I contact with English on watching American movie. I can’t understand the story unless I read the Japanese subtitles, but I can hear some words. That makes me happy. In theater, we can read Japanese subtitles, but on TV, we are not given Japanese if you want to hear actor’s real voice in English. I don’t like dubbing voice in Japanese so I often watch movies in English. I hope it improves my English skill.

I take 3 classes about English.
They are "English IIIA", "EnglishIIIB", and "ComunicationIA."
So I have contact with English in "comunicationIA" class except EnglishIIIB. I want to get either elementary school teacher's license or English teacher's. The class is necessary to get a English teacher's license.

And, I used to play "online game."
At the place, there are not only Japanese but also many foreignors. I talked with Amercan, British, Korean, Chinese, Germany, and so on in English. I thought English is a widely-used language. 　I don't play the game now, but I can say it was a good experience in terms of English.

I usually don’t contact with English except class.
But these days, I intend to read some books written in English.
Because I think my ability of English is poor, and I like reading novels.
And when I can use the Internet at my apartment, I will write in this blog more often.

I have a friend in Canada and Singapore so I write letters to them. Also I like to watch foreign films and I try not to see the Japaneses subtitles. Recently I began to watch the abc news. When I first saw that program I couldn't understand what the newscasters were saying, but it's becoming easier to listen little by little. Nothing can be done without practice!

I have contact with English on the Internet in my room on Sunday.
I like the foreign musics. Sometimes I access my favorite artist's web site.
On the web, all things (biography, lyrics, faq,etc) are written in English, of course.
So, I willy-nilly have to contact with English if I'd like to see those things.
Although the lyrics of the songs are written in English,
they are often hard to grasp.
Therefore, I listen to the music not to undestand the lyrics
but to get used to English, and how to speak and pronounce it.
That is impossible only when listening to the Japanese ones, I think.

Where is English?

Let's all post where and when we have contact with English outside of class! Class is not the only place to learn English these days, so I think we should share with each other our contact with English, whether in letters, on the Internet, on television, etc.

What do you do over the next week to learn English outside of class? One hour and a half once a week is not enough to learn English, so this is the place to share with others how you practice English (listening, reading, writing or speaking) elsewhere.

My dog

Hello, everyone.
Today, I will talk about my dog.
My family keeps a dog.
The dog is female and brown spotted white dog.
She is small and lives indoor.
We love her very much. Especially, my father cherishes her.
I live in Hirosaki alone, so I miss her very much.
I will go home to see her on this summer vacation.
She always sleeps recently because she is a little old.
So I worry about her health.
If there is anybody that likes dogs, shall we talk about dogs?

Do you like Ekiben?

Whenever I ride a limited express, I am looking forward to eat Ekiben. Even Ekiben fair excite me.
My favorite Ekiben is one that I ate on Tsugaru express when I came to Hirosaki for the entrance exam. I forgot the name but it is oshizushi which is a kind of sushi with salmon or something, probably made in Hachinohe and awarded the prime minister prize. It was too big for me but delicious!
Another favorite is one of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. It was hitsumabusi which is rice mixed with eel. Hamamatsu is famous for eel and Lake Hamana.
Enjoying trip makes Ekiben delicious. I would like to go to many places and eat many other delicious Ekiben.

Today I went to a book shop to buy a book about TOEFL and I found that TOEFL was much more difficult than I thought. I wanted to take the test in June, but it seems impossible to get a high score in a month. So I'll try next time. The worst problem about the test was that I can't write an essay in a short time. And also my verbal skills are too poor. The lack of vocabulary are killing me.

Hello!

Hello everyone! My name is Nagaya Kaneko. I'm from Akita.
My major is education; I'm only student of this major in this class.
So I don't have friends in this class. Please get along with me.
I had edited my blog since I was a high school student.
I want to show it, but I don't fix it long long time. So next time...

I tended to absent this class. I got a serious cold second times in Hirosaki!
I was weak, like a slime in "Dragon Quest". But now I'm so healthy!
So I study English seriously and I'd like to get skills of speaking English.
And I want to study abroad someday. I want to be a teacher of developing country in the future.

Thank you for reading my introduction. I hope to see more of you:D

P.S. Mr.Philips, I'm sorry I couldn't answer your question at today's class.
I understood about "paragraph". But I was too nervous. I'll do my best next class!!!

Let's get a discussion going!

Hi, class! (@_@)/~~~~

This week's assignment is to get discussions going. Let's try to make out messages this week ones that interest the other students enough to get them to post comments, and let's look for messages that interest us enough to induce us to post comments on them.

I would also like to ask students to go back to their blogger profiles, to make sure that I can identify them when it comes time to grade their work on the blog. Some of you I won't even be able to identify. Look at my profile, where I entered some details about myself, my likes, dislikes, etc. and try to tell us more about yourself through your profile.

By the way, some of you have your own blogs, which is very nice. I'm not requiring it for this class, but if some of the private blogs are better than the class blog I may switch to requiring personal blogs for all students next semester. I'll have to think about that. Tell me what you think about the idea, as a comment here.

My English In the Future

In the future, I want to speak English well
and make it one of my practical skills,which include medicine.
So I plan to study, speak and write it hard.
Now incidentally, in six years later, I am going to stay and work
in Aomori.
Therefore, I should undestand not only English
but alsoTsugaru dialect. It'll definitly be my weak point!
While I am a student, I want to come in contact with its
culture and tradition.

I want to ...

I want to work as a member of Medecins Sans Frontiers for some year in the future.To be able to communicate in English is one of a condition, so I want to speak English fluently, and catch what people say in English.

I really want to be good at speaking English!!

I like studying English, but I'm not good at speaking English. One day,when I was asked about the route by an American, I felt tense and I didn't tell it well. I was very annoyed. From now on, probably, it will become very important to comunicate with people anytime, needless to say, in medical field. So I really want to be good at speaking English and I shoud study English hard. I do my best!

My purpose of learning English

The new medical treatment method and a new curative medicine always come from overseas.
Therefore I study English, in order to know the newest medicine.
For reading a paper, it is necessary to get used to a medicine word.

Herro everyone

Herro everyone. My name is Atsushi okitsu, and I am 19 years old. I had had the days of an entrance exam rejectee for one years, and managed to enter the medical department of this university. My favorite foods are pizza, razania, icecream , and so on. And my favorite sports are skiing, baseball, and table-tennis. But now I belong to tennis club, and I am really enjoying it, too. I have no brothers or sisters, and my family members are only my parents and me. Our family have moved ten times since I was born, and now our hometown is Tokyo. My principle is NEVER GIVE UP. Thank you.

dream

I study Engish because I like hip-hop music.
I want to go N.Y in order to listen to hip-hop music and go to clubs.
So I'd like to be able to speak frequentry.

weekly archives

I've changed the archive settings on the blog to list blogs weekly. I'm hoping this will make it easier for me to be sure that everyone is writing a blog entry each week.

Introduction

Hello, everyone!
I'm sorry for having been late for introducing me to you.
I like the computers, but they probably dislike me, I think.
Now, my name is Yoshihiro Tomioka. I major in medicine.
I have not yet decided what course I am going to do in the future.
I'm from Ashikaga city, Tochigi prefecture. Ashikaga city is famous
for Ashikagagakkou, which is the oldest shool in Japan, and
for Mitsuo Aida's birthplace.
I like listenig to the foreign (not Japanese) music, reading the novels
of Haruki Murakami and a monthly music magazine, the CROSS BEAT.
I belog to the ski club. There are other three members of the club in this class.
They are very reliable.
By the way, I would like to make this class fruitful and beneficial.
So let's study hard and enjoy it!

My dream

I want to become good at English because I want to get knowledge from literature written in English. As a medical student, I think I should read a medical journal. In the future, I must do it. English is difficult for me, but I want to overcome it.