Tokyo
Posted on: Thu, 2006-06-08 06:35
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Tokyo
I just love the Japenese people. My kids have a student stay with us each year from Tokyo. They come over with their school. So each year we meet someone new. We have made many friends over the years. Last year we decided to see Tokyo and actually meet up with some of the students we had stay with us over the years. Tokyo is enormous and unlike North American cities and some European ones, there are no bad neighborhoods. Every area has shops, restaurants, cafes and fast food. That said, Ginza is one of the more expensive areas with designer shops, and expensive stores and restaurants. Unlike most of Tokyo, Ginza has broad straight streets in a grid. The rest of Tokyo is more chaotic. I am looking forward to meeting a new student this August.
I meet a japanese girl in a forum and she said she was staying at boarding family house in New York. She was attending english course for 2 years but during the early of new year, her father pass away. I Heard she was back to New York later to continue her studying. Not much news since then.
Anyway, I just wonder how the boarding family was chosen, and i think the japanese are quite shy. Do you had any problem understanding their english? How much is the rent charges?
The japanese are normally very polite, i hardly see any japanese in london, but there are lots of chinese, who are very friendly and hard working.
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Japanese are well-known for their politeness. In their culture, girls speak in high-tone are considered polite where else low tone would be rude. Guys have to use low tone to be polite.
Chinese are basically hard-working also because of their culture. Part of their culture and believing are related to wealth and posperity. In Chinese New Year, people greet each other with "Gong Xi Fa Chai", a direct translation simply means "Wishing you better wealth or filled with wealth".
Thats funny. I can imagine that some people just can't help it but have high or low pitched voices.
How many languages do you speak?
Andre
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Japanese are well-known for their politeness. In their culture, girls speak in high-tone are considered polite where else low tone would be rude. Guys have to use low tone to be polite.
Chinese are basically hard-working also because of their culture. Part of their culture and believing are related to wealth and posperity. In Chinese New Year, people greet each other with "Gong Xi Fa Chai", a direct translation simply means "Wishing you better wealth or filled with wealth".
do you speak chinese prch? if so how long did it take you to learn it.
Japanese are well-known for their politeness. In their culture, girls speak in high-tone are considered polite where else low tone would be rude. Guys have to use low tone to be polite.
Is this fact or just your assumption? I didn't knew that.
From where did you learned about this? I though most of the japanese guys would speak roughter so that they would sound more manly.
I guess that is also true. Anyways, I have never heard such a thing before. I guess I would have a really hard time fitting in with all those rules.
Once I was teaching English to non-native speakers and I got four Koreans and one Japanese. Among them, I liked my Japanese student most because he was very interested, and most of all, very appreciative of the good things that I do. He started as the one who knew English least but emerged to be the best among them all because of his interest in the language as he always tried his best to speak English most of the time. He also found a way to improve his skills by typing what he wants to say in Japanese and then have it translated to English then he practices during speaking time.