One thing I haven’t mentioned yet on this blog – I started studying Japanese in December of last year. I’m still very much A1 level, especially in terms of speaking. A1 refers to the Common European Framework of Reference to Languages, or the CEFR for short. A1 is the most basic level. Here’s the description for A1:
- Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.
- Can introduce themselves to others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where they live, people they know and things they have.
- Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
Sounds about right…
Anyway, a classmate’s partner went to Japan recently, and he brought back Tokyo bananas for us.
Here is it in its packaging, on top of one of my course books. Japan is well-known for individually wrapping everything, but in this case it comes in handy.
And here is it on its own, outside of the packaging:
As you can see it is quite cute, as most Japanese things are. The banana cream inside is quite subtle and not too sweet, which I appreciated. It didn’t wow me, but it was nice. And it was a nice gesture from my classmate for sure.
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