about printing seems silly, the other bit does seem good though. Learning about C and C++ comes first however.

Sunday 16th December 2007

Learned the Japanese words for us, you (plural), him, her, them (masculine) and them (female). I am surprised I never knew these before.

Just as a note:
Us - わたしたち
You (plural) - あなたたち
He - かれ
She - かのじょ
Them (masculine) - かれら
Them (feminine) - かのじょら

わたしはかれです、あなたはかれです、あなたはわたしです、わたしたちはここにいます. - First line of I am the walrus :D.

Saturday 15th December 2007.

New words - assiduous, sedulous.