Our names are Kenichi, Aya, Tadashi, and Mayu. We are students at Kwansei Gakuin University, which is located in Nishinomiya, Japan, between Osaka and Kobe. We are now taking a course in Intermediate English in the Intensive English Program. We study English because we want to be able to speak English naturally and fluently. For this class, we had to choose a topic about something we wanted to know more about American culture or American student life. We then had to interview an American student about this topic and compare our image with their answers. Our partner was Maggie, who is an English education major at Arizona University. The topic we chose was food. We chose this topic because we wanted to know the similarities and differences between Japan and the US.
The answers we got from our partner changed our image about the US just a little. On a scale from 1 to 5, if 1 means it didn’t change our image at all and 5 means it changed our image of the US on this topic, we would say the number 2. The most surprising answer we got from our partner was that a lot of students have a meal plan, which means they can get all of their meals on campus.
Since we are studying English now, we could also learn some new vocabulary from our partner. Some new words or expressions we learned are meal plan, which means a meal card system; concentration, which means what you focus on in your major, and minor, which means like a second major.
We would like to thank our partner for taking the time to help us with this assignment. We also hope they can visit Japan someday and learn more about Japanese culture.
# posted by Johninjapan @ 6:14 AM
