Thursday, December 28, 2006

高校行きたい...

 そう。でもインドではなく、日本の高校です。

なぜ??

  誰か以下の顔文字の意味を説明してくれる?
Σ(´□`;)
(*^ω^*)
(;д;)/ヾ
ε=(^◇^;

まぁ、日本人なら当たり前のことかもしれないけど僕にとってこれはIQテストみたいです。

問題: 
Σ(´□`;) = 笑い顔
(;д;)/ヾ = 泣き顔
次のシンボールは何?
ε=(^◇^;

日本語の勉強を始めた時先生は「Japanese language is very rich of expressions」って言ってた。なのになんでこんなに顔文字が使う必要なのって僕にとって不思議です。
すごく分かりにくい顔文字があればすぐ分かる簡単な顔文字もある。たとえば (^_^) これは笑っている顔、(T_T) これは泣いている顔。

でもこれは全然理解できない。
(*゜▽゜*)
(¥△¥;)
(ノ^^)八(^^ )ノ
(。・ω-。)-☆
ε=┏(; ̄▽ ̄)┛

電車の中で顔文字ばっかりで携帯メールを書いていた高校生は何回も見えた。
確かに僕は顔文字を習う必要はないと思うけど、もし習おうとしたら一番いいところは高校かな。まぁ、中学校もいいかもしれないね (^_^)

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Autumn in Hiyoshi

先週の日曜日の日吉キャンパス。






最初はカメラを持ってなかったけどこの景色を見たら写真とらずにはいられなかった。早速部屋に戻ってカメラをもって来た。

Falliage

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Community surfing

あんまり分からないからMixiでコミュニティのページをさわった事がなかったけど、昨日ちょっと見てみようかなと思ってコミュニティの世界に入ったら面白いミュニティがたくさん出てきた。そこで、インドのコミュニティをあるか見てみようとしたらなんとBollywoodの女優とか映画のコミュニティをいくつか発見!!しかもそのコミュニティの日本人のメンバ達はみんなBollywoodの女優とか俳優はすごく詳しくて超ビックリ!日本でBollywoodがこんなに人気されてるのかと思わなかった。早速四つぐらいコミュニティに入って次行くともう一つ面白いコミュニテイが発見。今度は「ヒロシです!」と言うコミュニティ!ヒロシは最近テレビで出てないんだけど去年とか今年の始めごろよく出ていた。ちょっと悲しそうなラティンバックグラウンドミュージックですごいタイミングで愚痴を言うヒロシは僕が好きだった。この「ヒロシです」コミュニティにのぞいて見たらそこでヒロシのオリジナルネタを書いていた。久しぶりにそれを読んだら笑わずにはいられなくなった。気になったからここにちょっと書いておこう。


ヒロシです...

「いつから居たの?」って訊かれますが
最初から居ました。

ヒロシです...

「野良犬じゃなかとです…うちの犬です」

ヒロシです...

「自分で書いた字が読めません」

ヒロシです...

最近、街を歩くと「ヒロシです。だ!ヒロシです。だ!」 といわれます。
僕の名前は「ヒロシです。」ではなかとですっ!

ヒロシです...

「誰でもいいから付き合いたーい!」と
言ってる子にフラれました・・・

ヒロシです... ヒロシです... ヒロシです...

いやぁぁ、ヒロシは今年の年末番組に出て欲しいな。。

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

A novel approach for the study of various aspects of learning languages

K. Bisar
Blogger community, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract-This paper presents a comprehensive study of studying languages and its effects on the day to day life. The paper also proposes some new theories based on the modification of some old theories with some simulation as well as experimental results. The paper concludes with some novel techniques for studying new languages without forgetting old ones.

With the recent advancements in the reading and communicating ability of Japanese, the author has observed that that the rate of improvement in Japanese skills is proportional to the rate of decline in English skills. Furthermore, recent observations reveal that excessive reading of English technical or journal papers and lack of observing English movies and dramas can result in limiting the vocabulary to that found only in bulky technical papers. This can be proved by the sentence pattern found throughout this text. Writing graduation thesis or dissertation creates additional complications. Consequently, the speaking or hearing ability is also affected drastically and as a result the day to day communication takes the form of the technical paper text.

It has been proven periodically that the rules of mathematics cannot be applied to languages. However, as a science graduate, the author cannot avoid the temptation of relating a law of physics to human's ability of learning languages. Based on the Law of conservation of energy [1], it can be proved that
'in human brain words from one language can take form of other language. However, the total amount of words of all languages in human brain at any time is always constant.'
This can be called as 'Law of Conservation of Languages' or LCL©.

The author has studied five languages extensively including his mother tongue. Initially, from simulation and later with some experimental results it has been observed that learning languages can be frustrating at times. It can be evident from the immense pain required for the author to recollect the spelling of as simple word as 'tongue' in the above sentence. The readers can imagine intuitively the amount of pain involved in recollecting the characters and their stroke order in the Asian script. From experience, it can be further proved that at the time of recollecting word from one particular language, words from all other languages with similar meaning are popped up in mind except the one that is needed. With a little variation, it can be proved that this is true for all languages and all persons.

Present work discusses various theories and techniques for improvement in English (since it is not a language of majority in this region). Many theories have been proposed so far for the improvement of English reading, speaking and writing ability. Some old theories that are proven over time, such as reading books, newspapers or hearing news, require hardwork and patience and are not practiced by many people. Another studious technique requires appearing for some competitive exams such as TOEFL or GRE or TOIEC. But again, very few people are ready to compromise their happiness for learning English. Some of the theories invented by some lazy people include taking English book as a pillow while sleeping believing that the knowledge will get transferred in sleep (These fellows do that for other books too). But this theory has not been proved yet. Watching Hollywood movies is one of the proven way for improving communication skills, but it is not a 'cost effective' solution and may limit the communication ability to 'excessive slang'. Having an English speaking girlfriend or boyfriend is another effective way, but most of the times it turns out to be a liability than asset. One of the novel, 'cost effective' solution can be downloading illegal (or so called 'pirated') movies or dramas from the internet [2]. However, this should be done at one's own risk and some people think of it as unethical. From intuition, it can be seen that each of the above methods has it's own advantages and disadvantages.

Adapting one particular method still remains a challenge for the scholars all over the world. One way proposed earlier by the author[3] is starting writing a blog. Simulations results have shown that it can improve language skills as the blog can be checked by people all over the world and some suggestions can be obtained. However the effectiveness of this method has not been tested yet and remains the topic for future work.

Conclusion:
A comprehensive study of various aspects of learning a language is presented. Law of Conservation of Languages(LCL©) is proposed based on simulation and experience results. Finally, classification of various theories and techniques for improving English is presented. It can be concluded that there is always a 'trade-off' involved among the adoption of different methods for learning English and the best method can be selected depending on one's own requirement and interest.

REFERENCES:
[1] A. Einstein. "The law of conservation of energy: The total amount of energy in the
universe is constant, although energy can be transformed from one form to another."

[2] Y. Lakexiang, K. Bisar "A novel approach to download movies, dramas and software content free from internet " International piracy and hackers conference, 2005.

[3] K. Bisar "How to start a blog in a language without knowing it fully" International symposium on blogging and orkutting, 2006.

Author’s Biography:
K. Bisar: Received his B.S. and M.S. degree in 2001 and 2006 respectively and currently pursuing Ph.D. degree. He has studied five languages; English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Japanese including his mother tongue Marathi. His research interests include learning new languages without forgetting old ones and blogging in them. He has published various articles in Marathi, English and Japanese on the blog and also in leading Marathi newspapers. Since Aug'2004, he is an active member of various Social Network Systems and an associate member of blogger community.

Friday, November 24, 2006

週末プラン

写真取りに出かけるか、ブログ書くか、あたたかいコーヒを飲みながら日本語の小説読むかそれともこの前描いたスケッチに色つけるか。
今ライフカードのCM「どうする俺?」みたいな感じ。

(^_^) 最近テレビ見すぎかな。


 でも、「それより学校言って勉強や研究やればどう」と誰かに言われたら、本当にどうする俺?

Monday, November 13, 2006

Autumn Sonata

HIHの贅沢な暮らしを終わってもう3ヶ月。そして、T.O.終わってもう3週間。T.O.の後で色々やろうと思ったんだけど、ずっと怠けで何もやりなかった。先々週軽井沢にドライブに行って来ました。それの写真もまだアップロードしてない。T.O. の所為で2ヶ月何もできなかったので ”Photo Expedition”にどこかへ出かけようかなと思っていた。軽井沢が日本に一番行きたい所のリストに結構上にあったのでそこにいくことにした。週末に車を借りて三日間のドライブに出かけた。ナビがついていたのに、最初の高速入り口をミッスして戻るのは面倒くさくて東京に入ってしまった。この前東北で運転したことがあったんだけど、東京の複雑な道路で初めてだった。でも、インドに比べると全然O.K.!!  

軽井沢というと自然な所のイメージがあったが、実はRoyalな所。しかもテニスコートが多い。三日間いっぱい写真取ったり、温泉入ったりのんびりしたりいいものを食べたり最高の気持ちだった。天気が良くて紅葉もちょうどpeakになっていてこのドライブはいい思い出になった。










雲場池

その後研究室の合宿にも言ってきたんだけど、それはまた今度!

Friday, September 15, 2006

Two down, three to go..

Repercussions of mind...
It's been years since I gave GRE and remembered this kind of weird and abstruse words (Sometimes I wonder how did I do that). But this phrase is eating my mind from last two days, so finally I decided to write a post on it. I know this post is going to be long since I haven’t written anything for long time and you are advised to read this at your own risk.

So you are ready to take the risk then. Fine. Now you may ask me why suddenly I started writing in English. Is the enthusiasm for Japanese over? Well, to tell the truth,there are two reasons. First, I cannot stick to one language for long. Second, eversince I was introduced to this new ‘Japanese’ friend I kind of started going away from the old school buddy, English. So, today I decided to have a little chat with this old friend. Have you ever experienced when you meet somebody very close after long time and want to say so many things but when you actually meet, words don't come out. Something like that is happening with me as I'm writing something from my mind in English. It is getting more and more awkward.

Today marks the second anniversary of the day when I first landed in this land of rising sun.Time for some retrospection :)

Two years down. Three more to go… Two years is not a very long time to forget the things, is it? When I arrived here, I remember very clearly when I arrived here as a guy with a typical strong Indian accent, who had lots of restrictions on food and drinks(some of them are still there), quite under-confident to try out his little Japanese skills and who used to cook everyday in home to avoid encounter with Japanese food. Well, I won’t say that all those characterstics have disappeared now. But it is interesting to look back to see how fast things changed. I remember all the wonderful moments I had in these two years. Nothing can match that fun. Those ski trips, those summer camps, picnics, long drives, hanami parties, karaoke nights, those more for sightseeing and less for education conferences and what not. I enjoyed everything to the fullest. I got some very good friends, went to some places far beyond imagination, tried some delicious food, designed some silicon chips and yes, I got a Master’s degree too.

But that’s not all. In these two years, I had just one trip to India. One and half years have passed since that trip and I've learned one thing during this long stay.. Never stay away from your home for so long. As the days pass by, I miss the things back at home. I miss the quarrels with my sister, scoldings by grandmother to get up early in the morning, conspiracies to buy surprise gifts to Mom on her birthday. I miss getting dragged by friends from home to watch movies and later cursing them for the pathetic movie. I miss long drives on the bike, all day long sessions of cricket, parties on the weekends, evening strolls on streets with friends for some ‘treat to eyes’. I miss going to a movie toghether with cousins on the first day of Diwali, the snaks, the sweets, the crackers and all night long trump card sessions. I miss HBO, BBC, Discovery, National Geographic, ESPN. Yes, I miss my home and the warmth of my wonderland everyday. You can call this homesickness, nostalgia, frustration or whatever you like. But I'm sure, if you stay away from your home for one and half year, you'll feel no different. But above all, I miss my stay at Hiyoshi International House; which we used to call 'The Heaven'. For me, it really was, until I moved out two weeks ago. One cannot stay in HIH for more than two years. The day I moved out, it felt like all the fun has come to an end, the glory days in HIH are over and life of solitude has finally begun.

But moving in a new house is a nice feeling as well. It’s all exciting imagining how the house will look like when you buy new furniture, arranging and rearranging it again and again in your mind and setting it finally. Everytime you come back in the evening all tired, a small maple tree is standing in a small garden around the house to welcome you with its fresh autumn colours. After taking the bath, you lay on the bed at night with a hot cup of coffee in one hand and a novel in the other. Well, what else do you need? From one heaven to another :)