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Change my attitude toward English.

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My attitude toward English changed recently. For example, when I take a walk around the city, I come to pay attention to some signboards which is written in English and when I am on the train, I try to listen to some announcements in English. I went to a nearby shrine today. I went to the station after I took a walk around there. When I was getting the train, I noticed one thing. Foreign people was staying in the train even though the station was final destination. They probably didn't notice that they had to get off. I was trying to tell them that but I couldn't. The other passenger told them that in stead of me. I have to be able to speak English very well as soon as possible. I may lack decision...but I love myself as I am. Important thing is taking it easy. *For example, I started to pay attention to some signboards which are written in English when I walked around the city. Also, when I am on the train, I try to listen to some announcements in English. *I visited a n...

As I was free today, I went to Kyoto.

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My days off are not permanent. They are changing every weeks. I was thinking that it would not be crowded in Kyoto because it was on Friday. But it was so crowded in Kyoto. There were so many people there. I used to go to Kyoto when I was a college student. I hadn't been there for a long time. That's why I decided that I went to Kyoto by myself. I got a little bit tan because of the fine weather. I was taken these pictures. Where am I? Can you find me? Kyoto is internationally famous for its scenic beauty. This temple is called Kiyomizu. Kiyo means pure and clean. Mizu means water. Kiyomizu is so famous that the word "Kiyomizu" is used in a proverb. There were so many tourists who are from foreign countries. I was thought that I was Korean or Chinese by a person who served at the temple because I had a camera. She noticed that I was Japanese when I started speaking Japanese. Selected only red color, the second picture is really cool. The population of Kyoto city was ...

Every good story starts with alcohol.

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I want to talk about alcohol. Do you like alcohol? Japanese people in their 20s don't really like to drink so much, but I like to drink. I took a picture of my favorite whisky today. I will show you the picture. This whisky is called yamazaki. Have you ever had it? It is made in Kyoto. It is a little expensive. It smells a little bit sweet. I have seen the whisky plant a few years ago. Someday I want to visit it. Shall we go there? I am updating my blogging, drinking yamazaki now. I couldn't be happier! Now is the happiest moment in my life......How sad!!! I want to feel happiness more, but I noticed one thing. Happiness is having nothing. Nobody can decide my happiness but me. I know a wonderful sentence. I'll introduce you to it. Happiness is like peeing in your pants, Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth. I must pee in my pants tonight... in order to be happy. *I took a picture of my favorite whisky today. I will show you. *whisky factory *T...

Commonly ordinary

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Today I took a walk alone around neighborhood. I took a video which is about my commonly ordinary. I want to keep a record of my poor English skill. If I am able to speak English fluently, I will never take a video of my poor English. *I  took a video in which I spoke about my daily life/ordinary things. (I took a video+I spoke about my daily life in a video) *I want to keep a record of my poor English skills, so that I would be able to compare it to my English skills in the future. *When I become fluent, I won't record it anymore. (video) speaking skill I can't think of anything. I feel miserable. I forgot my wallet. People ARE!!!! I want to record this video without my glasses. I'm scared of bugs. The school reminds me of my past./brings back memories.

X is beautiful.

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I "We finally arrived at this beach! I'm so happy!! But it is a little bit cold today because of bad climate." Tom "I'm really think so." Tom's girlfriend "I'm going swimming!!!" She is swimming and I am talking with him. I "By the way, sea is really cool." Tom "Yes. She is really cool." I "Do you like it?" Tom ''Hey! why are you saying that? Is she it!?'' I "Sure. Sea is it. Sea is loved by everyone." Tom "Yes of course. She is loved by everyone." I "But sea was more beautiful than now. The more we grow, the less sea beautiful.'' Tom "Shut up." I thought up this serious story about environmental problems while I took bath. I must have worked so hard today... I want to delete this article as soon as possible. I: "We finally arrived to the beach! I'm so happy!! But, the weather is bad." Tom: "I think so." Tom...

Explanation of Japanese grammar

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I talked with my teacher today. She asked me the difference of two sentences. The first one is ''watashi wa neko wo kaitai.(I want to have a cat.)'' The second is ''watashi wa neko ga kaitai.(I want to have a cat.)'' Can you explain the difference of them? I could not explain that right away at that time. Of course I feel the difference but it is so small difference. It takes some time to master Japanese particles because there is no exist postpositional particle in English. But you don't worry about it. Do your best and you can master them. Today I explain about postpositional particle of Japanese. There are 4 kinds of case inflection in English. (I my me mine. you your you yours. she her her hers. etc...) That's why you say mine, yours or hers when you want to say whose it is. You say I, you or she when you want to say who do it. But If Japanese want to say whose it is or who do it, they say watashi, anata or kanojo. We substitute a postpositio...

I am not scared of anything but bugs.

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I don't like work because working makes me exhausted. I am more fond of pleasure than work. I want to do the only things I want to do. But I might as well keep working as live with bugs. I really hate them. I don't know how they feel. I don't understand them even though I want to be good terms with them. A bug came to my house today. I screamed. By the way the pronunciation of I scream is similar to that of ice cream. I like ice cream. Believe it or not, it visited my house and then it said to me I want to stay for a few days. I rejected its offer and I left the room and I asked my mother to catch it. She also hate bugs. She tried to catch it but she couldn't. She told me that it seemed like old grasshopper but it was so big. I asked her how old it was. She told me that it may be 3 or 4. I thought that even though it was 22 years younger than I was, I was frightened of it. It was really haughty. *I only want to do what I want to do and not what someone makes me. *...

Kami is not god.

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There are so many things I want to write. For example about my English score, about relationship between the necessity to study English and automatic translation machine and so on. But I'm kind of tired and I don't have much time left. I have to go to bed as soon as possible not to oversleep. I'm so sleepy and dying. Today I talked with an English teacher like friend. My brain was not working so much. That's why she gave me some interesting topics kindly. I really appreciate it. I talked with her about god. Do you know the difference between god and kami? If you look up the word ''kami'' in the dictionary, you will find the meaning of kami and you will say that kami is god. Of course kami literally means god but this word indicates Japanese eight million gods not christ. What do you think about eight million gods? So many? Numerous? Uncountable?...I have to remember the difference between so many, numerous and uncountable. English is so difficult for me....

How do you explain the difference between wound and damage?

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I often talk with Serbian. I talk with Serbian more than Japanese thesedays. This is not an exaggeration. I always enjoy talking because all of them are really kind and friendly. One day I was talking with one of them about Japanese flooring material which is called tatami.As you know when we walk on tatami with our shoes on, it could be damaged. I told her that it could be ''wound'' when we walk on tatami with our shoes on. She bursted into laughter suddenly and she said ridiculous but I could not make out why she did. I asked her why she did. She taught me the difference between wound and damage. She said that when human or animals are injured, you have to use ''wound'' and when things are damaged, you have to use ''damage''.  I made out why she did and I bursted into laughter together. I really really enjoyed talking with her. I knew in my head how to use, but I don't know anything unnatural about that. I am irritated with myself n...

Introduction and why I start blogging.

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I am not H. I am not J. I am K. Nice to meet you. Taylor Swift sings a song called 22 and she says that everyhing will be all right if we just keep dancing like 22. But unfortunatery and probably I am already 25, that is, Everything will NOT be all right even if I just keep dancing like 25. And then I believed that I want to be able to speak English. I want to talk with foreigners.I started to study English a few months ago.Though I have written a diary almost everyday since I was 17, I came not to write a diary so much recently.That's why I decided that I keep a diary in English from now.I write something I want to write or think up.When I was student, I was so poor at English. I probably make so many mistakes grammatically but I think it is important to use English.This blogging is ''a experiment'' in a sense.I want to see the process of improving my English. I want to know that how long do we Japanese have to study English till Japanese are able to speak English ...