Mina

Today I pracitced clarification techniques. What I did was navigating my company's website, having my sensei ask questions about the website with the speed of native speakers, and clarifying what I heard using clarification techniques. Next time, it'll be my turn to build questions. I learnt that natives use "Q1 ,Q2, statement" structure so often, so I'll follow this format. By the way, I learnt clarification techniques from sensei for many times, but everytime the lesson starts, I find out I forgot it completely. I felt so sorry about this, so I'm writing it down what clarification technique is all about. --- 50% clarification question: I didn't understand first/middle/last part of what you said. 70% clarification question: He wrote some document to who at where? (Suppose some said "He wrote some documents to Mr. Takahashi at Hllton Hotel")

I practiced how to build questions. For sandwich structure, I used the problem I'm facing at work as an example. For "Didn't you" question, which is used to confirm that somedoby's memory is correct, SlamDunk was used as an example. Both techniques are what I haven't used before, and I'm sure these will help me in business MTGs.

The lesson today was practical. I learnt that basically the question comes at the beginning and the end of the sentence and the middle part is just comfirming what the other and I already understand. It's going to be more complicated in the next lesson, but I want to keep up!

細かいところでわたしの英語が上手く伝わっていない部分もあると思いますが、できるだけわたしの要求に合わせてレッスン内容を考えてもらえ、丁寧に対応してもらえていると思います。

It was a very good class. Thank you very much. It was my first lesson, so I was nervous at first. But I was relieved immediately. You taught me kindly and politely. I'm looking forward to the next lesson.

On the lesson today, I realised that it took more time than expected to build rather simple sentences. I had to pay for that I was skipping 瞬間英作文 practices. My wife is gonna give birth next month and sensei cared about my family a lot. I really appreciate her.