Our names are Yasu, Hiro, and Ken. 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 would like to develop our English skills in speaking, listening, and reading. 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 Kyle, who is a graphic design major at SUNY-Oswego. The topic we chose was war. We chose this topic because we would like to think earnestly about war and we would like to know Americans real opinions about the war.
The answers we got from our partner changed our image about the US 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 he thought Americans were losing their friendships with different countries.
By exchanging email with an American student, we could also learn some new things about American society. The most interesting piece of information we got from our partner was that he thought that all situations could be solved through talking and negotiation, not through arms.
Since we are studying English now, we could also learn some new vocabulary from our partner. Some new words or expressions we learned are retaliation, which means revenge, and be nosey about, which means to be too curious and interfere with something
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 @ 6:19 AM
