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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:12 pm
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Click hereWelcome to lesson four - this should be a quick one.
The Japanese school system works a lot like the Canadian school system - You attend elementary school for grade 1 - 6, then three years of middle school and then three years of high school. Japanese kids are only legally required to complete middle school, but almost all of them go on to high school.
When talking about your grade, you don't typically refer to a grade from 1 - 12. Instead, you usually tell them what year of what school you are in.
To start:
School = Gakkou
Student = Sei
Elementary School = Shougaku
Middle School = Chuugaku
High School = Koukou
College = Daigaku
Grade marker = nen.
Now to put this all together!
Watashi wa (pick a school) (enter the number of years you have been there) nen sei desu.
So if you were a first year university student, you would say:
watashi wa daigaku ichi nen sei desu.
If you were in the second grade, you would say
watashi wa sougaku ni nen sei desu.
If you were in 11th grade (remember, that means second year to them), you would say:
watashi wa koukou ni nen sei desu.
Some added learning for you - "gakkou" refers to the physical school building, while "gaku" refers to the learning that takes place there. When you go to learn kanji, you will see this more clearly.
The word "chuu" means "middle"... so "middle school" is "chuu gaku"
Also, the word "dai" means big, so university (daigaku) is literally "big learning".
Questions or comments? You know what to do by now? And if you're such a smarty-pants that you understand it the first time through, give me a smug little post to let me know.
Click here to return to lesson three.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:24 pm
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 6:09 pm
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 3:10 pm
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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 3:36 pm
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 6:39 pm
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 12:10 am
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:56 am
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:06 am
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 5:15 pm
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 5:24 pm
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KushinaUzumaki12 ok. nevermind. i read some of the posts and I understand now. Watashi wa Koukou ichi nen sei desu. right? I got confused by the number of years attending school because my school clumps middle school and high school together xp but i now understand im in 10th grade which is the first year of highschool
Yes, that's perfect!
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:23 pm
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:43 pm
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knowyourlittlesecret I have a question, where does gakuen belong to? Quite curious because I've heard people say that. Is it academy? Because I'm thinking it is.
Yes, a gakuen is an academy. When you are explaining what grade you are in, you use koukou, chuugaku, etc, because telling someone that you are in your first year at an academy is not useful - an academy refers to your specific school, and not what level your academy is.
You use gakuen when naming your school. Suppose you attend a school called Yamate. If it classifies itself as an academy (which it does, actually, Yamate Academy is in Tokyo, I have a friend there), it would be Yamate Gakuen. If the school is a regular high school, it would be Yamate Koukou.
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 12:50 am
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:43 pm
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