My Language Skills

• Past: 10 years ago (& 5 years ago)

10 years ago when I was 9 years old. I had not learned English yet in school. I couldn't understood English grammar. But, I sometimes went to English conversation school. I learned there greeting and songs. 

5 years ago when I was 14 years old. I started learning English in junior high school. I like English class, and I thought that I want to learn English more. I was interested in English.

• Present: Now

Now, I major in English in university. I want to grow my English skills more. I study English everyday. I listening English music, writing blog in English, read books written in English. I enjoying to study English. I try to talk some foreigner.  I like to listen English radio on my iPhone.  

• Future: 10 years from now (& 5 years from now)

I want to be a good English speaker in the future. I want to get a job what use English. I want to go foreign country.

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BR1-05: Hansel & Gretel (Daynes, 2005)

This is the Grimm Brother's fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel was sibling. They were left in deep forest by their parents. They worked hard to back home. Their step mother didn't like them, but their father loved them very much. They wanted to see their father, so they tried to go back home from deep forest. Finally, they could go back home, and they met again their father.

In this story, Hansel and Gretel found the candy house. The house was made from cake, candy, cookie, and chocolate. The walls were made from chunks of cake and the roof was glinting chocolate.  I want to see a real candy house. I love sweets. If I see a real candy house, I want to eat it. These days, I sometimes see a kit of candy house. It can makes mini candy house. I want to try making it, and eat.

Reference

Katie Daynes. (2005). Hansel & Gretel. London, England: Usborne Young Reading

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My family♡

I love my family. I'll talk about my family. I have parents and two brothers.

My father is an elementary school teacher. He likes baseball, so he is a manager of his school baseball club. He enjoys it. He sometimes plays baseball with my brothers. His hobby is running and shopping. About 3 years ago, he began running for his health. He took part in the Kumamoto Castle Marathon. He could finish the race. I cheered for him with my mother. He wants to take part in the marathon race in this year again. He runs everyday. He also likes shopping. He loves clothes, because he worked at clothe shop when he was young. He often go shopping, and he takes to me. I like to go shopping with him. He sometimes buy me clothes. He is very kind to me.

My mother is an office worker. Her office is near my university. She is good at cooking and making sweets. I like her sweets very much! She is quiet considerate for my family. I want to help her more. She and I often go to eat lunch. We enjoy talking very much. This is very fun time. I talk my mother everything about me. We talk about many kinds of things. We enjoy shopping too.

I have two brothers. One is 17 years old. He is the third of high school student. His name is Kou. Another one is 15years old. He is the first of huh school student. His name is You. They are belong to baseball club. They have belonged to baseball club since elementary school. My family like baseball very much! My mother and I often go their baseball game. It is very fun!! They also apply themselves to their studies. They are good at study. I respect for my brother.

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BR1-04: Rapunzel (Kelly, 2005)

"Rapunzel" was first written down by two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. I knew this title from Disney's movie. I love this movie, because it is very romantic and happy love story. I thought original story is also happy story, but it is very different from Disney's movie!! I was shocked.

I like Rapunzel's movie story more than original story. I don't like original story. In movie, Rapunzel had magic hair. Her hair was very long and beautiful. She was a princess. This story has romance. It was very romantic. I want to watch Rapunzel's movie. It likes musical movie. For example, She sing songs every time, and dancing. I want people to read this book, and to watch this movie. 

Reference

Alison Kelly. (2005). Rapunzel. London, England: Usborne Young Reading

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My favorite place

I like to go hot spring. I often go with my friends. I'll introduce my favorite hot spring. I go to hot spring about twice a week. First, I like to go Ikkyu, because there is near my house. Next, I like Suisyun. This hot spring is very large and clean. Hot spring is very good for health. For example, it is good for skin, fatigue, and so on. I often go there after part-time job. It is very good for my tired body, and I feel relax. In holiday, I sometimes go JiokuOnsen, Aso. This is my luxury!

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Ramen I like

I like ramen very much. I often go ramen with my friend Izumi. I and she went to ramen shop many times. Ramen has many kinds of soup. Kumamoto is famous for tonkotsu soup. I like it very much. It is a little heavy taste, but I like this taste. My favorite ramen shops are Soun, Sasanoha, Niboraya, Taishoken, Gyorai, and so on. I want to go many ramen shops. These days, I got driving license, so I can go far place with Izumi. I'm looking forward to it.

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Foreign countries

I want to go foreign countries. For example, America, British, France, Italia, Sweden and so on. I have been to foreign country Korea. I went to Pusan one year ago. I went to there with my friends last summer. This was my first trip to foreign country. Korea is very near country, but there is very different from Japan. It was surprised for me, and I think that I want to go more and more foreign countries. When I go foreign countries, I want to know those country's culture, habit, language, fashion...

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