入学制度と老人のイメージ
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えーと、
This one.
マロさん、
全国の老人生にエールをください。
海外と日本の入学制度の違いや老人に対するイメージ、
そもそも海外に老人という概念があるのかなどを聞けたら楽しいです。
19歳のマロです。もちろん老人生です。
リスニング対策に始めたのですが、もう毎日の楽しみ、息抜きになっています。
楽しく学ばせていただいています。ありがとうございます。
皆さんのように楽しく英語を使えるようになりたいです。これからも陰ながら応援しています。
Well, thank you.
I've never seen a lonely concept in America.
I've never seen any.
You know what they say.
America is easy to enter, hard to graduate.
Japan is the opposite. Hard to enter, easy to graduate.
Maybe it's that. I've never seen anybody struggle getting in.
True. But struggle after you got inside the university.
If it's one of those Ivy League, extremely popular ones, maybe.
But I've never had anybody from Rome, Georgia, try to go for an Ivy League.
I've never seen anybody. So I'm not sure. I don't know.
Maybe if you go to a more prestigious school, people did it.
But no one around me did it.
So there's no juku?
No juku.
No, nothing like that.
Yeah, many went to jail.
If I believe everything from you about real city like Rome, Georgia,
I think like now everybody's in jail. Nobody left in the city.
The most successful people from Rome, Georgia, I think they go to Atlanta.
I see, I see.
Or like go to, I think there's a college called Georgia Tech.
I think that's a pretty like...
I'm not sure.
But from our community, if anyone went to Georgia Tech,
then it's like, wow, you're going to Georgia Tech, nice.
Kind of like that.
But still, do you have that concept?
Like, oh, you enter this college, you're good.
Or like, oh, you enter this college and okay, kind of...
Yeah, assuming that you graduate, you know?
I see, I see.
So people go to like the colleges where you think you can graduate from.
Maybe, maybe not.
I don't...
Because many do it for getting a good job, right?
So if they stretch, they would want that title, I guess.
So I'm not sure though.
Maybe they would go out of their boundaries maybe.
But yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So in France, they have Baccalaureate.
That's the name of the test.
Okay.
It's like you do this at the third grade of high school.
And it's like, just like in U.C. of Japan.
It's in Tashiken?
Kind of, yeah.
Yeah.
日本の高校と海外の選択肢
And depending on that score, you can go to this college, or you can go...
I see.
It's close to that.
Yeah.
And you do it...
Wait, when do you do it?
It's the third grade...
High school?
I guess that was like...
High school, yes.
Okay.
Is it difficult?
I mean, it's not...
Yeah, this is difficult.
So they study a lot for the test.
Oh.
Is there English or no?
What do you mean?
The subject?
Yeah.
I think so.
Okay.
What's their second language?
What do you learn?
English.
Yeah.
Español.
Español.
Spanish.
Spanish, yeah.
Spanish.
They have Italian.
They had German.
So it's not like this one single language.
Like, you know, America, Spanish is...
There's not really a choice.
Okay.
In Japan, there's not really a choice.
You have to learn English, right?
So in France, like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's basically like the languages of the neighbor countries.
Oh, okay.
The UK English.
Oh, they have Portuguese, too.
Portugal, Spain, and then Germany, Italy.
So it's not there's one...
This one kind of.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I see.
I see.
When I was in France, high school, I took English class.
Oh, okay.
As a second language.
And the teacher was so British.
Yeah.
Teacher was so British.
And I was really used to Japanese English classroom, which...
It's like American English we learn in Japan, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The accents and everything.
Like, can't you do this?
Or like, I can do this thing.
That's basically like American ones, right?
Sure.
Yeah, right.
And English teachers in France, they're like, can't.
You can't do that.
And everybody, the French students, they speak like that.
Can't do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a little strange to me.
One of the biggest accent difference, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And oh, English for them is British English.
British English, not American English.
Yeah.
One of the shocker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
I said like, can I something, something?
And the teacher was like, oh.
What kind of reaction is that when they hear the American accent?
I don't know.
Like, oh.
Oh, that's your style?
You're from Japan.
Yeah, I understand.
Wait, so, wait.
Do people in France think that the Japanese, they learn English, the American accent or?
I don't think so, but they know Japan and the United States is really close.
I see.
As a relationship, like country of relationship.
Yeah, I see.
So, yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
ケビンの留学の選択肢
I was gonna, so I was, so high school, sorry, middle school, I was in US, right?
From high school, wanted to move to Japan.
If I did not, if I, if the school did not accept me.
Okay, the one you actually.
The one I actually went to.
I would have went to New York.
Oh, the.
I would have went to New York.
Okay.
Or, yeah.
I see, I see.
For a different school.
Okay.
Same school, but like, you know.
I see, I see, I see.
Yeah.
And if that, if that failed, I would have went to San Francisco.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Oh, you've got those plans.
Yeah.
Okay.
Is it difficult?
Like, do you have test to?
For San Francisco, I don't know.
I don't think there were any like, I think it was a public school.
Okay.
Yeah.
I just wanted to be in a Japanese community.
I see.
That's why.
I see, I see.
Right.
入学試験の難易度
For New York, yes, there were tests.
Okay.
Yeah.
And yeah, right.
Difficult?
It was not as difficult as Japan.
Okay.
Yeah.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
Oh, so you made it, kind of.
Yeah, I made it, yes.
Right.
Because that was, the place was your number one.
My number one was Japan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
So you made it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
Oh, nice.
You studied a lot?
日本への強い想い
I did study a lot.
My motivation of going to Japan was high.
That's nice, that's nice.
So it was, I wanted to enter the school, yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
If San Francisco was not an option, I would have stayed in Rome, Georgia.
Oh.
Then you...
Probably would have went to jail.
Yeah.
I probably would, if I would.
Yeah, thank you.
You're lucky.
Lucky.
Right, thank God, right.
Now you're not in jail.
Thank God I'm not in Japan.
You're in Tokyo.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
