Hello my name is Marc I am currently living in Canada. I just graduated from University of Manitoba and have studied in the field of computer engineering. During my time as a student I was lucky enough to get an internship from a company located in Wakayama, Japan. After one year of studying Japanese I went to Japan to get a better understanding of the lifestyle of a Japanese worker and gain some experience along the way. I was able to do many interesting things during my stay in Japan including dancing in a festival and a traditional tea ceremony. While I was only there for 16 months it gave me the motivation to keep pushing forward learning this wonderful language. Hopefully one day I can go back to Japan but this time be much more prepared, 頑張ります!
Marc さんの日本語のレベルは、とても印象的(いんしょうてき)でした。ナチュラルで、かなり複雑(ふくざつ)なことを表現できています。プレゼンテーションでは、ゆっくり話して、聞き手にnon-native speakerの日本語をguess workして、処理(しょり)する時間をあたえることと、話のstructureをはっきりしてclearにすることで、各文や単語は時々わからなくても、全体を理解(りかい)しやすくすることが、good strategy だと思います。また次のレッスンでいっしょに考えましょう。
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は is used as the subject marker so the first sentence would be "The tea won't drink" which sounds weird because tea shouldn't be able to drink anything
を is used to mark the object which the verbs acts on so the second sentence would be "I won't drink tea" which makes much more sense. I added an I in the beginning of the sentence because the japanese sentence did not have a subject (I/he/she/it/they) which is a natural thing to do in japanese.