Wedding

Congratulatioooooooooooooooooooon!Niki!!!!!


I studied what the traditional Japanese wedding is before, because it was my speech theme in my university.


Japanese traditional wedding is Shinto Wedding, which is taken place in a shrine and a groom and bridegroom wear a Kimono. There are no cake no champagne no dance.


Now, almost weddings are like west, it means that we wear a wedding dress, cutting a cake and it take place in a church.
Japan separates 2 parts, one is cheap wedding ceremony and another is expensive one.
Average costs is $26,000. I don't know it is more expensibe or not than American.

I think one differnce thing between American and Japanese is a groom and a brigegroom wear 3 or more dresses, such as wedding dress, Kimono, evening dress...


Well, if I would have a wedding ceremony, I want a night wedding or a gardan party.
Are there night weddings in America?? In Japna some hotels have a plan. It takes in the night, of cause, and pray the forever love under the moon. It's great!!
I wonder when it dream come ture....

JAPANESE style

There are a lot of differences between English and Japanese.

As you can see, a first differenc is a character. Japaneses has 3 characters, which I wrote on the last week's blog. So Japanese can creat more words than using alphabet.

Second difference is about grammar.
English form is that Subject + ver + predicative
But Japanese is moslty different.
For example: お昼ご飯を食べる。( I eat lunch.)
お昼ご飯 is a lunch
食べる is eating
so Japanese form is Subject + predicative + verb.

And in negative sentence, a negative verb is placed in the end of the sentence.
For example: お昼ご飯を食べない。( I don't eat lunch.)
ない is not.
So you cna't understand what Japanese speaker want to say if you don't listen to a end.

Last difference is pronunciation.
Some asian language has similar pronunciations to English, such as Korean and Chinese. But Japanese doesn't.
Japaneses doesn't have a "th-", "q-,-q", "sh" etc. So many Japanese people have a difficult time to learn English pronunciation.
In my case, I didn't understand the difference between "L" and "R".
Still now, I have faced the difficult time to learn speaking English and listening skill.

JAPANESE

My first language is Japanese, you know.
And I studied Chinese in my university in Japan. My university is the Nagoya University Of Foreign Studies, so every students study some language. For example, one of my friends learns Spanish, another friend learns German, and I have friends who study French or korean.

I think in the UI there are many students who are learning Japanese. S0 I helped them to attend the Japanese class as a guest speaker of Japanese, and I belong to the JCA-Japanese culture association.
At that time, I think about Japanese suddenly.
Japanese has 3 characters of writing, kanzi漢字, hiraganaひらがな and katakanaカタカナ

kanzi is the similar form to Chinese. So when I learned Chinese, I could understand what a textbook in Chinese wants to say, but the pronunciation is difficult!!!!
Hiragana and Katakana are the original language forms of Japanese.
What I wanted to say in today's blog was Japanese has 3 writing patterns. I don't know any language which have some characters for writing. I think it is interesting.

In Japanese,if you don't know a word spell, you can write another form from 3 characters.

CHICAGO

I spent a great time in Chicago!
I could make a memory which I had never had.
I'll tell you about one great thing of Chicago.

It's...PIZZA!
I heard Chicago's pizza is very famous and very delicious from my friend's sister, who lived in Iowa City before, so my friend mailed to her which pizza shop is the best. Her answer was "UNO"
Do you know UNO? I didn't know, but I rereaded the guide book, there was the name.
The book said it was the most famous, so you might wait 4 hours after order.
But we tried!!!

It was sooooo delicious!!!
Uno's pizza was different from my imagination, because the dough of pizza was like pie dough. I mean it was short. Also, needless to say, it was sooooo big!
I became a fan of UNO. I wonder UNO is made in Japan.

Oh! I forgot to write about my funny experience in Chicago!
When I was walking to the bus stop, I saw 3 or 4 men who were sitting on the bench and looking at us. I noticed their eyes, so I watched them. Then one of them said "Hi", so we repeated, and keep walking. They were saying something after that, but we didn't say any more, then someone shouted...




"Chicken Teriyaki!!!"



How did they know we are Japanese?? :-)