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Old 04-02-2010, 10:16 AM   #1
apodildNoli

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Default sh***ing my pants nervous...
This coming Saturday (6th) I'm doing a speech to some 200+ people ... in Japanese!
I entered a draft speech before Christmas and then by some ******* luck I got through to the contest. Only 15 people in my whole prefecture get a place and lucky old me got one.

Since I got back to Japan in early January I've been working on this every night and now I have just two days left to finally memorise it all and 'perform' it.
I can almost memorise all of it, but I know I'm just gonna forget a load of it on stage.
What's worse is that I have a really bad Japanese accent (thanks to the area I've lived in for almost 2 years) as well as bad intonation and on top of all that a bad memory. I've spent a long time with my Japanese teachers trying to tone down my accent and get everything right but I'm still very nervous just being on the stage in front of so many people!

Can anyone give any good advice for nerves?

On a side note I got my exam results back for the 'Japanese Language Proficiency Test' this week and I passed. Woo!
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