Comparetive cultures

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Every Tuesday I have applied linguistics class.
Today's topic is comparetive cultures.
We compare Japan with America.

Japanese is modesty.It's old habit.
So we have a lot of word about honorific.
Sometimes It's difficult for me...
On the other hand, American is equal basis.

For example, when I say to my friend "good bye",
Japanese sometimes say "Ganbatte". Maybe in english"keep trying".
That's why we think keep trying is good things.
But American say "take it easy".They think relax is good.

Comparetive culture makes people think different.
What do you think of it?I think it's so surprising and interesting!
Jul 15th 2008 22:52 ビョルン

  • Every Tuesday I have applied linguistics class.
  • Every Tuesday I have applied linguistics class.

 

  • Today's topic is comparetive cultures.
  • Today's topic iswas compareative cultures.

 

  • We compare Japan with America.
  • We compared Japan with America.

 

  • Japanese is modesty.It's old habit.
  • Japanese is modestyare modest if you meant the language you can say "is a modest language".It's an old habit. tradition?

 

  • So we have a lot of word about honorific.
  • So we have a lot of word about honorifichonorific words.

 

  • Sometimes It's difficult for me...
  • Sometimes Iit's difficult for me...

 

  • On the other hand, American is equal basis.
  • On the other hand, Americans isare on a equal basis. I'm not sure what you meant here.

 

  • Maybe in english"keep trying".
  • Maybe in eEnglish"keep trying".

 

  • But American say "take it easy".They think relax is good.
  • But American say "take it easy".They think relax is goodit's good to relax.

 

  • Comparetive culture makes people think different.
  • Comparetive culture makes people think differently.

 

  • What do you think of it?I think it's so surprising and interesting!
  • What do you think ofabout it?I think it's so surprising and interesting!

 
はじめまして! 英語が上手ですね!

I also think it's really interesting to compare cultures because it really shows that from the beginning we're all the same but our cultures is what makes us different from each other!

英語頑張ってね!
Jul 16th 2008 11:42 Yasuna

直してくれてありがとう!
I mean them.That's all right. :D
Jul 16th 2008 13:59 Peter

  • Every Tuesday I have applied linguistics class.
  • Every Tuesday I have Applied Linguistics class. ("Applied Linguistics" is an acceptable class title, if that's really the name of the class. It's good to capitalize the words in the names of classes.)

 

  • We compare Japan with America.
  • We compared Japanese culture with American culture.

 

  • Japanese is modesty.It's old habit.
  • The Japanese culture has a long tradition of modesty. (Americans don't focus on the modesty involved in Japanese relationships. Rather, they think of the social structure that results. Americans tend to describe Japanese culture as hierarchical, instead of modest.)

 

  • So we have a lot of word about honorific.
  • So we have many honorific words.

 

  • Sometimes It's difficult for me...
  • Sometimes the modesty is difficult for me. (It is much better if you can use a definite noun -- such as "modesty" -- here instead of the indefinite one.)

 

  • On the other hand, American is equal basis.
  • On the other hand, Americans treat each other as equals. (More often than in Japan, but there is still much social stratification.)

 

  • For example, when I say to my friend "good bye",
  • For example, when Japanese people tell their friends "goodbye," sometimes they say "Ganbatte."

 

  • Maybe in english"keep trying".
  • Roughly translated, "ganbatte" means "keep trying."

 

  • That's why we think keep trying is good things.
  • That's because we think that it's good to keep trying.

 

  • But American say "take it easy".They think relax is good.
  • But Americans say "take it easy." They think relaxing is good.

 

  • Comparetive culture makes people think different.
  • Comparative culture makes people think differently. (I am not sure what you mean. Maybe you mean "People have different opinions when they compare cultures"?)

 

  • What do you think of it?I think it's so surprising and interesting!
  • I think it's so surprising and interesting! What's your opinion? (I switched the sentences because it's better to conclude your statement by asking for others' opinions. Otherwise it seems a little bit like you are answering your own question and don't want to hear your listener's opinion.)

 
Jul 16th 2008 14:02 Peter

Hmm, after I read your post again, I wondered about "We compare Japan with America."

Bjosse85 and I changed it to past tense. But if you mean that every week you compare Japan with America, it would be present tense, as you wrote it originally.
Jul 16th 2008 22:01 Yasuna

Thank you for correcting!
This class changes a topic every week so "We compared Japanese
culture with Amerian culture" is right.

Yes, I mean "People have different opinions when they compare cultures". It's so difficult to explain my opinion in English but lately I understand by degrees:D Thanks a lot!

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