These are more quotes from student essays that have come through my desk. Each quote is from a different essay by a different student, and original syntax and spelling have been maintained for the sake of authenticity.
On Love:
• “Love is danger word…”
On Staying Healthy:
• “[I do] Nothing. Is it about time I should worry about health? On the contrary, what about you?”
On Population Control:
• “In order to improve environment, I want to reduce number of people. If it falls down to half, we’ll use less electricity, fossil fuels, and so on. So I’m not going to get married in the future.”
On Forms of Words that Should Exist But Don’t:
• “No I amn’t.”
• “So it should be compulsory to learn English early…so we can learn it easilier.”
• “In terms of health, what importantest in food a day is breakfast.”
On Future Plans:
• “He wants to be farmer. His dream is to get married to a woman of matchless beauty.”
• “He has no hope for the future.”
• “She want to go to a college to learn education. She want to be a elementary school teacher because she likes children. Also, her dream is to marry. She will do her best.”
• “Her dream is an intercultural marriage.”
On How to Carry Large Pieces of Fruit:
• “A furoshiki is a one piece of square cloth. It’s very useful and environment-friendly. It’s up to your imagination how we use it. For example, we can wrap and bring a watermelon with it easier.”
On Hanafuda:
• “Hanafuda is one of Japanese game using cards with flower designs. There are twelve kinds of flowers that represent the twelve months of year. It’s like a nervous breakdown of cards in Europe.
The rule is very simple. So why don’t you play once?”
On False Impressions:
• “My brain works very actively. And my brain is very useful for studying. But I don’t use my perfect brain. So I am often said that Mr. Mizunoe is very fool. I think that I am a genius boy. So I want to say that I don’t use the all brain. I use a portion of my perfect brain. This is very mottainai. You had better not try to fool me.”
On Why You Might Bike Instead of Drive:
• “First, if he goes to his office slowly with a bike [instead of car], he can look around him. It makes him some exciting discoveries, so he likes it.
Second, he was swindled out of his money under a false promise of marriage. So he doesn’t have enough money.”
On Travel:
• “I want to go to Europe because rowing sports come from there…And also, I want to have real Italians.”
• “Reckless adventures ruin you.”
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