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Hideki: Great! His dream finally came true!
Hideki: Did Ranald have a hard time in Nagasaki?
ME Smith: Well, this book says that people were kind to him because they thought he was a nice person.
Me Smith: However, he was caught soon and taken to Nagasaki as an *illegal immigrant.
Me Smith: Ranald didn't give up his dream. He worked on a ship, and he tried to find a way to go to
Me Smith: Well, he had to take a *ship to Japan because planes were not *invented yet. Also Japan was
Hideki: An isolated country Oh, Sakoku! I understand why it wasn't easy for him.
was very interested in Japan. He wanted to visit Japan, but it wasn't easy.
読んで、
Hideki: Why?
on isolated country at that time.
Tonan, One day he got off a ship *off the coast of Hokkaido. Then he took a small *boat and
0oched an island in Hokkaido. He did this when he was 24 years old.
In Nagasaki, he taught English, and he also learned Japanese from Japanese people. After
seven months in Nagasaki, he went back to America and wrote about Japan and Japanese
people. From his book we can understand his love for Japan. Oh, even on his *grave stone we
can see it.
Hideki: What do you mean?
ME Smith: It has the Japanese word Sayonara on it.
Hideki: I understand he liked Japan very much. He became a *bridge between two countries. To be
like him in the future,
5 Mr Smith: That's good. Do your best, Hideki.
invent:発明する
isolated:孤立した
注) native English-speaker: 英語を母国語として話す人
off the coast of ~:~の沖合で
ship:船
boat:ボート
illegal immigrant: 密入国者
grave stone:墓石
bridge:かけ橋
