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Certified Japanese Teachers - 14
Hi everyone,
How are you?
This is Masa.
How's studying going?
Are you getting ready for fun in summer?
I've got a couple of updates to share with you today :)
1.
Our next monthly event is coming up on Sunday 11 August.
We will be having a tour in Kawagoe https://koedo.or.jp/
Yuka sensei will shortly be making an announcement on this :)
It will be from 11:00 to 15:00. You will be joining a group of learners and teachers and together visiting the local shrines, craft shops, eating and drinking on the main street :)
Let's have fun together!
2.
Recently, we have been in touch with World Unite https://www.world-unite.de/en.html for the event organisation. They are a Germany based company that offer everybody working holiday and volunteering experience in Japan.
My friend Ryo Takasugi san from https://www.takasugi-atelier.com/ and I are now talking to them to see if we can together establish opportunities for our community members to have short term paid work experience (accommodation provided) in Mie Prefecture.
You can work in tea production, craft beer brewery, souvenir retailers, culinary, catering, design, accommodation and hospitality and so on that Ryo san runs.
If there is a type of work experience you are interested to have, please do let me know at asaolanguage@gmail.com, we will love to look into your idea :)
3.
I have started to talk about (Grammatical) Aspect of Japanese language on TikTok.
https://www.tiktok.com/@asaolanguageschool
It is one of the key ideas to understand in order to structure the sentences that express exactly what you mean. It relates to the fases of an action, state and event and how they extend over time.
In Japanese, there are 6 of them and I am going through them one by one :)
1. 直前 - Prospective
2. 開始 - Inceptive
3. 継続 - Continuous
4. 進行 - Progressive and Habitual
5. 終了 - Terminative
6. 結果 - Perfect
It is food for thought. When you have time, please discuss them with your teacher in the lessons.
4.
The Photo is from Takashi Oonishi sensei and here is his introduction :)
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGyJSOSsea/?next=%2F&img_index=1
He has actively been teaching with us both in and out of our Discord community. He used to work in Journalism for a long time so he is familiar with a variety of topics and can discuss them with you in depth. He is also an expert in Academic Writing and Business Japanese, as well as JLPT Preparation and Conversation Lessons. If you come across his name in Second Craic, please say hello to him!
That's it for today :)
(Our sincere apologies for the trouble happened recently in our JLPT Mock Exam system. The defaults have been fixed now and the system is back normal.)
引き続き宜しくお願い致します。
Masa
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