revel
rebel
level
These are difficult to distinguish the pronunciation, hence I can’t pronounce each of them properly.
complement
compliment
These are not so difficult, because they have totally different meaning, so I can easily find the proper one.
but,
scum
scam
These two are tricky.
unanimous
and
anonymous
sounds almost the same for me, and think a while to figure out the meaning of each, and then other [...]
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They look similar to me…
Posted in english, tagged narau yori narero on September 4, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I Did it!
Posted in english, tagged exam, STEP on July 25, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I PASSED the pre-1st grade of STEP exam! Yay!
Tough I did it by the skin on my teeth, who knows what score I got? haha
Thank you so much for my folks who cheered me up! I will keep going!
なつかしい does not mean ‘Nostalgic’
Posted in english, tagged natukashii, nostalgic on July 8, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Koichi-san helps me a lot. Just as he said in his video, I did used the word ‘nostalgic’ for ‘なつかしい’ as I could not find any other adjective in dictionary.
When you find your lunch box that you used as a child, what do you say? I would say ‘わあ、なつかしいな’. If you [...]
PASS!!
Posted in english on July 3, 2009 | 36 Comments »
I could pass the exam ‘STEP’the pre-first grade !!!
I passed the preliminary round of the examination, and I have to take the second one on 12th of July. I didn’t think that I could pass it, so I prepare nothing for the second interview test. In that interview test, I must narrate short cartoon like [...]
Quite a few?
Posted in english, tagged a few, little, quite on June 13, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I’ve not figured out why ‘quite a few’ means ‘many’….
‘A few’ means ‘a little’ or ’small number’. ‘Quite’ means ‘very’. So?
Why does ‘Quite a few’ mean ‘many’??
Do you need a hug?/ハグしましょうか？ Really???
Posted in english, life on April 17, 2009 | 40 Comments »
I usually listen to the radio program of English conversation every night. The program is quite nice and fit my needs. Yesterday, I thought again about the custom of ‘hug’ because the following dialogue was a kind of sensation for me.
A: Can I talk to you about something?
B: Sure. What’s going on?
A: Alice and I aren’t [...]
Sakura/さくら桜
Posted in english, life, tagged cherry, hanami, sakura on April 8, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Finally, sakura have been at the most beautiful moments now!
They look like pink fog.
We were surrounded by sakura blossoms.
I love this park because there are not any commercial stalls. They can enjoy sakura without noisy humming of generators and awkward pop music.
I often look to the past when I go to o-hanami. Hanging around under the [...]
The English study
Posted in english, tagged english, HNK world, language on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I regularly study the English from the TV programs on NHK world.
Japan Biz Cast
Japan Biz Cast is a magazine-style program for introducing new products and emerging new business trends in Japan. “Japan Biz Cast” introduces a wide variety of “made-in-Japan” new products, ranging from automobiles, electronics, food products, even extends to fashion and animation.
TOKYO EYE
TOKYO [...]
Skype!
Posted in english, life on February 26, 2009 | 17 Comments »
I’m 40, so I’d thought the international call was very special and expensive. But this morning, I’d experienced the amazing high tech for the first time in my life!! It’s Skype.
A.D.chan(we met on her site by coincidence)asked me to talk in person with Skype and I answered yes. But to tell the truth, I’d no [...]
Non-believer
Posted in english, life, tagged non-believers, otento, religion on January 26, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I have read and studied the Inauguration address by the President Obama. I was disappointed that I could not understand it without the texts that was published on news paper. I expected I could understand only by listening his speech a little bit more, but there were a lot of unfamiliar words for me.
In that address, I found [...]
