Note:
inspire:〈人を〉鼓舞する，激励する;
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The Shimadai foreign language speech contest took place on February 16. It was the first time that the contest was held and I took part in the Chinese contest. The reason why I didn’t make a speech in English is because many people can speak English now, and I imagine that this number will increase more and more each year. So being able to speak English is perhaps becoming more natural for young Japanese people these days. Hence my speech was made in Chinese.
Listening to the other speakers I was impressed by their fluency. Also their speeches greatly inspired me to become even better. Anyway, I had great time and I came away thinking that I need to study English, Chinese, and other languages more.
(witten by student Mr. Kajitari, edited by Prof. Simon Smith)
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