やまちゃんの印象
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英検60点差で落ちた人。
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私は公立高校の1年生で学校で英語の授業を受けてきているのですが、
うん。
中学の頃からずっと思っていたことがあります。
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それは私の英語の先生の運が悪すぎるということです。
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自分の周りの友達の英語の先生はちゃんと英語が話せる先生が担当だそうです。
二人の高校時代は英語の先生はどのような人でしたか?印象に残っていることがあったら教えてください。
What?
Well, I think she has like English teachers who doesn't speak fluent English compared to other English teachers in her school.
She's saying her luck is bad.
Yeah.
Not the teacher's luck, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
True, true.
先生運が悪い。
ああ、なるほどね。
Right, right, right.
私の先生運が悪い。
I guess so, yeah.
I see.
Ah, gotcha.
Yeah.
I see, I see.
She always picks the not really good teachers.
Well, okay.
That's what she says.
Okay.
All right.
Mr. Itoの教え方
Do you remember your teachers?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The first English teacher was when I was in junior high.
That was Mr. Ito.
Mr. Ito?
Yeah, Mr. Ito.
The Mr. Ito?
Yeah, the Mr. Ito.
Nice, okay.
Do people joke about that?
Or are you the cookie guy?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was, I would say, a grandpa teacher.
Grandpa.
I think he was close to the retirement.
Okay.
Yeah, I remember like four or five years left.
Fifties.
Yeah, yeah.
Close to 60, I would say.
Okay.
And he, well, he was a good teacher.
I'd say he was a good teacher, but he didn't, his English wasn't like the native level.
But he knows the grammars, he knows the words, and he knows how to, he knows how to pronounce
words, you know.
Okay.
Okay.
He knows.
I'm not sure, I don't know how to take that.
He knows how to pronounce.
Yeah.
So, he was a good teacher.
He had the knowledge.
Yeah, he had the knowledge.
Even though he couldn't, you know, speak like native English speakers, but, you know.
He had the knowledge.
Yeah.
Being a teacher is a little different thing, yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was a good teacher.
Yeah.
So, that's what I remember.
Okay.
But, yeah.
But he was, as he was ojisan, and his pronunciation was obviously really Japanese English, so
everybody was like, nah.
What the fuck are you saying?
Everybody was like, kind of, you know.
But he was a good teacher.
You know.
Was it about how he taught?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, he knows the culture and things and everything, so he wanted to do in, like, for example,
Mr. Itoの授業スタイル
American ways.
Oh.
For example, like, open up the class with saying, okay, let's get started.
Oh, so people would, everyone would say, let's get started?
No.
Mr. Ito would say, in every classroom, he opens with this.
Oh, okay.
And then, hello, everybody.
How are you, Mr. Something, something.
And then he opens up like that.
I see.
So, it's conversation.
Yeah.
Please open the textbook, the page, something, something.
And then he goes like that.
Okay.
And I understand that.
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't, it kind of feels like an average teacher.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now I know, and at the moment, too, the pronunciation isn't everything, right?
Yeah.
It's just one element.
Uh-huh.
But for junior high students in Japan, like, the way he spoke was like, okay, let's get
started.
Or even worse than this.
So, he had a Japanese accent.
Really Japanese accent.
And that's what makes students...
Be like...
Yeah.
Nah.
Not taken seriously?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, okay.
So, that was happening in the classroom.
Uh-huh.
So...
Okay.
Okay.
You felt that he was not respected.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
But he was a good teacher.
Like, he knows many things.
Okay.
And the pronunciation was one, and the biggest, I'd say, element for the students.
I see.
I see.
I remember.
Yeah.
生徒の挑戦
There was one girl in my classroom.
She went to Boston for a year.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then she returns back to the same junior high.
And she kind of speaks, like, you know, English.
Okay.
Pronunciation, good.
Okay.
Knows the culture English, I would say.
Okay.
And she tries to kind of beat him.
Uh-huh.
You know?
And, yeah.
That was interesting.
What was the atmosphere like?
Like, how would she try to, like, challenge him?
I mean, she was kind of a popular person in our classroom.
Yeah.
So, everybody was on her side.
Okay.
And also, she kind of needed to, like, prove that she was in Boston, kind of.
She wanted to show the ability, kind of.
I see.
At the same time.
Okay.
When Mr. Ito asked some questions for her, and she replied in, like, not one sentence,
but she's going to speak.
I see.
You know.
I see.
Well, you know, kind of like that.
Mr. Itoとの思い出
Yeah.
And using some, like, difficult words.
Uh-huh.
The sentences that we hadn't learned yet.
Okay.
Okay.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I remember that.
Okay.
And how would Mr. Ito react to that?
Mr. Ito didn't like that.
He did not like that?
He didn't like that.
Okay.
So, he replied back to her.
In English?
In English.
Okay.
Please, for example, like, please speak more simply.
Right.
And then she, like, I don't know.
Kind of like.
Interesting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I remember that.
Interesting.
But he was a good teacher.
He was a good teacher.
He was a good teacher.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a chance to meet him again after graduation?
No.
No?
Yeah.
I hope he's doing good.
Yeah.
I don't know if he remembers me, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I kind of spoke English when I was junior high.
At that time?
Yeah, at that time.
So, and I wasn't that bad student.
You weren't going to challenge the teacher?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So, we kind of, kind of not friends, but like, yes, I hope he remembers me.
Yeah.
It's surprising how much teacher remembers the students, you know.
True.
True.
Yeah.
It's a great talent.
Yeah.
Right.
True.
Yeah.
I remember him.
I hope he's doing well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He taught me the pronunciation, how to pronounce the country Australia.
That's like highlight of his memory.
Oh, you remember.
Oh, you remember.
Australia.
Oh, okay.
Australia.
Australia.
Yeah.
Australia.
It's not Australia.
No.
It's Australia.
Australia.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's good.
Good memory.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's a good teacher.
I mean, honestly.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
On the next episode, I would love to know your English teacher.
Yeah.
High school English teacher.
Yeah.
How did you like?
Right.
We'll talk about that.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
