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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: Middle Earth
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 5:52 am Post subject: Re: Eigo dekinai |
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When the Jehova's witnesses (or whoever it was) dropped by, I suddenly was a Francophone (Japanese that addressed me in English)
I have done the "Ore wa eigo ga hanaseru yatsu de wa nai" thing a couple of times to gaijin when I felt tired and didn't want to talk to some guy on the train.
In China I've become a native Japanese speaker (  - Euoropean decent) at times. I WILL NOT speak in English to the English Vultures. 
I've even used Sindarin (Elvish from Tolkein) on one occasion. "Norro lim." 
Yeah, I teach English for a living. But there are times in my life when I'm going to not teach English. It isn't my personal responsibility to aid the entire nation to imrove their language ability.  |
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Lynn
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 696
Location: in between
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: Eigo dekinai |
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| kovac wrote: |
plus always a bonus when some big daft yank approaches you wanting a "Hey Im a gaijin, your a gaijin" chat....."eigo dekinai...no english, sumimasen"
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I lived on Shikoku in a town of 40,000. There were exactly three of us "gaijin". Me, the city JET working at the JHs; the "ken" JET working at the HSs, and the "eikaiwa" guy who was married to a Japanese woman, and the school was actually his living room.
I was shopping with my Japanese friend, and I was so lucky to come across other "gaijin"s at the only supermarket in town. We all just stared at each other. It turns out they were actors from Tokyo doing an NHK shoot at the local historical sights. One guy was white(forgot where he was from) and the others were from Africa. We all met up later and went drinking.
They were just extras in the shoot. The one white guy had a one-liner; nevertheless, they still had groupies! The funny thing was, we all spoke Japanese. We decided, "Hey, we're in Japan, we might as well speak it" But I think the real reason was so the Japanese groupies wouldn't feel left out. After drinking, we all went to karaoke. It was so much fun!!!
That was my only experience talking to a stranger just because we were "gaijin" |
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ScottishMike
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Posts: 45
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See at man, ats whit te de like.
Eh no, but I huvnae a guid Scottish lingo caus I moved aroun too much.
Aiberdein`ll dae that te ye
Foo ye dain? |
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Mr. Ishihara
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 15
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If I had the time I would always talk with them for a bit.
If their English was better than my Japanese, then
I'd use the opportunity to ask for help or about something
I wanted to know about Japan. If their English was not
so good, I'd then try to talk to them a bit in Japanese -
free Japanese lessons ! |
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TokyoLiz
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Posts: 1548
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:30 pm Post subject: English Vulture |
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Turn the tables on 'em!
I've become a very aggressive Free English Tutor. If I see someone on the train, at a coffee shop, wherever, and they're reading an English book or newspaper or crummy textbook, and obviously look like they're studying English (observe wrinkled forehead, listen for deep sighs) I immediately strike up a conversation. It's been very interesting. I've talked to a woman who was reading the Celestine Prophesies, which I've also read, and ended up talking about Things That Matter, like life, love and death. I coached a college kid at a Starbucks in my neighbourhood in survival conversation and pronunciation and he gave me a little insight into cool local hangouts. An old guy on the Musashino Line was reading a newspaper in English and we got into a talk about prisoners of war and we traded some book titles that we've read.
I like this guerrilla English teaching method. It's fun! |
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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
Posts: 1245
Location: Middle Earth
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: English Vulture |
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| TokyoLiz wrote: |
Turn the tables on 'em!
I've become a very aggressive Free English Tutor. If I see someone on the train, at a coffee shop, wherever, and they're reading an English book or newspaper or crummy textbook, and obviously look like they're studying English (observe wrinkled forehead, listen for deep sighs) I immediately strike up a conversation. |
Interesting note, that. A good way to meet people. I remember, however I was once on the subway. There were these two high school girls un uniform. They were carrying the English one volume paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings (Spring 2002.) They gave no indication that they understood what it said. On the cover. That's a big, expensive book to buy (esp in Japan) but they did. I wanted to go up and ask them why, but sadly, I didn't. |
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