Summary
Hi, welcome (back) to The Trilingual Chatbox Podcast! In this episode, Mai talks about one of the school events she used to like in Japanese followed by English. School events must be different from country to country. Here is an example of fun event in Japanese school.
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～Vocabulary～
1⃣ その名の通り（そのなのとおり), 文字通り（もじどおり）｜literally
2⃣ 目玉（めだま）｜main event, special event
3⃣ 規模（きぼ）｜size
4⃣ 白虎 （びゃっこ）｜white tigers
5⃣ 赤獅（せきし）｜red lions
6⃣ 青龍（せいりゅう）｜blue dragons
7⃣ ハチマキ（はちまき） | a headband
8⃣ 事前に（じぜんに）｜in advance
9⃣ 青春（せいしゅん）| youth, springtime of youth, power of youth
🔟 一大イベント（いちだいいべんと）| a great event
～Episode Transcript～
日本語学習中のみなさん、こんにちは。The Trilingual ChatboxのMaiです。今回は「好きだった学校行事」についてお話ししてみたいと思います。
好きだった学校行事はいろいろありますが、一番記憶に残っているのは中学校の体育祭です。体育祭は、その名の通り¹ 運動のお祭りです。中学校では体育祭と呼びますが、幼稚園や小学校では運動会と呼びます。その違いを今まで特に考えたことはなかったですが、気になったのでちょっと調べてみました。
まず、体育祭は「生徒が体育の授業の成果を発揮するための行事」だそうです。一方、運動会の目的は、子供たちが元気に身体を動かすことだそうです。体育祭と運動会で同じような競技もたくさんあります。例えば、リレーとか徒競走とか。小学校では練習してきたダンスの発表もあります。
中学校の体育祭の目玉² はやはり応援合戦ではないでしょうか。学校の規模³ によってチームの数は変わりますが、私たちの中学校は3チームの対抗戦でした。チームごとに色があります。白い虎と書く白虎⁴ の白、赤い獅子と書く赤獅⁵ の赤、青い龍と書く青龍⁶ の青の3色です。自分のチームのハチマキ⁷ を巻いて参加します。それぞれのチームに応援団長と応援団員が居て他の生徒たちをリードして応援を盛り上げます。事前に⁸ チームごとに準備した踊りや掛け声や歌で応援します。それは小学校の運動会にはないイベントですし、高校にはない純粋な熱さが中学生にはありますよね。ほんと青春⁹ という感じです。あの熱い戦いをまた味わいたくなりますね。
家族や友達と食べる運動会や体育祭のお弁当も一大イベントです。今は春に運動会を行う学校も多くなったようですが、私たちの頃は秋に運動会を行う学校が多かったので運動会と言えば、栗やさつまいも、梨など秋の食べ物の入ったお弁当を思い出します。親が作ってくれたたくさんのお弁当を校庭にシートを敷いてみんなで食べました。ちょっとしたポットラックパーティですね。定番のメニューはおにぎり、巻き寿司、鳥の唐揚げ、いなり寿司、栗ごはん、卵焼き…ですかね。私は母の作るポークかつ巻き寿司が大好きでした。みなさんはどのような学校行事が好きでしたか。
Hi, Japanese language learners, I`m Mai from The Trilingual Chatbox. In this episode, I am going to talk about “My most memorable event in school”.
There are many school events I used to like, but the most memorable one should be Taiikusai, sports day in junior high school. Taiikusai is literally the festival of sports. Sports day is called Taiikusan in junior high school, but it is called Undoukai in kindergarten and elementary school. I have never thought about the difference between these two words, but as I got curious, I checked it this time.
First, it says Taiikusai is the event students show the result of their physical education classes. On the other hand, the purpose of Undoukai is to have kids do physical exercise. There are similar events in Undoukai and Taiikusai. For example, both include relay races, sprints, and so on. In elementary school, students perform a dance they have been practicing as well.
The special event at Taiikusai in junior high school must be a cheering competition. The number of teams depends on the size of the school, in the case of my junior high school, there were three teams, and each team had a different color. They are white from white tigers, red from red lions, and blue from blue dragons. Everyone wears a headband of their own team color. Each team has a head and members of the cheerleaders, and they lead the other students to cheer during the event. Each team cheers their team using dance moves, shouts and songs they prepared in advance. That doesn’t exist in elementary school`s Undoukai and junior high school kids are more purely passionate than high school students in my opinion. It is really like the power of youth, isn’t it? It makes me want to go back and experience it again.
The lunch we eat during Undoukai or Taiikusai is also a big event. Now, there are schools that hold Sports Day in spring, but when I was a kid, many schools had Sports Day in autumn, so Sports Day reminds me of the picnic lunch which includes autumn foods such as chestnuts, sweet potatoes and Japanese pears. We all ate the lunch our parents made on the picnic blanket in the schoolyard. It was a bit like a potluck party. The most major menus for Sports Day are rice balls, big sushi rolls, Japanese fried chicken, inari zushi, chestnut rice, and omelets. Out of all menus, my favorite was Pork cutlet roll sushi which my mom made. How about you? What kind of school events do you use to like?
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