Japanese promotion

なぜ日本語？ Presenter 　　 Karen Ruddock 　　　　　　　 Why Japanese?

Everyone has a reason to choose Japanese

Who are YOU?
The Exam Worrier
The Economic Warrior
The Techno Freak
The Petrol Head
The Eco Warrior
The Culture Vulture
The Language Lover
The Trailblazer

For the Exam Worrier
Japanese has been a proper LC subject for 6 years
You get the same points for Japanese as for other subjects
It is counted as a modern language for getting into college
The PPLI pay and supply the teachers
You can study it in college in DCU, UCD, and UL

What’s this? % of LC candidates who got A or B in different languages

The Syllabus
Similar to the other language syllabuses BUT shorter because:
You only study it for two years
You learn another writing system
AND especially relevant because:
It’s new
The LC exam is very up to date

For the Economic Warrior
Japan has the 2 nd largest economy in the world
If you go into business, engineering, manufacturing, or economics, you will be competing with or working for a Japanese company in the future
The global centre of gravity has moved to Asia

If you want to be a successful economic warrior…
You need to be able to communicate with customers in their own language if you want to win their business.
You need an insider view of the culture because understanding the culture can make or break an important business deal and the best way to learn the culture is to learn the language.

For the Techno Freak
The Japanese are world leaders in high tech areas such as electronics, optical media, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial robotics, and fermentation processes.
The Japanese are innovators, filing 420,000 patent applications every year, way more than any other country.
It’s worth knowing why!

The World Leaders in Technology have reached Ireland
The World Research Centre for the powerful chip at the heart of the Sony Playstation 3 is at Trinity
Alps Electric, a Japanese company, are developing a market leader in terms of driver safety in Cork
Shimatsu, leaders in the field of novel imaging techniques have a base in NUIG

For the Petrol Head
The highest number of cars produced are in Japan
Toyota, a Japanese company, is the world’s largest car manufacturer
The 5 most reliable car brands (What Car 2005) are Japanese

And there’s more…
Honda and Toyota are the world’s leaders in hybrid car technology
Honda and Toyota are also leading the way in reducing smog production, fuel consumption, and overall emissions in both their hybrid and standard vehicle models.

For the Eco Warrior
Japan is the world leader in energy efficiency
Japan has boosted its energy efficiency by 37% over the last 30 years
Japan has also doubled its GDP while cutting its petroleum consumption by 8%
Japan uses only half the amount of energy that the United States and the European Union do and about one-ninth of what India and China do.

The eco warrier stands to learn a lot from the Japanese
How they make people understand the importance of energy conservation
How they support the uptake of new energy efficient technologies
How they can encourage a further 30% increase in efficiency when they are already a world leader
This is about understanding Japanese culture!

For the Culture Vulture
A knowledge of Japanese will
give you direct access to Japanese film, animation, and comic books
will help you understand the terminology used in your favorite martial art
Will give you an edge on style (Japan is a fashion trendsetter)
Help you to order sashimi like a native at your favorite Japanese restaurant!

And it’s not just about that kind of culture
By learning a language as different from English as Japanese you learn a whole new way of thinking, doing and being, you find a new self
You learn to step outside the culture you live in and see it from a fresh, new perspective.

For The Language Lover
The grammar of Japanese is simpler than that of European languages.
Japanese nouns have no gender or plural forms
There are only two verb tenses, present and past
There are only two irregular verbs
There are only 5 vowel sounds
Spelling is phonetically consistent

And if you want to communicate with 10% of people on the web…
The Japanese make up the third largest language community on the Internet, after only English and Chinese speakers.

For the Trailblazer
Japanese is different
It’s a road less travelled
You’ll be one of the few

And it will bring you further…
Learning Japanese brings you a step closer to taking on Korean or Chinese because:
The grammar of Japanese is very similar to that of Korean and both languages have a similar system of honorifics for showing respect.
Japanese takes its kanji writing system from the Chinese system of ideographs.

Why not Japanese?

Japanese promotion

by Languages Initiative on Feb 21, 2011

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