AKITA JALT meetings in 2003
picture album page 5 of 2003
June
Naoto Sato talks with a book "Think in English" written by Toru
Matsumoto.
"I met Mr. Matsumoto in person and talked to him for 30 minutes in
1979.
I have followed his advice of talking to myself in English
and keeping a diary in English
every single day over the past 35 years."
Guest speaker: Naoto Sato
Date: Saturday, June 28 (2003)
Title: Think in English and Keeping Journals
24
people attended the meeting
4 people registered as new members at the meeting.
Dear Mamoru Abe, Tomoko Handa, Akiko Machida, Takayuki Yoshizawa,
Welcome to JALT Akita!
Chapter Report
(to be printed in The Language Teacher)
Akita: June
Think in English and Keeping Journals
By Naoto Sato |
Inspired in his high school days by legendary NHK learn-English broadcaster
Toru Matsumoto, Sakigake English-news columnist Naoto Sato mastered English
by keeping English journals, listening to radio, and talking to the rare
foreign visitors to his hometown of Noshiro. Mr. Sato explained how Matsumoto's
"Think in English" philosophy of language learning influenced
him and steered him towards a career as one of Akita's leading simultaneous
interpreters.
Mr. Sato demonstrated his simultaneous interpretation skills by translating
short talks from Japanese to English and English to Japanese. He discussed
various concerns for translators, such as problems caused by idioms. Mr.
Sato also gave some extremely useful pointers on working with an interpreter.
Reported by Mark Cunningham |
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