Message from eshorer

[Anonymous]

Most of us are familiar with the 5-7-5 formula for haiku, and we tend to use it in lessons having students write poetry counting syllables. As Prof. Miyake informed us, Japanese is "pretty much" pronounced like Spanish, so it might be fun to have students do bilingual readings of some of the poems we had. I'm picturing pairs of students standing in front of the classroom, and one reading (or reciting) the original in Japanese, and the other reciting the translation in English. It might give it a new "feel" and bring an added interest/appreciation.