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Saturday, February 10, 2007
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Oh, one student gave me a question the other day. It was "Epic は 日本語で 何と いいますか？" The answer is "雄大（ゆうだい）な，英雄的（えいゆうてき）な"Thanks for the question!
It has been almost a month since I started to teach Japanese at Southridge!!
hi sensei!!
thanks for teaching me japanese!!
-Natalie
Natalie, thank you for your message! I like your blog☆
山崎先生! ブラグが面白いです。ブラグのかきいれを書くのがすごいです。日本語を教えるのがありがとう。すごい先生!!
./\_/\
( TДT)日本語を話すのが上手くない。がんばることだよ！！
Really, you are an awesome teacher and I feel that I am learning a lot. Thank you for teaching our class. It's super awesome and I really enjoy it. I'm sorry that I haven't sent you a post as quickly as I wanted to, but at least I'm sending one now, yeah? I really hope that you are enjoying your time here in America and being able to teach. n_n
-Cheree (シーリー)
シーリー，書きこみ，どうもありがとう。とてもうれしかったです。今は，
日本語が上手くないのは当（あ）たり前！チャレンジが大切です。
Special thank you for Cheree. I got very happy to hear you are enjoying my class. It is great that you KNOW that you are learning.
I am also a language learner. I am learning a lot of useful English from you all(Nothing is useless)!
I love you and keep enjoying learning Japanese together!
－山﨑遼子
Yamazaki Sensei,
I've noticed that I'm pretty good with grammar and translation - if I know the words! I'm always asking Danika or Cheree or somebody with good vocabulary how to say a certain word, or looking in my dictionary!
I think it would be a good idea to give us weekly vocabulary tests. You could give us a list of 10 or 20 words every week and test us at the end. It would help expand our vocabulary a lot, and you could even have a cumulitive vocabulary test at the end of the trimester. 20 words a week for 10 weeks, that's 200 words we'd know by the end of third trimester!
I know we learn vocabulary now, but the focus is on grammar, because we never are directly tested on vocabulary, but at the end of the trimester we are directly tested on grammar and kanji.
I know a lot of my fellow students will hate me for suggesting to have more work and tests, but I'm pretty serious about learning Japanese, because it will be useful in my career of software engineering - so I want to get good at Japanese!
Thanks for your help, you are a very good teacher!
-Nick G
ニック，書きこみ，どうもありがとう。
I am so glad to know you are very serious about learning Japanese and I am very excited to know that you want to learn more vocabulary words(たんご).
As an English language learner, I think it would definitely help you to learn as many vocabulary as possible in order to be proficient in a second language.
So, I would like to make it(your suggestion) work. But I would like to know what other students would think about it,too.
I could make the vocabulary test as a weekly assessment as you said. OR, we could have the vocabulary test as optional(towards extra credits?)
We could talk about it tomorrow in the class.
One more important thing, what kind of vocabulary do you want to know?
Anything particular?
Oh, I have a suggestion. How about one or two of you work with me every week to create the vocab test?(you guys will take a turn to create the test everyweek) In that way, we can learn vocabulary that you are interested in or want to know.
Let me know what you think.
Nick,thank you for your suggestion.(Don't worry, nobody would hate you!)
Ryoko Yamazaki
Hi Yamasaki Sensei!!
Thank you for teaching me Japanese! I really like your class and I think your a great person too. Also, thank you for spending so much time help me understand Japanese more.
So what else do you do for fun? It's interesting to learn about traditional and modern Japanese culture.
I was wondering if you are going back to Japan after this year because if you left it would be sad.
Anyways, we can talk more in class!
-Eric W.
エリック，書きこみ，どうもありがとう。
Eric, thank you so much for such a nice comment.I enjoy working with you a lot and it is always you guys who motivate me to want to teach better.I am the one who should say thank you.
I jog along the waterfront in Portland, cook(trying to cook more Japanese food), watch movies,read books(I am reading "To kill a mocking bard"in English.I saw the movie in Japan, but reading the book in English is very challenging for me.),listen to Japanese pops etc.
I have been thinking about buying the acoustic guitar recently because I left my guitar in Japan and I love to sing songs along the guitar for my free time.
I would like to know what you do for fun, too!!
Perhaps,I am going back to Japan once to complete my masters degree in a university in Japan.
But, I have been thinking that it would be great to keep working with you or to come back here because it has been very fascinating for me to work with you.
ありがとう。
山﨑遼子
Oh,also,I would love to swim more if I have time☆
Oops, the correct title of the book is
"To Kill a Mockingbird"!（Not， bard） すみません（＊＊）
Hii Yamasaki Sensei!!
I would like to say thank you for teaching our class~ It's been very fun and i will miss you when you leave :(
You should come back next year and teach the Japanese 3 class! Even if you can't, you sould come visit us : ]
See you tomorrow ^^
-amber
[sorry that i messed up on the other comment ><]
アンバー，書き込み，ありがとう。
Thank you very much for such a positive comment, Amber.
I would love to come back to teach or visit you guys next year!
See you in the class tomorrow!
Oyasumi~おやすみ(Good night)
Ryoko Yamazaki
せんせい, テレサです。are you still coming to the class next trimester? i hope you do :)
テレサ，書きこみ，ありがとう。
うれしいです。
つぎのＴＲＩは，学校にいって，
日本語２と３をおしえます。
テレサは３ｒｄＴＲＩは日本語ないですね。でも，教室か，スタッフルームに
あそびにきてください：－）
山﨑遼子
★みんな，しゅうまつ，たのしんでますか？ＦＩＮＡＬどうでしたか？
おつかれさま。
OH-hi-yo-go-za-i-mas
DONT-TOUCH-MY-MOUSTACHE :D
おはようございます。
デイライトセービングで、あさ、ねむいですね。
It looks awesome Yamazaki Sensei. Keep up the good work.
Oh for a going away present to us, how about no test for Japanese 3? haha... jodan jodan.
Alrighty, jamata sensei.
-Jin Yi
こんにちは。ジン。
テストは。。。しましょう。
チャレンジは大事ですからねえ。
じょうだん、ありがとう☆
I wish that I could learn Japanese at Southridge, too. I am so happy to see that everyone appreciates Yamzaki Sensei because she is one of the nicest people I know and she is also an amazing teacher(She taught me how to say I like something sort-of, alot or not at all, in about 5 minutes. Have fun! I am going to go back to teaching Spanish at Cleveland now.
Adios
Heather,Gracias for your comment!
I am so glad that you connected your
class and my class by commenting here.
Good luck on teaching Spanish(Supein-go)at Cleveland!!
Arigato_(:-))
今日はポートランドは あめ です。ビーバートンはどうですか？
こんいちは！
Hi 山崎先生. I've been listening to the audio blog, www.japanesepod101.com and I've noticed that in the more advanced lessons, around 日本語３, use a lot of forms of words that I don't know. I'm afraid I won't know enough about 文法 to be able to manipulate the vocabulary I do know. It's probably just my learning style, which is really weird compared to how a lot of people learn. So I'm not suggesting you change how you teach just to suit my needs - that would be really selfish of me!
But do you know of any good Japanese grammar books or websites? The more I know about grammar, and how to change words to different forms to change their meanings, the greater number of ideas I can communicate with less vocabulary. And then when I learn a new word, I actually will know a lot of different ways to use it, so I actually learn a lot of new words at once!
ありがとうございます！
ニック
日本語３、三期間
Just kidding.
二期間, not 三期間
こんにちは。ニック。
コメントありがとう。
一つ、ニックのきぼうに あいそうな
じしょを みつけたので、 教室に
もっていきますね。
JAPAN TIMES からでている A DICTIONARY
OF INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE GRAMMAR というものです。
I heard from some friends of mine studying Japanese at a college that the dictionary was good. It seems a little advanced, but it might help you (:-)).
konnichi wa
this class is so much fun i cant wait until next year. hopefully i can remember all of what i learned for my trip this summer to japan.
~Akela
こんにちは、せんせい。
ブログには はじめて ですね。 :D
いま しゅくだいが きらいで ちょっと やすめました。
I hope my grammars are correct.;
If I had something wrong, please correct me, せんせい!
アケラとリサ
コメント、どうもありがとう☆にほんごと
にほんごのしゅくだいはむずかしいですか。
あとすこし、がんばりましょう。
（We are almost there. Hang in there.）
やまざきせんせい
Hi, it's Jeremy from 3rd period.
I like this class a lot, and I think it's a very fun class.
The way we have to write down the new things we learn and doing the activities is a good way for me to learn because it's good practice.
Thank you Yamazaki Sensei!
- Jeremy.
ジェレミー
どうもありがとう。
ジェレミーはにほんごが じょうずですね。
I am glad to hear that you are having fun in the class. Having fun is important especially when it comes to learning world languages（がいこくご）!!
Thanks.
やまざきせんせい
Hey sensei this is christian from your third period class. And i wanted to let you know that I really liked being in your class and learned a lot. I wish I had you next year but good luck teaching at the place where you are going to teach.
allo yamazaki sensei! so i took your class and your final. pretty much the class was phenomenal. i learned so much it was incredibly amazing. This is Michael Kim from your 3rd pperiod class btw. Next year, you should come visi. i just want you to know even though my final doesnt show much, i still learned a lot from your class and i greatly appreciated it. and you are not hutotei. . but anyways have a terrific summer and thanks for teaching me a whole lot of japanese. i truly learned a lot. later!
クリスチャン，マイケル
ありがとうございます for your comments.
Good luck for studying Japanese next year!!
Yamazaki Ryoko(:-))
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