Advantages of being Bilingual
I think we can get great advantages by being bilingual because we can obtain more opportunities than people who are not bilingual. For example, we can communicate smoothly with people who are from another country. Since I came to the U.S., I sometimes feel if I could speak English more smoothly, or I could speak another language, I could communicate with other people more easily. It is hard for me to communicate with someone in English. Actually, I have some friends who are bilingual. They communicate with others like they are native speakers. I think it is a really great thing! Also, we can make our way of thinking wider because if we could communicate with someone who is from another country like both of us are from the same country, we could speak a lot of things and exchange our thinking. That would make our way of thinking wider. In addition, when we plan to go somewhere, almost all people worry about speaking another language. If people are bilingual, they can go anywhere more freely than people who are not bilingual, and they can see and feel a lot of things. That also helps us to have a wide range of thinking. Other advantages of being bilingual are we can study another culture more easily. We can read books which were written in another language. The book which was translated to another language is sometime the book that has wrong translation or doesn't have exactly same word as original one. Also, we can see movies without captions. I think to seeong movies is a good way to know other cultures. When we can see movies without any captions, that is amazing! Moreover, we probably have more opportunities to get interesting or high-paying jobs than people who are not bilingual because the company considers people who are bilingual as useful people when they need to negotiate with another country’s people. Bilingual people will make negotiations more smooth. Another reason to be bilingual needs a lot of effort, so companies evaluate our effort. For the above reasons, we can get great advantages by being bilingual.
Friday, October 9, 2009
TOEFl iBT practice
Compare from myself today and 5 yaers ago.
I would like to write what is different myself today and 5 years ago. I like read books when I was child. Also, I still like it! Actually, my parents doesn't read so much but my grandparents like read books. Threre were so many books around me when I was child because of my grandparents. But I always read easy novels not literature. My mom worried about it. She always suggested me I shoud be read more difficult book, yet it was not intersting for me until when I went to high school. 5 years ago, I was 15 years old and I was high scool student. In my Japanese class, I read Japanese literature. It was so intersting. Before I read this book, I read Japanese literature for once or twice because I thougt it was not fun. In fact, it is interesting because we can shere the felling of it even it wrote 100 years ago. If our situation or envronment were totally different, we can understand how he felt.I think that is amazing. Nowadays, ofcourse I sometimes read easy novels but I read some Japanese or other country's literature.
I would like to write what is different myself today and 5 years ago. I like read books when I was child. Also, I still like it! Actually, my parents doesn't read so much but my grandparents like read books. Threre were so many books around me when I was child because of my grandparents. But I always read easy novels not literature. My mom worried about it. She always suggested me I shoud be read more difficult book, yet it was not intersting for me until when I went to high school. 5 years ago, I was 15 years old and I was high scool student. In my Japanese class, I read Japanese literature. It was so intersting. Before I read this book, I read Japanese literature for once or twice because I thougt it was not fun. In fact, it is interesting because we can shere the felling of it even it wrote 100 years ago. If our situation or envronment were totally different, we can understand how he felt.I think that is amazing. Nowadays, ofcourse I sometimes read easy novels but I read some Japanese or other country's literature.
Friday, October 2, 2009
About Julia Roberts
Julia Roverts is a very famous actress in the world. She was born in Atranta on Octorber 28, 1967. Her parents were both actor and actress and when she was a child they ran the school of musical. Actually, her parents divorced when she was little but her brother already become the actor. She talked with her brother after their parents divorced and she was getting wants to be an actress in the future. After she graduaed from high school, she went to New York and went to school of musical and she pursued a career in acting. In 1990, "Pretty Woman" made her popluar. Because of this movie, she nominated the Oscar in that year. In 2001, she recived the Academy Award for best Actress for "Erin Brockovich". She was in a lot of other movies. Her famous films are "My best friend's wedding"," Notting Hill', "Ocians Eleven" etc. Nowadays, she became so famous and her casting fee is over $2bilion. Also, she debuted broadway in 2006. The tickets of her musical were difficult to get in that time. The tickets were sold nearly US$1 million dollars during first week which were sold. She chose this musical for the first works after her childlen was born. She is shooting new movies now.
(Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts)
(Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts)
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