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massivegeoff
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 Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: help with a classroom display please |
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i teach at the nihonjin gakko in thailand...doing a wall display/project with my grade sixes about english in the real world. i'll include several things like countries where they speak english (we've just done countries and nationalities), and pictures/packaging/stuff with english writing on it (so they can read the english menu at mcdonald's if nothing else!).
i also want to include a section on famous people who speak japanese. anybody know any? (i already did a google search and it came up with lots of places to study japanese!)
also, anyone know, or know where i can find, stats on the numbers of japanese studying english or who speak english?
arigato gozaimasu |
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massivegeoff
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| i was originally worried that this post wasn't going to job related enough, but it's somewhat more job related than all those posts from guys with yellow fever (says the man married to a thai!). |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: Re: help with a classroom display please |
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| massivegeoff wrote: |
i teach at the nihonjin gakko in thailand...doing a wall display/project with my grade sixes about english in the real world. i'll include several things like countries where they speak english (we've just done countries and nationalities), and pictures/packaging/stuff with english writing on it (so they can read the english menu at mcdonald's if nothing else!).
i also want to include a section on famous people who speak japanese. anybody know any? (i already did a google search and it came up with lots of places to study japanese!)
also, anyone know, or know where i can find, stats on the numbers of japanese studying english or who speak english?
arigato gozaimasu |
I assume you mean non-Japanese people.
Just off the top of my head.
Foreign ambassadors in Japan.
foreign sports coaches (Bobby Valentine)
Japanese sportmen playing overseas
Gaijin TV celebrities (tarento)
Sumo wrestlers
Hollywood actors in Japanese TV commercials
http://smt.blogs.com/tokyo_special/2004/08/who_appears_in_.html |
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Chris21
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Edward Norton (from the movies Fight Club, American History X, and The Score) and action movie star Steven Seagal are fluent in Japanese. Musician Chris Isaak can speak some (he studied here for a year).
JFK patsy Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed in Japan with the Marines, although I'm not sure if he learned to speak Japanese. |
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canuck
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: help with a classroom display please |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| foreign sports coaches (Bobby Valentine) |
I heard his Japanese wasn't very good, nothing more than a beginner.
Tuff Rhodes, who played on the Osaka Buffalos and the Giants could speak Japanese very, very well. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Celine Dion also sings in Japanese on one of her albums |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: help with a classroom display please |
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| massivegeoff wrote: |
also, anyone know, or know where i can find, stats on the numbers of japanese studying english or who speak english?
arigato gozaimasu |
You wont find any reliable figures as students study English now from elementary school to university. English is taught as an elective subject at 90% of public elementary schools and all through junior and senior high school. There are are said to be over 700.000 people studying at conversation schools. Thousands more study at their companies, technical schools or privately. |
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massivegeoff
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: |
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 that should have said "famous japanese people who speak ENGLISH"!!!!!!
gomen nasai!
the idea is to put up pictures of famous japanese people who speak english to show that it can be done and to provide role models.
i asked on the lonely planet TT forum and got a list of people who are apparently mostly japanese-american/-canadian. i'm more looking for "real" japanese people, and preferably ones a bunch of grade 6s (that'll be 11 and 12 year olds) have heard of. so yoko ono (suggested about 8 times) probably won't cut the wasabi!
here's some of the people suggested:
ken watanabe
crown princess masako
hikaru utada
sadako ogata (UN commisioner for refugees?)
these i'm not sure about:
sadao watanabe
davud suzuki
shiji ono (yoko's son?)
sessue hayakawa
mako (both actors, though one's dead apparently!)
seiji ozawa (the conductor)
debito arudou (somebody from hokkaido?)
anyway...over to you guys and sorry for the original misdirect! |
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Apsara
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Shinji Ono is a soccer player, no relation to Yoko that I know of!
And Arudou Debito was formerly an American but he managed to get Japanese citizenship and is now a crusader for foreigners' rights in Japan- he has a website. |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Kudou Yuki is an actress that speaks English and she was on Memories of a Geisha as one of those girls in the house.  She was in "mystery train" too but she spoke Japanese in that one.  There's a woman who does all the subtiitles for tthe Hollywood films in Japan but I can't remember her name  ANYBODY KNOW????  But those SMAP people definitley can't speak English!!!! they are rubbbish!  |
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Chris21
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Actually, I've heard that Ken Watanabe can't speak English well, despite his recent string of Hollywood movies.
Ironically, I've heard that his costar in The Last Samurai, Hiroyuki Sanada, is quite fluent. |
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wintersweet
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Kaneshiro Takeshi's English is supposed to be decent (actor; he's Japanese/Taiwanese).
Others who are supposed to be:
Yanagi Kotarou (actor; born overseas, but mostly raised in Japan?)
Sanada Hiroyuki (actor; I think he even did Shakespeare in England)
Yokoyama Chisa (seiyuu)
Nishiwaki Michiko (80s actress/martial artist)
Inazo Nitobe (on the 5000-en note)
Kimura Ayaka (Morning Musume)
Arashiro Beni (pop star)
Oshio Manabu (actor)
Ito Joichi (internet personality)
Prime Minister Koizumi
Iijima Mari (seiyuu/singer)
Sawashiro Miyuki (seiyuu)
Yasutoko Eito (inline skater)
Gackt (pop star)
Hyde (pop star)
Nishida Hikaru (80s pop star)
Uehara Meeko (actress)
Odagiri Joe (actor)
(of course, pop star/actor are interchangeable for Japanese stars...)
On the other hand, that girl who starred in "Sakura" was supposed to be fluent, too. Ha ha ha... |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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Utada Hikaru is a famous singer she can speak and sing in English.
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