I’ve been learning Japanese. I’m not particularly good at it, I really need to do some for an hour every day but I’m just not that committed! I’ve just finished Hiragana but there are still a few annoying characters I get confused about! In particular ne (ね) re (れ) and wa (わ) not to mention sa (さ) and Chi (ち)!

A very nice Japanese friend of my mums has lent me some japanese books! Aimed at 7-12 year olds. They are hard! But I whenever I learn languages I always fall down on vocab so without further ado here is my first list of vocab to learn!

• おはよう　ございます (ohayou gozaimasu) – Good Morning.

• Literally Means ‘It is early’, so best used before 10am else you’ll have people wondering what sort of time you get up at!

• Used in the daytime after 10 but before 6.
• Not sure why its pronounced wa and not ha, but i’m sure I’ll get onto that when i’ve learnt more!)

• Used after 6 until around 3-4 am when it starts to be おはよう　ございます again!

• Kind of means “we start our relationship”.

• Kind of means “please be nice to me.” or “pleased to meet you”

Its all very exciting, i’m just about to start Katakana so I can write english words as japanese, like カレーライス which apparently means curry rice. (ku-re-i ra-i-su – it takes a lot of imagination!!