ばらのはな は あかい です。すみれのはな は あおい です。

わたし は 日本語の詩 を かきます。Hopefully someday I will be able to. Right now, English is the only Language I can write in. But Japanese poetry is so cool. Of course most notable Japanese poems are Haikus, but still, they're pretty good.

This poem is by Kobayashi Issa, apparently it's his death poem:



A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.

Note the not-haiku-ness of it. I'm pretty sure it sounds better in Japanese.

The Power of あにめ!!!

はじめまして みなさん!!!

わたしは Rachealです。じゅうきゅうさいです。Columbia だいがくのがくせいです。にねんせいです。わたしのblogspotのなまえはRaedesuです。(Because I like the way it sounds). わたしはいちねんせいのにほんごのがくせいです。I decided to join the class because I have been trying to learn Japanese on my own for over five years with little to no success. I have wanted to learn にほんご ever since I was introduced to the wonderful world of anime back in the 9th grade. Anime is Japanese cartoons, which means they are in Japanese. Now don't get me wrong, watching them with subtitles is swell from time to time, but ever now and again I would like to pay attention to the action instead of reading. So that's my story.

どうぞよろしくおねがいします!!!

(Rei1: ああああ...そですか？
Rei2: はい、すきです!)