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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

和歌 Japanese waka poetry

火曜日は学生が多少のすうのわかをくれた。すごくおもしろい!少しが読むことができる。少しもわかることができる!日本語がしんこうする、かな!学生にきょうようをならったからそのレスンがとくべつにおもしろかった!

On Tuesday, one of my adult students kindly gave me some copies of waka poetry and waka cards. (Waka are traditional 31 syllable poems, so different from the 5,7,5 structure of haiku.) It's extremely interesting! I can even read and understand some of them! Progress in Japanese! It made for an especially interesting lesson from my point of view because I got a culture lesson!

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