G'day from Japan:)

[loveskyliemole]

Originally Posted by Payne222

Haha it has to sorta do with the sentence structures...
but the thing about the Chicago Accent is the way you
talk.
Like...
We tend to put a weird stress on, like, a and o.
I dunno how to explain it, you kinda have to just hear it...
Here's Chicago's Mayor, you can listen to they way he talks...
I dunno, try looking up people from Chicago.

Thank you! I will try to learn some Chicago Accent and make my workmate "!?!?!?!?!".

[loveskyliemole]

Originally Posted by mandelak

how's it going? just wondering where abouts in melbourne did you go to. im from melbourne too.

Hi! mandelak from Melbourne, my favourite city!

I used to live in North Fitzroy,Northcote,Brunswick,Toorak,South Yarra and Mitcham!

My favourite places were Fitzroy and FernTree Gully area.
I used to go to Fitzroy to enjoy the live music like, SKA!
And I used to help my friend (a teacher at a secondary college) to teach Japanese at a few of the colleges in FernTree Gully area and I just loved the students there! They tried to teach me a lot of English swear words and all.

I really miss all my mates there.

By the way, mandelak, have you been to Japan?

[mandelak]

oh ok i lived in Footscray.

nuh i haven't been yet. I'm planning on going to japan next year for a holiday and then possibly go back for a 5 yr visit lol. it is a very long time but there is a lot i want to do there like study and work if possible.

im really interested on making friends with people in japan before i go though.

[Pexster]

Originally Posted by loveskyliemole

What did you mean by "shows" ?

They are movies, did that you mean?

I tried to find some usuful website in English, but
for the moment, I only found this.
hope you enjoy it.

The official site of Ghibli Museum, Mitaka in Japan



Thank you, but I have been learning it for ages and still learning and never end!

yea thats what i ment lol! Arigato! for the link.

lol ya! when you first heard Poeple speak english, what did it soumd like to you?

[loveskyliemole]

Originally Posted by mandelak

oh ok i lived in Footscray.

nuh i haven't been yet. I'm planning on going to japan next year for a holiday and then possibly go back for a 5 yr visit lol. it is a very long time but there is a lot i want to do there like study and work if possible.

I went to Footscray sometimes for shopping! I liked it there too!

When you come to Japan, just let me know!

I guess you are under 30y-o right?
then you can get a Working-Holiday visa to come to Japan, to study and work for a year or more.

If you speak Japanese and English (as a native speaker), then getting a job is very easy!

im really interested on making friends with people in japan before i go though.

Yeah, let's be friends!
It's not only me you can be friends with, I work for an English school and they are very interested in Australia too,
so they will be more than happy to be friends with you.

When you have enough money to buy air ticket, just come to our town!
I can arrange "homestay" for you, so that you can stay there almost for free!

[loveskyliemole]

Originally Posted by Pexster

yea thats what i ment lol! Arigato! for the link.

lol ya! when you first heard Poeple speak english, what did it soumd like to you?

mmm, I don't remember what it sounded like... I heard it when I was very small. The first English "teacher" I met, was a lady from the USA and all I remembered about her is...... that she was the biggest person I had ever met .She didn't know how to teach kids, so she gave us text books for adults and it was tooooo difficult for us and we all got bored and we were all quiet, that I remembered. If she gave us some fun, then I would have been interested in English and started studying earlier, but she gave me a bad image about English.

I didn't hate English as a subject, but it was very difficult and wasn't interested until I was 18 or 19 when I had penfriends.
Exchanging letters with them was fun then I was getting interested more and more in countries&cultures where English is spoken.


How about you?
When you first heard people speak Japanese,
What did it sound like?

Some people told me it sounds like "machine-gun".

[Bureda]

Why do you need English?

If you want English lessons for the purpose of teaching your class; it is always good to create an interactive way of learning, it is more stimulating.

A good example would be to disallow your class to use anything but Romanji and to promote role playing and speaking in class.

[Pexster]

Originally Posted by loveskyliemole

mmm, I don't remember what it sounded like... I heard it when I was very small. The first English "teacher" I met, was a lady from the USA and all I remembered about her is...... that she was the biggest person I had ever met .She didn't know how to teach kids, so she gave us text books for adults and it was tooooo difficult for us and we all got bored and we were all quiet, that I remembered. If she gave us some fun, then I would have been interested in English and started studying earlier, but she gave me a bad image about English.

I didn't hate English as a subject, but it was very difficult and wasn't interested until I was 18 or 19 when I had penfriends.
Exchanging letters with them was fun then I was getting interested more and more in countries&cultures where English is spoken.


How about you?
When you first heard people speak Japanese,
What did it sound like?

Some people told me it sounds like "machine-gun".

Ah, yeah, but that is still good that you at least want to learn about the english language.

umm to me it doesn't sound very much like a machine gun. Really i don't have very much words to explain the way it sounds, but the language has a lot of "S" sounds in it...like um kinda like a machine gun,but not too much. Lets just say its like a soft machine gun and alot of "s" sounds in it....ah! it's too hard to explain but to me it sounds Heavenly to me.

[mandelak]

Originally Posted by loveskyliemole

I went to Footscray sometimes for shopping! I liked it there too!

When you come to Japan, just let me know!

I guess you are under 30y-o right?
then you can get a Working-Holiday visa to come to Japan, to study and work for a year or more.

If you speak Japanese and English (as a native speaker), then getting a job is very easy!



Yeah, let's be friends!
It's not only me you can be friends with, I work for an English school and they are very interested in Australia too,
so they will be more than happy to be friends with you.

When you have enough money to buy air ticket, just come to our town!
I can arrange "homestay" for you, so that you can stay there almost for free!

yeah im 22 and will be taking japanese because the course i want to do requests that international students must have been inrolled in a japanese course for at least 6 months.

so hopefully by next year august i will be there. now all i have to do is work, work, work lol but it will be really good in the end.

ohh so you are an english teacher. thats pretty cool. if you need a person from australia to be a pen pal i'll do it. atm I'm in my last year for my course and it is basically crunch time, but I'm more than interested to do it. it will be pretty cool.

thanks a lot. your too cool.

oh before i forget, where in Japan are you located?

I'll definitely let you know

[loveskyliemole]

Originally Posted by mandelak

yeah im 22 and will be taking japanese because the course i want to do requests that international students must have been inrolled in a japanese course for at least 6 months.

So you mean that you are going to get a student visa ?

so hopefully by next year august i will be there. now all i have to do is work, work, work lol but it will be really good in the end.

August next year? Really?
Then you MUST come and visit our school!
We might need another English teacher by then,
if you are interested, just let me know!

We have Japanese language classes too,
and it's only 1000yen per lesson!
Me or other Native Japanese girl will teach there.

ohh so you are an english teacher. thats pretty cool. if you need a person from australia to be a pen pal i'll do it. atm I'm in my last year for my course and it is basically crunch time, but I'm more than interested to do it. it will be pretty cool.

Yeah, why not?!

Yes, I teach Japanese kids to adult
basic English. I can't teach like native English speakers do,
but for the beginners, I could be usuful&helpful,
cos I can tell them how I learned English.

Today, I told the students (all girls over 20s-30s)
something like this....

me:
What would you say if a guy said
"You are pretty/beautiful!" to you?

the girls:
I would say "Thank you"


me:
I would say
" I know!"


the girls: *laugh*
"It's a good idea!"


That's one of the things I can tell the beginners, from my experience.
Japanese are besically shy when they have to talk to foreigners,
They are trying to be very very nice and kind to them, which is really good but they could be too serious and tired.
I really want them to relax and sometimes to joke, then
everyone can enjoy.

thanks a lot. your too cool.

"You have to be careful with everyone being "too good/kind" to you"

That's what all of my friends told me when I decided to
travel Europe by myself.

But, actually I met great people there.
They were really really nice and kind and helful and all that!

Well, I meant what I said to you.

If it sounded "too good" to scared you, sorry! haha.

oh before i forget, where in Japan are you located?

We live in "Nagano". When you were 12 years old,
We had the winter Olympic Games here.
It's about 1.5 hour from Tokyo by "Shinkansen".



My students will love to be penfriends with you,
Let me send you our address and the details later,

I have to go to bed right now...it's 5am! I am so unhealthy!!