Reading Challange: Day 2 week 2

What a week!
I´m currently in Brazil visiting my family after 14 years.

I thought that I´d have plenty of time here to sit back and read.

I brought all of my Hiragana Times magazines.
I thought wrong.
I´m used to a quiet home but here it´s full of life, (not to mention noise).

My family wants my attention every second of the day.
And when their not I´m taking a nap.

I love that here everyone takes naps.

Of course I´m putting my family first.
I´m enjoying spending time with each of them,
but I alo realize that 2 weeks without ANY Japanese will hurt my progress greatly.

My family loves to watch novelas.
So I take the chance to read.
There was some topics I read about in the magazine.

Sign Language
There is a musical playing Tokyo that is using Japanese sign language.
I thought it really cool that they´re making more entertainment for a different demograph.

Exhibitions, babysitting, kimono book, baseball

I read it for practice but I wasnt interested in it.

Little Star

There was an article about a growing star named Ashida Mana.

It was interesting because she seems mature for her age.

I want to watch the shows she´s been in now.

Joshikai

I really dont understand this phenomenon.

Its basically women hanging out, eating, shopping, and chatting without men around.

Its a boom these days and women seem to be happy without the company of men.

Um... women have always hung out together. So why do they act like it´s something new...

Someone please explain it to me.ta

I think it´s just companies trying make something up to make more money.

i.e valentine´s day

I sadly don´t have a dictionary with me, so I can´t look up the words I´m reading.

I can´t have the interent on all day either. I think i´m missing out alot because of this.

I´ve been taking my time reading each sentence.

Pausing at particles, because I tend to fly through without much thought.

Now I´m paying attention to each part I read.

I´ve also noted sentences that end with a noun. A grammar point I´ve been studying in

my lessons.

I´ve also payed attention to easy phrases made more complicated.

I read 9 pages, but one was too short so I will count it as 0.1.

9=4.1pts. 3+4.1=7.1 pts in total.

 

JSL 手話

I've been studying JSL real hard these past weeks and it has finally paid off. 
I can now do the song "Iroha uta"





Excuse me for the serious face. 
I was really focused.
I redid this chart to have 
the JSL in the order of the song so I could learn.

After doing that I did a colab with my friend.
We did a JSL skit.
She has a lot of good JSL videos and recommendations.
If you're interested here's her YT channel:
Rachel's Channel




I'm hoping to do the "a e i o u" song using JSL soon too.
JSL is definitely a lot of fun to do.

いろは歌 (The Basics song)

Lyrics:

「いろはにほへと 

ちりぬるを

わーかよたれそ 

つねならむ

ういのおくやま

 けふこえて

あさきゆめみし 

えひもせすん」

So recently I've been interested in JSL.
(Japanese Sign Language)
More specifically about that later.


I was looking to see if there was a video on the ABC's of hiragana in JSL,
and I found this video of Miku doing it.
I was happy because it makes learning the gestures more fun.
(That's how I learned the hiragana when I started Japanese).


Because I'm just starting it felt too fast.
So I googled the lyrics.
I was surprised to learn that it's a real song.
A poem.
A very old poem.


I was so focused on the signs I didn't realize that she's singing words.
When you convert the hiragana to kanji it makes more sense.
The translation is melancholy but pretty.


Today it's more of a ABC song. 
(At least that's what I've read)


It makes it even more interesting for me to learn it.
I'll be learning a piece of history,
a beautiful poem,
JSL,
and having fun.


For more background on the poem here are some wiki links:
Iroha (English)
いろは（日本語）