I’ll do my proper formatting later; quickly typed up my answers on my dinner break
読み物1
読む前に
1.毎日、仕事でメールを書きます。
2.先生へのメールが敬語を使います、でも友達へのが敬語を使いません。
Translation Paragraph 1
John is emailing his teacher Suzuki sensei
Re: Please would you write me a recommendation letter
Suzuki Sensei
In Japan, a cold wind blows and everyday is cold. The snow has been contuining over there, I hope you are doing well. I am finally getting used to living in Japan and I’m enjoying every day. On New Year’s Day, I ate osechiryouri/traditional NYD dish for the first time. My host family taught me about the meaning and how to make each dish, and it made me want to know more about Japanese food.
I think this was mostly straight forward but I had to get some help from ichi.moe for the last sentence. I could parse the first clause, but the second one threw me, I couldn’t quite split up the conjugations.
Translation Paragraph 2
Now, I’m actually emailing you today to ask for a favour. The university in Minami city has a volunteer programme every year for exchange students. This is helping with the city’s international exchange departing to work with junior and highschools and community centres putting on weekly culture sharing events. At the event, people in the town share parts of their culture, like food and language. I have decided to apply because you can only experience these kinds of programmes in Japan and I think it will help when applying for future jobs.
Grammar wasn’t hard to decipher again, but there’s some compound words that the dictionary was whipped out for!
Translation Paragraph 3
It’s a sudden request when you are busy but I need a letter of recommendation and I wonder if you could write one for me? The application deadline is in a month so if you sent it by early February that would be fine. I apologise for the sudden email, but I would be very grateful if you could reply. Thank you.
It’s easy to catch a cold this season so take care of yourself!
John