Friday, March 9, 2012

Breath of conversations

Many Japanese people are not good at speaking English, although there are a lot of English schools in Japan. The most important thing to talk in English I think, is read or feel or get the breath. I mean the breath is the style of conversations. Japanese has Japanese style, Chinese has Chinese style of conversations. If we can get used to the English style, we will have good communications. I used to be in trouble when I talked with American for the first time because of the difference of conversation styles between Japanese and American. The most unique difference is the length of a sentence. I think the Japanese conversation consists of short sentences, whereas that of American is long. People say Japanese start to talk in the middle of the sentence of the partner. This is the result of the difference of style. Finally, the best way to get the skill of English conversation is to talk with someone who speaks English as many as possible. Japanese scientists sometimes have the chance to speak English in symposiums. I should not miss the chance.

No comments:

Post a Comment