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開催終了11月22日ギリホリ英会話

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2008年11月20日 02:22 更新

今週も土曜日に英会話を開催します。

【開催時間】15:00〜17:00

【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン(ビュートとサーローの間)

皆さんの参加お待ちしてます。

「初めての方へ」

このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがすきという人はどんどん参加して下さい。

集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。

流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックについて話し合う、といった感じです。

もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。

英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽しみましょう!!

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  • [1] mixiユーザー

    2008年11月21日 13:00

    今週のトピックです。


    DIMSDRIVE performed internet-based research involving 5,274 people in September of last year to find out which country’s citizens would people most want to marry. It is not stated whether or not the people interviewed were single or not.

    The Asia versus the West split is quite noticeable in the men, but really striking amongst the women. I previously translated statistics regarding international marriages in Japan that shows that the ideals being expressed here do not seem to be realized.
    On a slight tangent, I watched the last episode of an NHK English learning program which features an English-speaking Western blonde angel that prods a clueless office worker along the path to success at her job getting a date with her transferred from New York colleague, the ideal tall, muscular, tanned, well-coiffured white executive. The angel’s job was done because the glaikit Misaki finally pulled her man.

    Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (Sample size=5,274, free answer)

    1 USA 1,144 2 Korea 505 3 UK 442 4 Italy 370 5 France 344
    6 Australia 218 7 Germany 203 8 China 197 9 Canada 150 10 Russia 120

    Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (By sex, free answer)
    Male N=2,468 Votes Rank Female N=2,806 Votes
    1 USA 368 1 USA 776
    2 Korea 297 2 UK 347
    3 China 174 3 Italy 278
    4 France 134 4 France 210
    5 Russia 117 5 Korea 208
    6 Thailand 99 6 Australia 145
    7 UK 95 7 Germany 131
    8 Italy 92 8 Canada 99
    9= Taiwan 73 9 Switzerland 47
    9= Australia 73 10 Spain 34

    First, looking at the East-West split - or more accurately, perhaps, the caucasian-Asian split (I’m not aware of any black Western role-models in Japan) we see that for men, 36% of the total votes were for Western wives versus 26% for Asian women, favoring the West (I’m including Russia, with Maria Sharapova as the popular image of the country) by just over a third. However for women there is a marked difference; about 74% in total choose the West (over 40% for the USA alone) versus a mere 7.4% for the East, a massive ten to one vote for Europe and the USA.
    Next, looking at the detailed age breakdown, it’s only in the teenage girls group that the USA fails to top the charts, losing out to France and Korea, and equal with the UK. For men in their twenties, American women are preferred over the second-placed Korean women by almost 60%, and the Chinese are back in fifth, gaining just over a third of the number of votes of the USA. However, the older men get, the stronger the charms of the Asian neighbors become, with the gap at its smallest being just a mere three votes. Similarly, for men in their forties and over, Chinese women cut the gap from a third to about a half of the USA score.

    For women, as they get older (ignoring the over sixty bracket which has a very small sample size, so may be rather inaccurate) the attraction to American men only get stronger; in their twenties, Americans get just under a quarter of the vote, but by their fifties, it surpasses three in ten. Despite the charms of the disturbingly Harry Potter-like Bae Yong Joon Korean men do not seem to be particularly favored by the middle-aged demographic.

    These two main trends noted above are perhaps reflections on Japanese society as much as on foreign stereotypes. The younger men hold images of themselves as charming the sophisticated Western woman, but as they age (and visit dodgy hostess bars…) they come to realize that perhaps only Asian women could accept their typical Japanese behavior. For women, after having been around Japanese men for many, many years, they too may come to realize that the Western stereotypes of politeness and chivalry are the only things that could satisfy them in marriage.
  • [2] mixiユーザー

    2008年11月22日 19:31

    今週まで1時間だけ参加します手(パー)ぴかぴか(新しい)来週以降は通常通りに終わるまで参加できますわーい(嬉しい顔)
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