I was in group one and our topic is"How to greet people in different countries" and Rina is my partner.
There are several reasons to choose the first one to give this presentation . Firstly,I am a person who don’t want to worry
about something for a long time, as a saying goes ” It’s better to suffer
short-term pain rather than long-term torture”. Second, I do think that we will do
a great job in a short time. However, after we finished the speech and heard other’s work, I don’t think it anymore.
We have advantages and disadvantages.The advantage is that we do the speech fluently and didn't use the mention card.And disadvantages are much more than advantages.Our presentation is simple and short,and we didn't have attractive pictures which looked a little boring.At the same time, compared with other groups, we only chose two
different countries( China and Japan), we should find more to strengthen our talk and make
things clearly to understand.If I need to score our presentation,I will give only seven points.All in all ,we still have space to improve.
During this week's presentation ,I learned different cultures and unique lifestyles about food, clothes, weeding ceremony and traditional festivals in Korea, China,Japan and American(Hawaii). And if we have time, we will have a lot of interesting things to share with each other,because culture is defined as the social behavior and norms found in human societies and we still have much to talk.Through this way, we can learn language with a high interest which will help us better understanding each country.
Thanks for making an ineresting presentation. It reminded me of that all foreign peopledo not think it usual that I think something usual. About the greeting, I usually feel sad when I greet to my roommates. In Japanese, When I greet to them when they come back to room, we usually say “Hey,” or “Hi.” On the other hand, in Japanese, I say “Okaeri”, which is the specific phrase when someone comes back from somewhere. The reason for that I feel sad is because such specific meaning comes down to only one words that has other alternative meaning in English: it does not indicate directly what I want to tell in Japanese. Whatever, the gap of expression is interesting and difficult.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have the same problems,too.When we greet each other in Asia,we'd like to talk a little more to show our respect.However,in Hawaii,we say "Hi" OR "How are you" to start the greeting and at the same time to finish the greeting.On the one hand ,we share the different cultures and on the other hand,we are not familiar with English ways to greet each other,so we still have a lot to learn to get into Hawaii style.
DeleteI can say you reflect on your presentation delicately. Your reflection is elaborate, i feel. I don't think your presentation was boring. Your slides were designed well and actually they were cool. On the other hand, I agree with your thinking about attractive photos. Big and beautiful photos let us concentrate on your presentation easily. I suggest it's better to use only photos or images without any words ultimately.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, we learned various cultural differences through pair presentation. I haven't get acclimated to getting home without saying "Tadaima" and " Okaeri." As Kairi wrote above, we Japanese use these words when we get home. These kinds of cultural differences are uncountable. But if we try to observe them careflly, we can realize each cultures have so much in common. I think it's one of the fun things we experience when we learn cultures.
After reading your comment, I reread my blog and then I found that I was elaborate the whole thing.It's funny that I didn't realized it until you informed me.I thought a lot,the feelings of writing a blog has changed.I still remembered that you said I was enthusiastic about writing blog but now things had changed and I write blog as a work .Next time ,I will try to get back my enthusiastic and make my blog more attractive.
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