Hi everyone,
I hope you found today’s and last week’s classes on “articles” and “pronouns” to be useful. Don’t forget to think about articles and pronouns when writing your essays and blog entries.
I hope you found today’s and last week’s classes on “articles” and “pronouns” to be useful. Don’t forget to think about articles and pronouns when writing your essays and blog entries.
I enjoyed reading your blogs entries about “Studying English”. From reading your blogs, I felt that you all enjoy English and other foreign languages very much. And, I was very impressed with your ideas for studying English!
I really sympathize with the difficulties you feel when studying English. Yurika, Yukie, Hiroki, Chisato, Takaaki and Shotaro talked about the difficulties of English pronunciation. Ayano, Yoko, Toshiro, Yasuhiro T. and Yuki talked about having trouble with speaking. Kumiko, Chisato, Naoya, Shotaro, Natsumi and Yuri feel that listening is difficult. Kumiko, Hiroki, Naoya, Shotaro and Takaaki believe that vocabulary is the most difficult part of studying English, while Hiroki, Akihiro and Reiji think that grammar is challenging. Shihori thinks that everything about English is difficult, and Daigo said that learning not to hate English is hard. I totally agree with your opinions.
I think you had some very good ideas for studying English. You all agree that using or coming into contact with English EVERY DAY is extremely important. Yurika, Takaaki and Yuri suggest watching English-language movies, Ayano, Takaaki and Yuri recommend watching English-language tv shows, and Yukie, Chisato, Ayano, Takaaki and Yuri think that listening to English-language music is a great way to practice English. Yasuhiro T., Yuri, Hiroki and Reiji believe in the importance of practicing listening, and Yoko, Shihori and Yuki recommend listening to English textbook CDs every day. Yukie recommends actually going to an English-speaking country and making friends, while Yoko and Yuki also think that talking with foreigners is a good method. Kumiko thinks it’s good to practice English conversation, and Takaaki recommends speaking in English. Naoya recommends shadowing, Shotaro suggests studying vocabulary and Toshiro believes in the importance of reading. But, as Akihiro, Hiroki, Reiji and Natsumi say using creating opportunities to use and come in contact with English every day is crucial to become accustomed to English (Yuki). Hirotaka reminds us that it is also important to have a good understanding of our native language. But, as Daigo says, in the end, enjoying English is probably most important.
Thanks for your ideas, everyone!! And, keep studying English!!
I really sympathize with the difficulties you feel when studying English. Yurika, Yukie, Hiroki, Chisato, Takaaki and Shotaro talked about the difficulties of English pronunciation. Ayano, Yoko, Toshiro, Yasuhiro T. and Yuki talked about having trouble with speaking. Kumiko, Chisato, Naoya, Shotaro, Natsumi and Yuri feel that listening is difficult. Kumiko, Hiroki, Naoya, Shotaro and Takaaki believe that vocabulary is the most difficult part of studying English, while Hiroki, Akihiro and Reiji think that grammar is challenging. Shihori thinks that everything about English is difficult, and Daigo said that learning not to hate English is hard. I totally agree with your opinions.
I think you had some very good ideas for studying English. You all agree that using or coming into contact with English EVERY DAY is extremely important. Yurika, Takaaki and Yuri suggest watching English-language movies, Ayano, Takaaki and Yuri recommend watching English-language tv shows, and Yukie, Chisato, Ayano, Takaaki and Yuri think that listening to English-language music is a great way to practice English. Yasuhiro T., Yuri, Hiroki and Reiji believe in the importance of practicing listening, and Yoko, Shihori and Yuki recommend listening to English textbook CDs every day. Yukie recommends actually going to an English-speaking country and making friends, while Yoko and Yuki also think that talking with foreigners is a good method. Kumiko thinks it’s good to practice English conversation, and Takaaki recommends speaking in English. Naoya recommends shadowing, Shotaro suggests studying vocabulary and Toshiro believes in the importance of reading. But, as Akihiro, Hiroki, Reiji and Natsumi say using creating opportunities to use and come in contact with English every day is crucial to become accustomed to English (Yuki). Hirotaka reminds us that it is also important to have a good understanding of our native language. But, as Daigo says, in the end, enjoying English is probably most important.
Thanks for your ideas, everyone!! And, keep studying English!!
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Okay, on to this week’s topic. Do you have a dream for the future? Do you have any goals that you want to achieve? It is very important to have dreams and goals. These can be ideas about your “dream job” or even things that you want to do or experience during your life. Having dreams and goals helps us to plan for our future. It is very important for university students in particular to have dreams and goals. It can sometimes be difficult for us to decide what our dreams are. And, sometimes, or dreams and goals can change. For this week’s blog homework, I want you to write about your dreams and goals for the future.
As for me…When I was a high school student, I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do in the future. But, I knew I wanted to study at university, so I tried hard to enter my dream university. When I was in the second year of high school I went to Japan for 10 days, and stayed with a Japanese home stay family for 3 days. This experience helped me to realize that I wanted to go to Japan again in the future, and that I wanted to become able to speak Japanese fluently. So, I studied Japanese at high school and university, and in my third year of university I went on exchange in Japan for one year. And now I work in Japan! So, I guess I have kind of realized this dream.
At the end of my first year of university, I started to think that I wanted to work at a university in the future. I thought that I might want to teach about Japanese society or the Japanese language, or that I might want to work in the international affairs section of a university. And by luck… now I am working at a university! So, I guess I have kind of achieved this dream too.
I think I have been very lucky so far. And have realized many of my goals. But… I think as we get older, we have to keep changing our goals and dreams so we can live with some hope and excitement for the future. I guess my next goal is to help other people achieve their dreams and goals. I think that this is one job of a teacher. Having a goal for the future, no matter how big or small it is, gives us hope!!
So, please write about 150 words by next Monday (November 30) midnight. Please read the blog entry of the person who wrote before you and give them a small comment. Also, please try to read as many of your classmate’s blog entries as possible.
Have a good week,
Kris
My name is Hiroki Toyama.
返信削除Because of your blog,I guessed that having next dream like you is great.
My dream in the future is to work as officer in region. Because my father is officer in my hometown. He works for local people like me every day. I respect him. Because of his work,I want to work for local people as officer.
Another reason which I want to work as officer is to experience various jobs. Officers work various job every three or four years. For example,care,medical services and architecture. I guessed that experiencing a lot of jobs is to become my treasure. Because it is useful to get a lot of qualification and qualification is very important to work.
From these reasons,I want to work as officer. And my next goal in the future is to help my hometown and local people as officer.
I’m Shihori Nakayama.
返信削除Your dream is the same as mine. I would like to become officer in region, too.
But I don’t hold to work as officer in region. I’m interested in care supporting and I want to be concern with care work. I consider other jobs. For example, I work at the medical brotherhood or at private enterprises.
It isn’t possible for me to work as a care worker because of physical problems. I have suffered from backache since I was elementary school student. So I’m not able to offer physical care and it is difficult to turn working as the care worker. Only support for the housework isn’t enough to work as the care worker.
If I become officer in region, I want to improve working environment of welfare to against lack of care worker in aging society.
Thank you for reading.
Hi, Shihori. Your dream is very nice. Welfare and medical will be more and more important in an aging society.
返信削除We will become working members of society a few years later, so we ought to consider our futures from now on.
I want to become a consultant of management in the future. Today, the number of entrepreneurs has increased in recent years because the system related capital was abolished. Young men from their twenties to thirties have burning ambitions to succeed. However, it is difficult for them to succeed by themselves. Therefore, I want to help them with a lot of fields, for example, planning finance, thinking about risk management or disposal of various taxes. In addition, I want to work with a lot of people. I need get skill and qualified as a consultant while I am a university student. I would like to fulfill my dream in the end.
Thank you for reading. Akihiro Hayashi
You are dream is very nice. I respect your dream. Good luck to you.
返信削除My dream is having a good stable home, so I ought to study and take part in club activities hard while I am a university student. In addition I want to get a good job. I would like to find a job which is fit my hope. I want to get the job related to sports because I have played baseball since I was a child, so I have a lot of knowledge about them. If I become a working member of society, I want to make use of my knowledge. Therefore, I make effort every day in order to realize my dream. If I were very good at playing baseball, I would be a major league baseball player now.
091182 Yasuhiro Hamano
Hi,akihiro. Your dream is very nice. I think that his dream should become the reality.
返信削除I want to live a stable life in the future. For that reason at first, it is to graduate from a university. I am not good at English. So, I only care is take credits in English. Second, it is to do job hunting from the early time. I want to find a job in the major company, because a lot of money is available. But, reality is different. Today’s business condition is very bad, so it must be very difficult for me to find a job. However, I can not give up my dream. In my plan, I will be a rich person in the future. OH, it is joke.
Thank you for reading. Ayato Nakamura
Your dream is very nice, I hope you would it come true.
返信削除My concrete dream is nothing yet. I remark its reason as follows.
My first dream was “Artist”. My family line is good at paint.
My father always teaches how to paint for his friends, and in fact, he is a good painter.
He says “my big brother is by far the most painters, and his works are as if it were a picture.”
I like painting too and I must be entered university-related Art.
But a university of fine arts cost nearly two times rather than other university tuition, so I was obliged to give up study hard for Art because my family’s income isn’t adequate for enter university.
Afterwards, I gave up various dreams whenever I find it.
As a result, I chose Shimonoseki university where doesn’t cost much, but I thought this choice was correct.
Shidai is freedom very much, so I can challenge various things.
Little by little, I have been pursuing an old dream of mine one by one, and for the first time I noticed that dream which can accomplish isn’t genuine dream, but a mere goal.
Finally, I believe dreams exist for become strong, and dreams have been keeping pace with it.
Naoya Nakamura
Hi, I’m Takaaki. Your idea is thought-provoking. I hope you will find your concrete dream.
返信削除And now, I will tell you about my dream. I also don’t have concrete goal in the future.
So, I enter this university to find my own dream and I’m looking for the dream or goal. But I haven’t found them..
And I understand that it’s very hard for me to have dreams or goals right now. I also have learned catalyst is needed. But I know having dreams or goals make my life better and more enjoyable. That’s why I’m looking for my own dream or goal and I would like to find them as soon as possible I can.
In order to accomplish it, I think it’s necessary for me to have various experiences. For example, working part-time, listening to other people talk, gaining many things and so on.
Thank you for reading.
Hello,Tkaaki!
返信削除Finding dream is so difficult.
But I hope you can find dream.
Actualy I don't have clear dream.
Now,I'm searching the place which I should go.
Of course I think it takes a lot of time.
But searching dream gives us many things which makes us possitive or negative.
I think this is the most important thing.
So we don't need hurry.
We have plenty of time.
I am going to find my dream on my pace.
Thank you.
By Yasuhiro.
I think we don`t need hurry.
返信削除We should experience various successes and failures during university life and decide our dream.
I have a dream.I want to make a tour of Japan and go global travel. First, I would like to look old structure of Japan and know Japanese culture.
For example,there are kiyomizudera ,sanzyuusangendou , kinkakuzi, kitanotenmanguu,ryuuannzi,and ginkakuzi etc..
Although these place I want to visit are in Kyoto, I think I want go other place.I don`t know other historical place. So, I learn Japanese history hard and I travel around the Japan.
Second, I want to go abroad since I learn Japanese culture and custom all in all.I want to compare Japan with foreign country and find differences which meal, custom, culture ,and faith.
I visit various places and want to broaden my horizons.
Thank you for reading.
Kumiko Hayakawa
Kumiko’s dream is very nice!
返信削除I want to guide various place.
When I was a high school student, I look over the course. I thought I want to study about economic realm then. And I decided that I aim to enter a college that there is the school of economy. But there is the condition for me. So it is possible to go to school from my own house. Therefore I decided to take the entrance examination for Shimonoseki City University. Accordingly I materialized my one of dream.
My dream is to get a job with a confectionery company or stationery company. The reason my favorite things are confectioneries and stationeries. I want to develop the product. I want to make everyone happy by the product that I developed. I think that this job is very busy and hard. But I think that it is a rewarding job.
I work hard to materialize my dream.
Thank you for reading.
Yukie Nishioka
Hi, I'm kaori Hatano.
返信削除Yukie, I'm jealous! You have concrete dream for the future.
It's very nice. Good luck.
I don't have concrete dreams for the future, but I have two goal I want to achieve at university.
One is to get many qualifications. For example, qualifications for secretary, tax accountant, and web designer.As you know, it is hard to get qualifications. But qualifications are used for me when I look for a job. In addition, I believe trying to overcome various difficulties make my mind strong.
The other is to study English hard.
English is the global common language, and I've studied English since I'm junior high school student. Through English classes, I took pleasure communicating with people who speak different language. So, I would like to study English harder in order to talk with foreign people.
In short, my dreams are to get many qualifications and to master English.
Thank you for reading.
I respect you, Kaori. I don’t want to study too much. I want to have such a spirit of progress. I am hopeful that you can achieve your dream.
返信削除Like some other people, I have no concrete dream. “Every one is here with a mission for someone.” This is my favorite song’s phrase. Whenever I listen to this song, I think what is my mission in life. To tell the truth, I want to do everything I want to do.
One of things I want to do is being keen to my hobbies. I wish I could turn the hobbies into a job but it may be difficult.
Another is supporting as many people as possible without being paid. Thanks to my friends, family and the people around me, I can live a happy life. Now, I want to help someone.
In order to do these things, I need money. Therefore, so far, becoming rich is my dream. From now, I am going to find a job to become rich.
Thank you for reading.
Ayano Hashiguchi
Hi, Ayano!
返信削除That song’s phrase is very nice!
You said “I want to do everything I want to do”.
I think so.
I have no concrete dream like Ayano.I am looking for my dream now. If I say daringly, I want to do travel agency affiliated work. There is a thing what I have wanted to do since childhood. It is home stay! I want to stay in foreign country for long time. Also, I want to know cultures in many countries. But, for home stay, I need much money! I heard that it costs 400,000 ~ 500,000 yen to do home stay. So, I am working part-time to earn much money for home stay.
However it is necessary to earn money, studying is the most important thing. I must do things in front of me hard now.
I will look for my clear dream through many experiences!
Thank you for reading.
Chisato Nakashimo.
Hello, My name is Toshiro Nakamura.
返信削除Your opinion is very nice! I think so too. I want to be the rich too.
My dream is working in a foreign country. That’s because I want to touch various cultures each other, and I would like to learn their sense of values. Different people have different values. In particular, Japanese sense of values are absolutely different from other countries. Accordingly, I anxious for working in a foreign country. If I work overseas, I will be able to see them objectively. As you can see, I want to be a man with a broad outlook on life.
So, I have to study not only English but also a lot of foreign languages. At the same time, I hope to have a good command of many languages study.
I would like to make efforts in order to come true my dream.
Thank you for reading.
Hi, Ayano!
返信削除You are very right. It is important for us to thank for around people. And I also want to find a job to become rich. I hope your dreams come true!!!
I don't have concrete dreams for the future yet. But I have three goals I want to do at university. The first thing is to find dreams or goals of my life. I want to find my pleasure that is a source of income as well as a hobby. The second thing is to get profitable qualifications like a driver’s license. The third thing is to make a lot of lifelong friends at university and so on.
Finally, I want to become rich and to be dutiful to my parents someday.
Thank you for reading.
Yuri Nakamura.
Hi, Yuri. Your three goals are nice. I think having various goals is important.
返信削除I hope you find dream and become rich in the future.
I also don’ t have the concrete dream.
But, recently I come to be interested in economic little by little.
I feel economic is interesting, because it is closely connected with our lives.
So, I don’t know concretely, but I would like to work dealing with economic.
As for now, my goal is to get qualifications.
I would like to get English official approval and official license for bookkeeping.
I want to study hard in order to get these qualifications.
I think it is important to experience various things.
So, I advocate goals and would like to challenge them.
Yoko Nakamura. Thank you.
Hi,YoKo. My name is Akihito Naito.
返信削除Your dream is wonderful. When the dream is fulfilled some time, it is good.
My dream is to go on a trip to France.
Because soccer is famous and France.
Therefore, I want to go to see once in the game of the famous soccer player. For example messi, ronaudo, kaka, shunsuke, annri, eto, etc...Therefore, I want to go to France once by all means and to see the actual match.
Moreover, the reason where it wants to go to France has another.
It is because of the senior's being uniting the band in France and aiming at the majors debut. Therefore, I want to see live of the life in France.
This is the my dream.
Thank you for reading.
Hi, Akihito
返信削除You like soccer very much, so I hope you see them.
My dream is popularizing “Food bank” to Japan and launching business on that.
I like eating foods much, so I could agree with Food bank and be moved when I was a first year of high school, hared them first.
Food bank is fairly famous volunteer among America and gives various irregular productions gathered from companies to poor people, nursing institution, homeless and so on. There are some facility doing that in Japan but they are known much by public now. I think Food bank could be more popular if it set up with as a business. I don’t know what to do to realize that, but I am learning economics in university.
Hi, Akihito
返信削除You like soccer very much, so I hope you see them.
My dream is popularizing “Food bank” to Japan and launching business on that.
I like eating foods much, so I could agree with Food bank and be moved when I was a first year of high school, hared them first.
Food bank is fairly famous volunteer among America and gives various irregular productions gathered from companies to poor people, nursing institution, homeless and so on. There are some facility doing that in Japan but they are known much by public now. I think Food bank could be more popular if it set up with as a business. I don’t know what to do to realize that, but I am learning economics in university.
Thank you for reading.
Natsumi Hashimoto
Hi,Natsumi!
返信削除I didn't know "Food bank" but I think it is a important and worthwhile job.
My dream is to go abroad!Many countries!I want to touch various cultures,eat various foods,talk with foreigner.I think talking with foreigner helps me to improve my English or another languages.
But for that I have to earn much money.I have to get a job.Job has not been decided yet,but I want to find in the university life.
Anyway,now I have to study and experience various things for the future.
I will try hard.
Thank you.
Yurika Tomita
Yurika,You want to go abroad, don’t you? You already make your dream .
返信削除I cannot find my dream clearly yet. I hardly know what I have to or I should do.
But I have many things that I am interested in.
For instance, I like taking a photograph. Taking those of sky or landscape calms me down. When I do that is precious time for me.
I also like going for a ramble.(with my camera!!)
I want to travel all over the world. (Oh, it IS my dream!!)
I just want to see and touch things of other countries. I tried to study abroad for a year or so before, but I realized that I didn’t have enough bravery and I hated not to see my friends for long period.So,I just want to trip there. It’s very easygoing for me.
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返信削除It is Saki Nishihara's coment!
many people seems to haven't concrete dream and some people have ofcourse I haven't concrete dreams
返信削除I state dreams based on above montioned
I hope to death in happy
I wish i go to "gokuraku" it's my dream
mybe not only my dream but all people think so
I don't know where is gokuraku however goto there
so I long for discover this way that is my dream
thanks for reading writhing
by Hirotaka Fujiwara
Hi hirotaka your dream is very interesting.Please find out gokuraku and please teach for me.
返信削除My name is Daigo yamamoto. My dream is wedding and have nine children. Then I will make a pro baseball team with they. And I will be boss.The first childs name is Ichiro second is jiro and saburo siro goro rokurou nanarou hatirou kokorou.I think if I will realized this dream,myfamily is very rich and very happy.But bring up child need many money.So first I want to money.
Hello,Daigo’s dream is very intersting.
返信削除I want a lot of children.
If the baseball team can make it, it is the highest. I seem to become happy every day.
I want to find employment in a steady occupation in the future.
For instance, I want to get a job in the civil service.Therefore, I entered the university.
And,I wanted to learn about economics.
I think that I connect with becoming of it the civil servant.
I want to receive the civil servant course held at the university.
And, I want to study hard.
I request a steady income to be obtained because it is recessional.
And, I want to marry and to spend the stable life.
Thank you for reading.
Your dream is good because it is very reliable thing.
返信削除This thinking is important in this depression!
I'm Narifusa Hashimoto.
My dream is to go to Europe with my friend who is a high school friend.
I hope to go to Venis in particular.
A certain book aroused my interest in Venis.
I want to see the sight of a view,nature that people are attracted and a historical building like a
Basilica di San Marco.Also,I want to ride gondola that is Venis' traditional boat.
In Venis,it can make myself understood in English because there is a sightseeing area.
Therefore I put a lot of effort into studying English.
I will save a lot of money for part-time job, and spend on a trip abroad and a single-lens reflex camera,etc.
thank you for reading.
Hi,Kumiko.
返信削除Your dream is great!
I think your dream is very steady.
Also,I have great regard for her opinion,and I would like to follow her example.
My future dream is to become teacher.
I have dreamed since my elementary school days.
Especially,I want to become social teacher.
And,I have a part-time job tutoring a junior high school student now.
I found the pleasure of teaching due to the job.
So,I study hard,and it is sure to grant my dream!
Thank you for reading.
My name is Shiho Nagai.
Good night!
Hi shiho! your dream is nice.
返信削除My dream is become a Japanese teacher. And there are three reasons why I want to be it in the future.
First, I like teaching something others.
Second, I want to be a helpful person for many people.
Third, I would like to tell how important the language we are talking is.
If we think about how to use language, we can make people happy or sad by using it. So I'm really hoping people learn about our own language, Japanese, and respect it. My name is shotaro. thank you!!
Show Taro says, and there is a dream carrie.
返信削除Hello.
My name is Hideaki Nagai.
My dream is not yet decide.
clealy, but I will be helpful for the person in the future, and what is thanked for wants to do it.
But because you like airplanes, I do an airline-related work, but must study from now on because English is only a thing.
Oh, it is dificult,but I make a company with oneself, and it is interested to work with a parson because it does not like it.
Because I am free, Ｉ think that I have a dream in various ways and want to decide it by graduation from university clearly.
Thank you for looking.
Hello.
返信削除The dream of Shotaro is very interesting.
My name is Hideaki Nagai.
My dream is not yet decided.but I willbe helpful for the person in the future , and it wants to be it to a person thanked by a person.
The dream from childhood wanted to do an aurplane-related work.
Iwant to become a firefighter.
There is a fire department near a house and always trains you and respects it very much.
By the graduation from university,T want to decide it clearly.
Thank you for looking.
Hello,everyone.
返信削除Nagai’s opinipn very nice.
The fireman's work is cool.
I want to live a stable life in the future.
My dream is police man.
For that ,I work hard study at the university.
And I will take a lot of qualifications.
Therefore I will receive the civil servant course executed at the university.
Becouse The economy of Japan is very recessional. But Civil servant's salary is peaceful.
There is not worry of restructuring either.
And, I want to find a favorite hobby when becoming a retirement age.
For instance, it is a hobby like golf and baseball, etc.
And, when I can spend old age in health, I am the highest.
Thank you for reading.
I'm sorry for slowing.
My name is yuuki tomozawa.
Your dream is very wonderful of benefiting the person.
返信削除My dream is to actually see ancient ruins that are and to turn all over the world. There is a mysterious charm in which enchanting me to them doesn't stop. For instance, it is a pyramid, Stonehenge, and Coliseum.
Especially, Stonehenge has a mysterious charm of not understanding who why made it. Moreover, how it made it is an uncertain building in the pyramid. Wanting to feel it directly by actually seeing those romances is my dream.
Thank you for reading.
Takahiro Noguchi
Takahiro,your dream is wonderful.I want to travel all over the world too.
返信削除My dream is not clearly.
When I was a high school student, I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do in the future.So, I entered this university to find my own dream and I was looking for the dream. But I haven’t found them yet.
Recently,I am interested in museum attendant.It may be my dream.So I would like to make efforts in order to come true my dream.
Thank you for reading.
Ryota Fukunaga