實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Ambitions 志向

I have a few main ambitions at the moment. I think the first and foremost ones, seeing as I'm in Japan at the moment studying Japanese, would to be actually to be able to speak the language, but I think that's pretty far fetched ambition at the moment at the rate I'm going. I think to actually learn this language properly you'd have to live here and be studying at least a year to get to know the language and then another year to get fluent, get the speed up, get the slang in, so I mean I think that's one of my life ambitions is to learn Japanese. I can't speak any other languages so just to be able to speak another language would be amazing. I think English, English speaking people have, well, a sort of bad arrogance that everyone else speaks English and so why bother to learn another language. It's not like people in other European countries where, like from a very young age they learn English. They can speak English, maybe French, Spanish, and Italian. Once you got one language under your belt it seems to be a lot easier to pick up other languages. So that's one of the things I'd like to do. My other main wish at the moment, which I hopefully I'm going to turn into a reality when I return home is to actually get a job in the animation industry. I did my degree in that and it's been something that I've, you know, I've been waiting to actually get to the job stage, the job stage for so long now. Before I came to Japan, I was working, but in a graphic design job which is not what I'm actually wanting to do, so I think my, you know, number one wish at the moment, apart from the Japanese, is to actually be there in the industry I want to be working in, working the way I want to work, you know doing what I do for fun, as a job. That's my sort of number one ambition. I mean obviously making money is nice but I think at the moment the most important thing in a job is, you know money shouldn't be the first thing, you should really enjoy what you're doing. I've always said I'd never want to work in an office where you have to wear a suit, where you have to be constricted and constrained. You know I want to have my offices, sort of I mean, the environments I've, the work environments I've seen so far through friends and what I've worked in myself is pretty similar to how I think it should be: a group of more friends than colleagues working together on something they're passionate about. I think that has to be my main aim in life.

目前我有一些偉大的志向。首先，我現(xiàn)在正在日本學習日語，我希望我能講日語，但是以我現(xiàn)在的進度來說，我想這是非常不切實際的目標。我認為要完全學會日語，你就要生活在日本，至少學習一年的時間，來了解這門語言，之后再用一年的時間可以說流利的日語，語速加快，融入俚語，我是說，我認為我生活中其中一個雄心就是要學會日語。我不會其他的語言，所以我認為要學會其他語言很令人不可思議。我認為英語，說英語的人很傲慢，其他說英語的人不理解為什么要費力去學其他語言。不像歐洲其他國家的人，他們在非常小的年紀就學習英語。他們可能會說英語、法語、西班牙語和意大利語。一旦你學會了一種語言，看起來再學習另一門語言會容易得多。所以這是我喜歡做的事情之一。我現(xiàn)在還有一個志向，我希望我可以將這個志向變成現(xiàn)實，我希望在我回到家鄉(xiāng)的時候我可以在動畫業(yè)找到工作。我獲得了動畫業(yè)的學位，我一直在等待能在這個領(lǐng)域找到工作，我等待了許久。我來日本之前有在工作，但是我做的工作是平面設計，那并不是我真正想做的工作，所以我想，你知道，現(xiàn)在除了學會日語之外，我最大的愿望就是想進入動畫領(lǐng)域工作，做我想做的工作，在工作中享受樂趣。這就是我最大的愿望。我認為，當然賺錢是不錯，但是現(xiàn)在對我而言，工作方面最重要的事情是……其實賺錢不應該是首要的事情，你要真正的享受你所做的事情。我曾經(jīng)說過，我完全不想在那種要穿套裝又受限制的窄小辦公室里工作。你知道，我想擁有自己的辦公室，目前我朋友們工作的環(huán)境，還有我工作的環(huán)境類似于我希望的那種環(huán)境：和熱衷于所從事工作的同事們一起共事。我認為這是我人生中的主要目標。