how do we japanese send messages in english?

How do we, Japanese, send

messages in English?

District 76 Fall Conference 2009

Kiminari [email protected]

2007 & 2008 Champion District 76Yamato Bilingual Toastmasters Club

Fantasista Toastmasters Club

My wish

I want to improveI want to improveI want to improveI want to improve

my communication skillsmy communication skillsmy communication skillsmy communication skills

in English!in English!in English!in English!

So I canSo I canSo I canSo I can

communicate in English!communicate in English!communicate in English!communicate in English!

effortlesslyeffortlesslyeffortlesslyeffortlessly

Hope?

Messages

English proficiency level

Problems

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Problems

Messages


Good English = Good SpeechGood English = Good SpeechGood English = Good SpeechGood English = Good Speech

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1) True

2) False

3) Maybe

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Speech Contest Judging Criteria

Contents : 50 points

Delivery : 30 points

Language : 20 points

A G E N D A

What to say? : Contents 50pts

Lessons learned from his grandmother

Speak straight to your fear, and right to

your purpose. (Lessons learned from mom)

Mark Hunter, World Champion, 2009

Lashunda Rundles, World Champion, 2008

Vikas Jhingran, World Champion, 2007

Lessons learned from a toy punching

bag.

The ultimate answer is always in me.

Edward Hearn, World Champion, 2006

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Collect StoriesTopicsMessages

Select “If my life ended tomorrow,

what message would I want to

leave for kids?”

To be continued

Mark Brown, Champion 1995


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To be continued

CORE MESSAGECORE MESSAGECORE MESSAGECORE MESSAGE

Select SUPPORTING STORIESSUPPORTING STORIESSUPPORTING STORIESSUPPORTING STORIES

FACTSFACTSFACTSFACTS

QUOTESQUOTESQUOTESQUOTES

If my life ended tomorrow..


CORE MESSAGE

•SUPPORTING STORIES

•FACTS

•QUOTES

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Let’s try!

I love Yokohama.

Because there are

many nice places.

1.Workpia is fantaistic.

2.China Town is so nice.

3. Yamashita Koen is

so romantic.

I love Yokohama.


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Your Turn!

CORE MESSAGE


•FACTS

•QUOTES

CORE MESSAGE


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Your Turn!

CORE MESSAGE


•FACTS

•QUOTES

CORE MESSAGE

David Brooks

1990, World Champion

Public Speaking is

Tell a story, Tell a story, Tell a story, Tell a story,

make a point.make a point.make a point.make a point.

How to say? : Delivery 30pts

MemorizeMemorizeMemorizeMemorize

Practice it Practice it Practice it Practice it

at least 10 timesat least 10 timesat least 10 timesat least 10 times

Video RecordingVideo RecordingVideo RecordingVideo Recording

Stage Stage Stage Stage

practicepracticepracticepractice

Practice

Who are your enemies? You may have one, or some. I have many.

“The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.” This is President Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote. But I learned this from my enemy through the painful peacemaking process.

Mr. Contest chair, ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. D, who was my enemy.

He and I worked for the same company for 20 years. He was 15 years older than I, and he retired at the end of last year. Although he was objectively a lovable personality, I didn’t get along with him at all.

He was bossy to his colleagues acting like a slave-driver to the younger staff, and especially to me.

Three years ago, he and I were working on a project. In our project discussions, he never stopped talking because he was always fascinated with his own brilliant ideas. Then I always felt ”Huh?”

Because his ideas sounded to me boringly conservative, painfully classic, and horribly counter-productive, which, I believed, wasted my time.

Ultimately, I avoided having face-to-face meetings with him, and shifted to communication via email.

Email was very good. I didn’t hesitate to ask him to do this, and do that until he complained that I had relied on email too much, but I didn’t care. I knew he wasn’t good at emailing,

I took over the project control. I became a slave-driver to him. An eye for an eye.

Was it fun? Oh, absolutely.

When I saw him making mistakes, (hehehehehe) I was happy. But when he pointed out my mistakes, I got angry.

The Painful Peace-making Process

Practice

“ Mr. D, It’s truly unfortunate that you and I had lots of bad memories, and I almost always felt uncomfortable with you.”

The room became deadly quiet. And the silence was deafening. Then, there was a pregnant pause

“You were really nasty to me for 20 years. You were really a good “bad role model” to me.”Having said this, I started breathing again. Taking the fresh air in, I regained my composure.

“But those were all valuable lessons to me.” “I learned how to not behave like you. I learned how to not talk to people like you did. You were really a bad role model. I learned from you what’s important about being a nice person. ”

Then, without thinking, I blurted out.“Thank you, Mr. D, for your priceless lessons. All the best and good luck!”

Then I drained another glass of beer as if I were drowning all my bad memories.

At the end of this painful peacemaking process, I looked at him; he smiled a very poignant smile at me.

Ladies and gentlemen, who are your enemies? You may have one, some, or many.

But let’s remember, you are still consciously and unconsciously, and maybe subconsciously learning from your enemies every day; and you become better than yesterday.

When you learn from your enemies, they become a part of you. When they are a part of you, ladies and gentlemen, they are not your enemies anymore.

The Painful Peace-making Process

PlaybackPlayback

“The Painful Peace-making Process”“The Painful Peace-making Process”

Inter-District A speech contest

Calgary, Canada

August 2007

Inter-District A speech contest

Calgary, Canada

August 2007

Final Structure

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“The best way to destroy your

enemy is to make him your friend.”

I learned this through my painful

peace-making process with my enemy(,

which I want to share with you.)

Story 1 : Fights with Mr. D.

Story 2 : I came to think that I wanted

to stop fighting with him.

Story 3 : Lessons learned at the

farewell party.

When you learn from your enemies, they

become a part of you.

When they are a part of you, ladies and

gentlemen, they are not your enemies anymore.

A G E N D A

Contents : 50 points

Delivery : 30 points

Language : 20 points

What am doing?

The more you listen, the more you can listen!

What am doing?

The more you read,

the more you can hear!

What am doing?

the more you can write/speak!

The more you hear/read,

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2) Make your message deeper

3) Flexibility

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Many of life's failures are people

who did not realize how close they

were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Alva Edison

(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

how do we japanese send messages in english?

Education

good english

champion district

core messagesupporting

painful peacemaking

good speechproblems

wasnt good

good luck

good bad role model