Shukan ST

This site will help you learn English. You can read and listen to news in English on it. It has also Japanese so you won't hesitate to read it. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/shukan-st/

I usually be in this link!
Useful English Language Learning Links

TOEIC

I'm interested in TOEIC,
so I intend to take English Ⅳclass for the second semester.
Therefore, I refer to the links below.
http://www4.point.ne.jp/~granblue/
http://www.toeic.or.jp/toeic_en/
By the way, thanks to everyone, I won a scholarship fund,
which accepted the exemption of the entrance and school fees.
So, when I graduate from Hirodai, I must work in Aomori for six years.
In short, I have to be here and come in contact with Tsugaruben for twelve years from now on.
Do you think it's a tragedy? No, it's a real comedy, dapyon.

TOEFL

I have an interest in TOEFL. So I'd like to introduce a site about the TOEFL test. You can try some samples of the tests. http://www.testmagic.com/toefl/

Let's link!

For this week's assignment I'd like everyone to find an Internet site useful for learning English and link to it in their blog post. If you're in the page for writing a new message, you will see six buttons above the main message box. The third button from the left, after "bold" and "italic", is for links. Select some text in your text box, then push the "link" button.

For example I am going to link to a site with a list of online English lessons. I can also link to an online dictionary, Voice of America's Special English site, and a list of language related sites in Japan.

Please find some interesting language sites of your own and link to them here.

English

I like TV program on N.H.K.
The name is"Hyakugodehajimeru eikaiwa"
Meaning is "English conversation which you can start with 100 words"
Let's watch it!

I sometimes contact with English on television at night. When brushing my teeth clean and watching television, I sometimes see a television program of English conversation. Native speakers appear on almost all of the programs. Most of the plograms are easy, but I occasionally see difficult one. It is so interesting for me.

Happiness is found along the way, not the end of the road!!

Well, I am a foreign student here, so I use English everyday to communicate with my friends and teachers. Sometimes, my foreign friends who are native English speakers could not understand my English. But I do not care, I just try to use English as much as possible. And Thank God!! My friends are very kind because they try to understand what I say and they help me to correct my English, too. I think my English is improved a lot more than before because of this! Moreover, I have to write reports and present my own research in English (because I am not good at Japanese presentation (^_^;)). In addition, I am a music addicted person. I always listen to the music. Not only while I am reading books, doing homework, doing experiments in laboratory, but also when I am riding a bicycle to any place.

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.