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発行日：2014年10月1日
編集・発行：留学研究科・理学部留学生相談室

国立大学法人大阪大学

理学研究科・理学部留学生相談室

News Letter

第2号

留学生相談室とScience Buddyは、毎週開催する定期イベントと不定期に開催するイベント「International Cafe」を企画・運営しています。今号では、イベント報告を中心に紹介します。Ryugakusei sodanshitsu and Science Buddy have planned and managed Weekly regular events and irregular events called“International Café”. We would like to in-

目次:

troduce these activity reports in this issue.

Bus Tour

1

Regular Event

2

Japanese Half-HourSpecial

3International Cafe

4

Event Report

4

Event Information

4

留学生相談室Staff紹介室長

久野 良孝 教授
Yoshitaka KUNO

相談員 浦川 理 講師
Osamu URAKAWA
卓 妍秀 助教
Yon-Soo TAK
生活相談員
網 ひとみ 事務補佐員
Hitomi AMI

Science Buddy紹介
Science Buddy is a student
group which aims to enhance international communication run by Japanese and International students from Graduate School
and School of Science. We
organize and enjoy intercultural experience and knoweach other through various
kinds of events.

Bus Tour (2014.6.29)
It was my first time to join the bus tour
organised by the Graduate School ofScience. There were 33 international
students who joined the bus tour. Although we gathered in front of School ofScience early in the morning with oursleepy eyes, we were bright-eyed andbushy-tailed as soon as we arrived at
Lake Biwa Museum.
Lake Biwa Museum is located at
Kusatsu, by the side of lake Biwa. Themuseum was full of fun to discover. We
were immediately attracted to theshoals of fish roaming in the aquarium.
From small ko-ayu to giant catfish, wehad opened our eye to the variety offresh water fish species living in lake
Biwa. When we were having our fun
time in the aquarium, there was agroup of kindergarten children theretoo. The cheers of young children overthe gigantic size and funny shapes ofthe fishes filled our trip with morelaughter. Other than the fishes, welearnt more about the history of lake
Biwa and how it nourished the early
civilization with its rich resources.
After having our lunch in the museum
restaurant, we moved on with our trip

to Nagahama for our pottery class.
There, the sensei was waiting for us
with clumps of clay and pottery wheelson the tables. She first demonstrated
to us how we should make the baseand shape our clays into bowls andmugs. We spent around two hours
hitting and pinching our clays into
different shapes. As everybody was
beginner in pottery, we had a goodtime teasing each other’s funny pottery that afternoon. Finally, we filled
the trays with our artwork ready forfiring with great satisfaction. I would
like to thank the Graduate School of
Science for organizing the trip for us tointroduce us to more Japanese culture
and arts. Apart from that, we had agood opportunity to meet all ourfriends from all over the world. We arelooking forward to the trip next year.
(マレーシア留学生）

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理学研究科・理学部留学生相談室News Letter

English Half-Hour (Every Wednesday 15:00-15:30)
It is my pleasure to host an English Half-hour session. Although it is only half an hour, I enjoy thetime very much because this is not a teacherstudent style of English lesson, but it is more like afriend-to-friend talk. Everybody who joins this session is making friends by speaking English.
I have taught English in Thailand before coming toOsaka, but I have never taught English to Japanese people before. It is very new to me. I am happy
that Japanese students who join this session understand things very quickly and all of them can

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use a lot of words and phrases that we have done together. Another good thing is that I have a chance topractice my Japanese when I try to explain something
to my friends, while those friends have a chance to
speak to me in English.
Hopefully next semester we can do more things, andstudy more words and conversation skills to make everybody more fluent. I’m looking forward to it.
Thank you for having me here and I hope to see moreparticipants! (Science Buddy Mapaisansin Pasin）

Chinese Half-Hour (Every Tuesday 12:20-12:50)
毎週火曜日12：20-12：50にChinese Half-Hourを国際交流話せるようになりたい人、留学生と交流したいサロンで開催しています。留学生のみではな

人、理学部の友人を作りたい人、是非来てくく、日本人も参加できます。5月20日から定期

ださい。(Science Buddy ZOU YUN）

イベントとして始めましたが、参加者の多くはScience Buddyのメンバーで、まだまだ知られていません。秋学期からは、もっと多くの人が参加することを願っています。内容は、普段使う中国語の単語や会話です。全然、中国語を話せない人でも、大歓迎です。楽しい雰囲気で、ご飯やお菓子を食べながら、、「你好（こんにちは）」「谢谢（ありがとう）」だけではなく中国語をもう少し「热死了」はどういう意味だと思いますか？正解
は「暑くて死にそうです。」他にも「饿死了（死ぬほどお腹がすいている）」や「困死了(死ぬほど眠い）」などを学びました。このような「旬の言葉」や面白そうな言葉をトピックにし、楽しみながら役立つ言葉を身つけています。
（Science Buddy Yan Xiaoxiao)

Japanese Half-Hour (Every Thursday 12:20-12:50)
Science Buddy holds “Japanese Half-Hour” at International salon once a week in lunch time. InJapanese Half-Hour, Japanese members of Science
Buddy teach international students and researchers Japanese. Basically, we take one-to-onesystem, so you can learn Japanese at your own
pace and level. You can decide the contents of Japanese Half-Hour. For example, if you are going tostay in Japan for a short time period, learning entry level conversations may be the best for you. If
you would like to learn high level of Japanese, wecan teach you difficult grammars or terms. If youwould like to do your homework of Japanese classor study your Japanese textbooks, you can bringthem to Japanese Half-Hour. We can consider theplan that matches you the best.
Let me introduce two students who attended Japanese Half-Hour last semes-ter; an international student from China and a researcher from Turkey. The Chinese student is very
fluent in Japanese and he studied Japanese grammar.
He used the textbook of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. It deals with many grammars of written language so that it was difficult for him to understandperfectly by himself though he is fluent. We helped
him to understand those grammars by giving a lot of
actual sentences and finally he could understandthem almost perfectly. The Turkish researcher wassupposed to stay in Japan for about a half year so she
didn’t need to learn detailed grammar. Therefore, wetaught her necessary conversations in daily life likethe way of asking ingredients of a food and somegreetings often used in Japanese. Everybody whocame to Japanese Half-Hour really enjoyed learning
Japanese. Members of Science Buddy are so friendly
that you can learn Japanese very pleasantly. (ScienceBuddy 原田啓多）

Congratulations! The Chinese student passed N1!!!!!

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Japanese Half-Hour Special（2014.4.4）「昨日の実験さ、サンプルAの臨界温度はなんぼやった？」「だいたい23.5Kやったわ。理論計算の結果とドンピシャ。測定せんな
あかん試料後６つあるけどな。。」「そうか。来週学会あるから今週中全部終わらせないとあかんな。間に合う？」「どうかな。今日と明日徹夜したらワンチャンある。」

特に「大丈夫です」や「いいです」と言われるときに、相手が「Yes/「それはやめといたほうがいい。先週友達も徹夜して実験してて、あOk」か「No」のつもりなのか判断しにくい場合が多いです。私は部活まりにもしんどすぎて、帰る時にチャリが車ともろにぶつかってん。手に入っていて、以下のような経験がありました。

伝ってやろうか。」

私「この試合の動画を撮りましょうか。」「ほんま？いや、いいわ。なんとかなる！」
4月に行われたJapanese Half-Hour Specialに参加してきました。皆さんの研究室で、上のような会話を聞いたことあるでしょうか。なかな
か教科書や日本語の授業で出てこない表現と単語がたくさんありますよね。日本語は地域によって方言などがあって、その地域にしか使わない独特な表現が多いです。阪大は大阪にあるので、大阪弁、あるいは京都弁や兵庫弁も含めるといわゆる関西弁をよく聞きますね。
さらに、日本語には婉曲表現や多義語などもあります。今回のJapanese Half-Hour Specialで日常生活によく出てくるのに授業で先輩「ん。。。いいよ。」
あれっ？撮った方がいいか、撮らなくてもいいか、どっち？と思いました。皆さんはたぶん教科書で習った「いい」はいい・肯定的な意味ですね。しかしこの場合の正解は「いいえ、撮らなくてもいい」という意味の「いいよ」でした。最初相手の意図を読み間違えたりして難しいかもしれませんが、たくさんの人と喋ってみて、相手の表情やイントネーションにも注意しながら、このような判断力を鍛えて日本語の会話力を上げて行きましょう！

教えてもらわなかったいくつかの典型的な例を一緒に勉強しました。

今回勉強した単語・表現を表にまとめました！これを見て、最初のもう６年間日本に住んでいる私でも、たまに混乱するときがあります。

会話が正しく理解できたでしょうか。（LEE JIANG HAO KEGAN）

単語・表現

別の言い方・裏の意味

英語の解釈

なんぼ

いくら

How much

あかん

いけない

Forbidden/Terrible (You shouldn’t ~)ドンピシャ

ぴったり一致する

Perfect fit (e.g. results and prediction)

ワンチャン

可能性があるA chance (that something is possible)

もろに完全に／全部Completely/Squarely

ほかす

捨てる

Throw away (garbage)

なおす

片付ける

Put away and tidy up

すみませんが、ちょっと断ります

I’m sorry but no.

検討します（９９％）駄目です

I’ll consider but no.

考えさせてください

賛成しませんLet me think about it but in principle, I don’t agree withyou.

結構です

要りません

It’s fine, I don’t need (your offer/help)

おいといて触れないで

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国際交流サロン場所
理学研究科本館Ｄ棟２階Ｄ201
開室時間 平日10：30-17：00

International Exchange SalonVenue
Hour

D201, 2F D bldg.
Weekdays 10:30-17:00

休憩、昼食、勉強などにお使いください。
Please use this spacefor relaxing, having
lunch, studying. etc..

Yukata de party (2014.7.15)
Event Report
2014.4-2014.9
Every Mon.

International Luncheon

Every Tue.

Chinese Half-Hour

Every Wed.

English Half-Hour

Every Thu.

Japanese Half-Hour

Apr.4

Japanese Half-Hour Special

Apr.17

Welcome party

May 8

B.B.Q. party

Jun.29Bus Tour

Jul.3

Star festival party

Jul.15

Yukata de party

Since prehistoric times, ritual
has been perhaps the mostimportant human activity
and the greatest
force that makeus connectedwith the society.
The Japaneserituals are indeed as respectable as their politeness. I am very much thankful to GSS, Osaka
University that provided me an opportunity to enjoy a Yukata. The
light and wide-sleeve cotton cloth was really comfortable andsprinkle an unwavering grin on my face. I learnt the technique
how to wear a Yukata. The volunteers and Ami-san were very
kind, and made me well-heeled by adorning with the true colors ofJapanese traditional Yukata. （ BIKASH RANJAN SAHOO）

Event Information
2014.10Oct.6(Mon.)12:20- International Luncheon
Oct.7(Tue.)12:20- Chinese Half-Hour
Oct.8(Wed.)16:20- English Half-Hour
Oct.9(Thu.)12:20- Japanese Half-Hour
Oct.9(Thu.)18:00- Welcome party

国際交流サロンでのイベント情報
は、Science buddy Facebookでもご覧になれます。
https://www.facebook.com/
science.buddy.ou

Upper : Welcome party
Left :B.B.Q. party
Right : Star festival party(Watermelon splitting)