Wednesday, December 15, 2010

What is Life? English as a communication tool(コミュニケーションツールとしての英語)


Good morning everyone. It was very cold and snowing at F city. The winter has just come to Japan. I wish the white Christmas.

皆様お早うございます。F市はとても寒くて雪が降っていました。やっと冬がやってきたようです。ホワイトクリスマスに成るでしょうか?

Here, the theme is English as a communication tool. As you may know, I had started to show the amazing of Life in both English and Japanese since the end of September. At the first, I made some mistakes on the articles, but I think that English is little easier to show something than Japanese. Of course, I am a merely English user, not a native speaker. So my English may be little primitive for such English users. But I want to show you that English may not have strictly usage to show respecting mind. In Japanese there are many words for such purposes. And also, English may be very simple and directly language compare with Japanese. But, it is just my impression from the work on the company, which I belonged. In the company, there were many foreign researcher. So I also had to be an English user. Although the start was little hard, the experience was very interesting and exciting. I could be grown up at some level.

さて、本日のテーマはコミュニケーションツールとしての英語についてです。皆さんもご存知のように、私は生き物の素晴らしさを伝えるために9月の終わりから英語と日本語を使うようになりました。最初は記事を書くためにいくつかミスもありました。ただ、何かを表現する際に日本語よりもやや英語の方が簡単なような気がするのです。もちろん、私は単なる英語使用者であり、ネイティブスピーカーでも何でもありません。だから、おそらく私の英語というものはそうした英語使用者にとっては幼稚に思われるかも知れません。しかし、私が思うに、英語には日本語と比較して、敬語という厳格な用法が無いように思うのです。さらに日本語と比べてややシンプルで且つ直接的な言語のように感じるのです。ただ、そうしたことは単に嘗て働いていた会社での印象です。そこには多くの外国人研究者がいました。ですから、私も英語使用者に成らなくてはいけなかったのです。確かに最初は大変でした。でも、そうした体験はとても面白かったですし、興奮しました。よくわかりませんが、少しは成長できたように感じております。

Please compare two paragraph showed in above. You may be able to find some differences between the two parts. One is English written at first, the other is Japanese translated from E to J. Where did the inequality come from? It may be little difficult for us, because we are just users. But it is little interesting, because the all contents of "What is Life?" were written by my self. What I want to show you at today is such fun. I am sorry that there is no sense at today (^^;).

どうか上の二つの段落を比べて頂けませんでしょうか。おそらく皆様はその二つの段落からいくつかの違いを見つけることができるかと思います。最初は英語で書かれていて、そして、もう一つはその英語を日本語に訳したものです。その差はどこから来たのでしょうね。私たちにはそれは難しいと思います。だって単なる使用者なのですから、。ただ、このWhat is Life?の全ての記事は自分で書いているとは言っても少々面白いものです。本日皆様にお伝えしたかったのはそうした面白さなのです。すみません、今日は内容が無くて(^^;)。 

Today's class is over. Have a nice day. Click the button at the bottom of this "What is Life?", if you are a student of this class. Mind you?

本日の講義は以上です。最後に、出欠をとります。以下のバナーをクリックしたことで「出席」と認めます。いいですか(お約束なのです。毎日お願いします。m(._.)m)?で、F県F市の人達見てますか????

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4 comments:

  1. Hi Sammy. It’s so cold here today. How about Fukushima city?
    I’m living at Sendai city now. And I’m working at Ishinomaki city. Do you know?
    My partner is working at Fukushima city.He was born Syowa-mura,oku-aizu.
    I checked your blog(^^)I read your some contents. It’s very interesting.
    That room is your house? I like that atmosphere.
    Can I link your blog from my blog?
    Please take care. I wish your Merry Christmas(^^)Thank you for reading.

    I challenged writing in English・・・but・・・(*_*;

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  2. Thank you Naomi. Your English is very well and have kindness.

    It is so cold at F city. You are near Sendai. I have been to there for many times.

    Although I am an English user and showing articles in two languages, nobody leave comment in English.

    So your comment is my great pleasure.

    That room is not my house. The photo is about the shop of some interesting goods. The name in biji near the F station.

    You want make linkage? Of course you can.

    Please be my student. And inform about my blog for your friends.

    Thank you again.

    Merry Christmas for you too.

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    昔からの友達のお店です。クリスマスキャンペーン中です。

    もし貴方がiPhoneユーザなら必見です。

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