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for a first point of view, there were no common ground with the spanish or english equivalents. That ass why I started to do some research.

I came up with the origin of the names. And for my good surprice, there is a lot in common.

The spanish and english names are based on the name of the planets, the same goes to the japanese names... The only point when I got confused and have to invest more in is the origen of the names of the planets in japanese... doing so, the days of the week will be mastered in no so much time, because tuesday (tor-Mars-fire), in japanese is kayoubi when ka is fire and easily related to Mars. But wednesday (from german good Woden, is related to the planet Mercury), but that is the japanese water planet, that is way wednesday is in japanese suiyoubi, the water day.

Thas is why, if I get to know the relation between the japanese name of the planets and the planets itself, I could finish this list and understand it (the base of knowing ;) ).

nichiyoubi -sunday - domingo (nichi = sun = sol )

getsuyoubi - monday - lunes (getsu=moon=luna)

kayoubi - tuesday - martes (ka=fire=fuego) [Marte/Nordic god Tyr/fuego]

suiyoubi - wednesday - miercoles (sui=water=agua) [mercurio/Woden english god for mercury/agua]

mokuyoubi - thursday - jueves (moku = wood = madera) [jupiter/Nordic god thor/madera]


kinyoubi - friday - viernes (kin = Gold/Money = Oro/Dinero)[venus/Frigg,germanic translation on venus/metal]

doyoubi - saturday - sabado ( do = Earth/Soil = Tierra/suelo)[dia de saturno/ de descanso (hebreo shabat)/tierra)

learning this way is quite funny (divertido).

by the way, I post a more detailed explanation at http://fiubando.blogspot.com/2009/05/sobre-los-dias-de-la-semana.html in spanish. And I found http://www.livemocha.com/, it is not the same as lang-8, but it is a nice complement for this special lovely site.

Posted at Fri May 22 16:50:54 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/154359 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/154359 mariano Fri May 22 16:50:54 UTC 2009
But first I think it is necesary to give some context to this story. At the university, there is no classmates, at least, no classmates that will course with you the same courses over the carrerer.

That is way, having a groups of friends to study together is great. It helps to develop some relations over time and to follow in a closser manner others carreres, support them and share experience on how to achieve the common goal of getting a degree (or diploma?). I usually spend saturday and sunday evening (from 2 to 6 pm) in this activity.

By the way, I was thinking of how nice would be to construct relationships with local persons that seriously are learing japanese. That way, both of us could have an accountable to keep track and make recomendations about eachother progress. Perhaps that partnert could be an lang-8 user, that would be nice too, but I am starting this search. In some time I hope to have some news to tell to my dear lang-8 friends about this... Because, learning languages is a beautyful human social activity.

Posted at Thu May 21 16:28:48 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/153605 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/153605 mariano Thu May 21 16:28:48 UTC 2009
It is unthinkable how fast the time goes when you are having a great time. I am doing my best (watashi ga ganbare), and I am really enjoing it, no matter if thing not always go as smooth as I can wish.

This note is bassicaly an 'i am back' (tadaima)... just that :).

By the way, I cant stop using some japanese words while speaking or thinking, it is like those are becoming part of mine, and it feels good (kimochii) :D.

Posted at Tue May 19 16:52:34 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/152057 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/152057 mariano Tue May 19 16:52:34 UTC 2009 Este listado es el vocabulario sobre el cuerpo (humano).

anata ga aratameru onegai shimasu ka.
¿Lo revisarías por favor?

cuerpo - body - karada
cabeza - head - atama
brazo - arm - ude
pierna - leg - ashi
pecho - chest - mune
espalda - back - senaca
mano - hand - otete
pie - foot - ashi
dedo - finger - yubi

//atama
pelo - hair - kami | kaminoke
ojos - eyes - me
nariz - nose - hana
oidos - ears - mimi
frente - forehead - hitai | odeko
pera - chin - ago
ceja - eyebrow - mayuge
mejilla - cheek - hoppe
boca - mouth - kuchi
lengua - tongue - shita
pestaña - eyelashes - matsuge

//articulaciones - ?? - ??
cuello - neck - kubi
hombro - shoulder - kata
codo - elbow - hiji
muñeca - wrist - tekubi
cadera - hip - ??
rodilla - knee - hiza
tobillo - ankle - ashikubi

//yubi
pulgar - thumb - oyayubi
indice - index finger - hitosashi | hitosashiyubi
mayor - middle finger - kiyuushi | nakayubi
anular - ring finger - kanshi
menique - pinkie - koyubi

Posted at Wed Mar 18 19:50:07 UTC 2009
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Posted at Wed Mar 18 19:42:05 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/107581 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/107581 mariano Wed Mar 18 19:42:05 UTC 2009 Because of work, I will skip some lectures, and I ask a friend of mine to record them in mp3, I hope that with the audio and the book I could manage to pass the course. It is really not the same as going, as seeing, as feeling the class. But it is that I can do by now.

In another line, last Saturday a friend family gave a party. And it was great, good food, nice music, an splendid moment. Until the dance started... I have to say that I do not know how to dance... Said that, I have to say that I did not care that :). I enjoyed dancing, and the girls that danced with me were really brave :)... Yes they are really good friends of mine. That is why I decided to learn how to dance. I am not sure about how rhythm it is the ideal to start. May be I will do a course that teach the basic of several ones. Another friend told me that he lend to a friend of both a cd with a course of dancing!... I can not believe that there is a cd for that... I still want the classic way, with a patient teacher avoiding my feet.

I restarted to study in group last Saturday too. Actually, we are in different careers and in different universities. But it is really helpful for us. While one is reading maths, another is reading physics or chemistry. If one gets a dude, another will try to solve it. Since, in this semester I am not able to go to class, it is really important, either in a human fashion as in a academic way.

By the way, I will write mainly in English, until I could manage to write a little bit better in Japanese. I am doing my best but I still need some basic vocabulary. Perhaps I will post some resume I made on vocabulary (parts of body, name of jobs, basic actions), because I progress better in the grammatical aspect than in expanding my vocabulary. Time will se if I take this or that course of actions, but oe thing is sure, I really, really love japanese =).

Posted at Mon Mar 16 17:53:05 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/106294 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/106294 mariano Mon Mar 16 17:53:05 UTC 2009
First, last Wednesday I did an exam at the university. But the context was the one of a movie. All that day was raining. I went to the workplace (office) with the company of a soft water falling from a silver cloud. At lunch, a thin rain induced me to buy a delicious dish (empanadas). When I was going to the university, it was raining really hard, and I got a headache. I solve the exam really fast, and then I went home, to slept.

The last Thursday I had to inscribe me to the courses of this semester. I choose some subjects, that will allow me to keep working while studding. my career, engineering, really takes time to be completed, and it is really easy to lost years if you do not pass one subject in time. Some times, because of being at work, you could not assit and looses exams, just a little problem, with a big impact on your life.

I started this week to study, I feel condifent I will have a nice semester.
A good news is that a coworker lend me a book about kanji... all written in japanese. It will take time to digest it, but it will be so sweet to read it that I am really happy about that.

Nowadays my current topic at Japanese is to end learning katakana, that is why I have to wait until I could learn more vocabulary, verbs in particular.

Posted at Thu Mar 12 17:21:56 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/103970 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/103970 mariano Thu Mar 12 17:21:56 UTC 2009
The last days I was reading and studing japanesse. I know some basic grammar and rules. And I learned hiragana, besides I still have some problem with the union of two silabes, the _i followed with an y_ , because I am still not fluently with those sounds.

Now I am looking at two big islands of the japanesse language word. The vocabulary one, and the verb conjugation one.

By the way, yesterday I learned about the -i adjetives. They are pretty nice, because they can change to allow time reference and negation... The -na adjetives must be used with the na particle between the adjetive and the noun, it is not so difficult. The little problem is to start learning the i and na adjetives and try to do not mistake them.

I really start to love the complete way of learning japanesse, I mean:
Learn a word, its meaning, its kanji if it has some, a story to relate the word, meaning and kanji. And I am looking for a site like that but with word catalogized. Then I could read about the body part vocabulary or the family vocabulary or free time activities. The near of that that I went it is the "remember the kana" book. It grouped similar symbols and teach you every little detail of it. ほんとに とてもすばらしい =D.

Posted at Thu Feb 26 14:45:47 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/95158 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/95158 mariano Thu Feb 26 14:45:47 UTC 2009
La idea es contarles dos cosas del español. Dos pequeños detalles, dos secretos :).

El primero es con los signos de puntuación. Por lo general, hay de dos tipos. Los que 'vienen de a pares' como los signos de admiración ¡...!, de pregunta ¿...?, las comillas dobles "...", las simples '...', los paréntesis (...), los guiones de comentarios -...-, las llaves {...} y corchetes [...] . Y los que se usan solos, para expresar pausas en la lectura del texto, pausas útiles para respirar antes de seguir leyendo, tales como la coma ',', el punto '.', los dos puntos ':' y el punto y coma ';'.

En los primeros, suelen encerrar texto, contenerlo, por eso se escriben pegado a la primer y última palabra que contienen, por ejemplo: "El dijo: 'la casa es pequeña' y luego: 'pero agradable'. Ella -algo confundida- contestó: '¿quieres que nos mudemos aquí?'. El dijo: '¡Si! Será nuestra casa'". Los signos ? y ! se toman como . dado que terminan la oración.

En los segundos, se suelen escribir pegados, juntos, a la palabra anterior a ellos y luego dejar un espacio, tal como si no estuvieran escritos. Por ejemplo: "Hoy, el primer día de escuela, pensaba en cómo sería su maestra. Ella, al verlo, lo saludó cálidamente; el niño sonrió y corrió a saludarla: 'hola maestra'.".

El segundo, es sobre los acentos. En español toda palabra tiene una sílaba que se pronuncia con más fuerza. Se la llama sílaba tónica. Esa sílaba es la que puede llevar escrito el acento. Pero no siempre el acento se escribe. Antes de saber las reglas de cuando se usa o no un acento, hay que saber que las palabras en español se clasifican en "agudas, graves y esdrújulas" (existe también sobreesdrújula, pero no tiene tanta importancia). Importa el final de la palabra:

Una palabra es aguda si la última sílaba se pronuncia con más fuerza. Por ejemplo: Animal, enfermedad, altitud, corazón, pan.

Una palabra es grave si la ante última sílaba (la anterior a la última) se pronuncia con más fuerza. Por ejemplo: Verano Cocinero, andamio, cráter, tío.

Como estarás pensando, las esdrújulas llevan el acento en la tercer sílaba contando desde el final; y las sobreesdrújulas, a partir de la cuarta sílaba o anterior.

Ahora, la regla es:
las palabras agudas que terminan en -n -s o en vocal (-a -e -i- o -u) llevan tilde (el acento escrito).
las palabras graves que no terminan en -n -s o en vocal (-a -e -i- o -u) llevan tilde (el acento escrito).

las esdrújulas y sobre esdrújulas siempre llevan tilde.

Saber cuando una palabra es aguda o grave o esdrújula, es algo que se aprende escuchando hablar, o se puede ir memorizando con estudio -aunque llevará más tiempo.

Posted at Mon Feb 23 17:14:19 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/93389 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/93389 mariano Mon Feb 23 17:14:19 UTC 2009
ほんが かわばたお さつかに です.

わたしが この ほん とつても すき です.

Posted at Thu Feb 19 20:22:35 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/91004 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/91004 mariano Thu Feb 19 20:22:35 UTC 2009
today I really have a very bussy day at work. Perhaps the problem was that I was thinking in several things, some task at work, another ones in the university.
At some point I loose the focus.

The last saturday I took too much sun, a really long sunbath while I was walking near a lagoon in a city not so far from home.
But I got a little burn, but not really burn, I got part of my skin red... Today it is ligth pink and I hope that in some days I will be completelly fine.

でも, きょうわ はれる と わたしわ どよおうび おぼえる
わたしわ, どようびに すごい. だたか, いい です.

I have to have me more patience while the time go on, the skin came better and the shirt does not bothers like today, just a little but the skin still is too sensitive.

PS: this note was written yesterday, but i forget to public (yes my home computer wasn't shut down since a long time ago)

Posted at Thu Feb 19 00:22:37 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/90458 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/90458 mariano Thu Feb 19 00:22:37 UTC 2009
http://tinyurl.com/c7gmns

I hope it can help to others as much as it is helping me ;)

Please tell me if it have a problem, bug or something to improve it.

Posted at Tue Feb 17 01:09:17 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/89189 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/89189 mariano Tue Feb 17 01:09:17 UTC 2009 hoy llovió.

You could see a gray canva all over the sky... waiting for being colored.

honjitsu wa suki dewa arimasen.
hoy no me gustó mucho.

That sky invited me to think too much, to travel aborad of a train called imagination to another countries.

shikashi, honjitsu wa anohitotachi shinobu.
sin embargo, hoy recordé a personas (muy queridas para mi).

I remember nice memories, and I though that it is only a matter of keep going with lovely people having good moments to share in our hearts for times like today.

takara, honjitsu wa sugoi.
por eso, hoy me encantó.

because, the sky it is just a companion travel in our lifes.

PD: I used romanji because I am finishing some changes in the firefox extension. :)

Posted at Mon Feb 16 22:41:17 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/89141 http://lang-8.com/32967/journals/89141 mariano Mon Feb 16 22:41:17 UTC 2009 watashi wa mariano desu
yoroshiku onegai shimasu

well this was the best start in japanese aI know. I will love to learn how to use hiragana in the computer... So far that is the only set of symbols I know... the next is katagana and kana... that is going to keep me busy several years ;).

Por lo demás, quisiera incorporar algunos verbos, los de uso frecuente en principio. Pero por ahora, sería genial poder ingresar las síbalas en kana.

PS: watashi wa "H2O footprints in the sand" o dai suki. But it has a sorrow ending :( ... Dooshite?

PS2: for japanese - romanji and romanji - japanese I found:
http://nihongodecarenavi.jp/en/index.html

Posted at Mon Feb 16 00:24:45 UTC 2009
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