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True or False: Ogasawara Island is a good example of language contact in Japan
Answer: True
True or False: People in Ogasawara Island are not embarrassed about their language
Answer: False, some people are embarassed about their language.
True or False: Islander means someone who lives on an island
Answer: True
True or False: Elderly is someone who is younger in age
False: Elderly is someone older in age
Which prefecture produces the most cherries?
Answer: Yamagata
What is language contact?
a) When people from different cultures meet and do not influence each other.
b) When people from different cultures meet and influence each other.
Answer: b) When people from different cultures meet and influence each other.
The language of Ogasawara is...
a) English affected by Japanese
b) Japanese affected by English
Answer: b) Japanese affected by English
Which word is this the definition "to find or discover the exact position or place of something or someone"
a) Isolate
b) Locate
Answer: b) Locate
Which word is this the definition of "The starting point or the source of something"
a) Origin
b) Pride
Answer: a) Origin
What is the longest river in Japan?
Answer: Shinano River
If the island was close to Honshu, what would happen to the language?
a) It would be unique
b) It would be English
c) It would not be so unique
Answer: c) It would not be so unique
Who uses the Ogasawara language?
a) Elderly Japanese People
b) Young people of Western Origin
c) Elderly people of Western Origin
Answer: c) Elderly people of Western Origin
What word is this the definition of "More than two but not many"
a) Several
b) Many
c) Excessive
Answer: a) Several
What word is this the definition of "A person who talks in a specific language
a) Affect
b) Roughly
c) Speaker
Answer: c) Speaker
What is the most popular anime series in Canada?
Answer: Dragon Ball Z
What groups of people stayed in Ogasawara Islands?
a) Europeans
b) South Pacific Islanders
c) Japanese
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above
At a conference, what did a Western woman stand up and say to the audience?
a) People should have pride in their language
b) We should learn English
c) People should not have pride in their language..
d) We should preserve Japanese
Answer: a) People should have pride in their language
What is the definition of "phenomenon":
a) An island off the coast of Honshu
b) Fish found in outer space that glows in the dark and communicates using musical notes
c) When the moon is in a lunar eclipse
d) Something that happens or occurs in the world and can be observed or experienced.
Answer: d) Something that happens or occurs in the world and can be observed or experienced.
What is the definition of "pride":
a) being confused and unsure about what you want
b) a feeling of satisfaction or happiness about something you have accomplished or have
c) a special type of fruit that grows only in outer space and tastes like a combination of strawberries and marshmallows.
d) feeling unhappy and angry with something you have done
Answer: b) a feeling of satisfaction or happiness about something you have accomplished or have
Which anime is the character Mamoru Chiba from?
Answer: Sailor Moon
What is another name for the Ogasawara Islands?
Answer: The Galapagos of the East
What does "mata miru yo" mean in English?
Answer: See you again
Which word is this the definition of:
Being alone or separated from others, like being on your own little island.
Answer: Isolated
Which word is this the definition of:
feeling uncomfortable or shy because of something you did
Answer: Embarassed
What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa