Greeting and briefly introducing myself Hi everyone, how are you going mate? I'm Masato, from Okayama, Japan. I've moved to Sydney, Australia since 2013, and the reason for that is that I just want to

Masato

Greeting and briefly introducing myself Hi everyone, how are you going mate? I'm Masato, from Okayama, Japan. I've moved to Sydney, Australia since 2013, and the reason for that is that I just want to change my career here instead of changing my previous job in Japan. And I realised that I need to gain a specific knowledge or expertise, so I have decided to learn advanced information technology here in Sydney. As per tentative schedule, I'm supposed to complete a Master's programme in IT Mgt in July 2016. After that, I will presumably have to do an IT professional year for acquiring Australian business culture, presentation skills, more advanced IT skills, intensive internship, and 5 points for permanent residency. By the way, sorry to digress from the topic, I had entirely no English skill until I was a third year of uni student in Osaka, I mean, in terms of its practicality. I had definitely have some grammar, writing, basic pronunciation skills up until the time, however, I had have no chance to utilise them in daily life, so I have determined myself that I do speak to myself with a mirror, or when I am in toilet, which I think in the end it could improve my English skills, and abate shyness speaking in front of audience in a sense. In addition to that, I still always do subvocalisation when I'm reading online news, academic journals and so on. Usually immediately after waking up I commence this sort of things. Just I'm thinking this exercise is good for exercising my mouth and brain as well.

Jul 30, 2015 4:10 AM

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Greeting and briefly introducing myself

Hi everyone, how are you going mate? I'm Masato, from Okayama, Japan. I moved to Sydney, Australia in 2013, and the reason for that is that I just want to move my career here instead of changing my previous job in Japan. And I realised that I need to gain a specific knowledge or expertise, so I have decided to learn advanced information technology here in Sydney. As per tentative schedule, I'm supposed to complete a Master's programme in IT Mgt in July 2016. After that, I will presumably have to do an IT professional year to acquire Australian business culture, presentation skills, more advanced IT skills, intensive internship, and 5 points for permanent residency. By the way, sorry to digress from the topic, but I had absolutely no English skill until I was a third year university student in Osaka, I mean, in terms of its practical use. I had definitely had some grammar, writing, and basic pronunciation skills before then, however, I had have no chance to utilise them in daily life, so I have determined myself to speak to myself with a mirror, or when I am in the toilet, which I think in the end it could improve my English skills, and abate shyness when speaking in front of an audience in a sense. In addition to that, I still always do subvocalisation when I'm reading online news, academic journals and so on. Usually immediately after waking up I commence these sort of things. Just I'm thinking this exercise is good for exercising my mouth and brain as well.

Notes:

"how are you going mate?" is obviously an Australian accent. In American English it would be "how are you doing?"

"As per tentative schedule" is OK, but it is simpler to say "Tenatively". Similarly, "In addition to that" could be "Additionally".

"a third year of uni student" is broken English, because of the "of". The meaning of "uni" is obvious from the context, but I think most American speakers will never say this, they will say "university" or "college".

Spellings like "utilise" and "jeopardise" are also obviously Australian (or British); in American English they would be "utilize" and "jeopardize".

August 1, 2015

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