6.20.2008

CLASS 17 - JAPANESE ROCK , CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

During our seventeenth class, we have listened to a Japanese rock song called "Jetsubou Billy" by Maximum the Hormone from the sitcom Death Note. We have also read the translation of the song and discussed on its meaning.

Durante nossa décima-sétima aula, nós ouvimos uma música de rock japonês chamada "Jetsubou Billy" de Maximum the Hormone (Máximo do Hormônio) da série Caderno da Morte. Nós também lemos a tradução da música e discutimos seu significado.

We received a visitor (Fernando) and asked him a round of questions in English on his life which he asnwered in Japanese (sometimes giving its English version).

Nós recebemos um visitante (Fernando) e perguntamos a ele em inglês sobre sua vida que ele respondeu em japonês (às vezes dando a versão em inglês também).

We have read a text on the influence of the English language on the Japanese language:
Nós lemos partes de um texto sobre a influência da língua inglesa na língua japonesa:
http://cienciaecultura.bvs.br/
scielo.php?pid=S0009-67252003000200018
&script=sci_arttext


Fernando commented on that, giving examples and taught us some Japanese expressions.He also explained the difference between the various writing systems and alphabets.
Fernando comentou isso, dando exemplos e nos ensinou algumas expressôes em japonês.Ele também explicou a diferença entre os vários sistemas de escrita e alfabetos.

Waitachi wa Sabine dessu.
I am Sabine.
Eu sou Sabine.

Your exercise on this class is to/ Seu exercício sobre essa aula é:
1) Read again the article ( the link is above)/ Ler novamente o artigo (o link está acima).
2) Write a short opinion in ENGLISH using SHOULD, MUST, HAVE TO or OUGHT TO - saying if you believe the government strategy is good or not/ Escrever uma opinião curta em INGLÊS usando DEVERIA, OBRIGAÇÃO, TEM QUE ou DEVERIA (forma mais forte) - dizendo se você acredita que a estratégia do governo japonês é boa ou não e o que o governo deveria fazer em relação ao idioma.

Vocês podem usar o link ou procurar no google "Governo japonês busca preservar seu idioma" ( da revista Ciência e Cultura) ou ler a cópia impressa que entreguei a vocês.

SEE YA
INTÉ

10 comments:

SnowWhite said...

Luciane Magalhães

I think that the government would have to make a campaing of incentive to the japaneses don't use the english very much.

Pedro said...

I think that the Japanese government has an obligation to maintain the traditions of their country, but I think that is very difficult this happen the way they want because English is the universal language

Anonymous said...

the idea of the Japanese government is great, because disregard the war, and only have ideas of peace, freedom and good things.
I think the language should continue the way things are, a language is not very common.

murilo said...

I think that the Japanese government would have to keep its culture and to leave of side the English, but it is very hard.

-DéDéH- said...

I think that the Japanese government has to "protect" his tongue and try to avoid the most of this "mix" with the English, so its language and its culture at the same time is not lost with the modern world.

Anonymous said...

I think that the Japanese government has an obligation to maintain the traditions of their country.

Anonymous said...

I think the Japanese government, had the idea of not accustomed to the English language, but continue with their indioma of origin.



Nome:RODRIGO GOMES DE SOUZA

Anonymous said...

I think the strategy that the Japanese government adopts is quite clever, because they must respect their idoma official, making the English language is only one that does not have much importance in the country.

Luiz fernando - SaGaTy said...

from my point of view I think the government is wrong to "compel" the japaneses talking about the Japanese this is something very concerning because it changes the way of talking about several pessoas.e as my friend said to the room luciana "the government would to conduct a campaign of incentives for japaneses not use English very much. " I find it very difficult to be positive as you can force uam person to change their abtos is quite strange.

Anonymous said...

the government japonese should universalizing a language.
jean de campos lima