JapanForum.com  


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
(#1 (permalink))
Old
Imaginative's Avatar
Imaginative (Offline)
JF Regular
 
Posts: 42
Join Date: May 2009
Location: New Zealand
Help me with my speech, please! - 09-21-2009, 06:43 PM

I have to write a speech for my Japanese class, which I'm doing tomorrow! I have to pretend I'm presenting a speech to someone choosing people to go on a school trip to Japan, so it has to be about myself, some of my interests, but most of all, why I want to go to Japan. I need some suggestions though >.<
This is what I have so far, please tell me if I've made any mistakes, and what I can improve on:

Konnichiwa, watashi wa (name) to iimasu. Juu go sai desu. Haha to chichi to ani ga futari imasu.

Juu nen sei de (name of school) ni ikimasu. Eigo ga tokui desu kara, suki desu ga, yomu koto ga suki janakute, kaku koto ga suki desu.
Kodomo no toki kara, suugaku wa ichiban muzukashii no kamoku to omoimashita ga ima, rika wa suugaku yori muzukashii desu.

(I'm sure I got something wrong somewhere in that last sentence....)

Shumi wa Nihon no dorama ya anime wo miru koto desu. Tanoshikute, Nihon go ga motto jouzu ni narimasu kara, maishuu mimasu.

Moshi, Nihon ni itte, tomodachi to asondari, kaimono wo shitari, Nihon go wo naratte, sushi ya okonomiyaki wo tabetari shimasu. 2007 nen ni gakkou to Nihon he ikimashita. Osaka de okonomiyaki wo tabemashita. Totemo oishikatta kara, mata tabetaindesu.


I also don't know what to do for the conclusion.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Reply With Quote
(#2 (permalink))
Old
MMM's Avatar
MMM (Offline)
JF Ossan
 
Posts: 12,200
Join Date: Jun 2007
09-21-2009, 06:46 PM

End with よろしくお願いします。
Reply With Quote
(#3 (permalink))
Old
Imaginative's Avatar
Imaginative (Offline)
JF Regular
 
Posts: 42
Join Date: May 2009
Location: New Zealand
09-21-2009, 06:55 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by MMM View Post
End with よろしくお願いします。
Thanks
I just have to ask though, does this actually make sense?
"Kodomo no toki kara, suugaku wa ichiban muzukashii no kamoku to omoimashita"
Reply With Quote
(#4 (permalink))
Old
MMM's Avatar
MMM (Offline)
JF Ossan
 
Posts: 12,200
Join Date: Jun 2007
09-21-2009, 07:12 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Imaginative View Post
Thanks
I just have to ask though, does this actually make sense?
"Kodomo no toki kara, suugaku wa ichiban muzukashii no kamoku to omoimashita"
I am not a native speaker, so I can't give you the best answer. That answer makes sense to me, even if it isn't perfect. I don't know if your teacher wants you to be soliciting corrections on the Internet, but I would say

小さい頃から数学が一番難しい科目と思っていました。
Reply With Quote
(#5 (permalink))
Old
er14434 (Offline)
New to JF
 
Posts: 3
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Send a message via Skype™ to er14434
Smile 09-23-2009, 08:05 AM

Konnichiwa, watashi wa (name) to iimasu. Juu go sai desu. watashi niha hubo to ani ga hutari imasu.

Juu nen sei de (name of school) ni itteimasu. Eigo ga tokui desu kara, suki desu ga, yomu koto ga suki janakute, kaku koto ga suki desu.
Kodomo no toki kara, suugaku wa ichiban muzukashii kamoku dato omoimashita ga ima, rika wa suugaku yori muzukashii to omoimasu.

Shumi wa Nihon no dorama ya anime wo miru koto desu. Tanoshikute, Nihon go ga motto jouzu ni narimasu kara, maishuu mimasu.

Moshi, Nihon ni iku koto ga dekitara, tomodachi to asondari, kaimono wo shitari, Nihon go wo naratte, sushi ya okonomiyaki wo tabetari shitaidesu. 2007 nen ni gakkou to Nihon he ikimashita. Osaka de okonomiyaki wo tabemashita. Totemo oishikatta kara, mata tabetai to omoimashita.

if i will speak, i say that. (same meaning
i think your Japanese is good!
Reply With Quote
(#6 (permalink))
Old
minminRW's Avatar
minminRW (Offline)
JF Regular
 
Posts: 94
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Chiba Japan
09-23-2009, 08:17 PM

Native Japanese do not use Juu-nen-sei (10th grade) but Koukou-ichi-nen-sei (high school 1st grade).
Reply With Quote
(#7 (permalink))
Old
KyleGoetz's Avatar
KyleGoetz (Offline)
Attorney at Flaw
 
Posts: 2,965
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Texas
09-23-2009, 11:07 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by minminRW View Post
Native Japanese do not use Juu-nen-sei (10th grade) but Koukou-ichi-nen-sei (high school 1st grade).
It's tough to translate this into Japanese but use Japanese in a US cultural context, though, because 高校1年生 would mean 9th grader, not 10th grader, to someone who knows Japanese but not US culture. Our high school begins at Japan's 中3年.

Thus, I think US Japanese classes teach 1〜12年生 to avoid that problem.

Sort-of relatedly (but not really), 海外旅行 makes less sense in the US, because it's possible to travel abroad without crossing an ocean. I was taught pretty early on in my Japanese courses that I (a Texan) could use 海外旅行 to talk about my trip to Canada, even though I never cross an ocean.

In Japan, on the other hand, any travel abroad is 海外 since it's an island nation.
Reply With Quote
(#8 (permalink))
Old
minminRW's Avatar
minminRW (Offline)
JF Regular
 
Posts: 94
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Chiba Japan
09-24-2009, 02:04 AM

>Our high school begins at Japan's 中3年.
Oops, I did not know that. Thanks for your pointing out.
Reply With Quote
(#9 (permalink))
Old
KyleGoetz's Avatar
KyleGoetz (Offline)
Attorney at Flaw
 
Posts: 2,965
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Texas
09-24-2009, 04:29 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by minminRW View Post
>Our high school begins at Japan's 中3年.
Oops, I did not know that. Thanks for your pointing out.
No problem. School structure in the US is administered by each state separately. For example, Texas sets standards for Texas, etc. There are a few federal standards, but not many I think.

So there are different ways school is structured. In Texas, I think typically school is structured
Kindergarten (optional first year of elementary school)
Grade 1–5 Elementary school
Grade 6–8 Junior High / Middle School
Grade 9–12 High School

I have heard of other places that do something like

K–5 Elementary
6–7 Middle School
8–9 Junior High
10–12 High School

However, I think the K–5 | 6–8 | 9–12 structure is nearly universal in the States.

There are also terms like primary education, secondary education, tertiary/higher/post-secondary education, where I think "primary" is usually elementary, secondary is the rest, and post-secondary/tertiary/higher is university/college. There are a lot of terms, but the most common is to say kindergarten, Xth grade up through 12th, then college (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior for both high school and college are terms we use).

There's also optional pre-K (pre-kindergarten). It's basically 幼稚園 I think.

Secondary education in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Last edited by KyleGoetz : 09-24-2009 at 04:32 AM.
Reply With Quote
(#10 (permalink))
Old
minminRW's Avatar
minminRW (Offline)
JF Regular
 
Posts: 94
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Chiba Japan
09-24-2009, 05:21 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
No problem. School structure in the US is administered by each state separately. For example, Texas sets standards for Texas, etc. There are a few federal standards, but not many I think.

So there are different ways school is structured. In Texas, I think typically school is structured
Kindergarten (optional first year of elementary school)
Grade 1–5 Elementary school
Grade 6–8 Junior High / Middle School
Grade 9–12 High School

I have heard of other places that do something like

K–5 Elementary
6–7 Middle School
8–9 Junior High
10–12 High School

However, I think the K–5 | 6–8 | 9–12 structure is nearly universal in the States.

There are also terms like primary education, secondary education, tertiary/higher/post-secondary education, where I think "primary" is usually elementary, secondary is the rest, and post-secondary/tertiary/higher is university/college. There are a lot of terms, but the most common is to say kindergarten, Xth grade up through 12th, then college (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior for both high school and college are terms we use).

There's also optional pre-K (pre-kindergarten). It's basically 幼稚園 I think.

Secondary education in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I see, appreciate specific explanation
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On




Copyright 2003-2006 Virtual Japan.
SEO by vBSEO 3.0.0 RC6