Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2014

BR 2-16: Puss-in-Boots (Hughes Annie, 2000)

"Now everyone is happy, Puss said. What a very clever cat I am! Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
 
 
 This book's story is about clever cat. This story is known by Japanese people too. It's name is "Nagagutsu wo haita Neko". It is very famous in Japan. I read this book written in Japanese when I was an elementary school student. I liked it. I read this book written in English for the first time. It is little difficult for me to read it, but I liked it. I was surprised at talking a cat, but I like this cat because he is very clever. I was very glad to become happy everyone finally. I think that I want to be such a clever woman. I want to read the book written in Japanese again.
 
 
Reference
 
Hughes, Annie. (2000). Puss-in-Boots. Harlow, England: Penguin Young Readers
 
 
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Essay 2-03b: Learning with computers

Recently, a lot of people use computers. People can do anything using computers. It is very useful. People who have their own notebook computers can use it anytime anywhere. People can research something, play CDs and DVDs, listen to music, and watch movies. That is why people who have their own computers can do a lot of things.

If people are university students, they have to do a lot of homework using computers. For example, people who major in English department have to do typing homework, English central, Book reviews, diary blogs, Essays writing, reports, News Quiz homework and other homework using computers. Typing homework, book reviews, diary blogs, and Essay writing are Writing class's homework. They have to use computers many times if we take Writing classes. 

In addition, they have to use computers in not only writing classes but also Reading, Listening and Speaking classes mainly. 
Reading homework is News Quiz homework. They have to research news through website. There are a lot of newspapers on the Internet website. The Japan Times and The Japan News are easily reading. That is why they have to do almost all homework using computers in English. Sometimes, they use microphone to check their announcement with English central and listening classes. There are a lot of homework using computers, so university students have to use computers to learn.

They have to learn not only English classes but also other subjects using computers. For example, they have to make presentations in inter-cultural communication class, Japanese class and other classes. They also submit some reports in Japanese in a lot of subjects. It is very hard.

Computers are very convenience. It has a lot of convenience tools. For example, there are Word applications, Recording tools, Playbacks, Excel and Internet Explorer on the computers. There is also Google. It is very useful too. Google have Drive, Blogger, Gmail, Presentation, Google map, Google searching tool, and other convenience tools. People can do anything using only Google tools.

There are not only good points but also bad points in learning with computers. First, if people don't have their own computers, they can't do homework in their house. It is unfair. However, there is the library in the university. There are also some libraries around Kumamoto city, so whoever goes the libraries can use computers for free. Next, there are a lot of people who are not good at typing keyboard fast. They have troubles more than people who are good at typing very fast because people who are good at typing keyboard fast can submit reports very fast, but other people submit very late. That is why it is necessary to be able to type keyboard fast. If people cannot type it fast, they have to practice typing hard.

Using computers is very good, it is very useful, but learning with computers is not only good but also bad. However, It is very good thing what people have their own computers. There are a lot of learning ways. Computer is one of them. There are a lot of convenience tools in the computers, so computers are unrivaled things to do anything.

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Friday, December 12, 2014

BR 2-13: Alice in Wonderland (Carroll Lewis, 2006)

"Alice screamed... and woke up to find her sister gently brushing dead leaves from her face. "Oh, I've had such a wonderful dream," she said and told her all about it, before running off for tea."
 
This book is very famous all over the world. It is Disney's book. I had read it in Japanese, and I liked it very much. I read English story for the first time. I think that English story is different from Japanese one. It is a few differences. However, I like both. I like the scene that Alice become very small, and she is in the small world. Then she become very big in the small world, so she can't be the small house. She went on growing and growing until one arm was out of the window and her foot was stuck up the chimney. I like this scene because it is very unbelievable story and very interesting. I want to go the small world very much. 
 
 
Reference
 
Carroll, Lewis. (2006). Alice in wonderland. London, England: Usbrone young reading
 
 
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Outline Post for Essay 2-03a



Learning with computers

Homework

Typing homework

English central

Microphone

Listening classwork
Pronunciation

Book reviews

Diary blog

Essays writing

Reports

News Quiz homework

Japanese

English

Classes

Writing

Reading

Website
 
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News article
The Japan Times
The Japan News

Speaking

Listening

Challenges

Keyboarding

Searching

Yahoo

Google

Gmail
Drive
Google Blog
Presentation
Google map

Society

Information

 

Friday, November 21, 2014

Essay 2-02b: Satoshi Tsumabuki


There are a lot of movies all over the world. Needless to say, there are a lot of movie actors all over the world too. One of the wonderful actors is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He is wonderful Japanese movie star. He appears not only movies but also TV dramas. He is also stage actor. He is thirty three years old now, but he looks younger than his present age. Almost all Japanese know about him. Some foreigner know too. He is very famous and popular. The famous movies what he appears are "GTO", "Water boys", "Nadasousou", "Dororo", "Tokyo Kazoku", "Akunin", "The Magic Hour", "Paco and the magic book", "Pandemic Island", and other movies. There are a lot of dramas what he appears too. In addition, he appears a lot of CMs on TV recently. A lot of Japanese watch about him through TV's CM. He performed various characters, so let's compare his performance each characters using two movies.

One of the movies that he appears is “Dororo”. The movie’s original is Osamu Tezuka’s comic. This story is about Japanese monster. The movie is about muromachi era. Satoshi Tsumabuki performed the main charactor, Hyakkimaru. He was taken his 48 body parts by monsters, so he is blind and deaf. He got alternative 48 body parts by his father, but they are fake, so he didn’t feel pain. His father is not really father. It is not clear who is his father until the movie’s last. In order to take his taken 48 body parts back, he fight battle with the 48 monsters. If he wins the battle, he gets one of his taken body parts. When the taken body parts come back his body, he feels very big pain, but he wants to get all his body parts, so he fight battles very hard. He is very strong. He got only 24 body parts in this movie. It is half body parts, so it may have second series of this movie.


This picture's man is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He performed blind and deaf man. In addition, he performed the man who lost 48 body parts. It is very hard to perform such a man. However, he performed this man perfectly. He gets right into Hyakkimaru’s part, so as if he is really blind and deaf. In addition, he seemed really lost hisbody parts. It is very surprising and wonderful.


One of the popular movies that he appears is "Akunin/Villain" in 2010. This movie's original author is Shuichi Yoshida. The main tame of movie is "Who is the actual villain?" The story of this movie is that Yuichi of a murderer who Satoshi Tsumabuki performed escapes from society with a woman. Yuichi wanted to meet the person who he really loves, so he enrolled in online dating Web site. Finally, he met only one woman, Mitsuyo he really loves, but he had terrible secret that he killed a woman before. Yuichi and Mitsuyo decided to escape together without giving himself up to the police. While they ran, they made love stronger, but they were driven into a corner. After their hegira finished in the end, they considered that “who is the actual villain?” By this movie, the audience becomes to think of true love and actual evil.


Satoshi Tsumabuki performed both of actual villain and really good person very well. It was difficult to perform this character, but he could do very well. In addition, he won the Best Actor of Japan Academy Award by this movie in 2011. That is to say, a lot of people admit his ability as wonderful actor.


Like this, he can perform action movie and the person who is murderer, pure and humane. As if he changes himself each movies. He can get right into each movie’s parts. In addition, he won a lot of prizes at other movie awards. For example, he won the Rookie of Golden Arrow Award in 2002, the Best Actor of Blue Ribbon Award in 2010, and the Best Supporting Actor of Japan Academy Award in 2014.He won a lot of other Awards. It is very fantastic! He won the prize only Japan yet, but he will be admitted around the world in the future.




Reference
Wikipedia.  (2014, October 2). 妻夫木聡 [Satoshi Tsumabuki]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻夫木聡
Wikipedia. (2014, August 19). どろろ [DORORO]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/悪人 (小説)
 
 
 
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