Film Journal 2/14

One time I had to do an oral proficiency exam in Japanese (for my Advanced Modern Japanese class), and although I do speak Japanese fairly well, things got a little rough when I mentioned the movie Contact and the professor asked me to talk about Contact in Japanese.

Long story short, I didn't know the words "interplanetary portal," or "SETI satellite dish array," or "complex discussion between theists and atheists" in Japanese.