あけおめことよろ！

平成25年になっちゃいましたー　

明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。

漢字のＫちゃんより

Rare Kanji of the day!

It's not like we have one everyday.. but

I'm writing to introduce you all to a rare kanji that I "believe" I saw for the first time last month. After four and more years in Japan and being always starving for kanji, seeing one for the first time gave me quite a shock, a happy one, since this never happens recently X)

Welcome our guest! : 乖

It looks like a 千 = thousand　squeezed in the middle of a 北=North and the only word I know that uses it is 「乖離」　＝かいり＝Separation.. I think there are hardly other words that uses it. If you know more share the knowledge!
See you next post. Kanji chan logs out.

شكراً لكم على المتابعة الدائمة للمدونة! اليوم اكتب لأعرفكم برمز كانجي أعتقد بأنه نادر الوجود في الطبيعة  ، رأيته للمره الأولى الشهر الماضي . رؤية كانجي للمرة الأولى أصبح شيئاً نادر الحدوث مؤخراً  بعد أربع سنوات وأكثر من الحياه في اليابان كأكثر متعلمة للغة اليابانية عشقاً لهذه الرموز والتي تتعدى ال-2000 رمز   .

على كل ! رحبوا ب-:   乖  

الرمز يشبه 千 (رقم ألف) مغروزة في وسط 北 (شمال).  وحالياً لا أعرف سوى كلمة واحدة تستخدمه وهي :  乖離 وتعني "الفصل" (من الفصل بين شيئين).

إن كنتم تعرفون أمثلة اخرى على إستخدامه ، فشاركونا المعرفة .

كانت معكم كانجي تشان ,  نراكم في التدوينة القادمة  ! 

JLPT1 next July!!

I took the JLPT2 exam today!
I did well in the vocabulary/kanji and listening parts but had some difficulty with the reading part.
But in general I did good! Results will be out in mid February .. aa long time to wait..

Next year will go for level1 !

The count down to the JLPT2

Sorry for the long silence!!

One week is left for the JLPT.
I chose to take level 2 this time.

Last week I was invited to take a mock exam for the NEW JLPT.
People who follow the JLPT news know that starting 2010 the test will have 5 levels instead of 4, with a new level between the original 3 and 2 levels.
I was assigned to take this new level in the mock exam. Completed all the sections and at last filled a newspaper large questionnaire , got 2000 yen for my cooperation in taking the exam and filling the questionnaire and went back home.

My feedback about this new level(called N3) : You can get the feeling it is between L3 and L2 .. but it's kind of closer to L3.
As an L2 taker for this year, it felt really easy.. in the sense that I don't expect my mistaken answers to exceed 3 questions.

Anyway, back to the real exam talk.
Two days ago I tried to solve the last year questions from the official 2008 L2 Questions&their answers compilation.
I set a timer for each section and tried to solve the questions as if in the real exam.
... so at last I scored my answers and figured out that I got [337/400] which means84% ...
Very UNSATISFIED..!!

..but the good thing is, while looking at my mistakes and their correct answers I could learn a couple of new grammar patterns that I've never heard of before.
Will do my best in the remaining one week to get a high score!!

On the way down to Petra a month ago..

I totally forgot about these pictures! I took these pictures during my trip to southern Jordan last month and was planning to include them with the trip post.

These were taken on the road down to Petra. It was very nice to see some Japanese language there! makes me wonder-happily-, why Japanese??

Now this is really old!

I lived that time.. anybody shares the same experience?

First MS Windows I ever dealt with. It was installed on the first computer my father had when he was a new engineer

A very old version of MS paint.. It was called Paintbrush

One of the earliest 3D games.. Wolf (?)
This game used to freak me out .. when I grew up a little, I could clear it all..the final boss was really something!

Lemmings any body??
I was taught how to run it from the floppy disk by entering commands to DOS.. I remember I was very young at that time.
Kids these days have easy technology!

This game was installed on the school computers when I was in 1st grade!!

The very first version of Prince of Persia.. I loooved this game

Street fighter!!! Ryu was my favorite!


OK! not very old...maybe I was 9, but this is one of my earliest contacts with the Japanese language. I memorized how to write つばさ from this game..of course not knowing how to read it!

Oh~ nice old days!

JLPTにチャレンジしてみよっかな！

I'm taking the JLPT in December this year!
For the time being I'm planning to take the 2kyuu but feel that the 1kyuu is not impossible either.
Will study hard until the time of application and decide which level I will take by that time.

Special thanks to M川さん who could secure an application form for me while I'm here! It's shown in the picture above.. ありがとうございます！！
More information about JLPT here!

ヨルダン＠留学生センターHP::Jordan@the Interntional Center webpage

Check this link that has information about countries of international students who studied Japanese language in the International Center of the University of Tokyo.
Look for Jordan and click it please!

東大の留学生センターの「留学生地図」を紹介いたします。
留学生地図とはセンターで日本語を学んだ学生たちの国に関する情報が載っている地図です。
下記のリンクをクリックしてください。　ヨルダンもチェックしてみてください！

http://www.todai-ic-nihongo.com/index_test.html

第12回日本語弁論大会のレポート

The 12th Japanese language speech contest reports.
Waiting for more reports!^^
出席したブロッガーの皆さんもよろしくぅ～！
Special offer: Write your report now and get a chance to win.. NOTHING!!!! (valid until 15th of March)

@右京の空


@Iman's Universe


@A Momiji Trip


@Rua's visions ←優勝者のレポート！：The grand winner's report

The 12th Japanese language speech contest!

I can imagine the atmosphere there now and can only wish to be there!
I wish everybody the best of luck and a great experience! (Especially those who I enjoyed the Japanese language class with at JUST : Yzn san, Iman san, Rawand san and Rua san!!)
.... I think the results are about to be out by now...so I'm waiting for interesting reports on all blogs!!
Ganbare minna! \(^0^)/

小浜 :: OBAMA

Some few days ago, I was walking my usual morning way to the station and thinking how Japanese-like the name Obama is.
I also went as far as flipping some kanji in my mind and created a combination for the name. I thought that the combination of 大　and 浜 would be funny.
I was surprised to find later that I wasn't so far away from an actual Japanese city name!!
The actual name is just "SMALLER" than the "BIG" one I had in my mind.
See this video about the city of OBAMA(小浜).

崖の上のポニョ

And this is Hayao Miyazaki's newest movie. 崖の上のポニョ "Ponyo on the cliff".
It was first announced around the period of my entrance exams. Glad they became a memory!:)
I would love to see this movie sometime~!
The great thing about it is that no CG is involved. An Anime that was mainly done the traditional way. See the interview below.

One CM:

Interview:

And here is the awesome ponyo song!（≧ω≦）
Also if you are a good nihongo student, you will go to this page, see the lyrics and sing along.(Mostly in Hiragana with very simple Kanji)

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logging out~!

なかなかなかなか大変だけど、必ずゲットだぜｗｗ

これどう思う？
草、炎、水、岩、、全タイプを！
第１．２．３．４、、全進化も！
。。ゲットだぜ！
漢字図鑑を完成させるのも忘れないでね！ｗ

Now how about this?

Grass, fire, water,stone, electric.. all Kanji types!
1st,2nd,3rd,4th.... all their "KANvolution" levels!　
Gotta learn them all!　
Don't forget to complete the Kan-Dex!

Imagine if I changed this idea into an Anime.... （☆▽☆）$$$ ww
That's why, just in case, All rights reserved!!
Let's hope someone we all know wont be sued by Nintendo! ^^;

よろしく！

人生の目標進む君へ

Introducing one of my favorite J-pop songs.
Singing along with songs can always be a good practice to improve your pronunciation skills.
This is how I started actually. In my high school days I used to sing Japanese songs reading lyrics written in Romaji without understanding a single word! w
Enjoy!

Tabidachi by Greeeen

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作詩：GReeeeN 作曲：GReeeeN
午前0時　明日　旅立つ君ヘ
僕の気持ち　手紙に託すよ
朝焼け　いつもの駅で　ただ「気をつけて」と
笑えるように　yeah

※人生の目標進む君へ　後ずさりなんか出来ないリレー
泣いて帰ったら許さねー!　踏ん張れ!頑張れ!まだ知らない地で
人生の1ページ刻む旅路『不安』と『孤独』で少し寂しい
でもそれは僕も同じだから　笑顔で送り出すと決めたから※

あれは去年　春の出来事で
駅のホームで　君にぶつかって
スゴイ法則　見つけ出せたんだよ
『恋に落ちる=時間じゃない』

夕暮れ色染まる君の自転車を　2人乗りで駅まで
笑い　走れたのは　今じゃ昔

明日　旅立つ君へ
僕の気持ち　手紙に託すよ
朝焼け　いつもの駅で　ただ「気をつけて」と
笑えるように

あの日　君が　いつものデートで
僕に「あのね、言いづらいんだけど、、、、」
夢を求めて　旅立つと言ったね
君の涙と共に

夕暮れ色染まる君の横で　肩を落とすのは　もう止めた!
「行っておいで!」と　涙こらえ

2人の距離を　埋める言葉を　探し　選んで　君に送るよ
隣でいつも　笑ってた君　でも大丈夫
わかっているよ　君が好きだから

小さな手に　大きなカバンを　抱え君は
「少しの間、、、」と
朝焼け　いつもの駅にホラ　桜の花びらが舞い降りた

午前0時　明日　旅立つ君へ
僕の気持ち　手紙に託すよ
朝焼け　いつもの駅で　ただ「気をつけて」と
笑えるように　「またね」と言えるように

(※くり返し)

Step by step into a busy life

This is a fresh picture that I took minutes ago of my desk in the lab. It's 8:40 PM and it's still VERY EARLY to go back home..
Recently life is becoming very busy for me and I spend looooong times in the lab. Most of the time I come here at 10:00AM and leave near 11:00PM.
In other words, I use my home for sleeping only!

I have to submit my research topic (only the title)during the coming 2 days and I need to do a lot of reading before I decide~!

I forgot to blog about the fact that I was allowed to take the Japanese language intensive course level 4 !
I am really glad, even though I know this is going to make me much busier but improving my Japanese is also one of my goals.
Actually the selection was very strict because people are not usually allowed to take the intensive course twice, to give chances for new students. (We can apply but whether we are allowed to take it or not depends on #1: Number of new students, #2: result at a placement exam #3: result of an interview)...at last I was the only student of class3 who was allowed to take level 4 ^^; I am gonna miss my nice class 3 friends~

By the way, the "summer memories" series is still incomplete. I think I still have 2 or 3 more posts about it..will hopefully do them soon, but with the current commenting statistics I dont feel encouraged to write them any time soon :p
ganbarimasu!

日本語コースの成果 :: 「最後の作文」

「最後の作文」はクラス３の皆さんが選んだ最後の作文の題目です。
なんて変な題目だなーと思う人がいるかもしれませんが、この題目にはちょっと寂しい気持ちが入ってます。

この作文「プロジェクトｗ」の目標は皆それぞれの国の有名なことについて作文を書くことでした。
私はぺトラについて書きました。
それは比較的に難しかったけど非常に勉強になりました。それに、自分の国について作文を書けるようになって本当に嬉しかったです。
「最後の作文」を楽しんでください～

＊＊＊＊＊＊ぺトラ遺跡＊＊＊＊＊＊

「エル．ハズネ」ぺトラの一番有名な建物。

ヨルダンと言うと、青いアカバの海や月の地面に似ている美しいワーディラムや地方で最も低い場所として有名な死海などの観光地を必ず思い浮かべます。しかし、その中で一番人気なのはぺトラの遺跡なのではないかと思います。
ぺトラはバラ色の町として知られていて、もともと紀元前400年ごろに、ナバテア人という砂漠の遊牧民に作られて、彼らの首都になったそうです。

ナバテア人たちは、商業の盛んな民族だったので、敵に攻撃されないように首都を安全なところに建てるのは重要でした。それで、ヨルダンの南の巨岩や奇岩がたくさんある砂漠を選んで、見つからないようにぺトラをそこに建てました。その結果、ぺトラは周りの砂漠からまったく見えません。

ぺトラの遺跡が発見されたのは19世紀ごろで、スイス人のイスラム学者によってです。
それは比較的最近なので、ぺトラは上手くかくされた町の代表として考えられています。
ぺトラは発見されたときから、人気がどんどん出てきて、1985年に世界遺産に最も古い時代の遺跡の一つとして登録されて、2007年に新世界七不思議にも登録されました。
さて、ぺトラはほかの遺跡に対して特別なところだとおもわれています。どうしてかというと、理由がたくさんありますが、その中での一番主要なのはぺトラの建造物です。
具体的に言うと、町には入口が一つしかありません。それは、「シーク」と呼ばれている細長い岩の谷にある道です。

シーク

高さ100メートルで、はば２メートルのところもあります。長さ1.5キロメートルのシークを進んで行くとそこの暗さが突然(とつぜん)消えて、明るくて高い「エル．ハズネ」というぺトラの一番有名な建物のすがたが現れます。

シークを歩き続けると明るいバラ色のぺトラが突然現れます。

不思議なことにぺトラの建物は基本的に全部岩が削られてできています。しかも建てられた時代は昔だったのにそのようなりっぱな建物ができたのはとても難しくてすばらしいのです。また、この突然の色や景色の変化は他の世界中の遺跡にはありません。
現代は観光客がいろいろな国からぺトラに来て、馬やラクダに楽しく乗ってシークを通ります。そしてシークを出たら、エル．ハズネだけではなくていろいろなことも楽しむことができます。例えば、たくさんのおみやげの売店では砂漠の砂から作られた砂ボトルも買えます。しかも最も有名なアラブコーヒーが伝統的なテントで体験できます。

砂ボトル。人気のあるペトラで買えるおみやげ。

ぺトラは２０００年以上の間ずっと変わらないままで、まるで時間の流れにちょうせんしているみたいです。それはナバテア人の優秀な文化を表すのではないかと思います。このようにヨルダンで観光する人にとって、ぺトラはとても人気のある観光地です。あなたもいかがでしょうか？

Finally beacame a real nihongo GAKUSEI

Today was the first day of the nihongo classes.
Based on the results of a placement test, I was placed in level 3 (out of 5 levels), which is good, I think.
I will have classes every day from 1:30 ~ 5:00 divided to 2 periods, except for Wednesday where there is only the 1st period and it finishes at 3:00.

This is my desk with my name on it in Katakana and Kanji. I am glad because people are starting to use this kanji for my name when they send me an email.
The class is fun. We are 11 students and there are 9 SENSEIs to teach us and they are assigned to the classes as 1 sensei/period.
The funniest part is the conversation challenge, where the teacher puts you in a certain situation(for example imagine that you need to take a day off tomorrow, go to the teacher, tell him/her and explain your reasons....) and all is video taped.
The fun starts when all students are done and playback time starts! Everyone would start laughing at their selves and their mistakes,(especially the politeness mistakes, and believe me, I am a pro in this type of mistakes !! XD ).
That's all for the nihongo class. I really like it so much! ^_^

Yasuda Auditorium standing high in pride

A Nice view. It's near a Japanese folklore museum.It is on my way to the station


A Mosque that I see when I go walking to Shimokitazawa; a nice shopping area with reasonable prices

That's all for today.

Learn Japanese on NHK online

NHK online دروس لتعلم اللغة اليابانية على
متاحة بعدة لغات، منها اللغة العربية.
اضغط الرابط في الأسفل

NHK online has a very interesting section for the Japanese Language.
It offers lessons in many languages including Arabic.
Click here, choose your language and start!

Sayounara J.U.S.T. (T_T)

Long time no post. I have been lazy to post anything lately, even though ALOT OF THINGS that are worth posting happened.

J.U.S.T.
My university was designed by a very very famous Japanese Architect; Kenzo Tange

He has a lot of world-wide recognized works

Starting with the fresh news :

I had my last lecture ever at JUST this Tuesday.
Yesterday (Wednesday 9th of January) was the last official day for lectures/lessons and it was the day for graduation seminars . Some of my friends had seminars yesterday, so we -the senpai s who already did their seminars last semester - attended for support! Actually it reminded me of our seminar day in MAY 2007.
So now the final exams period has started..and this time they will be my last final exams as a JUST student. I only have two; on the 16th and 17th of this month.

University looks sooo empty at the last day
This was our favorite hangout place- C square
寂しそう～！

Computer Engineering Class of 2003 poster and the graduation cards
(These card are placed for graduating students each year so friends/professors/teachers can write their wishes of luck and success for students )


I never thought the day when i will have my own card will come!
ふふふ！「Engineer」と書いてある！

Now everyone has time to go out and have fun after seminars are over! ^_^
Yesterday in ViaVia cafe - Irbid mall

Congratulations for finishing the Graduation Projects everyone!
There will be another big go-out party after the finals! \(^o^)/

And now, for the older news :

I am very thankful for Y. san, T. sensei and O. sensei for attending our J.U.S.T. Japanese language class last Thursday, 3rd of January.
That was my last nihongo lecture. I am glad that students has learned alot.
Actually I didn't think that we will go that far in nihongo when i first though to open the class.

A view of the class with our guests
Thanks Dr. Abu 3ein for attending too :)

gakusei VS sensei !
Center workshop announcements in the background and our class announcement is there

Pictures with students who participated in the skits

Done by our great MANGAKA Ru2a san.

So it's over! Actually this semester was very fast, I wasn't particularly busy at any time other than exam times.
This was a VERY special semester-especially the last part of it.
Now some people can say that they studied nihongo in IRBID during a whole semester! (^o^)y

Congrats Everyone!
卒業おめでとう !! (^_^)y

天日?^^

アラビア語の「アマーニ」は「望み」を意味します。でも、私は「アマニ」の方が好きです。なぜならば、漢字で自分の名前を書けたいだから。

前から、漢字で書ける名前を探していた。私は何度もたくさん漢字のコンビをトライしたけど、ぜんぶ気に入らなかった。
今日、パーフェクトコンビを作った！
それは、天日のアマニです！＾＾
「アマ」は天を意味し、｢ニ｣は日を意味します。名乗りとして、日は「に」と読みます。
それに、「日」は「日本」の「に」感じするのです。
似合うでしょう！（-＾ω＾-）

普通に、天日は「てんじつ」と読むでしょう。意味のいい言葉だと思うけど、、それは「アマニ」ではない　（｀・ω・´）
、、、、、、 振り仮名があってよかった！（＾∇＾）
またね～！(^o^)/

[ もうぐったりだ！今日の漢字の話を日本語で伝えたかったから、これは２時間ぐらいかかったポストです！日本語の間違いがありませんように！] 　＾＾;




I have been looking for a Kanji representation for my name for some time ago. I tried many combinations but i liked none of them. Until I came up with the kanji combination shown in the picture above.
The upper kanji can be read as AMA and the lower as NI. But this word is actually read as TENJITSU which means sunshine or sunlight ( i like the meaning but it's not read as my name).
Putting the Furigana as あまに forces the reading to be AMA NI. ^^
Ni is also used in NIHON = Japan. That's why i liked this part of the name.

The Japanese part of this post took near 2 hours..and there might also be mistakes!
While i wrote this english translation in less than 1 minute!
Well I hope more practice will result in less time soon!^^;