Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Self Introduction

こんにちは。 わたしのなまえはケンです。アイルランドからきました。けんどうかです。サーカーがすきです。わたしのいちばンサーカーかわジネヂネジダネです。にほんへいつたことがありません。
コロンビアだいがくのがくせいです。にねんせいです。にほんごがあまりわかりません。

Hello everyone. My name is Ken. I'm from Ireland, but I've been living in New York for the past few years. My main interest in this class is to learn how to speak and read Japanese. I am very interested in Japanese history. this interest probably stems from my training in Kendo. Kendo is the Japanese martial art of fencing. Aside from Kendo, I also like soccer and my favorite player is Zinedine Zidane. Despite my interest in Japanese history and martial arts, I have never been to Japan.

3 comments:

j.taylor said...

Ken, arigato for your comment. I have not seen Sword of Doom, though it sounds interesting from the imdb.com description. I actually haven't seen many Japanese movies at all: a few Kurosawa films and just a couple others.

Since you're from Ireland, I have no choice but to mention that James Joyce is my favorite author. First A Portrait of the Artist, then Ulysses. And when I had much more free time than I do now, I even read Finnegans Wake.

Have a good weekend.

yukki said...

ケンさん、こんにちは。どうぞよろしく。

わたしもスポーツがすきです。やきゅう (baseball) とアイスホッケー (ice hockey) がすきです。

I believe Columbia has a Kendo club. Are you a member?

グレン ヒルズ said...

Ken, it's good to be in your group. I know very little about martial arts, except for the 2 years of some form of defensive karate that I learned as a child (it was pretty watered down though). I do have a hankering for Japanese history though. My favorite Japanese historical figure is Prince Shotoku. Unfortunately I know little about soccer, but I did spend several weeks in London where I was one block away from Arsenal stadium. That was cool.