Hiatus Post      2020.04.23     Thursday        休けい時間　きゅうけい　じかん　

令和2年4月23日  　木曜日

終わりよければ全て良し　　おわりよければ　すべて　よし

All’s Well that Ends Well　　Literally, “if the end is good, all will be good”

シェイクスピア　の　誕生日　おめでとう

Happy Shakespeare’s Birthday

Shakespeare is well known and highly respected in Japan.  When I was in a used bookstore 古本屋（ふるほんや） in Yokohama I was able to buy the Japanese translation of Lamb’s Tales of Shakespeare, which gave me (personally) a funny impression, as I found myself imagining The Merchant of Venice in the style of a Kabuki play.  It kind of fit, actually.

My advisor at Yokohama City University, Professor Mitani Kuniaki 三谷那明教授, used to say that Shakespeare and Kabuki, particularly the (bunraku and) kabuki plays by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, showed many surprising similarities.  The Elizabethan period in England and the Genroku period in Japan have a great deal in common in terms of abundant cultural production.

I just ordered Shakespeare in Japan    by Thomas Bradshaw  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004

Japanese 3-4

You will be doing the class assignments created by Yoko Sensei from now on.  Send them /post them to me, however, as I will be grading and posting them in Skyward.

Japanese 5-6

Lesson 11 of Nakama focuses on memory, 思い出（おもいで）: thinking about things, telling about events in the past, in various times of everyone’s lives.

So let’s work on the following kanji.

子供　（こども）child, children

忘れる（わすれる）to forget

思う（おもう）to think (about), particularly when expressing an opinion.

             友達のお父さん　は　忙しい　と　思います。

            My friend’s father is busy, I think.

言う（いう）to say, especially when reporting what someone has said.

            うち　の　母　は　「みなさん、帰って下さい」と　言いました。

            Mother of my house (that is, “my mother”) said, “Everyone, please return home.”

宿題　　　しゅくだい　　　Homework (due MONDAY)      

          

A. Now write each kanji 5 times, with its English meaning.書いて下さい。

B.  　下の文書を英語で下さい。

ざんねんですが、私　は　宿題　を　忘れました。

先生の子供　は　忙しくて、うるさい　です。

あのフランス語の本は　むずかしい　と　思います。

男の子も　女の子も　ビデオ・ゲーム　を　するのが　すき　です。

今度（こんどthis time, next time）日本語で言って下さい。

C. Important vocabulary words to practice writing 3 times today:

はる  (春)                                                                なつ（夏）

Spring                                                                     summer

あき  (秋)                                                                ふゆ(冬)

Autumn/fall                                                          winter

きょうかい（きょうかい）            　　どうぶつえん

Church                                                                    zoo

                       

D.       Here's the link to the Nakama textbook, online:

https://kupdf.net/download/nakama-1-textbook-japanese_5afab2dde2b6f5b7601d5650_pdf