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 Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:21 pm
This Friday, I will likely bring great shame to my school at a Japanese speech and skit competition. I await with dread my inevitable failure. I have horrible visions of stumbling over words or forgetting lines entirely, and for the past week these mental glimpses of terror have reigned over my life. After this is all over, I may have to hire a therapist. That's how it goes.
And you?
What about you? Have you too suffered, or are about to suffer, the horrors of a speech, skit, or essay competition? Has the shadow of crippling doubt pursued you doggedly for longer a time than is tolerable?
If so...
Let's chat about it. 8D
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:06 pm
My freshman year skits were a large part of our final grade for beginning japanese 1 and 2. Despite the fact that I hate getting up in front of audiences and I hate acting, the foreign language element somehow made these 'doable.' They were actually somewhat fun once they were all over.
As for speeches in Japanese, unlike English where I can make an outline and just talk, I really felt the need to memorize alll of my speech, even when it had to be 5 minutes long :/ But along the way if I forgot a line I just kind of improvised...I think total memorization is a necessary over preparation because when you drop a line you kinda 'know' where you are in the speech, then just say something similar and go on.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:07 pm
u guys are so lucky i still have to wait another 3 years before i can get into japanese classes. i am in 11th grade right now and the first two years of college is like high school and then after the first 2 years of college i can finally learn some japnese xd xd xd
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:45 pm
I took it my freshman year of college...make room in your schedule!
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:44 pm
So, yesterday I gave my speech at the contest.
I didn't win, but I had a lot of fun even though I was really nervous. To tell the truth, and not to be super arrogant or anything, but I don't know why I didn't place. xD;; Most of the other speeches were not very correct grammar-wise and their content was sort of like "my family blah blah blah." That's not to say they weren't good - they were! - but I do feel a little cheated, having worked so hard to do a good job. I guess that's how it is with competitions though, isn't it?
I'll just have to do better next year! <33
Does anybody want to see my speech or give critiques on it, grammar-wise, content wise, etc? 8D I'd appreciate it a lot if got some feedback.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:38 pm
Cechi So, yesterday I gave my speech at the contest.
I didn't win, but I had a lot of fun even though I was really nervous. To tell the truth, and not to be super arrogant or anything, but I don't know why I didn't place. xD;; Most of the other speeches were not very correct grammar-wise and their content was sort of like "my family blah blah blah." That's not to say they weren't good - they were! - but I do feel a little cheated, having worked so hard to do a good job. I guess that's how it is with competitions though, isn't it?
I'll just have to do better next year! <33
Does anybody want to see my speech or give critiques on it, grammar-wise, content wise, etc? 8D I'd appreciate it a lot if got some feedback. Aw, I'm sure everyone worked hard, even if some people are at a lower level of knowledge than you. But you weren't too disappointed in your own thing, so that's good in my opinion ^^ If you want to post some of your speech, I'd gladly look it over, but my knowledge is far too low level to really critique it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:16 pm
Oh, totally! I'm sure everyone worked as hard as I did, and I'm glad that they won for their efforts. I can't help being a little selfish, though. xDD Human nature, I guess. Still, I'm happy that someone got noticed.
Anyway, here's my speech. I think it's terrible, but I tried. I haven't been taking Japanese for a very long time, so it's kind of yucky.
Quote: ぺんぱるのあいこ“はじめまして、私の名前は_______です。１３才で、アメリカ人です。 学校で日本語を勉強しているので、ペンパルがほしいです。 よろしくお願いします．” それだけ書きました。でもその短いメールから友好の花が咲きました。次の日あいこという日本に住んでいる女の子が私のメールに返事をくれました。そして手紙を交換したいと言いました。私もそうしたかったので、アドレスをあいこに上げて、手紙を待ちました。毎日郵便箱をチェックしました。 ある寒い秋の日あいこから手紙をもらいました。とてもうれしかったです。その時は日本語を 一年しか勉強していなかったので手紙を読むことは難しかったです。そして返事を書くことはもっと難しかったです。でもついに出来るようになりました。 手紙を書いた後で、あいこからたくさんの手紙をもらいました。そして あいこにたくさんの手紙を送りました。どんどん親しくなっていきました。 友好は木のようですね。初めはとても小さいなえぎだけど、美しくて、強い 木になります。手紙に夢や秘密や冗談や本当の気持ちなど、生活のすべて について書いていて、それはすばらしい事だと思っています。 外国語を勉強することもすばらしいですね。新しい世界の扉を開けるようだと思います。私は 出来るだけたくさんの扉を開けたいです。外国語をもっと勉強して、いろいろな世界の人と 知り合いたいです。友好はとても大切なことです。とく今世界は友好が必要です。あいこと手紙を交換して広がった世界をこれからも大切にしていきたいです。 ありがとうございます。
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:47 pm
=D Yay! I was able to read some of that without looking up the kanji! ...Some.
How long have you been studying?
I'm really very bad at thinking of things to say about things I've read and such, so I'm pretty much going to leave it at good job. Hopefully you can get some better opinions on this, and thanks for sharing. ^^
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:48 am
Cechi Oh, totally! I'm sure everyone worked as hard as I did, and I'm glad that they won for their efforts. I can't help being a little selfish, though. xDD Human nature, I guess. Still, I'm happy that someone got noticed.
Anyway, here's my speech. I think it's terrible, but I tried. I haven't been taking Japanese for a very long time, so it's kind of yucky.
Quote: ぺんぱるのあいこ“はじめまして、私の名前は_______です。１３才で、アメリカ人です。 学校で日本語を勉強しているので、ペンパルがほしいです。 よろしくお願いします．” それだけ書きました。でもその短いメールから友好の花が咲きました。次の日あいこという日本に住んでいる女の子が私のメールに返事をくれました。そして手紙を交換したいと言いました。私もそうしたかったので、アドレスをあいこに上げて、手紙を待ちました。毎日郵便箱をチェックしました。 ある寒い秋の日あいこから手紙をもらいました。とてもうれしかったです。その時は日本語を 一年しか勉強していなかったので手紙を読むことは難しかったです。そして返事を書くことはもっと難しかったです。でもついに出来るようになりました。 手紙を書いた後で、あいこからたくさんの手紙をもらいました。そして あいこにたくさんの手紙を送りました。どんどん親しくなっていきました。 友好は木のようですね。初めはとても小さいなえぎだけど、美しくて、強い 木になります。手紙に夢や秘密や冗談や本当の気持ちなど、生活のすべて について書いていて、それはすばらしい事だと思っています。 外国語を勉強することもすばらしいですね。新しい世界の扉を開けるようだと思います。私は 出来るだけたくさんの扉を開けたいです。外国語をもっと勉強して、いろいろな世界の人と 知り合いたいです。友好はとても大切なことです。とく今世界は友好が必要です。あいこと手紙を交換して広がった世界をこれからも大切にしていきたいです。 ありがとうございます。
Wow, I actually thought that was really good whee Mostly because of the story; plus I really admire the "友好は木" and "新しい世界の扉" parts. If I had been writing it, I'd be too busy struggling with how to say things literally, let alone put in pretty imagery like that ^^;
Aaaand ... I kind of feel like a hypocrite nitpicking at something I couldn't write myself, but ...友好の花が咲きました -> "咲き初めました" would be a bit better, I think?
... haha, that's the only thing xD I was going to say something else, but I realized that I was wrong, so, yeah.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:21 pm
@Stellar Green: Congrats on your kanji-reading. As for me, I've been studying about...a year and a half now? Almost two. What about you?
@black.x.white: That does sound better. Haha, why couldn't I think of that? xD Thanks so much for the nitpick (loved it) and the compliments.
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:18 pm
i also did a skit! it was funny! Everyone had wierd skits. eek
The funniest was when my friend had to go to me while i was ordering and i shouted out: 「えええ？？ケニー-さん！何をしてるんですか？！」 rofl
and when i asked my mexican friend: 「中国人ですか？」
he pretended to be mad and said: 「いいえ！」 blaugh
and then my friend Kai was laughing hard. LOL
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