Next week I have to give a speech to the entire school during an assembly. I wrote my speech in English, then Adachi sensei translated it and read it back to me, and I wrote it down again as best as I could. Anyway, this is what I have to say (I’m sure some things are misspelled, but I was copying what he was saying, not what he had written).
Asago Chugako no minasan ohaya gozaimasu. Watashi no namae wa Drew Garvey desu. Watashi wa Canada no Toronto kara kimashita. Minasan ni oaideikitei totemo ureishii desu. Nihongo o hanase nai no dei, hatsu onga okashii ka mo shireimasen ga oyurushi kudasai. Anata tachito ishoni bengkyo dekirukoto o tanoshimi ni shite imasu. Muzu kashi i ka mo shiremasen ga iroirono basho day watashi ni hanashi kakete kudasai. So sureba otaga ini motto wakari a eru dei sho. Isho kemei Eigo bengkyo shite kudasai. Watashi mo gambarimasu. Dozo yoroshiku onegai shimasu. Arigato gozaimashita.
It’s gonna be interesting I guess.
August 28, 2007 at 9:33 pm |
i got that your name is drew garvey and you’re from canada…
luckily you have a ridiculously good memory
August 28, 2007 at 10:03 pm |
I’m not gonna memorize it. I understand a bit more of what I’m saying, but still not very much. Asago Chugako is the name of my school, because in Japan they don’t actually say Junior High.
August 28, 2007 at 10:29 pm |
I think you may have spelled “oaideikitei” wrong???????
August 28, 2007 at 11:02 pm |
either way i’m impressed.
August 29, 2007 at 1:39 am |
good luck! hopefully that “practise your japanese” cd you listened to at the cottage pays off!
September 1, 2007 at 2:58 pm |
lol
you do love public speaking
should be good.
you should probably record yourself giving the speech and post the recording here… just throw your camera in your pocket and record a video with sound. all we need is the sound