Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am General Norvel, this edition's top story. Testing equipment for COVID-19 to arrive on island, the Department of Health and Wellness urges parents to prevent the spread of germs among children and celebrating the numerous attributes of womanhood. All that plus the latest in youth development and sports and the NTN novel of Quixote. The government of St. Lucia through the Department of Health and Wellness is continuing to strengthen preparation for in-country transmission and management of COVID-19. The department is building diagnostic capacity for testing for coronavirus. Currently, all testing for COVID-19 is done at the Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARFA, which is the regional reference laboratory for the Caribbean. Specimens from suspected cases are transported to the Ezra Long Laboratory at the Victoria Hospital for Onward Transport to CARFA. However, the procurement of testing equipment will change all that. National epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Forswa explains. Being cognizant of the international spread of COVID-19 and with the endorsement of the Honourable Prime Minister, Alan Shastney, the Department of Health and Wellness has sourced equipment to facilitate COVID-19 testing on Ireland. This equipment has already been shipped and it is expected to enhance the management of cases through timely diagnosis. The ports of entry, both air and seaports, will be receiving additional public health staff to enforce the relevant regulations and protocols and to ensure the health of the St. Lucia public. The Department of Health and Wellness notes that COVID-19 is closer to our borders with the confirmation of imported COVID-19 cases in the Caribbean islands of the Dominican Republic, which has one case, St. Martin II, St. Bafelmi I, and recently Martinic II. Dr. Forswa is encouraging St. Lucia to avoid panic rather to focus on preparation. The public is asked to continue practicing the standard recommendations to prevent the spread of infections. These include regular hand washing with soap and running water or the use of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.  Avoid close contact with anyone showing signs and symptoms of respiratory illness such as coughing or sneezing. Seek medical attention and share your travel history with your healthcare provider if you have signs and symptoms that are suggestive of a respiratory illness. National epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Forswa Meanwhile, the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARFA has upgraded the risk of transmission of COVID-19 to the Caribbean region to very high. The revised risk level is based on international risk assessment guidelines. Multiple countries outside the original epicenter of Wuhan City are reporting an increasing number of confirmed cases. Significantly more new cases are being reported from countries outside of China than there are new cases in China. These recent situations are clearly of concern and CARFA member states are strongly urged to increase their surveillance mechanisms and to be ready to implement the national pandemic preparedness plans which have been modified to address COVID-19. Dr. Joyce St. John is CARFA's executive director. CARFA's decision is also informed by reports of COVID-19 cases in non-English-speaking Caribbean countries in close proximity to CARFA member states. Another factor is sustained transmission of the disease in countries with direct flights into the Caribbean region. The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to the virus. Simple everyday preventive actions can help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. Maintain at least one meter or three feet distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Wash hands regularly. Using soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand rub if your hands are not visibly dirty.  If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early and share previous travel history with your relevant healthcare provider. Given that the social behaviors of children tend to place them at greater risk of some infectious conditions like the cold, flu and coronavirus, parents and guardians are being called on to take the necessary precautionary measures to prevent the spread of germs among this age group. More in this report from Fernelle Neptune. As the Department of Health and Wellness continues to prepare for the threat of the coronavirus, parents and guardians are being provided with guidance on ways to reduce a child's risk of infection. Director of the Bureau of Health Education Natasha Lloyd-Philix encouraged parents to ensure their children practice good hygiene in order to prevent the spread of germs. We are encouraging that parents have their children wash their hands thoroughly from home so that when they are in school environments, environments of play or in another place where the parent may not be present, that habit has already been developed. Parents, we ask you please, when your children are at home, model hand washing.  What we have noted to be an area of importance is the duration that is given for hand washing.  That actually gives the period of 20 seconds that is required to have enough time to thoroughly hand wash.  Lloyd-Philix also spoke on the best approach for infection prevention in schools. If by chance you notice your child is unwell, we are now in the flu season, the cold season, we ask you to keep your child at home as a way of protecting both your child and other children at school because by being in the presence of others, the chances of spreading disease, spreading germs, spreading the infection increases. We note that sometimes parents feel that they have no place to place their child, but we ask you please to consider a plan that in the event your child were to become ill, it may not necessarily be from Corona if it was present in St. Lucia, it may be the flu, that that child can be safely placed there to avoid him or her being in a school environment. Principles and teachers of schools around the island are encouraged to ensure that hands sanitizers are readily available and also classroom surfaces are cleaned and disinfected on a daily basis. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fennel Neptune. This is NTN Nightly, Rhino Bryan is up next. I'm innovative. I'm competitive. I am productive. I'm creative. I constantly improve what I do. And how I do it. I provide excellent customers to visit. I never stop learning. I give all my best, always. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council embracing excellence. Welcome back. We join Rhino Bryan for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Janelle. I'm Rhino Bryan and welcome once again to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. Shriezel Secondry defeated Granny Vera Secondry by 121 runs as the Mass United Insurance School's cricket tournament continued last weekend. Batting first, Shriezel Secondry got to 204 all-out in 34 overs with Ed Cooper, top scorer in the 65, and he was well supported by Tristan Norbal with 32 and Chevron Brown 31. For Granny Vera, Zante Alberti back 4 for 42, and Neely Manibur 3441 and Mayor Stanislas 2 for 30. Granny Vera then applied for Poultry 83 in 23.3 overs. Shem Kamabat, top scorer of 12, Joe Joseph picked up four wickets for 12 runs, Sky Lafay 2 for 15, and Ajani Louis 2 for 20. That game completed the preliminary round of matches in the competition. In Group A, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, Niko Secondry and Shriezel Secondry were equal on 12 points, Antipo Secondry had four, and Granny Vera had no points having lost all their games. In Group B, Tenoche Sports Academy topped the group with 16 points, winning their four matches, followed by Souffre Comprehensive with 12 points. 3-4 Comprehensive was third in a group, after collecting 8 points, PI Secondry 4-4 points, and Clinton Mason 5th without any points. Group C saw Castery's Comprehensive Secondry at top with 14 points, followed by St. Mary's College with 10 points, Barbara No Secondry finished on 8 points, particularly James 4, and John Odlem no points. Group D was dominated by Leon Head Secondry with 10 points, followed by Cardin Secondry 8 points, Sir Iro Simmons finished third in a group with 6 points, and Cicero Secondry had no points having lost all their games. Quarter-finals matchups were scheduled for Monday, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College taking on Souffre Comprehensive, Tenoche Sports Academy came up against St. Mary's College, Castery's Comprehensive with Bartholomew Corrin Secondry, and Leon Head's Comprehensive tackled Michael Secondry. In the school's track and field championships on this week, the Northern Qualifiers set for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10th and 11th at the Darren-Sami Cricket Ground. The Southern Qualifiers on Thursday, March 12th and Friday, March 13th. The Viewport Stadium will be the venue and the semi-finals schedule for March 18th at the Darren-Sami Cricket Ground with the finals on Friday, March 20th also at the Darren-Sami Cricket Ground. And with that, we have come to the end of your segment for the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. St. Lucia on March 8 joined the rest of the world in celebrating International Women's Day. Ahead of the observance, a number of government ministries and agencies hosted staff activities recognizing the contribution of women to society. Anisia Antoine reports on an event spearheaded by the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries. In commemoration of International Women's Day, the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries hosted a retreat to celebrate the women within the Ministry. The retreat held under the theme to be female or to be woman highlighted the issues faced by women and the important role women play in society. Minister with responsibility for Culture and Creative Industries, Senator Honorable Fortuna Bell-Rose, stressed on the importance of these team-building exercises in achieving success. This opportunity there for the women of the department to engage, to interact, to share some thoughts with each other, I think it's so opportune, you know, it's consistent with our government's intention to continue to build that new St. Lucia where people are free to ventilate, to express their views, share it in team-setting, evaluate themselves and see exactly where they are. These are the plans of the agency that they work. So this is a wonderful working session for us. It seemed light, but I think the important thing is we get to know each other better in that environment and of course we're looking at the strengths of each other and what we all bring to the table with respect to the development of our agency. Minister Bell-Rose encouraged all women to find their passion. If you can find your passion and develop yourself around that passion that you have, then it means a lot for the country and also for yourself as an individual. So the object is to be able to find that passion, to learn to discover ourselves and who we are, understand that we, as human beings, we have our limitations, but we can always grow and learn from the environment that we are in and from those who are better than us. I think it's also important for us to literally prepare ourselves, you know, every day, you know, for the encounters that we will have and also leave ourselves open to absorbing and learning and growing, you know, as individuals. And the key to, of course, in all our passion and everything else, we need to be able to enjoy what we do and respect each other, you know, in the work that we're doing as we go about our daily lives. The day of activities included pedicures, hand and shoulder massages, as well as a make-up class. Samantha Charles, tourism officer at the Ministry of Tourism, expressed her gratitude to the heads of the department for organizing such an initiative. This is a welcomed initiative. I could speak for my colleagues.  So my colleagues and I really appreciated this year and not just because it's World International Women's Day around the corner, but I think it was a genuine effort on their part. The International Women's Day retreat took place on Friday, March 6th, 2020 at the Pink Plantation House. From the Government Information Service, I am Anistia Antoine reporting. There with Antia Knightley up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the Antia Nobel of Rio. Keeping hands clean is important for good health. However, after a disaster staying clean is hard to do, especially if there is no pipe or water. Simple things you can do to stay clean and remain healthy are wash your hands with soap and clean water. If these are not available, sanitizers with alcohol are options.   Washing your hands is one of the best ways to prevent illness. For further information, contact the Bureau of Health Education at telephone number 460-5349. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the Antia Nobel of Rio. This government has built a healthy path that continues to reinforce the preparation with the help of management to keep COVID-19 in place in the country. It has built a capacity to conduct the examination to test for COVID-19. In fact, all the tests done by the public health agency in Kauai-Bla, including the Lyon-Ki laboratory in Kauai-Bla, Piesca Maladi Salah, Department of Transmortem for the Israeli-Yong laboratory at the Victorian Hospital, to open a coffee lab. But as a government, I bought these equipment to conduct these tests. All of this has to be changed. Dr. Michel François has explained who the health department is. The government is sitting here in the direction of Prime Minister Alain Chastney. I have addressed this situation very quickly. Excellent, Dr. François. The equipment is ready to be used to conduct all the tests necessary for the disease. The health department is taking COVID-19 more closely to the country. For example, as I mentioned earlier in the Dominican Republic, it is necessary to have a safe and healthy life with a safe and healthy life with a safe and healthy life. Dr. François has encouraged to use this equipment not only for your health but also for the health of people. I encourage people to use it as a health service and never forget this. I also encourage people to use this equipment and not only that, to have a safe and healthy life. The health department is treating this continuously and rather than having questions. Dr. François has to eat a chicken that is cooked and can be eaten right away. The original security system, RSS, in collaboration with the European Development Fund, I have presented the amount of equipment that is necessary to conduct investigations of crimes against organizations in these regional countries. The amount of equipment is necessary for the officers who are forced to pay, for example, the police to pay themselves. This is a contribution to criminal cases, to go to the office of criminal cases to help improve the way to act in criminal situations in these countries, to also increase the evidence of crimes and, more often, to the officers who have conducted criminal investigations to conduct criminal investigations easily. Milton Desi, who has been in police custody for a while, has said that the officers who have been in police custody are the first to conduct criminal investigations. This is what the police Desi said. Police officers are the first to conduct criminal investigations to also improve the capacity to conduct investigations. And I have said that the police officers will continue to use these benefits for the RSS. I have said that the officers who have been in police custody will continue to assist the officers who have conducted criminal investigations and links to the battle against crime, particularly those who have conducted investigations because of the accident, and because of the lack of help. The objective of this program is to increase the capacity of the police officers to develop as fast as possible to conduct criminal investigations in the RSS and to try to strengthen the capacity of the officers who have been forced to pay themselves.  This RSS team has been able to estimate a total of $67,000 from the executive director of the RSS, Graham Archer. We thank the police officers and the program and mainly the team. The Ministry of National Security and the French Government. We thank the RSS organization and the European Union to assist the officers who have conducted criminal investigations in the RSS. This is the equipment that can be used to find evidence just to tell the people who have been in the police custody and all the information necessary to talk about criminal investigations. The police officers will continue to build capacity to serve Syas Forensik, which will be used to effectively find out who he is. This will be done by the Hotel Sanders Regency and the talk, which will be done by the fourth and the world mass. The Ministry of National Security, the name is Helmengeld Francis. I have declared that I am going to use the public money that has been given to the public to find out who the person is. The Minister of Justice explained that it is not possible to use the money because there is no company concerned with criminal investigations.  This is the most possible way to prevent criminal investigations. The Minister of Justice explained that the company needs to do something to help people who are in prison to find a lot of chances to reform their lives. He added that even if there are people who continue to do criminal investigations, there are also people who really want to change their lives. The Minister of Justice said that I have made a call, a call to the front, and he said that he would like to assist recently the fourth conference of the officers who know the institution of prison and the work of the prison organization. The Minister of Justice said that after this conference, I think that this meeting was going well, like the previous meeting, and I think that the next meeting was going to be about prison and reformation. He said that there is a way to develop the reformation program for rehabilitation and the way to establish a social life for prisoners who are in prison. After this conference, after all these years, to find a solution to the problem of prison, in a different way, there is no prison needed for rehabilitation and social rehabilitation. The first capacity for the officers in prison is to fight corruption and torture, the youth who are in prison, but also for the officers in prison. After this conference, after this conference, the Minister of Justice and the Director of the Prison Facility, Baudelaire Hillary Urban. And that's it. Thank you very much, Madam. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your invitation. I would like to consider, because I would like the next visit to a lot of people who are in prison, I would like to see the next visit to Chanel. Merci, Apil Primus. Here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. The skies are fair, becoming cloudy at times with a few showers. The Atlantic high-pressure system will generate moderate to brisk easterly winds and influence rough sea conditions across the eastern Caribbean region during the next few days. Patches of low-level clouds moving with the wind flow will cause a brief shower period over the island during the next 24 hours. Tides for Cassie's Harbor will high at 3.45pm and low at 9.50pm. The Tides for V4 Bay will high at 4.52pm and will be low at 11.17pm. The seas moderate to locally rough with waves 5 to 7 feet or 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to above-normal seas. The sun will rise Tuesday at 6.14am. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Janelle Norvell.


K이랑in Klaja So, Helika Bakat nakape caru 4a 10 It is for sure It is But then again, kumuli notice, sikuwe muisha tibati Oh, uli niya mazia No, the kids came Ya I have something planned for me Aha But it will take time Kupulan niya bata de Because it looked like a big deal Uli chofu monipale It was a huge task It was a huge task Ya To get into mombasa It will involve paka bosses I am telling you What's up guys And welcome to yet another episode of Bars with Stars Right here on SPM Bars My good name is Miss Kithingi And today I am hanging out with a star But just before I introduce my staff for today Please make sure you subscribe to SPM Bars We are on the road To 100k subscribers And the moment you press that subscribe button Ok, press too heavy You are getting as close to 100k Ume subscribe Thank you for subscribing Now, my staff for today Is someone you love to see on your screens She is a mom She is a wife She is an entrepreneur And above all She is a powerhouse when it comes to content creation In East Africa This Can only be Lulu Hassan But you are all that mama Imagine you are all that I mean come on We are watching you in Tanzania I mean Kenya Tanzania That's what sums up Thank you so much for coming Thank you for giving us this moment Let me tell you guys Lulu is busy She is actually doing a photo shoot Who was your stylist for today The outfits were really nice Ok, I forgot her name Tutandika Jinalake She is called Suzy She is called Suzy No problem Thank you for this moment I can't wait For us just to have this conversation I know it's the first time you're doing this And I'm super grateful But Lulu I'm really wondering How are you able to do All these things I've mentioned Because you do all that You're a mom, you're a wife You're a top news anchor And you're able to achieve all that How do you do it? Actually I buy grace of God But here I have the strength To do what I'm doing I'm doing it alone I'm doing it with my husband And then another thing We delegate duties as well But before we used to do it On our own kidogo But once business Pano kwa ima expand kia That's when we started delegating duties That is how we can have Different productions Nakukuja job Because imagine Sayizi a kushut Lakini imtoto Ana shugulikia homework Siji page ya mesa hao Ana pigia moanimu A confirm the page But look at you You're doing it very well How would you describe yourself as a mom? What kind of a mom are you? The tough one The easy one I think I'm the easy one I'm the easy one Because if they want something They'd rather talk to me I'm the same I'm the mom, the daughter I'm the dad I'm the girl That is so unlikely That is so unlikely Which is good It's good for sure Kwa kama mimi Kwa kama mimi Kwa kama mimi But is there a point And you say you're not disciplined Uko kama mimi Please be easy on them Really?  Did you guys ever think Rashid would be third? Rashid is disciplinary I think what to What to do And then their own As in How do you put it Like webe But then again When you are national They know you better So I'm sure Rashid mimi It's the opposite Trust me I'm also interested to know And I'm sure many people are interested to know When the decision that was made For you to work together on TV Were you there when the decision was made Were you just told You were there How did you take it How did you take it Rashid was not there How did you take it You know when Kanze said that I knew Kanze was leaving We were like way back No one knew Mimi Kanze and the MD Okay So we needed to get a replacement This is something you have to say Exclusive guy Yes So we needed to get a replacement But then again Now you know we had Kikuna chemistry like no other Ya I know So we were thinking now Even the boss was going to say No we need to get a replacement Because you know it has to be seamless Like mukuna rapo Kabisa You can't force relationship on everybody You can't Ita onekana tu Now we We sat there thinking Nakumuka tulkwa retreat by the way Tulkwa podari It was a retreat So we were just seated So we broke the news that Kanze and I in the state house Even the news was short So we came here now We need to do this From all the stations And then Kanze said What if we put Rashid Rashid by the NTV Ya So we asked her Kanze said yes Because she knows the both of you together Yes And then MD said By the way At least ita finika ele lulu na kanze And like Every lulu na kanze Lulu na kanze But with Rashid Ali kujiakidogo Kanze Because I mean you know it was very unox So we were focusing on husband and wife So akumbu kukumbakul kuna Mungine tulkwa very tight Yes Like chemistry tulkwa Ya Was it the expectation you expected When Rashid comes now When you two are walking together Was it the same experience That happened when he came On air with you Ya At first we mixed Feelings and reactions Yes Na ya kwanza li tkulia aje No, he was fine with it He was fine with it Because sikubaya anapujiakua No. 1 station Akunam treza kata Yes Akunam treza kata That was it Ya, that was it He is very witi He makes a lot of jokes Is there a point he has made a joke On the break before you guys go back on air And then you were just unable to control it Unamon bia apana Isi obizuri On air Off air On the break just before you guys went on air But funny enough We had many jokes like one on one To na joke all round Like the gallery And the actors And we have Kameraman in the studio So I was like two jokes we all love We were very witi apana But she was in a bad way Okay Alright now let's talk about Kanze We know you guys are friends We know you are very close for sure But we would like to know What is your relationship like As cameras How is your relationship like with her I think we just like sisters As much as at times We would like to cut kumia For a while But then again we would like to cut kumia In case of any case Same applies to her When she came in your life What is it that you would like to say She has really contributed to my life In this direction Actually Do you know Kanze How would I put it How she is that vibrant All out going Yes She is a child Which you know Between the two of you You look like you are the more outgoing one still No, not really In fact Really What do you guys think I love that it's my observation I love Kido You love Kido I love Kido But Kanze I love Kido Like me I love Kido She is the negative one I love Kido You know Now the other day You threw Rashid a birthday party Surprise How did you see When you saw him Break down Kido And what did you think was going through his mind First of all So he was Elisha Peter But then again I thought 40 is a big deal It is for sure But then again I noticed The kids came But then again When I saw him I have something planned for him But he will take time He will have plenty of birthday Because it looked like a big deal He will have a lot of money He will have a huge task Yeah To get into Mombasa He will involve paka bosses I am telling you So you guys told him like it's work So he knew he was coming So he knew he was coming for a link So he told me Nairobi And then he opens up So many people Yeah, in fact He told me he was going to Mombasa So he has to look kustere That's why I was wondering Why is he all dressed up like this So he told me he was going to Kampuni And he was going to launch something at the coast So he has to look So he is going to dress Yeah Yeah, he will do it Because when I saw your story back then Yeah, he must have said He is going to do it Yeah, he must have said There is nothing like that There is nothing like that To say, we are from Two different backgrounds You go to Mombasa So he told me Bontawa kuna For sure Ukiangalia where we started Me in Rashid To learn the radio We are the sensor Okay We used to get 5,000 each 5,000 Where? Pesambaya Class you guys were young So up to 5,000 And we ate kuku upo Tukida Nairobi To li kwa high at the same time Patua kontrat In the nation media kuku mimi nastanda kuku Same salary Me nilihaza TV But then again bado nil kwa nikatrini Or something But here kwa mechkulua like a full presenter Okay But what of you sangine They earn more for sure But tulipata same salary Mali toko we get the same salary It was this the same Like life was this So akuna ati mali Ati mimi mimi Kwa tu anapenda kue ka umf kwa vitu shuali Where that story came from Now guys you have the confirmation today Sindayo Now Lulu let's talk about social media pressure Does it ever you know Getting to you Especially those times that you know You were getting more famous and I feel like you've been famous your whole life But you know social media has Has come in just the third day Where by you know it's more Everywhere and people are getting To follow you on social media Does it ever getting to you Especially when social media was getting More famous But then again people don't understand Social media kuna pros and cons Kuna the good side of it And the bad side of it Kuna wale watu wana itumia Uba kwa vibaya Maybe kwa vibaya kwa kosi Kwa vibaya kwa Maybe there are some things Kuna fanya on social media But to you niki to shaka waili But then again the good side of it Nowadays people learn through social media Which I think kwa wale watu wana fanya say Kwa wale Wana pata my endorsements Wana pata easy my influencer jobs Watu wana cheze cheze wana cheka cheka baden We did it Yes We did it Yeah But mimi hainegi You know Yeah Kus nagyoma limitok Akuna bine I appreciate it and I appreciate it Yeah Talking about social media The other day During the birthday I invited Jof Jof wala kakuja Katumbuiza Then you know Katoke apale uza Ah ah ah Kidogo wacha pia mi dance na umtuangu Then people on social media Took it up Different reactions Did you even ever think Such a small thing would blow up The way it was on social media You know I think people don't understand Yeah I think mimi Mimi kuna joku smoke Yes Yeah At times job wana ni taga Smiley bully Allah Yeah But With Yuh story Yeah Mili I think mili Pata Mili wana Postage of you Yeah Ah kus ma Allah This thing me kwa big deal Jofil works for us Yes Kwa production company Aha Yes Why don't we Like Promote our own Aha Okay Yeah But sa sa ki dance Namin kwa sa ma Acha ni dance Uchangam chef Yeah Yeah Ni kachikan katoka Yeah Koza inu rashku Nimi toku penda fan Yes At times once in a while Mhm But sa sa veni watwa li chikulia I don't know But Jofil is a good lady Yes Nicely Eh Jama ni Uliwona isu comments Urashindu hawa watu Usomangi comments Aya usomangi comments Isu zahiyo post E Aukusoma Koswa buzina Then Not really important Not that it's important What women misunderstand For sure Namin ni ulemtu un Kwanomendikan Tagibu nisi nisi But then again Tagibu angati Taku angomu Aya But you see you put up a post And you just know thank to Jofil So it was just a way of clarifying I have no add feelings for her No, no, no, no Nimin tuwetu katza Nimin tuwetu Ni familia Jifu Jofil ni familia Jifu Aya Taken about Jifu pictures Then you know you guys Have so many employees What kind of a boss do you think You know you are And what are some of the Of the traits you think you possess To make you a good boss Because we see you guys holding parties You interact very well with the actors and actresses. So you seem very close to them. What kind of a boss do you think you are? And what are your traits? Now I wouldn't call myself a boss. It is a boss. I am a boss. So I work with my colleagues. I work with all jobs. We work as a team. We are notOSO. We are Teamwork. We work with lulus, theengis and the boss. We are notOSO to this person. That is not how we work. We are notOSO to this person. So we interact freely. We interact with others. In case there is a fault, you can tell me, maybe you have an idea. kwa kukale niian jugo, maito nakao hisha bila, maito makao nakao hisha, mainito hii, kwa hisha bila, hisha nakao, maito nakao hisha, makao kwa hisha, makao nakao, makao nakao hisha kwa hisha, maito nakao, makao nakao, We don't know. You've molded them. You've given them a platform. You guys have made stars. What is that one star? I don't want you to be biased. But what is that one star? I would say yes. Maria, nice. How is that? I think umge muliza like 5 years ago umge kuwanali. So then you say Maria Tres. Cause I don't think that is what maybe Aliplan. Okay. Cause kuhile kondition to limpata kuwa auditions ni ni. Certainly kitu aliyona ita kuwa big or something. Ya. Ya ni iliku wa tuya mingetu kufanya. Just being her. She will sit at somewhere to kifanya auditions. Ya. How would you describe Maria or rather Yasmin? She is a sweet girl. Oh. Anakona ishima mingisa. Aki. Hey. That feels like your daughter. Ya. For sure. Ya. Ya. She is very focused. Ya. You guys made us out of Maria, out of Yasmin. Namangali through social media you can see at least she is hiding somewhere. Ya. Ya. Because that girl was any she is a star. Ya. Ya. Ya. But you know she is contributed to you know. How does that make you feel just seeing how she is today? Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya.  With Rashid? Si kuza ni taku kuboivi. Ya. But before. Ilkwani dream. Ya. Mjwani ni ni couple goals. What grounds your marriage by the way? Ya friends. Ya. Ya. Kwele. Si le husbandna wei. Mi bede story husbandna wei. Mkwe friends. Ya. Friends in what sense. Like unezatau kachelewa. But mamanda e bede in kumahali. That's yulewa. Manake banangu na kujambu. Si bia nipateni ni. Jamani. Yuzu tenei. Ion doing it to a prison. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Atwa yusule na kambos. That's yulewa. Yes sir. High five. I see interesting. Ya. What is that one? A few impressive things about Rashid. We know you guys are friends. But what is that one? A few impressive things about him. His wife. Oh wow. Very good. Unlike me, I have jam. I see everything. Ya na yuzu. You compliment each other. Kwa zi sote tengu yuku ni waku jam. So then I come out and say, kwa zi tenei. Kwa zi tenei. Kwa zi tenei. Issues ni ni ni ni. Ya ndo the best person manana yuzu tenei. Ya. Nasi ma solo na kazi bekiyaki kajop yulewa. Ya. Ako na knowledge. Nasi rashi ni bukum. Kwa street smart. Yes. Mi na roka muliza solo. Na tafambia. Anaku jivu. History li kwa je politics. Ya. That is what people do now. Ya na yu guys have taken content creation on another level in this country. Ya. Series after. Lulu. Ni watu angaipu ako na series after series after series. Ziko api? Ha? Really? But what do you think is actually the state of film production, cinematography just at a whole in this country? To kumbali sayi. Wazi kumpe na vitu zingini sayi. I think the fastest growing industry sayi in the field. Ya? Why do you think it's actually the case? Ziko api tambo. Wano na freto na groi yu? Watu angaipu ako na series after? He. Manilewa? Atafilminga kwa li tii is totally different from the rest. Aha. But do you feel it's because we have more platforms whereby we can showcase our content? Ama What do you feel has changed? I think it might be a point where the people buying the content here want to do it to many artists. Aha. Okay. So it's a level. Artists are paid good men. Are they really? Yes. Ama productione inu na muna lipa watu vizuri Lulu. All Nezauliza artists are paid good men. Me na jua. Actas. If you're an actor tu ambi e kama wuna lipa watu vizuri mali uko e tu jue kama niwepe kia kwa u lipa vizuri. Wana lipa watu? Let's go to here. Nivenewe utaji utaji panga. Okay. Aha. Kuketya stado miku malizi. By the time production in Asia. In Asia. Oh, there is that as well. Yeah.  Ako kwa production ama before. Before 233, tu semi ya uko na kingia. A kingia? Aju ya na takani. Kuna waliwa na kuja kama like a source of livelihood. Na kuna waliwa na kuja for stardom. Kuna waliwa na kuja Laki ni kwa yula na kuja na jua this is what I love doing this is what I want to do in future ya ni create pia mimi my empire kwa zata mimi where I'm coming from nangia utaka position ni a artist I was an actress but then again wiki ni wana kuja wana kuja na takaka kwa kama maria zora na takaka kwa kwa sultan you know. But how are you what it takes to get there. So na pasham tu kama huiwa kidi ya kilipwa anta kapa sure. Laki ni aji programitisha. Ita isha? Ya na by the time nambia it's a wrap wiki na uta pukasiriki ya. Kozu kiangali ya umewa lipa and they have nothing to say for it. Ya. That's the bad side. For sure. Aungi so satuna say mae kama productiona ilipi kumene mtu waku jipanga All right you guys if you intend to know you just come into this industry make sure me jipanga. Ya u jipanga and do what you want. So lulu I'm sure there are so many women that look up to you you know they are probably married, they are mums I don't know if this is something you'd like to tell them a mantra that you go by in life. They are in marriage. Ya in marriage a mum or just a wife that looks up to you. Mi triki, you know why? Ya. Ono na mumbia marriage Yes. Marige ina mania Kweli? Sizi kwa kumia yungu ya kani if you want to deal that means it will work for you. Kweli? Kenye ina waku pwangu Sida ni kama ina iza waku pwangu. Ya. So ni kumika tu mungu mbele. Ya. Moti mungu mashaya kwa usenek show me baby Ya. Nia udi unata kani ni kwa yungu ya marige. Ya. Nia tidulu ni kwa advise ni kwa mbe 1, 2, 3. Sibim, so far ya na tu advise. Anawa advise ni. Oni wewe usif. Ya. Usen me utata kweli utata chahi. Ya. But that doesn't mean ati na umutek kilakitu as the gospel fruit. Ya. Nia mania weni utasif utasima, this I can do this. I can't do. Titi kilakitu nansi mapale wone zaku pwangu. Kweli. Kwa zata mimi saingine piatunofa niya shown diyo. But kuna magila ni zaku pwangu. Ya. Kwa zata pangu inawa pwangu. Yes. It can't kweli. By the way, hey, this is something people always make, people have always been making comical videos of mumeka sirikiana na rashid, alafu mbe kuja pale brasoma news. I don't know if this such a moment that it happens, like you guys are actually not in good terms, but you have to go on air. I don't know what happens, as it ever happened. Oh, wow. Mabitu liya kusana, like, ah, umesu maigani. Mimi nansu mai iyo tu. But see ati, it was a home, nalita studio. Yes. Laki ni kuna temenye, mkona kai shitu kadogo, laki ni mnaku japa inabidi. At least I kwanu, mkwe mwangu. Ya. Oh. You know why? Ya. Udu na kwa mbe rashid ni moiz. Uki wole wanam tu moiz. Ni the type of person haizi acha tu lumbani fagawai. Kweli. Now that really works. One, two, three, this is not good for na hiti, even mefanya. Yes. You know. So I kai ati hours. Yes. And those comical videos mefanya, literally. Nisao. Cos you know that, it means they are watching you and that's a good thing. Miliona, uli sema, wezi wongesam tu tomo nginu mefunga chapter. I see Jewi Imagine I read that somewhere. I read that somewhere. That was back then, but now I see Jewi. But you never know. Ni kama mambu ina nda vizuri. I remember ina nda vizuri. I tried to slow down. Eko to sour. Alright. Umezeka Ujefika futi kama rashid. Almost. Ukomost. That he ate. You term that he ate the other day. Where is the years my sister. What are you doing? Nimuli amundu na iskia u iskia. Ya. Ya. Ya. Aya? Ya. Eko to sour basilulu. Please tell your fans something. You know to tell them something. You know this is the first time they actually hearing from you on the other side of the microphone. Please tell your fans something. Okay. Ma fans. Me to ma fans. Nima fans. Ma fans. Ma fans. Marafiki. Watazamaji. First of all, ngependa tina kwa shuku usana. Manaki upelum na utupa. Nizap kuangaliki. Nizawa. Nishida. Upelum na utupa. Tisele nimi. Rashi bina wiza hupalikazini. Atu na lakwalipa. Lakinti ase ma shuka nizana. Mungo bariki. I think nothing much. Ya. Ya mani. Eko sour. Eko sour to. Eko sour ya. Eko sour I mean. Lulu is someone of few words. That's what I've noted. Of few words. Labdani kiketin. Na bani asen meroro ibo.  Ah. Kwebo umedja ribu leo. Sana baivi. Atu rashi de tisha nga. Wa ule na kwa. Atu adu na nge na ue baivi. Aki. Atu atatazama tu. Atu iona tu pali. Wengi na wakiona. Sana baivi. Eko sour. Ugemongelia bi baia. Mumsifu kwanza sana. No. Minase ma kwe li. Kwe li. And that's really good. We love you guys. The both of you together on TV. You guys do a great job. I mean your chemistry is is not just of husband and wife but it's of friends for sure. Yes it is for sure. We can see that. See you guys agree with me. If you do, gonga aponu se me ukeli. Fendi o. Just tell us on the comments section. Nga subcribe. Nga subcribe. Eh. Aki e jamani. I hope this interview is gonna reach. Lulu, please wambiwa subscribe. Okay. Nga subcribe kwa? SPN bars. Nga subcribe kabisa. Yes. Eh. To fikiwa 100k. Same kwa? Tu kwa 92k. Aita 3k. Yes. Fendi o. Inshala kabisa. All right my dear. Thank you so much for giving us this moment. Ume jaribu sana. Asante sana. We are really grateful because this is an exclusive. Is it? Is it? It is rather. You haven't given it out to someone else and we are grateful. Eh. All right guys. That was the beautiful, talented Lulu Hasan right here on SPN bars. To me fikiwa bars with stars. I hope you have enjoyed this exclusive interview. 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Konnichiwa everybody and welcome to the Japanese class. Are you all ready to learn more Japanese? Well, in our previous classes we have been doing a lot of verbs. We have done number of new particles and today also we will do the same. We will learn more new verbs, some new expressions and also we will do some new particles today related to time and other things as well, some new kanjis as well. So, are you all ready for the class? Well, but before I actually start telling you something and we start learning something new, we will go over our assignments, the assignments that I had given you. I will just go over those and let us see if you have done it properly. So, the first one over here is practice telling time. Well, over here you are supposed to practice numbers, you are supposed to practice learn how to tell time. Why we need to do numbers again and again is basically because we need numbers a lot. Numbers are for asking price, for day, for date, for any of these things for telling time. So, please we need to actually really do numbers very well, so please do them at home. Over here we will practice time. So well, you could practice with your partner or you could ask your partner or you could also let your partner ask you and you could answer. Well, look at this one. This is quarter to one, so how will you say quarter to one in Japanese? We have done it earlier. Well, you can practice, ima nanji desu ka, ima juu niji yon juu gohun desu or you can also say, ima ichiji juu gohun mae desu which we did in our last class, so you can practice like this with your partner. The next one is ichiji juu pun desu, ima nanji desu ka, ima niji san juu gohun desu, ima nanji desu ka, juu juu niji juu gohun desu, ima nanji desu ka, yoji youn juu pun desu. I hope you got this one right. Now, the next assignment was we had done lot of kanji's, we did kanji's for days of the week. So, the kanji's are listed over here and the days are listed over here in pictures. So, please try to figure which one is which. So, we have getsu-yobi, kai-yobi, sui-yobi as you can see from water. Moku-yobi from ki, ki-yobi, do-yobi last one is nichi-yobi. See, we have only done one reading at the moment. We have done getsu, ka, sui, moku, kin, do and nichi. These are some of the readings for these characters. There are other readings as well which we will do in our next part. I hope you got this one right. So, this one is write the readings for the following kanji characters. Next now, we did kai-yobi, ichi-ji-han, kyu, this number kyu you did earlier, hyaku-go-ju-hachi-en. Now, you will see we did sui-yobi in our previous exercise. Over here, there is another reading for this which is mizu which means water. The basic meaning of this character is water. Now, there is another one for you. We just now did in our previous exercise, moku-yobi which is Thursday. Now over here, the basic meaning is ki for this character. So, we have two readings for ki, okane. Now, this character we did just now as kin-yobi. Basic meaning is okane. So, you will notice that these characters have a lot of readings. Please remember that and how to use them as well, ichi-nichi-su-chi. This also we did in our previous exercise. This is do-you-bi. So, now we go on to the other one. I hope you got this one right. Please revise it once again. Match group A with group B. So, the kanji characters are given over here. In group A and the readings are given in group B, moku-yobi, okane, kazan, kai-yobi, mizu, indo-jin. Now, you will remember we did this character in the beginning. This character, this is for hito as I have told you earlier. The other reading for this character is jin to be used with the country meaning belonging to that country, of that country, person of that country. Over here it is indo, which is India. Then we have kikori, kikori is a wood cutter, ki-kori, tanaka, this is a name, tanaka very common name in Japan, kin-ki. So, these are some of the kanji characters and the readings, please try to remember them. Now, this is a simple one we did particle de last time. If you remember, this was a new particle we did last time and some pictures are given over here tell by what means or mode you go from one place to another. So, the first one is you have done these words. So, vocabulary I am sure you already know, shinkansen, jitensha, densha, densha, bike, hikouki, see there is a long sound over here hikouki, hikouki, so please not hikouki, but hikouki, please remember that kuruma, basu, takushi. So, these are some of the words that you have already done and by this means you travel from one place to another. These were some of the exercises that I had given you. Now, today just before starting we will try to revise what we did last time and last time if you remember we did doko meaning where, location basically. So, well just look at the pictures and tell me, tell the answer where a certain thing or where a certain person is, well over here in this case it is a ball, we are talking about a ball where is the ball, boru wa doko desu ka, so you have two people standing over here together close by and the ball is a little further away from them, so well what are you going to say? Let me see, well ball wa asoko desu. Now, the second picture you have these two people here, one person is pointing at the ball, but both of them are far away from the ball once again, so well what is it going to be? Ball wa doko desu ka, ball wa asoko desu. So, please try to fill in the space yourself. Now, the third picture is this time we have two people over here, gentleman A is close to the ball and this gentleman B is far away from the ball as we did last time, well he is pointing at the ball and what is he saying, what is he asking? Ball wa doko desu ka, he is asking ball wa doko desu ka, so this gentleman over here as he is far away from the ball, he could say ball wa yes, ball wa soko desu. This gentleman could also say ball wa koko desu, now we have another picture for you. In this picture again, these two are close by and the ball is again far away, so what are you going to say? Well, this is just revision, so quickly do it, you know exactly what to say, asoko desu. And now, what do we have, we have this gentleman and a lady here and the gentleman is pointing at the kaban which is a bag over here, they are both far away from the kaban, so what is he asking, kaban wa, what does she ask, kaban wa doko desu ka? And he says, kaban wa, yes that is right, kaban wa asoko desu. So I hope by now you have all understood what asoko, koko, soko and doko mean and how it is to be used. Now today we are going to learn something new, lot of new particles, a couple of new particles, lot of new vocabulary, lot of verbs. So we begin with of course, time because time is very very important, so I get up at 6 o'clock every day, how will you say that in Japanese. So we will come to that, well now please listen to this radio conversation and see how much you can actually understand from the conversation and then whatever is not understood we will do right away in class. Now the conversation is between Arun san and Mira san, two people, a very casual conversation. Gakko wa nanjikara desu ka, Gakko you all know, Gakko is a school, wa of course because we are talking about Gakko, nan you know means what, G is for time, kara is from desu and ka makes it an interrogative. So Gakko wa nanjikara desu ka, shichijikara desu from 7 o'clock, nanji ni okimasu ka, nanji ni, ni is for time, nanji ni okimasu ka, okimasu is together, nanji ni okimasu ka, mainichi every day, rokuji ni okimasu. I get up every day at 6 o'clock, Gakko wa nanji ni owarimasu ka, what time does your Gakko get over, go go sanji han desu, 3.30 in the afternoon, ja, well then in that case when your Gakko gets over at 3 o'clock, 3.30, well in that case nanji ni hiru gohan wo tabemasu ka, what time do you have your lunch, tabemasu is to eat, juu ichiji desu, 11 o'clock. So this is a simple conversation, now you can see that there are two new particles for you ni and o and a simple word expression ja, ja is to be used when something is already being said and then well then in that case that is what ja means. Now I will do the two particles with you, this is of course in the script. I would like to tell you something over here you can see all of it is written in katakana because these are foreign words and these are names, foreign names not Japanese names and thus they will all be written in katakana and then also there is something very interesting over here which generally does not happen in a Japanese script. This has been done basically for you to understand it better, make it easy for you. In Japanese when you write then there are no spaces as you can see over here. In Japanese these spaces are not there and wa would come over here. I will write it down for you and tell you just now. It makes it a little complicated for us to understand as we are used to English or Hindi in India where space is provided or is given between words. So for you to understand better space has been given otherwise it is not written like this in Japanese. Then we have meanings in English for you, well now we will do particle ni. This is a new particle ni. You will notice that we did time ima ichi ji desu, simple for time ima ichi ji han desu. Now you want to perform a certain activity. You want to do something at a certain time watashi wa hachi ji ni okimasu, watashi wa roku ji ni tabemasu. So what am I doing? I am actually performing an activity at a certain time watashi wa roku ji ni. So after a certain time after a specified time at a specified time I perform an activity. So after a specified time ni is going to come. This particle ni is going to be used after time. And please remember that it will not be roku ni ji, please it is roku ji ni, this is important. So time will be followed by particle ni especially when an activity is being done at a certain time. As you can see it is written over here when a verb denotes action or movement at a particular time then the time is marked with particle ni. Ni actually means in, at and on. As in the example watashi wa roku ji ni okimasu, I get up at 6 o clock. This time expression ashta you have done in your previous lesson or kino, ashta, kino, kyo, asatte, ototoi, all these expressions you have done, these words you know. So ashta deli e ikimasu, e also you have done in your last lesson. So ashta deli e ikimasu, tomorrow I go to deli, I will go to deli tomorrow. So this is for ni, particle ni, now you can practice particle ni. Look at these clocks, you have time over here. You can ask your partner what do you do at a certain time. For example it is 1 o clock, it is 7 over here, 230 over here, 3 o clock, 4, 7, 8, 30, 11, 30, 6 o clock. So what do you do at this time? At this point, what do you do? Well, let us see what we do, what your friend does every day. Mai-nichi nan-ji ni okimasu ka, okimasu is to get up. Mai-nichi nan-ji ni ikimasu ka, shichi-ji ni ikimasu. Nan-ji ni kaerimasu ka, niji-han ni kaerimasu. Nan-ji ni tabemasu ka, sichi-ji ni ikimasu. Nan-ji ni tabemasu ka, san-ji ni tabemasu. Once again you have ikimasu over here, nan-ji ni ikimasu ka, yo-ji ni ikimasu. Nan-ji ni benkyoushimasu ka, shichi-ji ni benkyoushimasu. Once again tabemasu over here, then we have nan-ji ni nemasu ka, which is to sleep, juu-ichi-ji-han ni nemasu. So these are some verbs for you, which you can practice with time, at a certain time what activity you are performing. Watashi wa roku-ji ni, as I told you earlier, after time particle ni okimasu. You can change this also over here, tanaka san, tomodachi otou san, imouto wa again time, you can change the time over here, hachi-ji, hachi-ji, juu-ji, go-ji, shichi-ji. And then again you can also change the verb over here. You can put any verb you want, tabemasu, ikimasu, nomimasu or any other verb that we have done. For example, you could say, watashi wa roku-ji ni okimasu, watashi wa roku-ji ni ikimasu, tanaka san wa roku-ji ni tabemasu, imouto wa hachi-ji ni ikimasu. So you can make a lot of small sentences with this and practice time. You can practice the vocabulary that you have done and also you can practice the new verbs that we are going to do and some that we have already done. Now in this only you can also practice something else. For example, there is maini-chi given over here, word that you have already done, maini-chi ashta you have done, asatte. So you can also say, watashi wa maini-chi roku-ji ni okimasu. Everyday I get up at 6 o'clock in the morning. You can also add go-go or go-zen before time, watashi wa maini-chi roku-ji ni okimasu. You can also make dialogue like this, sentences like this and have a small simple dialogue. There is another one ashta, tanaka san wa ashta gozen hachi-ji ni ikimasu. So tomorrow tanaka san will go at 8 o'clock. So a certain activity is being performed at a certain time. You can add go-go, you can add these time expressions, the words that you have done and practice with your partner. Well, now you have some words over here for you, so you can practice with the words. For example, maini-chi we did just now. There is gakko, gakko means school as I have already told you. So well, watashi wa maini-chi gakko-e ikimasu, watashi wa maini-chi shichi-ji ni gakko-e ikimasu. A particle you have done which shows direction. So well, the second one is uchi, watashi wa maini-chi niji-han ni uchi-e kaerimasu. So particle A as I told you earlier, particle A will always come before verbs like ikimasu, motion verbs basically kaerimasu and any other verb, any other motion verb that we will do later. For the time being, please remember ikimasu and kaerimasu are two verbs which are going to take particle A. A and not E as is written in Roman, it is A, please remember that. Then we have hiru-gohan, hiru-gohan is lunch, watashi wa maini-chi san-ji ni hiru-gohan o tabemasu. I eat gohan every day at 3 o'clock, watashi wa maini-chi yo-ji ni juku-e ikimasu. I go for my special class at 4 o'clock. Then you have watashi wa maini-chi benkyoushimasu, watashi wa maini-chi shichijin ni benkyoushimasu. Watashi wa maini-chi hachi-ji-han ni ban-gohan o tabemasu. So at 8.30 every day I have my dinner. Then we have watashi wa maini-chi juu-ichi-ji han-ni nemasu. So every day I sleep at 11.30. Now I hope after doing this exercise you will be very comfortable with particle ni with these verbs that we have done, how to make sentences with these verbs, how to use particle ni and how to use particle A. We will also do particle O very very soon. Now there is another one, look at the picture and practice verbs with time. This is again practice for you basically for you to get used to the verbs, get used to these new sounds, new vocabulary and how to use time and verbs together. So we have this, you see someone sleeping over here, it is night time you can get from here. Well, what is it then? Watashi wa juu-ji ni nemasu. You see some people walking, minasan shichi-ji ni san-po-shimasu which is to take a walk. Well you see this gentleman returning. So what is it? We will call him Tanaka san. Tanaka san wa roku-ji ni uchi-e kaerimasu. And then we have Tanaka san again over here who is on the phone talking to someone. So we have Tanaka san wa juu-ichi-ji ni den-wa-o shimasu. So this way you can practice your verbs and your time. Now there is particle O. This is a new particle. So far we have done particle wa which is the subject particle or the topic particle. Particle ni which tells about time, particle wa, particle ni, particle ka which is a question particle, particle mo which means also, then particle ne which is used for confirmation. So well, we will do a new particle now, particle O. Now these particles are actually used to connect words with one another to make proper sentences. So well over here, Watashi wa mainichi ringo o tabemasu. Watashi wa mainichi every day, Watashi is I, Watashi wa mainichi ringo is apple o tabemasu. Now this is a noun, this is a verb. We already know that the subject comes in the beginning of a sentence every time. Whenever you are talking about something, the topic or subject of conversation is always right here in the beginning. Then the verb is in the end in Japanese. Well, then what happens about the object? Well, the object will always come in the middle then. So over here you can see action word directly related with the noun. So Japanese is a subject verb construction basically with the subject coming here, the object coming in between and the verb coming in the end. Now this verb is directly related with the noun or the object over here. What do I do every day? I eat an apple. I hope it is clear particle O. Now over here what you can do is, you can again replace Watashi over here with noun 1, which could be anybody, Oto-san, Sensei, Tomodachi. This noun 2 over here could be anything again, it could be Oren-ji, Oren-ji, Oren-ji, Ringo, o tabemasu, juice, nomimasu, nomimasu means to drink. So Watashi wa mainichi, orenji o tabemasu, orenji o tabemasu, Oto-san wa mainichi, juice o nomimasu, Sensei wa mainichi, Ringo o tabemasu. So you can use this construction with particle O, particle O simple basically showing relationship between the verb. So I hope this much is clear, we will practice it right now. Particle O indicates that the word preceding O is the direct object of the verb following it. You can very clearly read, when the verb shimasu to do is used, then shimasu means that the action denoted by the noun is being performed. For example, Ringo o tabemasu, so what is the action you are eating? I eat an apple, juice o nomimasu, I drink juice, Shigoto o shimasu, what am I doing? I am working, I am working. So you can see the direct relationship with the verb. Now this is practice for you, you can replace the noun Ringo with words given below, Sakana is fish, Mikan is orange, Yasai is vegetable, Kudamono is fruit, Niku is meat, and Ice Kurimu is ice cream as in English because you can easily make out because it is in Katakana. So well, it is an English word Ice Kurimu, well this is some practice for you here, just replace this word Ringo with any of these and you eat that. Practice it with your friend. Question would be, anata wa anata wa nani o tabemasu ka, nani o tabemasu ka? So far you have only done nan, which means what? If you remember you have not done nani so far, nani is meaning exactly the same, nan and nani are exactly similar, there is no difference. The only place where the difference is, nan generally is used with numbers and nani is used in other places most of the time, meaning is exactly the same means what. So anata wa nani o tabemasu ka, watashi wa Ringo o tabemasu. So you could practice like this, put any noun over here in place of Ringo and practice with your partner and use the vocabulary that we have learnt. You can also remember the sentence, construction, sentence pattern. Practice by replacing the noun and the verb and make sentences with the help of words given below. Well, this is another practice for you, which you can do. We have watashi wa mainichi Ringo o tabemasu, exactly what we did in our previous exercise. Well, you can also use the negative, which is masen. As you can see watashi wa Ringo o tabemasu, tabemasu is I, tabemasu is eat, I eat an apple. Now, the negative for tabemasu is tabe and masen, tabemasu and tabemasen, tabemasu is positive and tabemasu is masen is negative. Masen means, tabemasen means I do not eat an apple. So you can use any tabemasu or tabemasen, whichever you want. There is this group of words over here and there is this group of verbs over here for you. You can use either in masu form or in masen form as I just showed you on the board. Instead of masu over here, you can put masen and that will become negative. So there are n number of sentences you can make with these two sets, watashi wa mainichi sakana o tabemasu, Tanaka san wa mainichi sakana o tabemasen, imouto wa mainichi sanpo o shimasu, imouto wa mainichi sanpo o shimasen, Tanaka san wa mainichi yakyuu, which is baseball, o shimasu, Tanaka san wa mainichi yakyuu o shimasen. So whichever you want to use masu or masen, you can use that. It is called the masu form because it has masu in positive and masen in negative and later on also you will see in the past and the past negative also it has masu form somewhere and thus it is called masu form. So you can practice this at home with your partner and feel comfortable with masen masen and particle o. Now look at the picture and please tell what are they doing? Tanaka san, we will have Tanaka san as our friend from now onwards in class all the time and we will refer to people as Tanaka san anywhere in the picture. So what is Tanaka san doing? Tanaka san wa nani wo shimasu ka? Tanaka san wa hatarakimasu is his working. Tanaka san wa kaerimasu futari nani wo shimasu ka? Gakusei wa benkyou shimasu to study. Tanaka san wa nani wo shimasu ka? Tanaka san wa yomimasu. So, this is how you can practice particle o, you can practice all your verbs, you can make sentences with different combinations which will help you in conversation later. Now, we have been talking about eating all the time, where the Japanese do a certain action before actually starting to eat, can you tell me what they do? Well, generally say a small prayer before they start eating and it could be even before eating, it could be even before just having a cup of tea or generally a small snack, generally they would say something. Well, what is that? That is, join your hands before your food and say, thank you God for all the food that you are giving me. Well, the word is itadakimasu, meaning thank you God for the food that you are giving me. So, this is a custom, this is a system followed by all Japanese anywhere before they start eating they generally say this phrase. You can start doing it from today as you all are learning Japanese, so you can start this. Well, now there is a small conversation for you, a radio conversation, please listen to that and see how much you understand. I will tell you and read out to you once again, but before that please listen to this. Well, now again the kaiwa is between two people Amet and Rao. I will read out the kaiwa, which is conversation or dialogue. Ashta kara shu-cho desu ne, hai sou desu, doko e ikimasu ka, moomba e ikimasu, itsu modorimasu ka, laigetsu no moika desu, ah watashi wa moika ni kunie kaerimasu, soshite gogatsu no futuka ni modorimasu. Ah, so, well this is a simple conversation, a small dialogue, ashta you already know. The new word is shu-cho, shu-cho is a business trip when you go on tour from office, it is called shu-cho. So, ashta kara shu-cho desu ka, from tomorrow you are going for your tour, hai sou desu, doko e ikimasu ka, moomba e ikimasu, itsu modorimasu ka, itsu means when. You have already done this, well itsu is when for time, itsu modorimasu ka, when are you going to return, laigetsu no moika desu, laigetsu is next month, no moika is the 6th of next month desu. It is the 6th of next month, ah watashi wa moika ni kunie kaerimasu. So, again you will see with date, particle ni is used over here, earlier we have done particle ni with time. Now, this time over here in this conversation you will see that particle ni is also used with date, ah watashi wa moika ni kunie kaerimasu. On 6th I will return to my country, soshite, now soshite is a new word which is a conjunction and unlike English where conjunctions join sentences, in Japanese conjunctions start a sentence. So here you will see, the sentence ends over here after kaerimasu and then soshite which means and starts over here, soshite and gogatsu no futsuka ni modorimasu, gogatsu is 5th month that is mei no futsuka is the 2nd, 2nd of mei ni modorimasu, I will return. 1 futsuka again is date, futsuka ni so on the date, ah so I see that is a simple expression O I have understood. So, this is a simple conversation with this new particle soshite which means and and always begins the sentence. So, you can practice this again at home. Now as we always do, we will do kanji which are pictograms and ideograms and we have been doing a lot of kanji characters in our previous lessons. Kanji as you know can be divided into different groups. How would you look up a kanji in in a kanji dictionary? How would you do that? Well, for that kanji is divided into different sections as you can see it is divided into radicals, it is divided into groups by stroke order and it is also divided into groups with the help of the readings. Well, we will not go too much into detail of what exactly each one is and how it is done. But well, there are about two hundred and fourteen radicals and these radicals are very interesting because the basic basic meaning of the kanji character comes from these radicals. Now, these radicals in a character can be anywhere, it could be on the left side, it could be on the right side, it could be on top over here in a kanji character, it could cover the kanji character completely, it could also be on the left side like this, it could also be on the on the top like this. So, it can be anywhere as you can see it can be all over the place, the radical could be placed anywhere in a complicated kanji character. Now, some simple kanji is that you have already done in class are actually radicals. For example, this character which is hito which means a man is itself a radical. This character which means sun or is or can also mean light or brightness or day is also a radical. So, lot of characters, lot of kanji characters which will have the meaning of light, bright, day or sun associated with that will be in this group, in this radical will have this radical definitely as a character. For example, you have done this character of yo-bi, yo which means day as in days of the week like this, this is what we did earlier, isn't it? In our previous class, so now, this is one single character, this means yo means day, so the sun flies on the wings of a bird, on the wings of a fat bird from one place to another. Now, how do you depict that? So, thus you have this character over here as sun, this kanji goes under this radical. That is how radicals are divided, there are 214 radicals and all the kanji characters about 1900 kanji characters are divided into these radical groups. Now, then also you have with stroke order a complicated kanji like this has about how many strokes let us count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. So, in all it has 18 lines, so stroke order it is divided with the help of stroke order because there are single stroke kanji also, there are two stroke kanji also, there are three stroke kanji also, so all this goes up till 23, so you have complicated characters of 23 strokes. Then also kanji are divided with the help of readings. For example, each kanji has a number of readings, a number of readings are given to each kanji, we have already done quite a few of them. So, they can also be divided with those readings, a certain reading could be a certain set of kanji with a similar reading could be in one group and a certain set of kanji characters, certain set of kanji readings could be in another group. As we go ahead you will realize what it is. So, for the time being I think this much is enough, we will not go into too much detail and we will try to do the kanji that we have to do. So, well the kanji that we are going to do are go, go, go, a four stroke character go, go and you can see over here go, it means noon, noon again I will make it for you once again over here 1, 2, 3 and 4, go. Then we have go again, so well now you can see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. So, you will see as I told you earlier every time the kanji character will end over here on the right lower corner of the square. Now this character over here go, go means ato or later, later on go, go. You did go, go and goes in, so you have go and go as go, go afternoons. So well this character is of 9 strokes. So you have one more character 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and I have to do it once again 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. It is a 9 stroke character 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 like this means before earlier means my or another reading is zen as you can see.  Now there are some words with these kanji characters for vocabulary. You have done these words earlier all you need to do now is to know the kanji character. Every day, asa, morning, kyou, today and if you remember we have done this character ima as well earlier this is also ima kyou, kyou is ima nichi which is day, today. Then we have kino, kino that is yesterday. So these are some of the new characters. You can learn these, do these and remember them. At least if you look at them regularly you will be able to recognize them when you see them somewhere, written somewhere. Now some words with kanji characters gozen chiu, gozen chiu means morning and chiu means all through, all morning.  Go-go as you already know you did with time is p-m, gozen is a-m as you have done with time earlier. Now, another reading for zen is mai and the kanji is here which I had made for you on the board which means a head and over here, ushiro and over here it is go-go. So this character has two readings, go and ushiro. If you look at the kanji slide, you will see that two readings are written over there. Then a name for you, simple name we did earlier in one of our lessons, lot of names. Well, you can write these names now in kanji. You can understand them how it is written, mai kawa. So, now we have some new words for you, some vocabulary for reference, well you could repeat after me, sengetsu, kongetsu and the meanings of course are given over here, raigetsu, sarai sakana, fuku, gohan, shousetsu, yakiu and some verbs as well, shimasu, nomimasu, kaimasu. Please repeat after me, skurimasu, okimasu, modorimasu, tabemasu, yomimasu, mimasu, nemasu, sanposhimasu. Well, now it is for you to do all the assignments, it is your work, now that begins there is this assignment where you have to write the kanji characters for all the underlined words. So, please try to do these kanji characters, try to practice this, all the characters are given in your previous lessons. Match the following kanji characters with words in roman in column B. So, you have kanji characters in column A and then you have the roman written in column B. Look at the pictures and practice with your partner by asking him about his daily schedule. So, the schedule is given, all the pictures are there, the time is given plus the verbs are given in English. So, you have to do the verbs in Japanese and of course, you could look at the picture and ask, Mai nichi nani wo tabemasu ka and this would help in vocabulary and in the end this is for you to tell what the verb is. Practice your verbs by looking at the picture, asking your partner what they are doing and then answering. So, please try to do that at home. Practice all that we have done, do the vocabulary, do the verbs, do time and practice particle ni particle wo and then we will meet next time again. So, minasan mata ashita aimashou. Arigatou gozaimasu. Thank you.


for a special editorial spotlight on cloud services and solutions and applications. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com. This is where we spend some time, we go in depth into specific solutions to get the unfiltered opinion and analysis around some of the applications for cloud. And I'm joined by co-hosts. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org and we are here with Jason Nolette who is a CUBE alum. Jason's with Brocade and he's the vice president. Jason, we were out in San Francisco a couple months ago now or a month or so ago talking about V-specs, big show here for Brocade. You guys got a great, great booth in the pavilion and seems like, saying off camera, you guys have always had a strong relationship with EMC.  So anyway, congratulations on that and welcome to the CUBE again. Well thank you, it's good to be here again. We've had a great relationship with EMC for the last 14 years. As you pointed out, we pioneered the storage area networking market with EMC and some of our other partners and I think from an environment, kind of market landscape point of view, we probably have one of the cleanest relationships with EMC because there's not a lot of conflicting agendas and it's very straightforward and it has been a very strong relationship. I think the resurgence as you might refer to it has taken the form of solutions that we partnered with EMC recently. I mean you mentioned V-SPACs, the launch we did about 30 days ago jointly with them and a terrific solution that is focused at Small and Medium Enterprise to deliver a converged infrastructure, a proven infrastructure offering with compute, storage, network, kind of the whole stack but with a variety of choices that gives the customer the confidence of something that's pre-certified and tested but something that also gives them a best of breed opportunity and so we appreciate partnering with EMC and giving our joint customers that opportunity. Yeah, so I mean, there's obviously been a lot of talk about that single skew and here it is, any flavor you want as long as it's vanilla or chocolate, pick one. Right, the Henry Ford model. Yeah, Henry Ford model. Right, as long as it's black. And so now, a lot of people are talking about this notion of choice. So there's the positive side of that, which is choice, right, and it's more open and less lock in. Is there a drawback and how are you and your partner sort of navigating through those minefields? I mean, kind of the obvious drawback is that it really puts a lot of burden on the vendors that are contributing to these stacks to participate in the certification of a broader range of offerings, right? So in the case of eSpex, we came out initially with 10 different variants for different solutions and so there's an ongoing burden in terms of the combinations of technology but candidly we think it's such a compelling value proposition for the customer to have that range of choice that it makes sense for the vendors to take that on. So we were talking in our setup segment about cloud and how the attitudes toward cloud are changing. A year ago, we did a survey on Wikibon of our practitioner community and we found that a very small portion, actually we're making hybrid cloud their primary strategy. That number, just a short, 11 months later is up to 37%. It's the predominant strategy now. Are you seeing that in your customer base and what do you think the driver is there? You know, we are seeing that. I would say there's still a, I think a kind of a motivation with an enterprise accounts at least to start with a private cloud architecture and understand how they're going to deliver the same kind of service flexibility and faster time to deployment of new applications and service catalogs to their end users so that they can compete effectively with public cloud offerings because the end users in those enterprises have the ability to go around IT out and secure public cloud infrastructure, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, whatever it might be. So I think IT shops are racing to figure out how to be that provider internally. But at the same time, as you point out, they're also looking to supplement their internal capability with some external offering whether it's Amazon or one of the other capabilities. Of course, just about every enterprise is utilizing some form of software as a service. So if you throw that into the mix of hybrid cloud then pretty much everybody's doing hybrid cloud of one form or another. Yeah, that's true. And we tried to explicitly exclude that because it is such a common factor. So talk about what Brocade's doing to facilitate that because when you think about hybrid cloud, you think about moving data, you think about moving data, you got to go to the network. Network is not the sole bottleneck, but it is one that often comes up. You see, we are detecting the network. As the cluster size gets bigger, you still got to go through the, it gets problematic. So small cluster's okay, but the bigger the cluster is, the harder it is. Yeah, so how are you guys addressing that? What kind of value are you bringing to that conversation? Yeah, I mean in the context of a data center, of course our big contribution is fiber channel sands for those customers who choose to continue to leverage that kind of dominant networking, storage networking technology. But on the ethernet side of the house, a technology that we pioneered about a year and a half ago and have been in the market for a year called Ethernet Fabrics. And I know you spent some time with Mike Placo talking about this just the other day. But the Ethernet Fabrics is really a technology that is built very specifically for virtualization, virtualized data centers, the ability to facilitate VM mobility within the data center, and then ultimately between data centers, right? So for a true hybrid cloud offering, eventually we want to get to the place where that public cloud infrastructure and that on-prem private cloud infrastructure want to be treated as one pool of resource where the customer can deploy and move workloads and move data. And obviously we've got a long heritage in the data replication portion of that, through our fiber channel offerings and our extension offerings. So when we couple that with Ethernet Fabrics and our VCS technology, we kind of get the best of both worlds. You get a very high performance, a very virtualization aware network within the data center LAN, but the ability to then couple that with multiple data centers or cross data centers and stretch that cloud environment. Jason, the customers out there, they all want the performance, they want the speeds and fees, they also want the robust flexibility to have this app environment that Ipad Gelsing was talking about earlier on about enabling the consumerization of IT. But they see you guys, they see Cisco, they see Juniper, they all got their own fabrics. Can you help demystify the fabric conversation? They know, how do you help someone navigate those waters? Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, I think the good news for us is that, while we pioneered the term Ethernet Fabric and as I said, we've been in the market for over a year now, just about every other vendor has come forward with some notion of fabric at this point. So the good news for us is great validation, right? The industry's getting it, I think customers are getting it. Now the challenge is, who's got a better fabric and how do we compare? I won't talk a lot about my competition here, but I will say that one of the things that we focused on is a very, very high degree of both simplicity and very low cost. So while some of the competitors in this space are shooting for kind of hyperscale data centers in the biggest of the big, we're going after mainstream enterprise and really trying to help kind of your common enterprise deploy a fabric in support of their private cloud initiative and also on the service provider side where there's plenty of public cloud infrastructure providers who are new or traditional service providers who are now getting into public cloud infrastructure offerings that really can benefit from starting with an Ethernet framework. So for us, in contrast to competition, it's about simplicity, it's about automation, and it's about being able to get started for less than a million bucks. In the segment, you're going through the fat middle. Exactly, exactly. So everyone talks about North, South, East, West, obviously the challenges. So Top of Rack is now popular again for these big data deployments. You can put a nice big switch at the top of the rack, but outside of that, how many racks are you going to have? Now racks and racks of servers and data are comprising these huge clusters, say big data or whatever the data store is. How is that affecting some of the network architecture relative to the fabrics? What are you guys doing around that? It is certainly driving a lot of, I think you labeled it East-West traffic where traditionally these data center environments were very dominated by North, South, traffic client server technology and architecture. Now it's about server-to-server communication, it's about disaggregating applications, it's about big data and Hadoop clusters and the kind of data that traverses those environments. So very important to have a very low latency, kind of minimal number of devices, minimal number of hops, layer two fabric to facilitate kind of East-West traffic. So that's probably the biggest value prop I think of Ethernet fabrics and our technology in particular in those environments is to facilitate that new paradigm and traffic patterns in the data center. What do you think about some of the efforts around this whole software networking stuff that's going on? I think it's a great topic and a really interesting way for vendors like us to provide more innovation and differentiation. In fact, we just coincidentally did a press release this week around our vision and our strategy and software-defined networking and now it's support for open flow on one of our high-end runner platforms. You know, for us it's all about creating a platform for innovation where traditionally customers had to come to the network vendor to say, oh, look, I need new functionality, I need new capability. We had to bake it into the ASIC or bake it into the software on the Switch. Now we can unlock that by allowing customers to write applications and influence the behavior of the network from outside of the infrastructure.  We see it just the opposite. There's a way to differentiate in that space that allows us to provide SDN support better than the next guy. You know, Jason, I got to say that we talked to a lot of developers. We talked to a lot of clouds. And just yesterday I was talking to an engineer at Cloud Air and we're just talking about things like how they're interviewing for people and having knowledge of up and down the stack has really become kind of the cloud architect model. But you guys are really speaking to the DevOps guys. So you pioneered fabric concept, that's cool. Everyone else followed suit, kind of copied. But you guys are now talking to a whole another classification, these DevOps guys. You're talking about the software networking enabling that innovation. Now you got to go all the way to the top for applications. That's cloud. So what do you, do you realize that you guys realize that this DevOps thing is exploding?  How do you address that internally? We do, it's really interesting. Something like SDN causes you to break down kind of traditional silos and administrative domains within the data center. So DevOps or otherwise. You're absolutely crossing a lot of boundaries and we're going to break a lot of kind of old paradigms for how customers are going to rise around this. But I will say that one thing that Brocade is very thoughtful about is we're a network infrastructure provider. That's what we do. That's what we focus on. We're experts in that. We've been doing it for a long time. And so we're careful to not kind of go past that and get into adjacencies where we might lose focus or we might try and do too much. And very good about partnering. I mean that's the heritage and the DNA of the company with the likes of EMC and others is to really have a very strong partnership philosophy. So where we have to cross those boundaries and go out and work with other layers in the stack. For us it's often a partnership model rather than a land grab from us because we want to stay focused on what we do best. And EMC is right in the groove swing for the DevOps too. We've been kind of hearing some rumblings that the next EMC world will probably have a much more DevOps flavor tool. You can almost connect the dots and go okay, next level the journey is that DevOps. You got bare metal being provisioned by Puppet, they announced that today. So it's interesting, right? It's all kind of coming together. So I think that's a unique thing that the cloud market hasn't yet packaged yet that the people involved in building the solutions and the architects behind it. The solution architects, the architecting it. The roles change. The roles change. The other one that's very interesting to me is big data. We talk a lot about the technology behind big data and what you have to do there. But the reality is there's likely to be a shortage of data scientists that can actually make use of all this and put it together in a meaningful format so that average guys like us can make use of it. So I think there's a lot of roles that are going to change and a lot of, like I said, kind of historical silos of organizational models that are going to break down over time. Well, we talk a lot about, as I do, the labor intensive IT economy. We spend more money on labor than anything else. And here we are supposed to be automating all this stuff. Right. And when you talk about the opportunities to transform roles of individuals, EMC is obviously talking a lot about it, the cloud architects, data scientists. I think the industry in general has been fearful about attacking that labor problem. Ooh, guys who buy from us are going to lose their jobs. But I think people are realizing, I love your feedback on this, that this wave of opportunity Joe Tucci calls it waves is now so large that actually they want to hop on that wave and they do want to transform themselves.  I think they're seeing that, you know, with the cloud and the applications that they can run across the portfolio, there's a lot more opportunities than doing some of those basic management tasks. Yeah, I think what happens is, as people see these technologies really take hold and the opportunities that that presents to them, that's when they grow comfortable about, okay, I could change my role, I could do something different, I can move up the stack, I can become an automation expert rather than a guy who has to do all these things manually. So I think people, you know, get that, but it takes time sometimes, because some of these organizational models are very long standing, right? They've been, you know, prevalent for a long, long time. I think the other thing that we're very focused on with, you know, getting back to ethernet fabrics is, probably the single most important value proposition of an ethernet fabric is automation. It's making the network automatic so that you can scale it out, simply plug into switches, have them come up, self discover the topology, discover their configurations, very, very few manual configuration steps have to be taken place here. And the reason that we're, you know, so focused on that, other than, you know, automation is just good, is that all these new initiatives that are coming at IT organizations, whether it's BYOD or cloud initiative or whatever it might be, typically it's not coming with any more budget, right? People are having to face these new initiatives and finding a way to extract investment from existing infrastructure as a way to fund these things. And that's where we think network automation through ethernet fabrics is a great way to help a customer do that. Yeah, self-funding and gain sharing are big concepts now. Keeps coming up on all the surveys, budget constraints, budget constraints, that's not going to change. And in order for IT organizations to sort of close the gap between where they are, with their systems and processes and the new breed of cloud service providers, you know, they've got to really attack that problem. That's exactly right. I mean, they've got to offer the same kind of cost, the same kind of flexibility, the same kind of agility that, you know, an end user can go out and get in the public environment. So it's, you know, it's a bit of a wake-up call for IT. All right, Jason, thanks very much for coming back on theCUBE. It was my pleasure to have you here. Great to be here. Thanks very much. Great, thanks for sharing with us on the Spotlight. Dave, cloud is hot and it ranges from labor, the talent to build it, solution architects to all the technology, really the network layer and it's a collaborative model. So you're seeing this all come together. We're going to break this down a little further in the Spotlight right after this break.


If you want to get some help in choosing your minor, then please watch this clip. My name is Natasha van Ankevoort, I'm an education coordinator at Tilburg School of Economics and Management. I would like to tell you more about the minors that we offer in order to help you make a choice between one of them. In the first semester of the third year, students of the Bachelor in Business Economics and International Business Administration either go in exchange or stay in Tilburg. If you go in exchange, you follow courses at one of our partner universities and then this information session is not relevant for you. If you don't go in exchange, you choose a minor and two electives or you do an internship. So first of all, what is a minor? A minor is a set of three related courses in a particular discipline. The objective of a minor is to gain further knowledge in the chosen discipline. You can also use your minor in order to prepare yourself optimally for the corresponding master or to find out where your specific interests in business lie. Each minor consists of three courses of six ECTS each. The courses of the minor are taught in English. Besides our own students, there will also be incoming exchange students in your classroom and this extra asset creates a multicultural classroom enabling you to work on your international competencies. In total, we offer eight different minors. As mentioned, each minor consists of three courses. And next to this video, each minor has a separate video in which you receive more information about a minor and the specific courses in that minor. You can also choose a free minor. This means that you choose three courses from the different minors that we offer and create your own personal minor. It gives you the opportunity to expand your knowledge in a variety of different business aspects. Besides the minor, you choose two electives and most students choose courses from another minor. But it is also possible to choose courses from another bachelor of TISM or from another school. For courses from outside of TISM, you need to ask for permission on the forehand. The most important requirements for electives are that it is not allowed to choose first year bachelor courses or master courses. The courses should not overlap with courses from your program. Language courses are not allowed. And from your minor and the two electives, four out of five courses have to be in the field of economics and business, which means that one course can be from another field. For the exact requirements of the free electives, please go to the course catalogues in Ossiras. Instead of two electives, you can also do an internship. The internship is for three days a week and you combine this with three minor courses. You are responsible for finding an internship company yourself and defining an appropriate project before July 1st. We aim to schedule the lecturers of each minor on two fixed days per week so that the three days a week are available for the internship. Therefore, it is important that you do not combine courses from different minor, the so-called free minor, or that you opt for the entrepreneurship minor. In that case, you will probably have lectures on more than two days per week in many or in all the different weeks of the semester. For all the requirements, see the internship manual on Blackboard. So now you can start finding your minor. Watch the minor videos and read the course description in the course catalogues. Determine whether you want to do an internship or follow two electives. Then in Ask a student, you can find the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the minors. And you can also make an appointment with your education coordinator if your questions are not answered by the information online and in Ask a student. So for now, I hope you have had enough information and I would like to wish you good luck in choosing your minor.