Speaking in Japanese
I gave my first talk in Japanese at YAPC::Asia last week. It was a lightning talk, so I only had to speak for five minutes. It was incredibly nerve wrecking even though I had spent hours practising. I dread to think what my accent was like and I completely messed up one of my lines but I’m glad that I tried. It also means that I have completed another item on my “101 Things to Do in 1001 Days” list.
October 25th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
congrats
October 26th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I don’t suppose you sung any of it?
October 27th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I didn’t sing any of it. It was hard enough just speaking it. I suppose it is possible that I would have found it easier to sing in Japanese but it would have felt a bit odd singing at a conference. Though if ever there was a technical conference to do this at it would be a Japanese one. I could even have animated my slides karaoke style…