Hi, everyone!
This morning, I watched a TV program ‘Eigode Shaberanaito’ on NHK-BS2. I usually watch this while cleaning my living room. Today’s guest was Shizuka Kudo, and she spoke English on TV for the first time. To my great surprise, she was amazingly good English speaker. She also said she likes British English than American one, taking some differences as examples. Why she decided to speak English on TV was for her daughters. Since she always tells them not hesitate to speak English, finally she made up her mind to appear on this program.
Then she showed her own vocabulary notebook, on which she writes English words picked out from a picture book. She is highly motivated. I was impressed by her many efforts, like as Norika Fujiwara, and I also understand importance of our motivation. My motivation? I’m dreaming that my daughters and I will study abroad in four years. I must be hungry.
So, what is your motivation for learning English?
See you tomorrow, good bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Wow! You have a wonderful objective and reason why you study English. Why do we study English? I think we have been asked many times especially in English conversation classes. My answer used to be friendship , mutual understanding, or network building within English speaking society. It doesn't necessarily mean that I always wanted to make friends with native speakers. Even Japanese people become more open and communicative when they speak English than the time they speak Japanese. Recently, I feel more like English is the source of power, I mean, if you can read or hear English, you have the advantage accessing to enormous amounts of information and knowledge from all over the world.
Let me change the topic. Late this afternoon, I visited my cousin's clothing store. She's worked for more than two decades at the store. The owner of the shop is a 70 year old man and he doesn't know much about women's clothes. So my cousin does everything. She buys fashionable clothes in Kobe or some other big cities and sells them at the store. I sometimes visit her store whether I buy something or not. Last time I got white suits to wear at my student's wedding ceremony held in December. Today, I just dropped by and chatted for a while. I had to get sweets from the department store in front of her store. I was amazed to see two women buy a lot of clothes while I was in the store. My cousin is an excellent salesperson. The customers were both about 50 years old and it is likely that they earn money by themselves. One of them was a baker who has her own bakery. She looks confident and interesting.
Tomorrow, we have a visitor from Canada again. She is Japanese. She has lived in Vancouver for about 7 years. I will write about her and the tomorrow's gathering next time.
Good night.
November 19, 2007 22:15 JST
Hi, everyone.
The reason why I study English is that I would like to prevent my brain from being senile dementia or Alzheimer disease, by stimulating my brain. It means that to study English is hard for me. Sometimes I feel a pain in the left brain. Is this a rejection????
Hello, friends.
I've just come back from Taiwan. My daughter and I joined the 4-day-tour which my husband's cousin planned. When he asked our family if we could join, my DH declined. I felt sorry for that and we joined them except my DH. We left Nagoya for Taipei and got together with the 3 relatives from Kobe at the hotel. Taipei was busy city and I was very tired. There were many bikes among cars and all vehicles were competitive. Even the bus cut in many times and I felt dangerous whenever I took a taxi. We went to Kokyu Hakubutukan and saw some accessories of Seitaigo and Emperor's famous ornaments, then went to Kyufu which became famous because Miyzaki Hayao's movie 'Sen to Chihiro' was based on the place.
Unfortunately that day(yesterday) was raining heavily and we were soaked in the skin. Anyway I was exhausted now. Good night.
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