Homework 3 Zotero

 Hello guys, how are you? Today I'd like to write about my essay a little bit with some sources. The theme of my essay is legalizing the same sex marriage in Japan and I will use some datas as follows;

News, Hugh Schofield BBC, and Paris. “Hollande Signs Gay Marriage Bill.” BBC News.
Accessed September 23, 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22579093.

Sandel, Michael J. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?. Reprint版. New York:
FarrarStraus & Giroux, 2010.

“Toyota Moving Forward.” Advocate.com. Accessed September 23, 2014.
http://www.advocate.com/business/equality-allies/2011/09/20/toyota-moving-forward.

　The first article is about cases in France, where gay marriage has legalized this year. Even　though France is one of the Catholic countries and many anti-gay marriage
movements exist, 55-60% of French people support the same sex marriage.

 The second one is a book by Michael Sandel, a very famous philosopher at Harvard
university. In this book, he mentions that legalizing the same sex marriage can destroy the
radical concept of "marriage". I'd like to use this idea as counter argument in my essay.

 The third article is about Japanese companies' movements for LGBT people. It says that Toyota is one of the companies which provides convenient environments for LGBT people. 

 By using these datas, I'd like to construct my essay.

 For citations, I used zotero which we learned in the last R&P class. By using this tool, people can easily make MLA style citations and save time. I think this tool is very useful for writing essay or blogs, however, maybe it can be also sometimes wrong. In order to minimize possibilities of　plagiarism, I think checking by yourself is also necessary. That's all for today.

Have a nice holiday!! Fall has come :)
Mana

My survey about dialect

Hello everyone, today I'd like to show you the results of my questionnaire about dialect.

Q1: Do you speak any dialects?

Surprisingly, more than the half of our class speak some dialects.   









Q2: If any, what kind of dialects do you speak?

According to this survey, 3 people speak Kansai-dialect, 2 speak Nagoya-dialect and one speaks Kobe-dialect, Ensyu-dialect(Shizuoka region), Miyazaki-dialect, Kanagawa-dialect.

Others speak standard Japanese. 




Q3: Do you think that being able to speak dialects is cool?

※1 for not at all, 4 for strongly agree

6 people think that it's very cool, 5 people say it's cool, 6 people think it's not so cool, and one says it's not cool at all.








Q4: Do you have any particular words or nouns that are used only in your region?

I got some interesting, surprising answers from some dialect speakers as follows;
"Hutekoi" for being brazen.(Osaka)
"Menkoi" for cute.(Aomori)
"Tage" for many or much.(Miyazaki)
"Araiage" for washing dishes.(Shizuoka)

Have you ever heard any of these words? For me, all of these are really unfamiliar and sound a little bit strange. Even I'm a Japanese, I would never understand what these words exactly mean, if people use these during conversations. It was an interesting survey to see the results. Thank you.

Mana

Useful devices and apps I'm using now

 Hi, this time I want to introduce some useful apps that I'm using on i Phone for now. I have mainly three recommendations as follows; podcast, netprint and tuneln radio. 
 Firstly I want to write about podcast. Podcast is one of the apps in which you can download audio episodes, videos, or PDFs. Some programs are created by official TV stations or radio companies (ex. all night Nippon), others are made by ordinary people. They have many categories like news, language learning programs, audio books and so on. My favorite podcast is called "bilingual news", which is performed in two languages, English and Japanese. Their topics are really hot and sometimes surprising, so people can enjoy this radio and improve English listening skills at the same time. 
 The second one is netprint. This application is provided by 7&11 companies and by using this application you can print your stuff, PDF or web pages or photos or whatever at seven eleven. Personally I don't have any printers at home, so it helps me a lot when I need color printed papers during the semester. 
 Finally, I’d like to talk about tuneln radio. By using this application, you can listen to any kinds of radio around the world. I use this radio, especially when I miss some German radio programs, (I was in Germany for a year as an exchange student) so if you guys miss some particular radio programs or want to listen to some particular language radio programs, this application helps you. I feel like the improvement of technologies really helps me to spend comfortable life, it enables me to access the new world much easier and faster than before. That's all today! Hope this article was to some extent useful for you ;)