ベンさんのブーログ

ベンさんはノックス大学のいちねんせいです。わたしのブーログにコーメントをポーストしたから、わたしはベンさんとともだちをつくりたいです。ベンさんはおもしろく、にほんごのおんがくをすきひとです。でも、ばかだとおもっています！ブーログのなまえ、’わたしはばか’ですね。

いま、ベンさんはじゅうきゅうさいです。（とてもわかいですね！）しゅみはテレビゲームをしたり、映画を見たりすることです。かぞくがさんにんあります。おとうさんはArt Institute of Coloradoで教えています。お母さんはデンバ大学(University of Denver)で教えています。両親はあたまがいいですよ！


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文教大学の学生

The visit by the Bunkyou University students today was definitely interesting. Momoko and Ayumi were uber friendly, and very understanding of lapses in our linguistic skills ! They handed out Japanese snacks as greeting gifts - the paper-wrapped mochi cake was awesome - and Ayumi even gave me a 50-yen coin, which I was slightly obsessed with (it has a hole in the middle, rather like the Chinese tong qian of old). The interaction highlighted a rather embarrassing fact though: I don't actually know how the proper way to introduce myself in Japanese (?!!). Does one give one's full name - first + last - or simply one or the other of the two (but surely I can't go around referring to myself as "Ho-san") .... And how do I address other people, if they simply give me their first names ? Is it polite, or even socially acceptable ?

Anyways. I hope we didn't blow anyone's conceptions of the Ivy League !!