Geeking Out in Japanese.

[sechan19]

This morning's exercise was practice at describing organization, with the intention of learning how to integrate words such as "consists of," "is comprised of," "is made up of," and so on. Rather than describe Japan's school system, standard company breakdown, or the political structure of the United States, I elected to describe how the X-MEN were organized in the early-mid 1990s (my personal comicbook reading era).

I explained how the group was split into two teams (blue and gold), each led by one commander (Cyclops and Storm) and comprised of 6 people. I also explained how all of these superheroes were under the direction of Professor X.

And then I somehow got into trying to explain how Psylocke used to be British, but then became Japanese due to a body switch after going through the Siege Perilous, and then ultimately had to battle the soul of her Japanese body, which had wound up in her old British body. And then I tried to explain how the British body died, and then eventually Psylocke died, but how they both came back after a while - although the British body died again recently.

Seriously, my Japanese is getting really good.

Comments

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

OMG, yes.

I don't know how closely you follow the current newest issues, but Claremont has been writing a new title called X-men Forever which jumps back in continuity to when he originally left the title in the early 90s, and lets him pick it up where he left off.

Except that me and all my friends are like, "uh, what happened to Blue and Gold?" Not to mention that tons else is all wonky - some characters missing, some characters present who shouldn't be, but anyway... love that as a classroom discussion topic.

Did I know you were into X-men? Maybe it never came up before.

[reteva.livejournal.com]

I think we once talked about the awesomeness of Magneto in response to one of your lj-icons, but other than that, no, I don't think it ever came up.

I'm aware of the Claremont series, but I've never followed it. I'm sure it's very good, but I don't have enough investment in him as an "artist" to want to read an effacement of the storylines that were foundational to me growing up, you know?

And yeah, I'm always looking for the interesting classroom topics - trying to stay away from my medieval history research as much as possible so that my peers can feel that my presentations are accessible and worthwhile to them. It's a partnership, after all. Although, for the ミニ発表会 they're all just going to have to deal with it. Heh.

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me wrong, the new Claremont series really isn't all that good. I tend to have issues with his writing, actually.

As for in-class discussions, I feel like ours frequently revolved around sheep, or certain other random topics. Just to make it all a little more fun, as you say.

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Yes, that happens in my class, too. We're all trying to keep it interesting and have had presentations on beer, horror films, Sarah Palin, ギャール culture, Rococo, Zen Buddhism, video games, and suicide. Next week I'm giving a presentation on onomatopoeia and semiotics/art. [わくわく]

[xianpu.livejournal.com]

nice!

[(Anonymous)]

You are my hero -B.

(Back to anonymous comments, as Blogspot is not playing nice with OpenID right now...)

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks!
[blush]

...stupid Blogspot. But anonymous is fine, too, since you always sign your name. =)

[docjeed.livejournal.com]

+3800

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

i concur, your Japanese must be quite good.

Tomorrow, I translate an appeltaart recipe from someone's grandmother out of Dutch into English.

we miss you 'round about the department.

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Dutch recipes!
Have I told you recently that I seriously miss your cooking?