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Date
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Lesson 3
Writers without Borders
スペーンパック
特定の
We are born into a specific language and culture.
bear-pore born
But if we wish, we can change our lives.
生活(life)
These three writers tell us that it is possible to move across borders of language and culture.
教える
・ヤン
1-
可能
ナン ・ネイティブ
母国の
…を越える
境界
Chinese writer Yang Yi is the first non-native Japanese speaker to receive the Akutagawa Prize.
受けとる
芥川県
引っ越す
Her novel, Toki ga Nigimu Asa, is about a Chinese Student (whe moves to Japan in search of a
ノベル
小説
を探し求めて
時が溢む朝
ヤン
When Yang moved to Japan at the age of 22, she did not speak
a werd of Japanese.
含む
Learning Japanese was a lot of fun for her
たくさんの楽しみ
She toek lessons and after class, practiced by talking toas many Japanese people as possible
Jass じゃない!!!!
話すことによって
"I talked to anyone who looked friendly," she explains.
だれでも
ワーキング
I talked to ojisan working at bicycle-parking places
現在は詞 自転車置場
She also listened to Other people's conversations.
会話
できるだけ
even when(y had nothing important
まども
"When understood even a few words I was happy," she says.
理解した までも わずかな
'It made me excited all day!
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ジョニング
Iranian born Shirin Nezemmafi also wrote
aprize. winning novel,
Shiroi Kami,
イラン
生まれの
シリンネギマフィ
した
in Japanese.
クウォー
It is a story of the love between two high school students during the Iran Irad War.
~中
イラン・イラク戦争
Writing a novel in Japanese was especially difficult for Nezammafi: the problem was
とくに
パージョン
that her moeher tongue, Persian, does not use Chinese characters.
漢字
ペルシャ語
•Engineer.
Nezammafi arrived in Japanese at the age of 19 to study and now works as an
到着する
1 Studied Japanese for
a year
グリーティングス
かんたんな
あいさつ
勉強するために
として
in high school," she says, "but when I came here,
I knew only simple greetings and 20 or 30 Chinese characters."
At firsticias hard for her to communicate
はじめに
大変
Japan
by she tried so
toll with her classmates.
伝える
She found that it was a lot of fun.
とてもたのしい
She says, "The classroom was full of laughter
funny things happened every day!
be full of... いっぱいである
おもしろいこと
Of course, it is hard to write novels in Japanese.
もちろん
日本語で
but Ive wanted to be a novelise ever since I was 14, and it fun to take on new challenges.
現在了
ず
したかった
小泉
ずっと
とりかかる