Retrieved 22 October, 2010 from http://ameblo.jp/c-cedille/
This may be called a 21st Century digital youth success story!?
I have found an American teenager, Emily, who has been generating YouTube video blogs mainly in Japanese which can relate to my teaching context (LOTE Japanese teaching). She came to Japan when she was eighteen with a dream of becoming a Japanese style idol. She had been learning Japanese she was twelve and when she was seventeen she started a video blog. Now nineteen, Emily has a legion of fans to her blog and has achieved her dream of becoming a Japanese idol.
Japanese only except for a few English phrases at 3:10: Emily studied Japanese with animations and music in America. Depending on the students’ language level and confidence level, this video clip may be able to motivate them with their Japanese.
English only: Emily starts talking about the trip in Japan after 3 minutes.
Japanese with English subtitles: Emily’s Japanese has markedly improved, but she does look, and talk, like a character from Japanese animations. I believe this is intentional though as she is wanting to portray herself like this.
In English and Japanese
This is a free blog site that anyone can join and create their own blogs on. Ameba has got a lot of members from the creative industries such as singers, actors, actresses and famous people.
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