演習
21
Whether a college is good or bad depends
not only on how intelligent its teachers and
students are, but on how many books
its library has and how good they are.
It is no exaggeration to say that your life
is determined by what kind of education
you have had.
22
The best way to learn the grammar of
a foreign language is to read and hear
as much of it as possible,
so that you can learn it in a natural way.
The best way for developing countries
not to repeat the mistakes
developed countries have made is
to learn from the past.
23
Ways of greeting people vary
from country to country.
It is interesting to study where these ways
of greeting come from.
When you speak Japanese,
ways of speaking it vary,
depending on whether you are a man
or a woman, and an adult or a child.
24
A lot of words of foreign origin are used
in the Japanese language, but
their pronunciations and meanings are often
quite different from those of the original words.
Japanese people, unlike Americans,
often tend to control their emotions.
For example, when they get a gift from someone,
they express their thanks for it,
but put it aside, acting as if
they were not at all interested in it.