Hi loveskyliemole
I would like to chat with your students:)

My name is Diogo, I'm 14 and I live in Portugal.

cool:)

I will come back here with my students between 18:10~19:30 tonight. (Japan time)
and tomorrow from 18:10~19:00.

Can you leave your message to

(girls)
Sakura
Kanon

(boys)
Reiki
Yuzuki ?

They will reply you:)

Yes, but can it be by pm or reply here?

Dear yuna From kanon Reiki and Sakura
 

the messages moved

sorry about the mess again.

We are moving to other place to exchange their own messages...
they wanted to leave silly messages so I don't think it's fun for you guys to read...





We will start writing to our new penfriends. Snail mails.

Anyone would like to join us, please PM me thanks:)

Ask your grandparents to join us too! cos there are 11 students who are in their 60s, want to have penfriends overseas!:)

I've just volunteered on children forum:D

Oh no, the time you posted your message was the time for Yuzuki to go home!
He really wanted to talk to you, he wanted to ask you if you know about some card games? which I have no idea! He will be back next week.

Yes, he likes anime and games very much.
I will tell you a bit about Yuzuki.

Yuzuki has lived in the USA for 3 years and came back to Japan about a year ago. He is 8 years old now.
His favourite is Star Wars, if you can talk about it, he will be very happy.

About his message... he didn't mean to be rude but it's Friday evening, so he WAS really tired and sleepy, he could type more but he wanted to sit down and read some books.

thanks for trying!

hope to chat with you next week:ywave:

Hello, I'd love to talk to one of your students too!

Yes, join us !

Can you leave your messages to:

Kanon: loves hip hop dancing, she is the oldest and the kids' leader,11 years old in 2 months.
Yuna: loves playing tennis and basketball 10 years old
Sakura: loves drawing, and playing piano. started learning English about 6 months ago, but studies very hard to catch up with Yuna and Kanon

Reiki: loves cars! he wants to talk about it. He also loves games, like Nintendo stuff... and he has many bayblade? (sorry I don't know about it much) He is 9 in a few months.

Yuzuki:loves Star Wars, loves soccer. He has lived in the USA.

Myself have lived in Australia ;)
Where in Aust do you live?

Ok, but they haven't their own e-mails? Its more cool than talk only 3 times a week.

I know, but their parents don't want their kids to use the internet at home for security reasons.
Some of them don't have the internet access at home!!

The kids also have lots of things to do at my school... like drawing, reading books, games...and many type of crafts... we sing and dance and do a lot of things, so we only have limited time to do this interest thing for the moment.

I want them to get used to the internet thingy little by little... but their parents think that is too early. so once week is just good for them.

I might have a bit older students like your age in the future, then they will love to do more by themselves at home.(If their parents let them)

In your country, the kids like 8 - 11 years old are using the net very often??

Not much...

I live in Sydney. :) Whereabouts did you live when you came here?
Do I choose someone specific to talk to? Or can I talk to all of them? :D

G'day mate;)
Sydney? I was in Sydney!
(but could be before you were born??? it was 1994-1996)
I lived in... New Town,Earlwood and around that area.
I used to go to a business college in the city.

It's up to you! choose one to write or choose a few or just write to all !
Except Yuzuki, the kids only can read simple English:)

Maybe you can tell them a little bit about Aussie English?

have a good weekend :ywave:

Hello, Sakura. What do you like drawing the most? Do you play the piano? That's amazing. When did you start playing? Do you love playing the piano?

To all the kids: :ywave:
How are you finding English? Do you dream of living in a foreign country? What do you think Australia is like? ;)


Aussie English is pretty much the same as British English, although it is generally said that we speak really fast and that our words are slurred together. :p

right, slurred...

How about some words like....
fair dinkum?
Oh, and I noticed that you guys like making words shorter and shorter!
such as BBQ...barbee(?), kindergarten...kindy? chocolate...chokie?
kangaroo...roo!? just like that!
Maybe young kids don't use fairdinkum anymore???
I'm not sure. Tell us about some slang you use at school??

At a secondary college in Melbourne,some kids said "dude" to me... and I had no idea what it meant...(I was helping my friend/Japanese teacher from England).

Oh, I have a question!
What do you say when you need to go to the toilet!!!???
You know what? My friends from north america, they didn't like me say
"I've got to go to the toilet", they told me I should say "the bathroom" instead of the toilet. I told them that there wasn't any "bath" things there!
And they said to me "call it restroom then", but there wasn't any.... you know.
Actually I used to say "gotta go to the loo", but I stopped it, cos some one told me that sounds too childish.

Since I came back from Australia, I meet many people from north America, so I didn't want to be rude... so I stopped saying "toilet" so now I call it "bathroom"...

Oops, sorry my toilet story's becoming too long...

oh, I have one more question.

Any of your girl friends say "oopsie" ?(not sure how it spelled)
just oops? or any other way to explain oopsie situations?

Sorry about all the silly questions ;)

have a good day:ywave:

No, I haven't heard anyone use fair dinkums before other than in Australian novels. Although I'm pretty sure that it is still used by some people - just not the people I am acquainted with.

Haha, have you found out what 'dude' is? It's a very common slang for: you, guy, person. i.e. 'Hey dude!' roughly means 'Hey you!' ;)
I found your message very entertaining. :D
It brought to light how much of my daily life I take for given. I always thought that the slang I spoke was universal English slang ^^. I actually needed quite some time to think of what I use that is labelled 'slang'...I use it without thinking! It's become the normal English to me.

Some slang:
It was hectic/awesome = It was cool; Ace = very good; That was mad! = that was great!; Aussie = English; AZN = asian; break wind (this is not very appropriate for purposes of ithis message but it is used so I put it in anyway) = to fart
Wacko = crazy/crazy person
Brekkie = Breakfast >> Yes we do make a lot of words shorter!
BBQ = Barbie
Chocolate = Choc
Kindergarten = Kindy
Mcdonalds = Maccas

>> We have our own personal preferences. Some people say 'toilet', others say 'restroom', 'bathroom' and 'loo'. We are generally very direct in our language so we mostly use 'toilet'.
I once asked my teacher if 'I could go to the bathroom', but he corrected me by saying that there was not bath there! There's no better phrase, I think it all comes down to personal opinions. =D

>> Yes we use oopsie (you've spelt it right), whoops and oops. I've heard some guys use it too. Its most basic use (and the only one I can think of) is when we notice a clumsy mistake e.g. I spelt a word wrong and automatially say 'oops' or any of its other alternatives.
There's also 'whoopsie daisy' which is used in the same way.

I really enjoyed your questions! C ya ;)

thank you:)
It was back in 1992~3, when the boys said to me "dude" and I didn't hear any girls said "dude", but do they do ?
Don't you guys use "mate" anymore?

It's fun, isn't it? to "stop and think"(I don't know a good verb for this) about our native language.
I really enjoyed teaching Aussie kids Japanese, cos I had to "stop and think" how I use Japanese... and it actually helped me to understand English better.

Thank you! Interesting!

How about "Hungry Jacks"?

an old friend of mine from Melbourne, he used to call it HJ.
and some other called McDonald's Mackie Dee or something.

How do you say AZN? like...eizeden?
(first, I didn't read it properly and thought you were talking about the bank!)

At English school, when I told my teacher "May I go to toilet."
She didn't let me, cos I forgot to say "the" !

I heard that, whoppsie daisy!
daisy is a flower right?

Im happy to hear that:)


So you picked Sakura, she will be happy to be your friend;)

Sakura will use another forum for kids (one of the members from this Japan Forum created for us), but she will be here with me next Thursday.

Please write your message in Japanese too!
Sakura will be happy to help you!
:ywave:

Cool, I'll be mod in that forum. Yuzuki will be there too?

Yep, he will be there.
but I will be here with Yuzuki on Friday.
I also going to bring here 2 new students after Yuzuki's lesson.

see you then:ywave:

How old are that new students?

sorry, maybe new kids won't use the forum, cos it will be too difficult for them to write and read...

2 girls might want to join tomorrow....
they are 8 and 10.

Can you leave messages for them?

Their names are Aina (will be 9 years old next month) and Yuna (is 10).

It is a bit tomboyish but girls do use it. I rarely hear the word 'mate' though the boys do use it among themselves sometimes. It is more common for adult men though.

I haven't heard of that one. :)

haha. This is actually taken from Internet chatting language. Just like lol (laugh out loud), rofl (rolling on the floor laughing). (These are pronounced as a word). AZN is pronounced by reading the letters separately >> A - Z - N. Teens use it because it roughly sounds like the word Asian. There is also OMG (pronounced as separate letters) which stands for Oh my God!
Japanese people have internet language too right? Can you give me some examples? =D

:p


Yeah. Daisy is a flower. 'Daisy' is probably used for a sound effect not because it has any literal meaning.

Sure! I look forward to meeting Sakura...;)

I see... then I will use "dude". I have been always tomboyish whole my life. Do girls use other words among girl friends?

I remember that I was called like... "dear"(by an old lady) or "boddy"(from an Aussie university student)..."cutie"(by an drunk man)... and more, but I can't remember.... I liked to see how the adults call the little kids... possum...or some other animals' names they were using.
maybe they are out of date!
I see, thanks:)

mmm... Japanese do use net language, espacially young kids (sorry I'm not very young anymore... so I don's use it much)
but we use these...

(^o^)/ m(_ _)m (^_^)v

like... "true blue" ?

I heard one boy said to me " Im a true blue Aussie, cos my ansester was a climinal and Im proud of it."
She's coming tomorrow, hope you will be there between 18:10-19:00...it's Japan time, so NSW time will be 20:10~ or 21:10~ ?

She will come here and also the Children Forum.

and can you help us there too?
We want to use the right English there ,so when you find any English words and sentenses sound not good, please tell thuanpt He is the one editting!

Do you want to learn Japanese there too?
We can have a forum there for Japanese languages too!
(you know what? don't tell your teacher, but we could help your homework;) !!)

Sure I will.
Are you registed on children forum too?

Yes, but they are coming back next month on the 11th.
We are going to have 2weeks holidays.

Can you just leave messages to
Kanon,Sakura (girls
Yuzuki, Reiki (boys
they are coming on Thur or Fri.

We will come and check here JF and the CF (children Forum):)

Please make the message as simple as possible, to use very basic grammar and words... Some of them just started learning phonics.

but for Yuzuki, you can write whatever, he loves silly jokes...

see you tomorrow!

Ok. Can you send a photo of them to I know with who I'm talking?
I'll try to send a photo of me too.

I don't recall the girls at my school using much slang words. (Personally, I don't use any female slang.) They might playfully tease each other sometimes, for example: Hey sexy! or Go girl! (cheering a female on in a game, usually when the opponent is a guy). Haha, some adults often use 'possum' when referring to their kids. It is very affectionate and possibly embarassing to the growing child.

What do these two mean?

Yeah. It means the same thing as 'true'.

I will try my best. ;)

Thank you, that'd help me out lots =D!

Those are pictograms, made from characters on keyboard (formal explanation), the first it's a bowing head, second, a laughing face. Just something like this

im kanon
 

protheus

Thanks, protheus.

nice car!

Hi,student95
Thanks for your reply, I enjoye it:)

I think using "possum" is very Aussie!
I wonder what Kiwi Adults use often!

I don't think we do that way in Japanese...
they just call the kids with their name + ちゃんorくん... or just make their name shorter.

Sakura was very happy when she found her name here... she couldn't read them all, but she knows that now she's got an Aussie friend!

She left her message (introduction for everyone) at the Children Forum.

She will get so excited if she find a message from you there, so would you give her a message?

Thank you, I was trying to do a school bus, but this forum kinda messes up spacing :P .

My name is Alin (short for Catalin), nice to meet you loveskyliemole. I've tried earlier to answer to Kanon but, at work, this site is blocked and using other methods of connection has some ups and downs (sometimes I can post, but only sometimes)

Nice to meet you Alin:)

A school bus ! right!

Oh, Karen would be happy to talk to you!

She is coming back on the 12th with me here(we are going to have holidays for 20days from this weekend)

Have a good day:ywave:

hello there's ^^,

i am new to this forum and I saw this topic and i would really like to participate if you want ^^ oh and i forgot my name is André nice to meet you and hope for some news ^^''

hello Geo9090
How are you today?

the kids will be here around 18:00 Japan time on the 11th,12th and 13th of May:)

I would love to be a part of this.
I am currently learning Japanese and I am fluent in English so I can use both in the letters. I am 16, a junior in high school, and I already work a lot with children and helping teach languages.
Please send me an email or a message through here about how I can help out or become a part of this.

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May I have the opportunity if I live in Canada？
 

I like kids，and I would like to get along well with kids from other countries，it‘s really interesting to me，BTW，I’m 22 years old

[quote=uruduck;864893]I would love to be a part of this.
I am currently learning Japanese and I am fluent in English so I can use both in the letters. I am 16, a junior in high school, and I already work a lot with children and helping teach languages.
Please send me an email or a message through here about how I can help out or become a part of this.

Hi uruduck,

thanks for the message.
I couldn't log in to this forum for a long time, so couldn't reply to you sorry!

My students and me will come to visit here Wed,Thur and Fri evenings.
and also Chidren Forum: こどもフォーラム • Index page

we need more English speakers to help us there, so join us!
you are welcome to ask questions about Japanese:)