My Japanese word for this week: 水疱瘡 「みずぼうそう」 CHICKEN POX!
My daughter has it.
(and yes, she's up to date with her vaccines but she still got it anyway)
It's okay, she got over it a few days ago. Currently her favourite word is もっと!
e.g.
Having a bath...
「お風呂終わった?」
「もっと!」
On Saturday we had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant, she finished her tea and showed us her empty cup...
「もっと!」
So I said 「母ちゃんきいて」 so she asked her mother.
My wife told me that today she saw an oak tree on TV and pointed at it and said 「どんぐり!」 Someone's been watching waaay too much Totoro. She now calls the big Totoro 「大きいトトロ」 and the little white one either 「Baby トトロ」 or 「小さいトトロ」
I really want to learn Japanese but nowhere where I live has any courses etc.
waaaah i miss japan!
I am starting to teach myself Japanese using my friend's Genki textbooks. Any advice for a beginner?