I am Rina saito.
My nickname is Chan Lee.
Please call me Chan Lee.
I wear glasses and
I am short very much.
So, you can find me soon!
My hometown is Hirosaki.
I belong to the pedagogy faculty
and I want to become an English teachar in junior high school.
But I can not speak English fluently and I often miss spells...
I have to study English more and harder.
By the way, I belong to a cappella club because I love singing.
Of course, we sing at the school festival.
Please come to listen to our concert!!
Oh, I have forgot!
I like joking too.
I want to know American jokes.
So, I will watch comedy movies.
What do you recomend?
2 comments:
So you and Ayaka are in the A Cappella club together? I hope you will sing some songs in English. Singing is a good way to practice pronunciation, especially in foreign languages. Many people find it easier to pronounce foreign languages when they sing them.
Oh, I forgot to recommend a comedy movie. Comedy is harder to watch over and over than dramas, love stories, action movies and even tragedies. Once you've heard a joke it's not so funny any more. It also depends a lot on what kind of humor your like. If you want to use it to learn English, I'm not sure what to recommend. Chaplin used simple English and a lot of slapstick, because so many immigrants were in his audience. I like Mae West's comedies, but you can't find her in Japan. Shakespeare wrote a lot of comedies, but they might be too hard to understand. So-called "screwball comedies" might be good, if you can find them, and there are the classic Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's "Road Movies" too. But those are unknown in Japan. It's really hard to find good comedy in English in Japan. What about "The Blues Brothers"? Have you seen that?
Let's see, I like Woody Allen, too, but he is very New York and does very intellectual comedy that is over most Japanese heads. There was a fad for him here in the 1980s, but when I went to the theater I was the only one laughing. Woody Allen's humor is very Jewish, New York and intellectual, too, but so many of our American comedians have traditionally been Jewish, that that's something you have to get used to about American humor. Even Eddie Murphy played a Jewish character (among several others) in "Coming to America." Which reminds me, I think probably the greatest comedy movie ever made was "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". British humor is great, too, although many Americans can't get it. Monty Python can be found in many video stores in Japan. And there's always Comedy Central for the latest. My favorite is the Daily Show with John Stewart.
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