iJapan (Intermediate Japanese lessons) #2 - English & Japanese translation

Welcome back to video #2 of the iJapan series.

This time we're going translate into both English and Japanese.

A student in a class stands up to give a short speech about her birthday.

Translate this first part of the speech from Japanese into English.

きのうは、わたしのたんじょうびでした。
あにはわたしにCDをくれました。
わたしは、とてもびっくりしました。
なぜなら、父や母は毎年、
たんじょうびのプレセントをくれましたが、
兄はいつもくれなかったからです。

OK - now translate the end of the speech from English into Japanese.

I asked him, "Why did you give me a present this year?"
He answered, "I broke your CD. Sorry."
It wasn't such a good present.


OK - not too difficult this time. I encourage you to make a video response and join in.

My own video response will be posted in 3 or 4 days from my TaishaJason channel:
http://www.youtube.com/taishajason

Thanks for watching!
-Jason

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[richardjin5555]

your lessons are pretty interesting but i didn't manage to actually understand you untill i saw the hiragana. not to be offensive but your pronounciation ia WAY off.

[myargonauts]

@richardjin5555 yep - pronunciation is my weak spot and I do need to work on it - luckily I know teach at a university and my students at this age are much less shy about correcting my Japan when I use it

[martinyearly]

can not find the answer video for the life of me

[myargonauts]

@martinyearly it's on my TaishaJason channel - I put it in the "responses" playlist or just search for the term "iJapan"

[bluecloud0]

Hi. I've been watching your videos, finding them very interesting, and I am wondering about how safe things are in Japan for females. I understand you may not know specifically, but maybe you could give me a general idea from what you've seen? Thanks.

[myargonauts]

I did a video about this topic on my TaishaJason response channel - go over there and check under the playlists and you'll see it.

It's very safe generally speaking.

[catastrophyful]

lol your expressions.

[RanAbvideo]

um.....

"Why didn't you give me a present?", i asked: "Naze anata ga watashi ni purezento o ataete inai? " , Watashi wa tazuneta.

[mkersz]

mae nen janakutte mae toshi ichiban tsukattemasu kedo ne..

[noumaanshamsi]

i have met very few white people who can drop the white people accent when speaking asian languages. youre not quite there yet.

ganbatte.

[martinyearly]

@myargonauts a whole other channel of great videos, thanks!

[kentaro2012]

good idea!

In the last part of the example sentence it is "maitoshi" 毎年 not "mainen". Just to let you know.

carry on, ganbatte.