Please help me to read this English sentence:

[IonFortuna]

Trying to get a job in the US after High School is very difficult.

[JamboP26]

A video of stereotypical neds. This is the sort of people I see down at the job centre, claiming jobseekers allowance. Of course, different areas will have different types of people on jobseekers

YouTube - Still Game neds

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by CoolNard

I think the first "freeter" is on 0:48. Thanks! It sounds exactly like any native English person would pronounce it, or at least, I would. Thanks again, Yuri!

Yes, it starts at 0:48.
Good!

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by JamboP26

A video of stereotypical neds. This is the sort of people I see down at the job centre, claiming jobseekers allowance. Of course, different areas will have different types of people on jobseekers

YouTube - Still Game neds

Is this video of a comedy?
I didn’t catch what the man speaking. Is he from Germany?

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by IonFortuna

Trying to get a job in the US after High School is very difficult.

It’s really difficult here, too.
There are many job offers, but the companies pay too badly.

[JamboP26]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Is this video of a comedy?
I didn’t catch what the man speaking. Is he from Germany?

It is from a comedy. It's a Scottish sit-com called 'Still Game', which follows a community of pensioners. It's really funny, but can be hard to understand for people outside of Scotland. Its a Scottish dialect called Glaswegian, which is generally found in Glasgow & the surrounding area.

Translation, for those that don't understand:

Member of Parliament - "It gives me great pleasure to be here today."
Ned - "No, it doesn't"
MP - "With great admiration, I've watched the community of Craiglang (setting of the comedy) grow & flourish"
Ned - "No, you haven't"
MP - "My father grew up in Craiglang, & he always had the greatest of respect for his home"
Ned - "No, he didn't"
MP - "I only wish he could be here today, to see this"
Ned - "No, you don't"
MP - "He would help by congratulating today, as we open this facility, in this open, caring, forward-thinking community"
Ned - "No, it isn't"

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by JamboP26

It is from a comedy. It's a Scottish sit-com called 'Still Game', which follows a community of pensioners. It's really funny, but can be hard to understand for people outside of Scotland. Its a Scottish dialect called Glaswegian, which is generally found in Glasgow & the surrounding area.

Thank you for the translation.
Do NEETs seem to be like those neds in your country?

[YuriTokoro]

Hi.
I have rewrited my short composition.
What do you think?


What “Freeter” Is

If you write the Japanese word フリーター in English, that would be “freeter” (both singular and plural), and that means a person or people who work(s) part-time.
Once one of my English teachers asked me what “freeter” was.
I wasn’t able to explain that then because it’s really complicated.
Let me try it here.
Freeter is a shortened version of “freearbeiter”.
As you can tell, “free” is from the English word “free” or “freelance”, and “arbeit” is from the German word “arbeiten”(work).
Then, the last part “er” is the English way to make nouns from verbs. For example, play and player.
Arbeiten is pronounced arubaito in Japan, which means part time job(s). The origin is that medical students used to say they “arbeiten” when they cut corpses to study human bodies. They meant it was hard work. My father who is a surgeon used to say that cutting corpse heads in two is tiring activity. Japanese medical students studied German because early Japanese medical information was from Germany. This word has spreaded and been changed to mean 'part time work'.
Anyway, “arbeiter” means “part time worker” now.
You know, there is a problem. Does “a free part time worker” work without salary? Unfortunately, no.
In this context, “free” means “without permanent position” or “freelancing” here.
Many young people can’t get permanent positions recently and they become freeter. You might think “free” can implies fun, but these people have instability. They can earn little.
This is a big problem in Japan. I guess your country might be so, too.

Thank you.


Special thanks to Columbine and Koir!

[Koir]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Hi.
I have rewritten my short composition.
What do you think?


What “Freeter” Is

If you write the Japanese word フリーター in English, it would be “freeter” (both singular and plural), and that means a person or people who work(s) part-time.
Once one of my English teachers asked me what “freeter” was.
I wasn’t able to explain that then because it’s really complicated.
Let me try it here.
Freeter is a shortened version of “freearbeiter”.
As you can tell, “free” is from the English word “free” or “freelance”, and “arbeit” is from the German word “arbeiten”(work).
Then, the last part “er” is the English way to make nouns from verbs. For example, play and player.
Arbeiten is pronounced arubaito in Japan, which means part time job(s). The origin is that medical students used to say they “arbeiten” when they cut corpses to study human bodies. They meant it was hard work. My father (who is a surgeon) used to say that cutting corpse heads in two is tiring activity. Japanese medical students studied German because early Japanese medical information was from Germany. This word has spread and been changed to mean 'part time work'.
Anyway, “arbeiter” means “part time worker” now.
You know, there is a problem. Does “a free part time worker” work without salary? Unfortunately, no.
In this context, “free” means “without permanent position” or “freelancing” here.
Many young people can’t get permanent positions recently and they become freeter. You might think “free” implies fun, but these people have instability. They can earn little.
This is a big problem in Japan. I guess your country might be so, too.

Thank you.


Special thanks to Columbine and Koir!

Some changes were made to verb tenses to work better with the sentences. "Can implies" was changed to just "implies", though in a different sentence "can imply" would work the same. In this case, a past tense works well.

Hope this helps, Yuri.

[CoolNard]

Koir, you beat me to it!

I would just like to add that various people may use English differently; there is no set standard for many grammar zones, nor vocabulary zones, so I would have corrected your essay differently.

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

You know, there is a problem. Does “a free part time worker” work without salary? Unfortunately, no.

I don't understand why you would put "Unfortunately, no", after "without salary?" I'm curious - is this a mistake or are you implying that working with salary is unfortunate?

EDIT: or perhaps Koir might want to hazard a guess?