Hiatus Post      2020.04.27     Monday  休けい時間　きゅうけい　じかん　

令和2年4月27日  　月曜日

週末（しゅうまつ）は　どう　でしたか。

楽しかった？

つまらなかった？

 Brad Pitt appeared on Saturday Night Live 四月二十五日に, so of course I thought of Yoko Schmadeke Sensei.  

Brad Pitt was playing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the physician　医者　 who has been giving national medical announcements during White House news briefings.  At the end of the episode, Brad Pitt paid tribute to Dr. Fauci’s expertise and devotion.

I also wrote about it and sent the link to a Japanese friend of mine who works in the medical field in Indianapolis.  Here is what she wrote:

「上医は国を医す。Dr. Fauci is 上医。」

The kanji 医 means “doctor, medicine.”  So 医する　is a somewhat old-fashioned verb that means “to heal, to cure.”  As you know, 上　can mean something like top, or summit.   Therefore 上 医 can mean something like the doctor at the top of his profession, the most senior doctor (“Senior doctor” is how my friend translated it).  And 国 くに　means country or nation.

So what she was saying was something like, “The top/best/senior doctor is one who heals/cures the (whole) nation.  Doctor Fauci is a top doctor.”

We can be grateful that he has been looking out for our country as a whole.

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.

As you probably recall, we worked on the following kanji on Thursday.

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.

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

Please look at Flipgrid.

 Here is the link to the new assignment on Flipgrid. https://flipgrid.com/c68218ac Your code for Flipgrid is nihongo5634. Access Japanese 5-6 flipgrid with your school email address ending: @student.oprfhs.org キメル先生より



           

宿題　　　しゅくだい　　　Homework (due WEDNESDAY)      

          

A. Write the sentence below, which uses all the above kanji, 3 times.  Then wrute its English meaning.１Ｘ書いて下さい。

友達の子供は宿題を忘れた、と　思います

B.  　Now write 1 original sentence using each of the following kanji words (4 sentences, total).

     子供　　　忘れる　　　思う　　　　　言う

1

2

3

4

                       

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

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