カテゴリー: Cameron先生

こんにちは😊

今日はキャメロンのブログです。

キャメロンがいつも熱く語る ‘Aussie rules’、Australian rules footballについてです。

オージーが熱狂するAFL（Australian Football League）について是非読んでみて下さい！

‘Aussie rules’を知らずしてオーストラリアは語れません！

英語のレベルは易しめですので、リラックスして読んで下さいね。

 

Hey everyone! 

Next week, I will visit my friends and family back in Tasmania. I’m really looking forward to seeing them. I’m also really looking forward to watching the Hawks…

Not the Softbank Hawks – The Hawthorn Hawks. They are an ‘Australian rules football’ team from Melbourne, who play some of their home games in Tasmania. Australian rules football is usually called ‘Aussie rules’, or just ‘footy’, for short. It’s often called “AFL” too, but AFL is actually the name of the league – the Australian Football League.

 Aussie rules is a fast, exciting game, especially when a player takes a big catch!

 Aussie rules (along with cricket and rugby) is one of the most popular sports in Australia, especially in Victoria. Most people outside of Australia and New Zealand have never even heard of Aussie rules, but it is one of the best-attended sports leagues in the world, so it really is VERY popular in Australia! The AFL Grand Final is always held in the mighty MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), in front of a crowd of up to 100,000 people (last year’s grand final attendance was 98,633).

 I’m going to see the Hawks play a regular season game against the Melbourne Demons at the MCG next Saturday. I’m pumped!

 Until now, there has only been a men’s league at the national level. But on June 15^th this year, the AFL announced that there will be a national women’s league starting next year (2017)! Unfortunately, the Hawks won’t have a women’s team in the first year. But hopefully, they will join soon. You can read an article about it here:
http://junkee.com/afl-just-announced-first-ever-national-womens-league/80774

Last, even though Aussie Rules is not very famous in other countries, many countries have their own small league. There’s one here in Japan too (in the Tokyo area). If you would like to know more about the game, they have a video explaining Aussie Rules… The video is a bit long, but it has Japanese subtitles 😉 http://www.jafl.org/whats_afl/ 

Carn the Hawks!

 

語彙（スラング）

＊ ‘Pumped’ means I’m really excited.

＊ “Carn the Hawks” is Australian slang for “Come on the Hawks”, a way to cheer them on.

 

こんにちは。今日はキャメロンのブログです。

易しい英語で書かれていますので是非読んでみて下さい！

I became an uncle last week!

My sister had a baby boy. His name is ‘Harvey’. He is my parents’ first grandchild. My sister and her boyfriend live near my parents, in Tasmania. Tasmania is called “Tassie” for short.

Here is a picture of my nephew:

I’m tickled pink!

 

 

 

The birth rate in Australia is about 1.8 children per woman – not as low as Japan, but we still need immigration to survive as a country. Immigration has already been a huge part of Australia’s history over the past 200 years. Right now, more than 25% of Australian residents were born overseas! The link shows the ‘top 10’ countries of birth for people now living in Australia:

 

Estimated Resident Population, Australia -Top 10 countries of birth – 30 June 2015(a)(b)(c)

 

Country of birth                     Persons no.                   % of Australian population

UK, CIs & IOM(d)                 1,207,000                         5.1

New Zealand                          611,400                        2.6

China(e)                                   481,800                        2.0

India                                         432,700                        1.8

Phillippines                              236,400                       1.0

Vietnam                                    230,200                       1.0

Italy                                           198,200                        0.8

South Africa                              178,700                       0.8

Malaysia                                    156,500                       0.7

Germany                                    125,900                       0.5

 

(a) Estimates are preliminary – see paragraph 9 of the Explanatory Notes.
(b) Top 10 countries of birth excluding Australia.
(c) All population figures presented in this table are rounded. Estimates of the proportion of the Australian population are based on unrounded numbers.
(d) United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
(e) Excludes SARs and Taiwan.

Source：http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3412.0/

 

I’ve been living in Korea and Japan for more than 5 years now. People often ask me ‘What do Australians look like?’ It’s difficult to answer really, except to say that we look like people from all over the world, because that’s what we are!

 

Most of the Australian guys who become famous actors overseas seem to be this type though.

　　

Hugh Jackman                 Chris Hemsworth              Sam Worthington

 

So, I guess for most foreign people their idea of a ‘typical’ Aussie man is a fairly big white guy with stubble or a beard.

Anyway, I’m going to visit Tasmania in August! I can’t wait to meet my new little nephew ^_^ It takes a long time to get to Tasmania. The distance from Fukuoka to Tasmania is about the same as from Fukuoka to Seattle, and there are no direct flights.

But luckily, the time difference between Tasmania and Japan is only one hour, so I can Skype my family easily. Hopefully, I can Skype my sister next weekend and say hello to young Harvey.