Monthly Archives: February, 2009
Iwate
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Iwate and not full detail of everything. Iwate is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]
Months in Japanese
Learning months is pretty easy basically just join the number 1 through 12 to がつ (gatsu).
Kana
Kanji
English
いちがつ
一月
January
にがつ
二月
February
さんがつ
三月
March
しがつ
四月
April
ごがつ
五月
May
ろくがつ
六月
June
しちがつ
七月
July
はちがつ
八月
August
くがつ
九月
September
しゅうがつ
十月
October
じゅういちがつ
十一月
November
じゅうにがつ
十二月
December
This was pretty easy to understand and figure out once you make the connection it is 1gatsu, 2gatsu, 3gatsu, etc… Combine that basic information with the kanji for numbers and month and you are looking like you know and can [...]
Kanji Set 3
Here is week 3 of our Kanji to learn. It is going to get a bit harder now, but not too hard. Again doing kanji for JLPT 4, so lets get started.
Kanji: 百
Kana: (on) ヒャク, ビャク, ピャク
Meaning: hundred
Stroke Order
Kanji: 千
Kana: (on) セン, ゼン
Meaning: thousand
Stroke Order
Kanji: 万
Kana: (on)マン
Meaning: ten thousand
Stroke Order
Kanji: 円
Kana: (on)エン
Meaning: yen; circle
Stroke Order
Kanji: [...]
2009 Snow Festival Prep
I recently posted on Hokkaido and talked a bit about the Sapporo Snow Festival with a bit about what it was. Here is a blog post by someone that took a few snapshots of the prep work for it. Please visit the site and look through all the images.
http://thiessentwosomejapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/makings-of-snow-festival.html
Here are a couple interesting ones.
Again please [...]
