hisashiburi/久しぶり

hisashiburi (久しぶり/ひさしぶり) - it's been a while

本当に久しぶりです〜！

今日から日本語のレッスンをまたはじめました。レッスン１はかんたんでした。「はじめまして。ニタです。私は英語のきょうしです。二十三歳です。どうぞよろしく。」でも、久しぶりに日本語で書きます。覚えていますけど、ちょっとむずかしいね。

Long time no see!

Today, I started Japanese lessons again. Lesson one was pretty easy. "Nice to meet you. I'm Nita. I'm an English teacher. I'm 23 years old. How do you do?" But it's been a while since I'd written any Japanese. I remembered, but it was kinda hard.

As I expected, the first few lessons will be mostly review. Still, I learned some new words. Here are some of the more useful ones:

kyoushi (教師/きょうし) - teacher (when referring to yourself)
gakusei (学生/がくせい) - student (when referring to yourself)
senmon (専門/せんもん) - major (in school)
jisho (辞書/じしょ) - dictionary
ryuugakusei (留学生/りゅうがくせい) - international exchange student
hiku (引く/ひく) - minus (subtract)
tasu (足す/たす) - plus (add)
kotaeru (答える/こたえる) - answer (question)
hiraku (開く/ひらく) - open (book, door)
kyuuri (キュウリ) - cucumber
jagaimo (ジャガイモ) - potato
ninjin (ニンジン) - carrot

My new kanji dictionary is coming in handy just for these posts :)

I really need to review/memorize irregular numbers and things, but the sentence structures for right now are pretty simple, and there aren't many words I don't know. There is a list of majors and occupations in the first lesson, the bulk of which I don't know, but I haven't bought the book yet, so this list is just what I wrote down in my notebook. I might've already posted plus and minus, but I couldn't remember minus (only plus), so they're both on the list, with kanji. Also, I learned "教師" the first day of training, but since I haven't posted since... uh, April... it's also on the list.

The book I'm going to use looks like it moves pretty fast (there's no romaji after the first two or three lessons), and the explanations are pretty good. I'll try to post my progress here as the weeks go on.