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Self-introduction

Now listen to my self-introduction and write down what you hear.

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It's quite long.



But there are few difficult words in his speech.
You only have to be careful about some proper nouns like Arna University.



Here's the script. Check if what you wrote is right.

soonoyun il, an et arxe, arxe alteems. estol.
et noi e hain alteems del tales t'artea tisee.
xi reg arnamana, lodes al artyulfka. see atu, konsor eldfel lestel.
tur taonlin. see ra tiitel ridia.
na lol al eld dipit kaen tu fia e. son mir les yol mextren xax eld nozet al an, ret.

Hi, everybody. I'm Arshe Alteems. Nice to meet you.
I'm the son of Hain Alteems who works for the Ministry of Invocation.
I graduated from Arna University and now I'm working for the laboratory of magic. I study linguistics there.
I'm 25 years old. I live on Tiitel Ridia Avenue.
I'm interested in foreign languages. If you are good at them, please teach me.



Oh, this is the script. Some parts of what I wrote were correct.
I caught "soonoyun" at the beginning correctly, but I couldn't catch "tales t'artea" correctly.



Let's check the script one line at a time.



The first line was easy. I caught it. He introduced his name and said nice to meet you.
The second line was hard. This sentence begins with a copula "et." Where has the subject gone?



The subject "an" is omitted in this sentence because the sentence is in a colloquial style.



"hain alteems" is a proper noun. He is Arshe's father.
in "tales t'artea," the word "e" (of) has become "t'" because "artea" begins with a vowel.



The third line begins with a caser. The subordinate clause "after I graduated Arna University" is put before the main clause.



The last word "lestel" means mainly.



In "tur taonlin," the subject "an" is omitted. "tur" is a present copula.
"ra" means "to live in." In this sentence, the subject is omitted too.
"tiitel ridia" is the avenue where I live.



Seems I must know the culture of Arbazard to catch the speech.



"kaen" in "eld dipit kaen tu fia" is a conjunction. It means "various languages in the world."
The last sentence begins with "mir" (please do something). "les yol mextren" (person who use a foreign language) is the subject.
"xax" (teach) is the verb. And the last word "ret" means "please do something" like "mir."



I see. So this is it.



Listen to the mp3 again and do the shadowing method.
After that, modify the script and make your own self-introduction.



OK I've done it.


Self-introduction by Shion; Download the mp3

ansoonoyun lilis il, non et xion, xion hazki aano. anestol.
et soran e parm le xa yumana antisse.
xi reg seelfel, lodes a hoojoo sorfel. see atu, felor lana tas e kaifel.
tur onnol. see sons e lenxe semaim teu lein yutia.
na lol al antis t'arbazard. xom myun xax lolen dipit a non, ret.

Hello, everyone. My name is Shion Hazuki. It's nice to see to you.
I'm a high school student in Earth.
After I graduated my junior high school, I got into Hojo high school. I'm studing there for college entrance exam.
I'm 17 years old. I'm living with a friend, Lein Yutia now.
I'm interested in the culture of Arbazard. So please teach me about it.


Good job, Shion!