{"id":23056,"date":"2026-07-03T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/?post_type=article&#038;p=23056"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:02:32","slug":"konnichi-wa-from-year-7-japanese","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/article\/konnichi-wa-from-year-7-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Konnichi-wa from Year 7 Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students in 7V, 7R, and 7T have just completed a semester of Japanese. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They learnt\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About Japanese <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">culture, festivals<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> geography<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> introduce themselves<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Japanese\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About the Japanese <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">writing system<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> count<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 1 to 10,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to write some Japanese <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kanji<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to say their <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">birthday<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">age\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to say <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where they live<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> appreciate<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> another culture, its values\u00a0 and language\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23058 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>During their studies, students made oni masks, origami sumo wrestlers, played the Happy Face game, bingo and made Japanese folding doll cards. They also sang songs, did role plays and completed puzzles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Japan has a very different culture and language, which is fun to explore especially as many of us are travelling there nowadays. Students also reflected on their own language and culture as they learnt the ways of the Land of the Rising Sun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can\u2019t wait to explore more of what Japan has to offer with these students in Year 8!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ms Lisa Tang, Japanese Teacher<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-23058\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image3-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image5-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-23059\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image5-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image5-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image5-1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-23060\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-23061\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image2-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image2-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2026\/06\/image2-1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in 7V, 7R, and 7T have just completed a semester of Japanese. They learnt\u00a0 About Japanese culture, festivals and geography How to introduce themselves in Japanese\u00a0 About the Japanese writing system\u00a0\u00a0 How to count from 1 to 10,000 How to write some Japanese kanji\u00a0 How to say their birthday and age\u00a0 How to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-23056","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/23056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}