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Sorry for not writing you back to your email! I talked with the mother about your offer before, but some of them simply didn't like their kids pictures on the web. but some liked this idea about this video thing! It's summer holidays here, so we will be back on the 1st of September and start working on it. Please ask me your question about Japanese too! Let me help you with something, otherwise I feel bad! またね :ywave: |
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they could ask them like... 1)Where are you from? 2)Where have you visited in Nagano already? 3)Where else are you going to visit during your stay? 4)What did you think of XXX? on the train... 1)Look at the XXX. That's xxx. 2)Here is called XXX and there was a big battle called XXX in xxxx. (actually 30 second walk from our school there is a place like that) 3)Can you see the building over there? That's my favourite sweet shop. like these? ;) Oh yes, we will try to talk to the people on the train. (Maybe I should go and talk to the manager of the railway company first to get a permission and also I will tell all the people who kindly talking to us about the video thing to make sure if it's ok to have their faces in it or just their voices...) I love to have local people as many as possible to help us, but I don't want to do it in an ordinary way... like puting up some paper saying "Join us if you are interested in making a video in English!" , because then we will have people who ARE already interested in English and oversas... and for sure they will be very helpful but this time, I really want more people who don't really care about English or overseas to join us, in order to make tiny bit of a change for this "too conservative" town! People say Japanese are basically shy (maybe not in Osaka!) but I don't think they are really really shy... I think that they are just too afraid of being "disliked" or making "a scean" in public, in spite of the fact that they'd love to be helpful and friendly and I think they are secretly;) waiting for being asked for help! So I'm going to go out there with the kids and try to see if my method works;) , asking questions about this city and whatever and tell them what we are doing and ask them to join us if they are interested. Well Im going to talk about all this with the kids before hand, and make them understand being polite + friendly is very very important when we want to talk to the strangers. Quote:
Let's take a train to go to the city! (my "city" means around the main staion, is "the city" OK to use here?) walking to the staion... This is the vending machine for the train tickets. (I was so stupid to say "bending" ! I was drunk too, but I realized that Im a real Japanese to make that mistake!) You can put the coins in here... and the note in here... and push this button.... then the ticket comes out! Quote:
Nagano city is in it as well as our city Ueda. Nagano city looks big enough to me to call it a city, but Ueda isn't really... it is 市 but it's very quiet and small... thanks Columbine さん have a happy day!:ywave: |
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G'day from Japan
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Wow you are from Australia? I just came back from there a month ago. I visited my friends and had a wonderful time. Maybe you can read more of the comments in this thread. And the reason why you never heard of the oyster story cos Australia is in Southern Hemispher and different condition, I mean seasons things and all. anyway thanks for the post. have a good day mate;) |
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Hint: Seasons in Northern vs. Southern hemispheres. EDIT: yytt beat me to it. |
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you mean 2 bloody middle fingers??? |
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That's what I was wondering when I was in Australia. I think I heard "brochures" more than "catalogues"... maybe just a coincient? but for Japanese, at least for me... カタログandパンフレット will do. maybe it depends on what the contents in it. カタログis more like... a list of something in it パンフレット doesn't matter if the list there or not. Anyone can help me with better explanation?! |
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[quote=yumyumtimtam;824527 I meant that "Nagano" as a 県 (prefecture you call?) Nagano city is in it as well as our city Ueda. Nagano city looks big enough to me to call it a city, but Ueda isn't really... it is 市 but it's very quiet and small... [/QUOTE] It's hard to say for sure, because in the UK, a city is any 'town' that has a cathedral in it. That's why Oxford is a city, even though it's really quite small. For Japanese places, I think we tend to follow the clues given by Kanji, so 市is always city and 町 is town, and 村 of course is a village. Wikipedia calls Ueda a city, and the population is quite high, so i'd say it's a city. |
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