My Major

My Major

My major is Japanese．In China there are so many people learning Japanese. According to a research of the Japan Foundation`s in 2006, China has the second highest number of Japanese-language students with approximately 830,000 . (“Japanese Foundation”,2)¹. As a Japanese learner I feel that just know Japanese it is hard to find a good job in China.

I studied Japanese for about 5years. I began with “あいうえお” at the university and then learned about Japanese grammar, then studied Japanese culture, literature and so on. When I became a graduate student, I learned something more professional. Such as the metalanguage, Japanese education and so on.

When the Japanese major`s students graduate, they can work at a Japan company, or become a translator, or a Japanese teacher.When I graduated from the university, half of my classmates went to study a graduate degree in Japan, and half of them work at a Japan company. And I chose to study a graduate degree at the same university. My dream is become a Japanese teacher in China.

¹ Results (Provisional Figures) of “Survey on Japanese-language Education Abroad 2009”. Japan Foudation.29 July.2010

<http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/japanese/survey/result/dl/news_2009_01e.pdf>

My Hometown

Hello.
I'm Ibuki Narita,  I'm from Aomori City.
It is famous fot the nebuta festival, which is very very exciting, and a lot of people  visit Aomori City to see it.
During the nebuta festival, the sounds of wadaiko, yokobue and teburigane travel all over the city and
people dance to them.
This is a picture of  a float at nebuta.
You can see the powerful faces of  it.
I love it and recommend that you go to the nebuta festival.

My Hometown

Hello.

I’m Hiromi Tanaka. I haven’t introduced myself, so I’ll do simply.

I belong to the faculty of education, and I want to be an English teacher in senior high school.

In Advanced English class, I want to improve my English skill.

 

Now, I’ll introduce my hometown. I have lived in Hirosaki since I was born.

I love Hirosaki, which you can enjoy all the year.

We have sakura-matsuri in spring, neputa festival in summer, kiku-to-momiji-matsuri in fall, and yukitourou-matsuri in winter.

 

But the best Hirosaki is Mt.Iwaki !!

 

These are the pictures of it.

 

We can see it from our house.

As I get up and see it,  I can feel refreshed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's 1,624 meters above, and many people climb and ski in winter.

 

 I want you to enjoy many BEAUTIFUL HIROSAKIs （●＾o＾●）

self introduction

Hello,everyone!

My name is Atsushi Obata.
Sorry for the delay.

I'm majoring computer. I like listening to music  
,and especialy like rock music.



I came from Odate in Akita.
Odate is famous for Mage-wappa.
It is a woodcraft and was recognized as one of the traditional japan crafts in 1980.

Look at this picture. That looks delicious.

My hometown

I'm from Hirono town in Iwate prefecture. There is a sea near my hometown. So I often swam in the sea when I was a junior high school student.

A lot of seafood are gotten in the sea.



Especially many sea urchin are gotten. Ichigoni is famous in my hometown. Ichigoni is made of abalone and sea urchin. It's so delicious! Don't you eat Ichigoni?

There is also a mountain as well as the sea in Hirono town. 



Ohno Yume Milk is popular in my hometown. This milk is also the school lunch menu of primary and secondary school in my hometown. It's delicious too.

Hirono town is blessed by nature. Why don't you come to Hirono town?

Yuuki Baba

I'm from Tochigi prefecture

Good evening!

I'm from Tochigi.
So , let me intoroduce Tochigi to you!

 
 





















Here is Tochigi prefecture.

Tochigi has rich nature and mild climate.

My home town can access to Tokyo less than 1 hour. So, we can enjoy rich nature and city easily.



Well, I'll show you famous things in Tochigi.















This is "Nikkou Tousyouguu".

This shrine is dedicated to "Tokugawa Ieyasu" who established Tokugawa Shogunate.

This shrine was registered on UNESCO's World Heritage List tenth in Japan.
And about 2 millions of people all over the world visit this shrine every year.

This is a strawberry called "Tochiotome"!

Tochigi has the largest strawberry production in the country.














This is "Aiskaga school".

This is known for the most oldest university in Japan.

I learned that more than 3000 of students learn in this school in around 1550.

Xavier introduced this school as the most largest university to Europe.

Finally,  this is "Sanomarukunn".

The other day, "Weak mascot character Grand Prix"are held.

More than 1500 characters entried The Grand Prix.

There, Sanomarukunn won the first prize!!

Incidentally, this character is my hometown's.

 

Humor

  Humor is important.(too short!)

My hometown

My hometown is Kuroishi city.
There is famous for Kokeshi.
Kokeshi is like a doll to play.
I have made Kokeshi only one time. It was difficult to paint.
If you have a opportunity to make Kokeshi, please challenge it.

MY HOMETOWN

  Hi everyone! I think that Mr. bean is so interesting.

  My hometown is Hachinohe city in Aomori prefecture.

 
  This is the market for visitors(local people might not use here?). Hachinohe`s seefood is so good, especially squid.
 
  I like central of Hachinohe. This has declined because of a shopping mall in suburb. some people like this atmosphere.
 Anyhow, I lke this city because I was born and brought up! 

IIIB English Class Blog: IIIB English Class Blog: My hometown

IIIB English Class Blog: IIIB English Class Blog: My hometown

I come from Changsha in Hunan province of Chine.My hometown has the population
about 7150 thousand pepole,and the area is about ten thousand square kilometers.It's a very lively town.And my hometown is the capital of Hunan province,it has the history of 3000years since the year 221B.C China was united by the First Emperor.It is also the only one city where the site of an ancient city hasn't been chaged.

The weather here is belonged to the subtropical zone and it has clear four seasons,april  and autumn is short,summer and winter is long ,winter is cold and summer is hot.By the word ,the hot food here is very delicious and famous like "Duo jiao yu tou",snake food like"Chou dou fu" which is famous for its smelliness and taste.

Changsha is also famous for its varity show especially which named''happy Camp and in the "day day up"there are two hosts that one comes from Japan and one comes from Korea.And another famous one is called"Happy Camp"It will bring you happy when you were sad,and make you happier when you were aready happy.Welcome to my hometown.

My Hometown

I was born in Hanamaki city, Iwate prefecture. It's in the western area of Iwate.


It's famous for Miyazawa Kenji who was born there and wrote some very famus storys and poems,  and wanko-soba, a kind of noodle.




Miyazawa Kenji was born in 1896. His great works, for example 「I will not give in to the rain」 and 「Night of the Milky Way Railway」,  have been handed down since he died. But he had not been a popular writer before his death. Kusano Sinpei tried to make Miyazawa Kenji's works be known.





 

Wanko-soba is a style to eat soba. An amount of soba you can drink at one time is sereved until you close the top of the bowl. Iwate has two tournaments in Morioka city and in Hanamaki city. But Hanamaki's is larger than Morioka's. The highest score is 254 cups in 5 minutes.













Hanamaki has other great cultures and nature.
You should visit my hometown or live!!!


Please ask me if you are interested in anything about Hanamaki or Iwate.


Thank you for your reading.
Good night.
yuya terui

My hometown, HIrosaki

My hometown, Hirosaki is famous for good apples, beautiful cherry blossoms and nice  Hirosaki castle, you know. Today, I am going to tell you another charm of Hirosaki.

Hirosaki has many European style buildings that were built in Meiji era. People in Hirosaki at the time invited many foreign teachers and missionaries to make Hirosaki university town. Owing to such civilization and enlightenment, western style buildings were built and western culture was spread.

Look at the picture. It is the building for foreign teacher of former Hirosaki High school. Sorry for my miss transration but you have ever seen it, haven't you? It is on the site of Hirosaki University now, so you can visit there after school!
 

 

   This is a picture of United Church of Christ in Japan Hirosaki Church, which is the first Protestant Church in the Tohoku district.

 

 

 

It is former Hirosaki city library in the Ootemon square near the Hirosaki Park.

There are more old buildings in Hirosaki. They are very wonderful and worth to visit. I hope you visit there and enjoy the atmosphere.

I wrote down the URL for you.

 http://www.hirosaki.co.jp/web/edit.html?id=cat01_building
 If you want to know more and want to visit them, this homepage will help you.

My Hometown

Today,I'll talk about my hometown.

My hometown is Hirosaki city.

 Now,most of you live in Hirosaki so you may know anything about this city.

This is a picture of Hirosaki castle. I took and process this picture.

This castle was built about 400 years ago. Hirosaki is a castle town of the Tsugaru clan.

This castle is in the Hirosaki Park.

There are some festivals in the park. You should enjoy these festivals.


Another charateristic  point of this city is a dialect("hougen"in Japanese)

People in Hirosaki speak "Tsugaruben."

For people who came from other region, Tsugaruben seems very difficult to understand.

I hope everyone enjoy the difference.


Thank you for reading. Good night!


Erika Nishimura

My hometown

Good evening,everyone!


My hometown is Izu city in Shizuoka prefecture.
Izu city is in the east of Shizuoka and in the middle of Izu peninsula.

There are many wonderful things .
For example,Izu city is famous for wasabi and shiitake.
In particular,the wasabi becomes first class brand.

This picture is a wasabi field.
There are so many wasabi fields and cultivating them continue from Edo era.
However,it is difficult to cultivate them well because cool water is needed continually.


Moreover,hot springs are also famous in Izu city.
Izu peninsula is closely related with volcano.
So there are many hot springs and people visit there for sightseeing.
Please visit there and take a hot spring bath.

This is Waterfall of Joren.
It is one of 100 selections of Japanese waterfalls.
It is very beautiful and magnificent!
And it has legend that incarnation of Nephila Clavata lives in the bottom of waterfall.



Izu city has many attractive things and places.
The nature is also beautiful.
Please visit and enjoy those things.

Thank you for reading.



Yushi Itagki

My Hometown

Good evening,everyone!

My hometown is Hirosaki city.

Although you may know that there are festivals with the four seasons in Hirosaki,I introduce winter festival.The festival is called "Hirosaki Castle Snow Lantern Festival."
This is held in Hirosaki park in February every year.

There are snow hut which is "Kamakura" in Japanese,and statues made of snow.At night,they are lighted up and you can see fantastic scene. Light reflect in snow.It's very beautiful!

 

 

Furthermore,many events such as stalls,big snow slide,and stage show.It seems that the samisen circle of our university also performs.

The person who comes to a snowy region for the first time can enjoy making snowman or snow hut,and having a snowball fight.

Please have a good time in winter! :)

 



 

 

 

Mayuko Nara

 

 

 

My hometown

Good evening, everyone!
I'm Nana Chiba.

My hometown is Tono City in Iwate prefecture.
Tono city is in almost the middle of Iwate Prefecture and at the foot of Mount Hayachine.

Tono city is famous for "tono-monogatari".
"Tono-monogatari" is a falk tale which has been handed down
from generation to generation in the city.
Kunio Yanagida , a folklore scholar in Japan, published a book
named "tono-monogatari" in1910.

This is a picture of "kappa-buchi".
It is told that  "kappa" live in this stream.
"Kappa" is a river goblin in English.
It  is one of the symbols in the city and  appeares in " tono-monogatari".

In addition, there are beautiful natural scenely, various folk arts
and delicious regional cuisines in the city.

Tono city is a very attractive city and I'm proud of it.
If you are interested in my hometown, please ask me about it and visit in the city someday.

Thank you for reading!


Nana Chiba

My hometown

My hometown is Anshan City of Liaoning Province of China. It is located at the northeast of China. The latitude of Anshan City is almost the same of Hirosaki City. But Anshan is in the inland area so its rainfall is far more smaller than Hirosaki’s. Anshan’s population is 3,65million. And the area of Anshan is almost 4times of Tokyo.

Anshan is an industrial city. Anshan is bounded in iron resource. It is famous for its big iron producing company “Angang”, which is the second largest iron company in China. There are almost 100thousand stuffs in the company. In China everyone knows Anshan, just because of the famous Iron company.

Anshan is also a good place for tourist. Mount Qian is the most famous view spot. Mount  Qian means a thousand mountains. So there are many mountains in Mount Qian. And also many trees, rocks.

Anshan’s local special product is a kind of pear called Nanguoli(南果梨). It’s very soft and sweet, the taste is special. It is also a good present.

Anshan has a big figure of the Buddha,which is made of jade. It is the most big jade figure of Buddha in the world. It is treated as Anshan’s treasure and patron saint. Every year,many people go there for pray.

Self Introduction

 Hi, everyone!
 My name is Williams Shoji.
 I'm a freshman in the college of education.
 I'm majoring in music.

 I love music very much.
 I play the piano and the French horn.
 I sometimes compose the music too.
 I have ever composed ballad, orchestra, and piano musics.
 I wish I could let you listen to them someday!

 I'm from Hokuto-shi next to Hakodate, Hokkaido.
 Not from USA!
 But my father is from Los Angeles, USA.
 I have ever been there about 10 times.

 My favorite food is Tonkatsu.
 Why don't you go to a Tonkatsu restaurant with me someday?

Anyway, let's enjoy this English class with me for 3 months!

Self-introduction and About My Hometown

Hello, everyone! My name is Ryunosuke.
I don't know how many times I introduced myself in this class :) But I'm doing again.

I'm majoring the engineering. I like to make some works; illustrations, 3DCG models, motion graphics and so on. Recently, I started the programming with Processing. Processing has a great graphical feedback so I think it's one of the best languages to learn at first.

I'm from Aomori. I was in Aomori for 18 years and then I came to Hirosaki.
Aomori has a huge object, called Asupamu. Asupamu is characterized by its trianglar shape. It looks like a big onigiri for Japanese.

[ ONIGIRI (Not Asupamu) ]

In addition, Nebuta Festival is famous for its exciting music and graphical objects. Aomori city's Nebuta and Hirosaki city's Neputa are completely different. Natives are proud of each festival; natives of Aomori insist that Nebuta is the best, natives of Hirosaki insist Neputa is the best. So if you disrespect them in front of natives, you will be killed by them :D

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Ryunosuke

My Website

Hi! This is Yuuki Baba!!

Hi!
This is Yuuki Baba.

I'm a member of HIRODAI ENBUJIN. It is YOSAKOI dancing circle. I dance YOSAKOI.
I belong to LMC,too. It is music circle. I play drums. I want to play some music and want to sing.

I major in mathematics,but I don't like mathematics. I study mathematics hard to understand.

I'm from Hirono town in Iwate prefecture. There is a beautiful sea, so I often swam in the sea when I was a junior high school student.

I like watching movies and listening music. If you know good movies and music, please tell me.

Have a nice day! Bye!

Self-introduction

Good evening,everyone!

I'm Mayuko Nara.

I major in English because I want to be a junior high school English teacher.
I need to learn English more,so I take this class and I want to enjoy with everyone.

I like watching Ghibli annimation.I recommend "Princess Mononoke","Mononokehime" in Japanese.This is very interesting!  I removed.

I like listening to rock music. If you have favorite songs,please tell me!


Thank you for reading.Take care not to catch cold.
Good night!

Good evening everyone! This is Tomoyuki Noshiro!

Good evening.
This is Tomoyuki Noshiro.

I belong to the faculty of the education.

However, I have'nt decided whether becoming a teacher or taking other job yet.
So,  I hope to find out what I really want to do in the future in this university.
That's why I belong to six clubs now.
I believe that I could broden my horizons through the clubs.

If you want to know the clubs I belong to, please ask me!!



hmm...
I don't come up with what I should write more.

So, see you next class!


P.S
I'm from Tochigi prefecture which is well known for Utsunomiya and Nikko.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Yuya Terui.
I was born in Hanamaki city in Iwate prefecture.
It is famous for Hanamaki East High School which has a strong baseball club, and Wanko-Soba, a kind of noodle. Let's try it!!!


I like listening to rock music. Back Street Boys, Ellegarden etc.

I like watching soccer games too.
I love AC Milan, a soccer team in Italy.
So I want to watch them in a stadium someday.

Well, it's almost time to sleep.
See you tomorrow.

Good evening, everyone!!
I'm sorry to be late.
I'm Nana Chiba.

I am in a depertment of education and I study a lot of things in order to becoming a junior high school
English teacher.

I was born in Iwate prefecture.
There are beautiful natural scenery and delicious regional cuisine.
Please visit Iwate someday.

I like cooking dishes, eating something, watching star, reading book, and so on.
Recently, I become addicted to cook Japanese dishes.
I also interested in various educational systems all over the world.

I want to enjoy talking in English with you.
Thank you for reading! Good night!

Self Introduction

Good evening,everyone.

My name is Erika Nishimura.

I major English education, and I want to be an elementary school teacher.

I like English very much, so I want to speak English well.

I was born in Hirosaki and I have lived in Hirosaki for 19 years.

Hirosaki is very attractive city, isn't it?

I hope everyone loves this city.

The snow season is coming soon. Take care of yourself.

Thank you for reading. See you tomorrow!

Good evening, I'm Yujiro Osanai.
I'm from Kuroishi city in Aomori.
I major in English education , but I can't speak English well.
So, I want to learn English more.
I like playing video games and watching animation.
Recently, I watch "The world God only knows".Japanese name is "Kami no mizo shiru sekai".
Please watch this animation.That's very fun.
Thank you for your reading.

IIIB English Class Blog: Self Introduction

IIIB English Class Blog: Self Introduction

 Good evening,everyone.

My name is Peng Lijuan.The name which looks similar to the first lady--Peng Liyuan.(^^)

I come from Hunan province of China.My hometown is famous for its varity programs and hot foods.
I like singing songs,listening to music,playing badminton and playing Ma Jiang.

Thank you.See you!

Self Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Ayano Saito.

I’m sorry I didn’t write this sooner but I don’t know how to use it.

 

I was born at Hirosaki.

Do you like here?

Hirosaki is famous for good apples and nice cherry blossoms.

I hope you find that Hirosaki is a charming city.

 

My major is educational science, studying education in different points.

I want to study system of education and history of education and I would like to be a teacher.

However, I haven’t decided yet that I’d like to be an elementary school teacher or a junior high school teacher.

 

My hobby is visiting café and enjoying tea and coffee.

I recommend “Tea and Coffee Company”. Have you ever been to the shop?

It sales tea leaves and coffee and it is near Nakasan.

You can buy various teas and also you can enjoy drinking tea, coffee and cakes.

Let’s try it!

I like listening to music and painting pictures,too.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing you in next class. Thank you for reading. See you!

Good night everyone.
My name is Yushi Itagaki.
I'm from Izu city in Shizuoka prefecture.
My faculty is education, and I belong to the English major.
I like English, but I can't speak fluently.
So I'd like to study English more here.
I like dancing and singing songs.
And I'm a member of the yosakoi club which is called Hirodai Enbujin.
Yosakoi is folk dance.
There are a lot of yosakoi teams in Aomori.
Thank you for reading.

Hi my name is Kubo Makoto.
My faculty is Science and Technology, and my department is Frontier Materisld Chemistry.
I am sitting in the first seat form the front, and wear glasses.
I have watched Blues Brothers. Its music is so good. But, I didn`t know the interest of the story. Please tell me, anyone!

self-introduction

Good afternoon everyone. My name is Hong Chunzi.Japanese pronounciation is Kou Syunko. I am an exchenge student from China.And I am a Korean ethnic group of China.So I also can speak Korean. I mainly learn Japanese here. And I like learn English too.So I take this class. I like traveling and cooking.Now I am leaning how to cook Japanese food.And I am planning to have a trip to Oosak and Kyoto. Sorry for still not know well about how to write a blog.

Welcome to English composition class!

Hello, Everyone! Please introduce yourselves and get to know each other here. If you have any feedback for the class, questions or suggestions, this is the place to put it. But right now, mostly explain to us who you are and what you hope to get out of this class. How can we make English class a better experience for you?