Thursday, April 30, 2020


Hiatus Post      2020.04.30     Thursday  休けい時間 きゅうけい じかん 

令和2430   木曜日

            Try to listen to spoken Japanese whenever you can: movies, TV programs, anime online, etc.  The person I’ve written about below is very entertaining, his Japanese is excellent, and he’s fairly easy to understand.
Recently, when getting up in the mornings, I have been watching and listening to performances by a Canadian-born traditional 落語 rakukgo storyteller named Katsura Sunshine   桂三輝. He broadcasts from Tokyo on 木曜日のあさ mornings 日本語で and on 木曜日のよる Thursday evenings  英語で.  He has a presence on Facebook and on YouTube, where you can find “Katsura Sunshine (rakugo storyteller) a documentary film” and some of his individual routines.
He came to Chicago last summer for the big downtown Japan Festival that took place in Millennium Park and at the Chicago Cultural Center.  That’s where I saw/heard him for the first time.  He performed in both Japanese (his Japanese is fabulous) and English, wearing a hilariously gaudy kimono and sporting hair dyed a showy blond. He is very entertaining in both languages!
After Chicago, he went to New York and appeared in an off-Broadway theater for several months.  And now he has been nominated to receive an award from the Off Broadway Theater Alliance for his production, “Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo,” in the category of “best unique theatrical experience.” 

I am thinking about this because I want YOU to speak.  Go to Flipgrid (information below) and record the two assignments there that I have left for you.



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 them in Skyward.



Japanese 5-6


Chapter 11 の漢字 and 話すことspeaking, 今日those are the things we are working on.

****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
           
宿題   しゅくだい   Homework (due MONDAY)  
              
A. Write each of each Chapter 11 that we have learned so far, 3 times each

父 母 兄 姉 強い  忘れる  思う 言う 子供


B.****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


There are actually 2 assignments now on Flipgrid. 

The first is to tell about your (possibly fictional) weekend, using specified verbs in the past tense.
 
The second is to tell about experiences you have had using the pattern

Dictionary-form-verb こと が あります、ある、ありません、ない
                       
      Here's the link to the Nakama textbook, online:

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