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A Newsletter for Japanese University Student Writers  Spring 2004 Prof. Komei Go (Associate Editor; Kyoto Seika University), Toto Akeru (Art Director) |
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A Newsletter for Japanese University Student Writers Spring 2004 Prof. Komei Go (Associate Editor; Kyoto Seika University), Toto Akeru (Art Director) |
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human nature to make whatever we do appear grand and universities are no different Yesterday's oral English classes are |
grandly titled content-based instruction although they are both really about general knowledge topics and not intellectual disciplines |
different forms of spoken English dialogue speech discussion debate and so on are also old What is new |
the much publicized university language reforms is for the first time in the history of higher education in Japan |
students know no more about the content than basic-level students (Courtesy of EN not YEN by Gambari-kun |
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West Meets East and Aristotle Meets Basho These little things are not poetry but a simple marriage of the poem and essay forms Poessays in fact are opinions expressed poetically Editors |
I was walking with my friend we met a man are you? man asked thank you said |
thank you and moved on is he? asked my friend don't know replied |
I thought the old man was eighty I said look seventy in fact sixty |
In the elementary school science class teacher asked happens snow melts? has come said |
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Two men in a park found a tiny dirty stone man said stone is valuable other laughed and said useless it was a diamond |
When we moved into new house my mother said want a garden at once she started planting flowers flowers flowers our garden is a jungle |
Cattle catch disease eat beef people say have the flu eat chicken told isn't a poor country all the same is decreasing |
Father likes to make coffee he makes coffee for us every morning isn't delicious we say him morning |
I like going to college in the morning whispering wind my heartbeat in tune a bench own the college |
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I don't like studying English recently I'm studying hard my boyfriend this is common language language will I study next? |
My brother came home the other day enjoy living alone his socks of two different colors was blue and the other black |
My friend and I went to an animal show that lamb is so cute! my friend that night while eating dinner she said mutton chop is really delicious! |
Class Students come to class teacher is there passes students leave the classroom teacher says nothing |
You're clever my mother you don't study study hard scores go up believe my mother is right |
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We're in a restaurant and I say tastes like mud you ever eaten mud? my friend |
Lecture time a week my part-time job a week am I? a worker? |
My hair falls down hair color is brown was black before I changed? |
I saw my friend practicing on her unicycle I thought it was easy I could do it I couldn't |
Last year my friend died in a car accident we were all shocked cried Last month she got married a baby |
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While eating okonomiyaki I looked at my friend's front tooth a piece of seaweed stuck to it anything |
home looking into a mirror noticed a piece of seaweed stuck to my front tooth |
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vaulting and higher the air a bird |
at noon a day gone |