Vol.89 Light or Right?

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Can you distinguish "light" from "right"?
I suppose that there are many Japanese people who can't pronounce "R" well.
To my shame, nor can I...
I am not good at pronouncing as well as hearing L and R.
So when I talked with a foreigner I voluntarily avoided the word especially including "R".


But now I am doing practise of pronunciation by this web site.
It is very useful tool for the people who want to improve their listening and speaking skills.


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みなさんはＬとＲの区別ができますか？
私は大の苦手です。
特にＲの発音が苦手だったので、Ｒを使わなくて済むように言い換えて話していたときがありました。逆に、Ｒの発音がきちんとできている人を見るとカッコイイと思ったこともありました。
苦手意識を克服して英語ができる人になりましょう！

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Vol.89 My Favorite Arabic Song

When you hear the word "Arab" what do you think?
Desert? Terrorist? Poverty? War? Oil? Camel?


I have few negative image about Arab.
Because acutually I lived there and I have many friends of Arab.


I tell you my favorite Arabic songs.
If you the following song titles, you will jump to youtube.







I always bring this song with my MP3 player.
Why not

Vol.88 Post card

Today I went shopping to Granduo in Kamata.
I am going to send letters to my friends living in Arabic countries.
So, I need the postcards as will transmit relazed image to them.


There were many kinds of postcards available at the shop.
I wanted to buy postcards designed with a dog and a cat, but I gave up.
Because unlike Japanese people, the arabic people tend to dislike dogs.
In general, dogs are not permitted to keep due to religious taboo.


So, I chose postcards with safty design, a flock.



Anytime I can contact with them by e-mail.
But last month I got a letter from my friend.
When I saw his handwritten message I suddenly began to misse him.
I think that handwriting has more depth in words and it experess one's feeling more warmheartedly than e-mail.

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いつもメールでやりとりしている外国人の友達に送るポストカードを買ってきました。

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Vol.87 Speech of Steve Jobs

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I tell you a movie about a famous speech made by CEO of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs.
If you are interested in it please visit here.
You can see it with Japanse subtitle.



I was so impressed by his speech, especially by the follwoing part;
"I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

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スタンフォード大卒業式でのアップルコンピューター創始者のスティーブ・ジョブズの有名なスピーチ。聞きやすいのでリスニングの学習にぴったりです。そして、われわれを奮いたたせてくれるようなフレーズも盛りだくさんです。

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Vol.86 Standing-up-eating Soba

I always cook meals for two people, me and my girlfriend.
Because she gets home around 20:30.
She is tired of her hard work, so it is my duty to prepare meals for her as well as for me.
But I am also busy studying for preparation of the examination.
So, after studying until 20:00 at a library I must come back home soon.
On the way to home sometimes I stop by a store and buy our food.
As soon as I arrive at my condo I set to work on preapration of a dinner.


But there is an exception.
She is supposed to cook a dinner before her holiday and on a holiday.



Today she was going to cook but she was exhausted after working.
So we had dinner at a soba noodle shop near the station.



We ate soba standing-up.
It was the first time for her to have something standing-up.
She was impressed a little by its style.
She said,
"Wow, it seems like Tokyo. I have watched the scene like here in TV drama."


But, to be truth, the taste was not so good.
I prefer cup soba or eat soba at Hanamaru to eating soba at the shop.
Anyway, it must have been a good experience for her to eat soba standing-up.
Next time, we are going to drink alcohol standing up.

#standing-up-eating 立ち食いの


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今日は久しぶりに立ち食いそばに行ってきました。
早さが売りなので、味は期待していたほどではなかったです。
正直、カップそばのほうが美味しいと思いました。
でも、立ち食いしたことがない彼女にとっては良い経験になったようです。
機会があれば、立ち飲み屋にも行ってみたいですね。

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Vol.85 I kidnapped my wife

"I kidnapped my wife"
He said that despite in front of TV camera.


Is is amazing fact that the tradition of kidnapping the wives still remains in Kyrgyzstan.
This custom account for half the total marriage.
In a village four-fifths of the marriage is done by this.


An aged man said,
"Noboday would report it to the police because it is the tradition."
A young husband said,
"I kidnapped my wife. First, all that she did was cry, cry, and cry buts she was gradually getting used to the new environment."
You can see more detail here


Can you belive it?
We must be grateful for the right to love anyone freely and to get married.

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キルギスタンでは、遠方から妻を誘拐して見知らぬ夫と結婚させるという誘拐婚が未だに残っているそうです。ある老人は「警察なんで誰も行きやしないよ。伝統だからね。」と。妻を誘拐した男性も、「妻を誘拐したよ。最初は泣きじゃくっていたけど、しだいに慣れてきたみたいだ。」とさらりと答えていました。誘拐された女性はそれを運命として受け入れるしかないようです。

幸い、日本には誰を愛してもいい、誰と結婚してもいいという権利があります。
といっても結婚相手は慎重に決めたいものですね。

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Vol.84 Good Website for beginner of English

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Today I tell you about a good website for beginner of English.
It is AFPBB News

You can watch most of the videos with Japanese subtitles.
I hope that you will improve your listening skills by this website.

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AFPのサイトを見つけました。
日本語字幕つきなので、リスニングの手助けになるのでは。

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