Class #12 Eduation

1. Do you think Japan should give more students options to study more languages

(other than English) in Junior and Senior High School?

I don't think so.
I know it is important for Japanese students to learn non-mother languages,

but we have to treasure our languages.

Because I heard that Japanese student tends to fall in "Kokugo-ryoku".

We need to learn about our culture and language.

So I think Japanese students have to study Japanese than now.

2.read the opinion in the November 5th New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/EParker-t.html?scp=1&sq=japan%20english%20education&st=cse　

Do you agree with the writer Minae Mizumura

(“The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English”)　

The education system, she argues, doesn’t spend enough time teaching Japanese.”Why?
Give at least 3 reasons to support your answer.

I agree with her opinion. I would like to give 3reasons for this.

First, Japanese education system is not so good.

At school, we learned only English grammar at first.

These sentences are not used by native speakers, and usually it is old one.

It is NOT practical English. So I think English which we learned at school can not educate.

We need to study not only grammar but speaking.

Second, our writing skill is declining because of recent technology.

We can send e-mail without writing themselves.

Hiragana is transformed Kanji or Katakana easily when we make contents using a mobile phone.

And we do not need to remember correct form of Kanji.

This situation is causing that Japanese students' ability to remember Kanji.

We have to write letters by our hand.

Third, people who read books are decreased. Nowadays, there are Internet novels.

It is cheap, lightweight and we can read anywhere.

Of all others, mobile phone's novel is bad. This novel do not serious literature.

I think many mobile phone novels are unskillful passage, story, style and language.

So we need to read paper books more, I think....

Class #11 Men & Women

I read an article from the Japan Times and agree this article with the author.

Actually, Japanese girl's live in glacial times.

Because I think that there are a lot of "Sousyou kei danshi" in Japan.

Many my boys' friends are also "Sousyoku kei danshi".

For example, they do not send e-mail to girl who he like aggressively.

And they say "Now, I 'm busy for part-time job." or "I don't have time for meeting."

It is good things that boys have some hobbies and working so hard,

but I think that they can do the compatibility of love and other things.

In my opinion, good relationship with their lover effect their life.

An article from the Japan Times and give your opinion.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?ek20060110ks.htm

class #10 Table Manners

1. Have you ever eaten in a restaurant in a foreign country?

Where? What did you eat?
Did you make any mistakes? Please explain your experience.
Yes, I have. I went to the restaurant and ordered a cream tea in England.

I didn't know how to eat at first, and I ate it putting jam and clotted cream on the scone

without it is broken into two pieces. So that it was difficult to eat.

And I had thought that clotted cream is butter, but it is completely difference one.

It's good taste, and I like cream tea!!!

2. Did you learn any thing?
I leaned that tea time is blissful moment after work for British people.

It so sweet, tasty and suit with tea. However, I learned other bad thing.

I am very partial to sweets. Cream tea is a one of my favorite sweets.

But when I stayed in England, I ate it a lot a lot a lot.....and my weight became heavy.

I learned that delicious sweets are high calories.