19th November 2012
issue 8iJapanese Newsletter

Published by iJapanese Language & Culture School

外来語 Gairaigo - Loan Words
お知らせ

Information for2013
Our New Term for 2013 willcommence from the 14th of January
and run until the 30th of March.
Please confirm with your teacher
for Term 1 scheduling as time slots
are limited.
Contact Details:
0401 886 629
info@ijapanese.com.au

Public Holidays
Next year we will have a few
public holidays that will fall during
our Term 1.
As a result we will replace theseclasses and your teacher will
confirm the dates with you if youare affected.

Gairaigo is the use of foreign words inJapanese. The oldest and largest group ofloan words was brought from China inancient times; though in practice they are
not included as Gairaigo.
Japanese has borrowed a large numberof words from other languages including
Portuguese, Dutch (since the Muromachi
Era 1336 - 1573), English, German andFrench after Edo Era (1603 - 1868).
Therefore ‘Gairaigo’ is considered to bemade up of European words.
*Dutch – Between the 17th to 19thcenturies Japan traded solely withHolland, hence many words originatedfrom Dutch, now known as theNetherlands.
オルゴール orugooru (music box),
ゴム gomu (rubber)*Portuguese - The first
Europeans to visit Japan
were Portuguese.
たばこ tabako (tobacco),てんぷら tenpura (tempura)*Italian - Many words are found in areasof music and cooking,
オペラ opera (opera)
パスタ pasuta (pasta)*French - Words of French origin arefound in measurements and fashion.
メートル metoru (meter),
ズボン zubon (pants)

Boonenkai /End of Year Event
Please come along and join us for Boonenkai 2012!
Combining traditional Aussie and Japanese style BBQ that will bring a delicious
array of foods for all of us to enjoy.
DATE :All students are welcome to bring friends! TIME :PLACE :COST :
RSVP :And German we use for medical words.
アレルギー arerugii (allergy),
カルテ karute (clinical chart),
レントゲン rentogen (x-ray)
It is surprising てんぷら(Tempura) was
originally not Japanese, isn’t it?
As written above, normally Gairaigo iswritten in Katakana but in older times
Japanese people used Kanji (Chinesecharacter). Therefore most of Kanji written
Gairaigo are hard to recognize even forJapanese people these days. But somewords are still used in Kanji and people
can understand.
For example:
麦酒 (biiru) beer,
頁 (peeji) page,
倶楽部 (kurabu) club,珈琲 (koohii) coffee
The origin of koohii (coffee) mentioned
above was thought up by Yooan Utagawa
during the Edo period linking the redcoffee cherries to a Japanese hair stick.
‘珈’ means ball on a hair stick‘琲’ means string
Look at the pictures! The coffee beans look
like Japanese hair stick, doesn’t it?

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iJapanese Newsletter
Student’s Story - Rudi Hendra Jaya

Please tell us yourrecommendations!
We appreciate if you would
tell us any good resources
related to anything Japanese,for example restaurants,
websites or events.
If you wish to participate in‘Student’s Interview’,
please let us know.

iCulture Workshop
Anime Studying Class‘One Piece’ & ‘Naruto’
Learn Animation phrases
and expressions as they are
different from your day today conversation.
Date : 11th Dec
Time : 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Fee : $22OURTHANK YOUPROMOTION

My name is Rudi Hendra
Jaya and I came from asmall village of 2000
people in Indonesia. I
grew up in Indonesia until
the age 12 but went tostudy in various countries
such as Malaysia, Sweden, New Zealandand Australia. I had a dream to be a
motorbike racer when I was younger after
watching Valentino Rossi, Tadayuki Okada
and Daijiro Kato Grand Prix races.
However, my occupation of IT software
consultant does not match what I dreamt ofwhen I was a child. As you can see, Asianparents always emphasised their kids tostudy well above anything else. Those weremy parents and they still are very
conservative in the way they think.
Nevertheless, I am currently working for
DWS consulting company and I have manydifferent clients such as Virgin Blue,
Powercor and Telstra.
I never intended to study Japanese until I see
a few of my friends who learnt Japanese
told me about how fun it was. Seeing themconversing and watching Japanese shows
made me a little envious. I had more interest
about Japan but I did not know a single
word of Japanese, not even the simplest
word like 'Konnichiwa' (Hello). I came toiJapanese to find out about the courses andwith a lot of free time on my hands, I
thought, why not give it a try since I have
many interest about Japan in the first place.
I find Japanese culture to be very interesting
and I thought, by learning Japanese, II have always had a dream of going toJapan and one day to be able to live inJapan to experience the culture as well as
enjoy the beautiful art, cuisine, science,climate and environment. I wanted to findout if everything is the same as what I haveseen from the television screen and heard
from word of mouth. Having said that, I also
have affection for Japanese animation suchas Doraemon, Crayon Shin Chan and mostimportantly Initial D.
I like motor racing and I
would like to go to all
the racing circuits andrace in Japan.
One day, when I havethe chance to go to Japan, I will live there
for at least a year or two and experience
everything that I always wanted to.
iJapanese is a good cultural and language
school. I have never been to the social event
much, but the one I went to, it was definitely
worth it. I like the friendliness of the people
and feel that the competency of thelanguage teachers are excellent. They pay
special attention to us and our needs. I
always have fun in class and look forward
to them.
I would hope to be able to converse inJapanese a little better, remember
everything that I have learnt and use themcorrectly. So far, that has been the mostdifficult part of my learning. I guess,conversing in Japanese more often and not
afraid to speak and make millions of
mistakes is the key to succeed in mastering a
new language.

could feel the culture better.

FUKUBUKRO CAMPAIGN 福袋 キャンペーン
T o O ur C u r r e n t & P a s t S t u d e n t sWe thank you all for learning at iJapaneseand would like to offer you lots of good luck for the New Year.
ichYou won’t know whvehavoucher until you
opened it!

Introduce your *friend and get a FUKUBUKURO!
FUKUBUKURO can offer $50, $100 and even $150 voucher
towards your next iJapanese lesson.

Valid until*New students only. Tuition must be paid before fukubukuro supplied

In Addition, ‘Early Bird’ full tuition payments for 2013 term 1 will receive a discount.

12th January 2013

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Page 3 of 4Students’ Recommendation
Here is some useful technologies to help you with your Japanese study's from our students.

Jeremy Mawson
Hi my name is Jeremy and I have been
studying with Noriko for about a year
now. The classes just keep getting betteras I learn more over time. I love theJapanese language more and more. It feels nice to hear,
speak, read and write (within my capability). Here are somewebsites that I personally have found helpful while studying
Japanese. I hope they help you too.
http://www.memrise.com
This site uses an analogy of your mind as a garden and isgreat for memorising all kinds of things. It is especially goodfor memorising Japanese words, kana & kanji. The JLPT N5
Vocabulary is a good place to start.
http://lang-8.com/
Lang 8 encourages you to write in Japanese. Afterwards
native speakers will offer their corrections.
http://japanese.stackexchange.com/
This is a great place to ask any linguistic questions that are
bugging you. Many of the questions seem quite advanced tome.
http://www.ehonnavi.net/
Here you can read Japanese childrens' books for free. Eachcan only be read once, however. I use Google to translate
the page to English and then select "books for babies". :)Adam Sloane
The ‘Hiragana/Katakana
Learn experiment’ apps forAndroid have both been very helpful to me in learning thesounds associated with each of the symbols in thesealphabets. You also have three different activities 1) choose
the character,2) write hiragana in romaji or 3) write thehiragana. Each app provides groups of characters so that you
can better pace your learning. Both these apps listed below
have proven useful while travelling where its not easy to have
sheets out to study off.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
id=com.legendarya.helloandroid&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
id=com.legendarya.katakana&feature=search_result
This is a link to the apps I mentioned previously, though the fullversion isn't available yet. There is a trial version for people
that would like to try it.
http://sanjigenjiten.com/

Try cooking Japanese food!

Ozooni
数独 Sudoku

Serves 4

Try this Sudoku and exercise your brain !
Ingredients:
4 Mochi (rice cake)
100g chicken
40g carrot
40g Chinese radish
100g spinach

Solution on page 44 cups of Dashi(Japanese fish stock)
1tbs Sake
1tbs Soy sauce
1 tsp salt

Method:1. Cut carrot and Chinese radish in to 5cm rectangles andcut chicken into bite-size pieces.
2. Boil spinach in salted water till wilted then slice into
4cm pieces.
3. Grill rice cake until nicely charred.
4. Boil dashi in sauce pan and add sake, soy sauce and salt.
5. Add chicken then carrot, followed with Chinese radish
and boil until cooked.
6. Place Mochi in the bowl and add soup.

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From KisaiPage 4 of 4

きさいより

Fukubukuro（福袋） is a Lucky Bag with various mystery gifts
inside, one of Japanese traditions during the New Year.
Fukubukuro is sealed firmly so you cannot peek inside before
buying one and will always contain something of a higher
value for what you paid.
Many retail stores provide Fukubukuro nowadays andespecially the most popular Fukubukuro is from trendy
fashionable brands ranging in prices of 5,000yen to20,000yen.
At Shibuya 109, the most famous fashioncomplex in Tokyo had approximately 40,000people formed a line in order to purchaseFukubukuro. Does it sound silly to pay forsomething without knowing what it is?

What’s Ozooni ?
Ozooni is a traditional Japanesesoup with mochi (rice cake), eaten
during the New Year season.
Introduced in the previous page
the recipe is a Tokyo style.
Ozooni has different tastes fromregion to region. In Noriko’s
hometown Fukuoka, they use
yellowtail fish instead of chicken
and Kisai’s hometown Oosaka,
they typically add miso paste.

uSuudok
独数AnswerSome major department stores will also
provide special Fukubukuro. Special
how…. extremely expensive or uniquecontents inside.
For example this year 2012,a piece of jewellery inside a Fukubukuro was sold for
2,012,000 yen, while a lucky buyer purchased a Fukubukuro
for 20,120,000 yen containing a…… I’ll let you guess,“House”!
Fukubukuro is not only considered a 'good deal' but also
something that people try their luck on.
Actually ‘Fuku（福）’ means ‘Good Luck’, so if you findsomething good in the bag then it could mean a good start
for the New Year!

From Phillip & Noriko

フィリップとのりこより

Eto (干支) is the Chinese zodiac with 12
signs each associated with its ownanimal. In Japanese tradition, each year
reflects the character of a different sign of
the Chinese zodiac.
It is also believed each of the zodiac
animals have its own distinct
characteristics, which people are born into that year are said to share the samecharacteristics .
Next year’s zodiac animal is a ‘Snake’and is said that its character is ‘Spirit ofinquiry’ and ‘Passion’.

Like the zodiac snake, we maintain apassion for Japanese classes andchallenge innovation. We also aim tobuild a deeper connection with students.
This is the time tomake plans for thecoming year.

Thanks ご挨拶
We would like to take this opportunity to extend a big thank-you to all of you for yoursupport in 2012! We hope you have enjoyed learning Japanese with us.
2013 is a new Year with new challenges and, as always, we will continue to grow and do
our best towards improvement our school while maintaining the best quality of lessons.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We look forward to seeing you all during the new Term in 2013!
来年もよろしくおねがいします！

iJapanese Language & Culture School
Level 2, 488 Bourke Street Melbourne
0401 886 629
Info@ijapanese.com.au
www.ijapanese.com.au