Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Study Study!
(you may need to install Japanese fonts on your computer in order to read this. sorry!)
I have been practicing my Japanese rather diligently lately - this is the result:
おはようございます。
- Good morning!
[ohayogozaimasu]
これは わたしの ブログです。
- This is my blog.
[kore wa watashi no 'burogu' desu]
おげんきですか。 私は げんきです。
- How are you? I am fine.
[ogenki desu ka? watashi wa genki desu]
これは ヲルポフさんの お弁当です。 これは わたしの お弁当ではありません。
- This is Mr. Wolpoff's bento(lunch). This is not my lunch.
[kore wa 'worupofu'-san no obento desu. kore wa watashi no obento dewa arimasen]
これは ヲルポフさんのです。
- It is Mr Wolpoff's.
[kore wa 'worupofu'-san no desu]
私の でんわばんごは さん ゼロ さん の に よん いち の さん はち さん はち。
- My phone number is...
[watashi no denwabango wa san zero san no ni yon ichi no san hachi san hachi]
The Japanese language has 3 alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Hiragana and Katakana both have 46 characters while the kanji alphabet has over 5000. I know the hiragana and katakana alphabets, and about 10 kanji characters. The above 'note' uses all three alphabets (only a little kanji).
Hiragana and Katakana are the first things you learn in school as a Japanese child - each character corresponds to a sound (like our alphabet). So the level I write at is that of a 2nd grader... cool.
Hiragana is used to write Japanese words (like rice = ごはん) while Katakana is used for foreign words (like pizza = ピザ or my name = ジェン). The Kanji alphabet is a pictographic alphabet - each character corresponds to a meaning (for example 車 means car). This is how you write car in hiragana = くるま so essentially you can communicate with only hiragana and katakana but it shows a severe lack of education. Anyway, if you want to know more about the language you can hit up this site.
I have been practicing my Japanese rather diligently lately - this is the result:
おはようございます。
- Good morning!
[ohayogozaimasu]
これは わたしの ブログです。
- This is my blog.
[kore wa watashi no 'burogu' desu]
おげんきですか。 私は げんきです。
- How are you? I am fine.
[ogenki desu ka? watashi wa genki desu]
これは ヲルポフさんの お弁当です。 これは わたしの お弁当ではありません。
- This is Mr. Wolpoff's bento(lunch). This is not my lunch.
[kore wa 'worupofu'-san no obento desu. kore wa watashi no obento dewa arimasen]
これは ヲルポフさんのです。
- It is Mr Wolpoff's.
[kore wa 'worupofu'-san no desu]
私の でんわばんごは さん ゼロ さん の に よん いち の さん はち さん はち。
- My phone number is...
[watashi no denwabango wa san zero san no ni yon ichi no san hachi san hachi]
The Japanese language has 3 alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Hiragana and Katakana both have 46 characters while the kanji alphabet has over 5000. I know the hiragana and katakana alphabets, and about 10 kanji characters. The above 'note' uses all three alphabets (only a little kanji).
Hiragana and Katakana are the first things you learn in school as a Japanese child - each character corresponds to a sound (like our alphabet). So the level I write at is that of a 2nd grader... cool.
Hiragana is used to write Japanese words (like rice = ごはん) while Katakana is used for foreign words (like pizza = ピザ or my name = ジェン). The Kanji alphabet is a pictographic alphabet - each character corresponds to a meaning (for example 車 means car). This is how you write car in hiragana = くるま so essentially you can communicate with only hiragana and katakana but it shows a severe lack of education. Anyway, if you want to know more about the language you can hit up this site.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Instructions
This page (the one your looking at right now) is what I call THE BLOG.
THE BLOG is a web page run by Google. You have a Google account because you are a member of Google.
If you want to write something on THE BLOG you have to "log in" because Google doesn't automatically know who you are.
This is how you "log in" to THE BLOG.
Do you see an icon that looks like this in the top left corner of the screen?
Click on it.
Do you see where it says "Sign in to use Blogger"?
It asks for your username and your password. Your username is your email.
(mom in your case it is your @aol.com email)
Once you log in you will see a page called "Dashboard"
It will also say "The Talmage Internet Hookup" - that is THE BLOG.
Under that there will be a little green + sign and the words "New Post" - if you click on that, you can write on THE BLOG.
--------PART TWO--------
The web site that has all of my pictures is here.
It is NOT part of THE BLOG. It is run by Flickr. Flickr is NOT a part of Google.
If you want to comment on my Flickr pictures you have to "log in" to Flickr.
Do you see an icon that looks like this at the top of the Flickr web page?
Click on it.
Now, on that page there is a VERY SMALL button that says "sign in" - it's in the top right corner. Click on it.
It will ask for your YahooID - which is your email @yahoo.com
Click "Sign In" and you're done!
THE BLOG is a web page run by Google. You have a Google account because you are a member of Google.
If you want to write something on THE BLOG you have to "log in" because Google doesn't automatically know who you are.
This is how you "log in" to THE BLOG.
Do you see an icon that looks like this in the top left corner of the screen?
Click on it.
Do you see where it says "Sign in to use Blogger"?
It asks for your username and your password. Your username is your email.
(mom in your case it is your @aol.com email)
Once you log in you will see a page called "Dashboard"
It will also say "The Talmage Internet Hookup" - that is THE BLOG.
Under that there will be a little green + sign and the words "New Post" - if you click on that, you can write on THE BLOG.
--------PART TWO--------
The web site that has all of my pictures is here.
It is NOT part of THE BLOG. It is run by Flickr. Flickr is NOT a part of Google.
If you want to comment on my Flickr pictures you have to "log in" to Flickr.
Do you see an icon that looks like this at the top of the Flickr web page?
Click on it.
Now, on that page there is a VERY SMALL button that says "sign in" - it's in the top right corner. Click on it.
It will ask for your YahooID - which is your email @yahoo.com
Click "Sign In" and you're done!
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