I am in week 4 of JAPN 111 elementary Japanese. Would you like to take a crack at translating my super simple week 3 discussion post? Go right ahead.
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Who thought the kitty was a pork cutlet? 
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これはとんかつです。おいしいですよ！
(I am loving your threads, btw. Please keep them coming)
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Why is Abaha and couch written in romanji ???
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This is the wholesome content I’m here for 
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I could have used katakana for Aabha and the Japanese word for couch, but our instructor requested that we keep the Japanese sentences simple by only using the vocabulary we have learned in the class thus far.
Though, my classmates are not as courteous as myself. A few show offs will post sentences containing kanji. I’m not hating, but they are either showing off or using Google translate lol.
Our instructor does not want us using any type of translation software to construct or translate any sentences.
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My brain did not compute 
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Very nice but kind of limits creativityかな you’re an obedient student
Maybe we can interpret this as emphasis. (Cat) Who (must not be translate) and what.
I know I just wrote garbage but I’ll leave it for later 
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Definitely limits creativity, but at the same time it eliminates room for error for those who definitely only started learning the language at the start of the class. I started to study about 4 months before the semester started.
This week (week 4) we are learning verbs and how to use them. The lessons are getting more in depth.
Here is this weeks vocab.
えいが - movie
おんがく - music
ざっし - magazine
スポーツ(supootsu) - sports
デート (deeto) - date
テニス(tenisu) - tennis
テレビ (terebi) - TV
アイスクリーム (aisukuriimu) - ice cream
あさごはん - breakfast
おさけ - sake; alcohol
おちゃ - green tea
コーヒー (koohii) - coffee
ばんごはん - dinner
ハンバーガー (hanbaagaa) - hamburger
ひるごはん - lunch
みず - water
いえ - home; house
うち - home; house; my place
がっこう - school
あさ - morning
あした - tomorrow
いつ - when
きょう - today
～ごろ - at about
こんばん - tonight
しゅうまつ - weekend
どようび - Saturday
にちようび - Sunday
まいにち - every day
まいばん - every night
いく - to go
かえる - to go back; to return
きく - to listen; to hear
のむ - to drink
はなす - to speak; to talk
よむ - to read
おきる - to get up
たべる - to eat
ねる - to sleep; to go to sleep
みる - to see; to look at; to watch
くる - to come
する - to do
べんきょうする - to study
いい - good
はやい - early
あまり+(negative) - not much
ぜんぜん+(negative) - not at all
たいてい - usually
ちょっと - a little
ときどき - sometimes
よく - often; much
そうですね - That’s right; let me see
でも - but
どうですか - How about…?; how is …?
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And if/when you one day come to Japan, prepare to suddenly see ハンバーグ 90% of the time (“hanbaagu” ~ “Hamburg” - a Hamburg steak, which is roughly equivalent in North America to a Salisbury steak).
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Probably Yuri or Victor…
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もしかして。。。アルフさん！
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Looks like the Genki Vocab list, am I right?
Good thread, by the way 
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I don’t know. With the right amount of panko crumbs your cat could be a pork cutlet.
Totally agree 
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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this before: DAMN, that cat is
and I’m not even a cat person
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leave the cat alone, he is after all, not a pork cutlet
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ねこはポークカツになることできる。
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if it’s like that I approve
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Ton-cat-tsu.
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