Week 10 Update! HUGE NOMIKAI!
Bao Ngoc Nguyen
Happening with the Japanese Club!
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HUGE NOMIKAI TUESDAY 8TH MAY
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It’s that time of the year again!
At least 50 Trajal College students have arrived in Australia and we’re
holding our annual Huge Nomikai to welcome them! They are Japanese
students who are here in Australia to learn English, so here’s a great
opportunity (especially those who cannot make it to our conversation
sessions) to practice your Japanese speaking skills whilst they practice
their English!
Tuesday 8th May
Upstairs at the Prince Alfred Hotel
191 Grattan St (corner Bouverie and Grattan Streets)
7pm-late
Free entry!
Drink specials at the bar:
$5 Asahi
$3 Beer
$4.50 Wine
$5 Basic spirits
Bring all your friends, and look for our banner at the top of the stairs!
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CONVERSATION SESSIONS!
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Thursdays 1-2.15pm
Room GO2
Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Sorry we didn't have anything last week, but I PROMISE YOU I'll be
personally lugging along my hot water urn and providing you all with hot
green tea for this week!
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CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY 2ND MAY
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Thanks to all those who attended! We'd love to hear your feedback, so
please email us mu...@netspace.net.au with your praise and suggestions for
more cultural workshops!
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HELP REQUIRED FROM AICHI UNI
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We have received a request from Aichi Uni in Japan. They need some people
who can assist about 9 students (+1 teacher) with language as they don't
speak English.
1. They will visit Melb on 19 (Sun) - 20 (Mon) August 2007.
19 Aug: Meet them at the airport at 12:40pm, take them to hotel in
Melb. 20 Aug: Meet them at the hotel, take them to Toyota Altona for
inspection (no translation needed there), and take them back to hotel.
2. They will pay 20,000 yen for the two days to pay for small fees and
traveling costs. One (or two) person can do both days or different people
on each day is fine. 20,000 yen is all they pay, so it has to be divided
by the number of helpers if more than one.
3. The students are all male majoring in economy. They also travel to
Sydney where they also get assistance there.
Those who are interested can email Shigeko Nariyama
shi...@unimelb.edu.au
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HELP REQUIRED FOR RESEARCH!
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Project Title: "Pragmatics-based research in Japanese as a foreign and
second language by non-native speakers and native speakers"
The aim of the study is to investigate your knowledge of everyday language
use in Japanese as a foreign language. In order to collect data, the
indirect measure of Discourse Completion Task will be employed. This is a
questionnaire where you will be asked to write down what you would say in
Japanese in some imaginary situations. THe results will then be aggregated
and analysed. This study has been approved by the Human Research Ethics
Committee at the University of Melbourne.
If you willingly agree to take part, you would be asked to:
(1) spend between 15 and 25 minutes to fill in the discourse completion
questionnaire
(2) answer some questions regarding the discourse completion task
Your total time commitment will be less than 30 minutes, and your
participation totally voluntary. We will protect your anonymity and
confidentiality of the contents of the discourse completion task as
questionnaires.
For more information, please contact:
Remi Kakiyama
Student in the Master of Applied Linguistics
r.kak...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
See you at the NOMIKAI!
Bao
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Bao Nguyen
4th Year
Bachelor of Optometry
Diploma of Modern Languages (German)
The University of Melbourne
Email: b.ng...@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Phone: 0422 833 679
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Treasurer
Melbourne University Japanese Club
C/O Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne 3010
Email: mu...@netspace.net.au
Web: www.mujc.tk
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VHSSAV Secretary and Representative (Optometry)
Vietnamese Health Science Students
Association of Victoria
Email: vhs...@hotmail.com
Web: http://groups.msn.com/VietHealth/