I thought it was a very interesting movie.
In dramas, I often see the scenes that women indicate something to men but men don’t notice anything. Apparently, women are complicated because they don’t say what they are exactly thinking in their mind. That’s because they don’t want to be so simple, and they want to attract men’s attention by being complicated. So, it doesn’t mean women want to bother men. Also, sometimes women are too shy to express the feelings in their mind, so they hope that men notice those feelings without actually saying, so when it worked out, they are happy. Love usually doesn’t go smoothly all the time. Even couples are not always happy. They sometimes have hard time to understand each other, but when they get over the issues, the love grows up. If men could read women’s mind, it would get just too simple and there won’t be any opportunity to develop love, so actually I’m happy that men cannot read our mind.
If we could know what card the others have, card game won’t be fun…
“What Women Want”, is a very nice thought-provoking movie. It’s funny too. My favorite scene is when a coffee shop woman said “please say you are a gay” in her mind noticing the main character was going to reject her, and he said “yes I’m a gay.”
2009年1月29日木曜日
2009年1月27日火曜日
Education
1. Do you think Japan should give more students options to study more languages (other than English) in Junior and Senior High School?
It's important to learn other languages besides English. It will be definitely helpful to get involved in international society now. However, I think English is the most important language considering the fact that it's a de facto official language in the world, and in Japan, there are few people who have enough ability to communicate freely in English compared to other countries. So, to me, it's more important to be able to actually speak English than learning several languages getting a little knowledge about them and without actually being able to speak them. Also, I think it would be nice to show or introduce the other languages to students in some classes, and then if the students were interested in some languages, they would start to learn the languages by themselves or by attending private tutoring schools and it would be easier for them to learn. I say that because I didn't even think about learning other languages besides English when I was a junior or senior high school. That's because no one even suggested me to do that and it seemed very very rare to learn another languages, or it seemed even useless to do that. So, I didn't have environment to learn foreign languages besides English, and I think that's too bad. Therefore, I believe that building solid learning system of English is the first thing to be concerned, and introducing other languages to students is good way to get them interested in languages other than English.
2. Read this interesting opinion from the Mainichi newspaper. Do you agree with the author? Is being fluent in English a waste of time?
I agree with the author. Trying to be fluent in English may be good to keep the motivation, but it could be pressure or stressful as well because it's a difficult thing to do like the author said. What this author says is probably right, and I can go along with the idea that true value of language study linked with a person's way of living lies within a lifestyle. Even if children began to learn English earlier, that wouldn't simply mean that they could be able to speak English fluently. One of the reasons is that we don't need to speak English in our daily life like Hirakawa in the article.
However, I just don't want to say that it's useless or waste of time to be fluent in English. I believe that we need to think other ways besides "educational" way. I mean, we should incorporate English into our life more. So, I guess we need to review our incorrect "Wasei eigo"(of course not all of them are incorrect), or being shy to use English, seriously. I think those are more important than trying to be fluent in English by educational way at the moment.
It's important to learn other languages besides English. It will be definitely helpful to get involved in international society now. However, I think English is the most important language considering the fact that it's a de facto official language in the world, and in Japan, there are few people who have enough ability to communicate freely in English compared to other countries. So, to me, it's more important to be able to actually speak English than learning several languages getting a little knowledge about them and without actually being able to speak them. Also, I think it would be nice to show or introduce the other languages to students in some classes, and then if the students were interested in some languages, they would start to learn the languages by themselves or by attending private tutoring schools and it would be easier for them to learn. I say that because I didn't even think about learning other languages besides English when I was a junior or senior high school. That's because no one even suggested me to do that and it seemed very very rare to learn another languages, or it seemed even useless to do that. So, I didn't have environment to learn foreign languages besides English, and I think that's too bad. Therefore, I believe that building solid learning system of English is the first thing to be concerned, and introducing other languages to students is good way to get them interested in languages other than English.
2. Read this interesting opinion from the Mainichi newspaper. Do you agree with the author? Is being fluent in English a waste of time?
I agree with the author. Trying to be fluent in English may be good to keep the motivation, but it could be pressure or stressful as well because it's a difficult thing to do like the author said. What this author says is probably right, and I can go along with the idea that true value of language study linked with a person's way of living lies within a lifestyle. Even if children began to learn English earlier, that wouldn't simply mean that they could be able to speak English fluently. One of the reasons is that we don't need to speak English in our daily life like Hirakawa in the article.
However, I just don't want to say that it's useless or waste of time to be fluent in English. I believe that we need to think other ways besides "educational" way. I mean, we should incorporate English into our life more. So, I guess we need to review our incorrect "Wasei eigo"(of course not all of them are incorrect), or being shy to use English, seriously. I think those are more important than trying to be fluent in English by educational way at the moment.
2009年1月25日日曜日
Men and Women
Do you agree or disagree with the author (who is Japanese). Please explain why in your blog.
I actually don't know if it's true that men have been having "Renai Ken-o Sho," or girls don't know what men are thinking any more because I don't even try to think what men are thinking. I'd rather think that it depends on each person, so I think it's hard to define uniformly how men think of women, and vice versa.
It may be true that girls expect their boyfriends to call them or buy them gifts and some guys would think there is no profit to be gained. Also, girls may complain if their boyfriends didn't give them any gifts on their birthday or Christmas. They will give a birthday gift to their boyfriends or chocolates on Valentine's Day, but I don't think they do that because their boyfriends would complain if they didn't. However, their boyfriends may do that because girls would get upset if they didn't. Considering this, I can accept the idea that girls are hassle. However, I think there are some reasons why many girls are like that. They may expect their boyfriends to call them, and that's because they feel anxious if their boyfriends didn't call them once in a while, yeah, most girls know that love relationships are not secure. By the way, although the author said the reason why relationship-security is low now is because guys don't have passion to get close to girls, Ithink relationship-security is low anytime no matter how men are. I think guys are also anxious, but I believe that girls are more afraid of being jilted by their boyfriends, and that is why they expect the boyfriends a lot in order to cast aside the fear. Giving gift could mean that their boyfriends care about them. They might consider that if their boyfriends forget about their birthday, that means the boyfriends forget about them. Girls are anxious of that magnitude. Those things could be burdensome for guys. However, those are not always true. There are also girls or guys who give gifts just because they want to see their boy/girlfriens' smile, and there are couples who call each other often just because they want to lieten to their voice. That is ideal to me.
I actually don't know if it's true that men have been having "Renai Ken-o Sho," or girls don't know what men are thinking any more because I don't even try to think what men are thinking. I'd rather think that it depends on each person, so I think it's hard to define uniformly how men think of women, and vice versa.
It may be true that girls expect their boyfriends to call them or buy them gifts and some guys would think there is no profit to be gained. Also, girls may complain if their boyfriends didn't give them any gifts on their birthday or Christmas. They will give a birthday gift to their boyfriends or chocolates on Valentine's Day, but I don't think they do that because their boyfriends would complain if they didn't. However, their boyfriends may do that because girls would get upset if they didn't. Considering this, I can accept the idea that girls are hassle. However, I think there are some reasons why many girls are like that. They may expect their boyfriends to call them, and that's because they feel anxious if their boyfriends didn't call them once in a while, yeah, most girls know that love relationships are not secure. By the way, although the author said the reason why relationship-security is low now is because guys don't have passion to get close to girls, Ithink relationship-security is low anytime no matter how men are. I think guys are also anxious, but I believe that girls are more afraid of being jilted by their boyfriends, and that is why they expect the boyfriends a lot in order to cast aside the fear. Giving gift could mean that their boyfriends care about them. They might consider that if their boyfriends forget about their birthday, that means the boyfriends forget about them. Girls are anxious of that magnitude. Those things could be burdensome for guys. However, those are not always true. There are also girls or guys who give gifts just because they want to see their boy/girlfriens' smile, and there are couples who call each other often just because they want to lieten to their voice. That is ideal to me.
2009年1月21日水曜日
Table manners
Have you ever eaten in a foreign restaurant? Where? What did you eat? Did you make any mistakes? Please explain your experience. Did you learn anything?
Yes. I have eaten at a Thai restaurant once. I ate green curry, tom yam kung, and some spicy side dishes. I didn't care if I was doing any mistakes at that time since that wasn't formal type of restaurant. However, when I look back now, I realized that I was lifting my plates up during the lunch there and that it's a bad manner in Thailand. Although many people there seemed that they also didn't know about Thai manner that much(considering the fact that many Japanese people there were making same mistake as mine), I will try to follow the rules as much as I can next time. I guess that's the way to show my politeness to the cooks, and that will make the meal more enjoyable soaking up the atmosphere.
Though I knew that most of Thai food are spicy, I still needed to say "wow, this is hot" like a hundred of time. So, I needed to drink a lot of water.
Therefore, what I learned were "it's good to follow the rules in foreign restaurants" and "Thai food was hot after all."
Yes. I have eaten at a Thai restaurant once. I ate green curry, tom yam kung, and some spicy side dishes. I didn't care if I was doing any mistakes at that time since that wasn't formal type of restaurant. However, when I look back now, I realized that I was lifting my plates up during the lunch there and that it's a bad manner in Thailand. Although many people there seemed that they also didn't know about Thai manner that much(considering the fact that many Japanese people there were making same mistake as mine), I will try to follow the rules as much as I can next time. I guess that's the way to show my politeness to the cooks, and that will make the meal more enjoyable soaking up the atmosphere.
Though I knew that most of Thai food are spicy, I still needed to say "wow, this is hot" like a hundred of time. So, I needed to drink a lot of water.
Therefore, what I learned were "it's good to follow the rules in foreign restaurants" and "Thai food was hot after all."
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