I watched the movie, "Inside Out" I watched the movie, Inside Out with my family. インサイドアウト(邦題)を家族と見ました。 That was SO exciting and interesting. すごくおもしろかったです。 I'll get the DVD, and I'll never fail to watch it in English, without Japanese credit! DVDを買ったら、絶対日本語字幕なしで英語でみるんだ！ Twitter news says that green pepper in Japan is broccoli in the US. Twitter でみたんだけどピーマンはアメリカではブロッコリーなんだって。 It means that many kids in the US hate broccoli? つまりアメリカではブロッコリーが子供達に嫌われてるということかな。 Disgust in the US is translated to ムカムカ in Japan. Disgust は日本ではムカムカと訳されています。 Japanese ムカムカ is not only ムカムカ(disgusted) but also イライラ(irritated). 日本語のムカムカには、おえ〜とか最悪〜とかいう意味だけでなくイライラするという意味もあります。

I can hear the every words, but I think I can hear each words when I talk in English. I can repeat what someone told me. But I can't get the meaning sometimes, just I can hear and repeat the sentences in my head. 前よりも言葉を聞き取れるようになったはずなんだけど、意味が頭に入ってこなくなった Struggling!

行きたいですか？食べたいですか？ "Do you wanna go?" "Do you wanna eat some?" ロス日本語でホームステイしていた時、ホストマザーがよくこういいました。 My host mother often asked me in the US. これは日本語で直訳すると「〜したい？」です。 It literally means "〜したい？". なので当時は友達と「アメリカの人は何でもすぐに意思確認するよね」って言っていたんですが、それはただお誘いの表現だったんですよね。 So I and my friend talked that they might tend to ask something directly. But it's just an expression to invite or ask something in English! 日本語では誰かを誘う時は〜したいか？とは聞かないんですよね。 We usually don't say 「〜したい？」when we invite someone to do. 行きたいかどうかではなくて、行くかどうかを聞くんですよね。「行く？」とか「食べる？」とか。 Not a will, but an act. きっと文化の違いによるものだと思います、違いが面白いなぁと思いました。 I think differences of culture can cause the difference, it's so interesting.

We have different identities in different languages each, as they said I sometimes listen to a podcast, "All Ears English". In an episode, I`m not sure what number was, the hosts talked about different identities we had when we spoke different languages each. It`s so interesting, isn`t it? I DO agree them. I`m so exciting when I speak in English (just try to speak, yet), and I find something different to be thinking, speaking in Japanese. 私は時々、All Ears English というポッドキャストを聴いています。 そのエピソードの中で、何番かは忘れてしまったけれど、異なる言語ごとに異なるidentity がある、という話をしていました。 とても興味深いですよね？ 私もそう思います。 英語を話す時(話そうとする時)すごくドキドキして物事を日本語で考えている時と何か違うなぁと思うんです。

Arrangements in a sequence Example: It brought back such wonderful memories to me, too, of when we'd write each other. ↓ It brought back such wonderful memories to me of when we'd write each other. Is it also correct? Or: It brought back such wonderful memories of writing each other before. I'm not sure how to arrange in a sequence.. 〜を、〜に、とその修飾語を並べる順番がいつも難しい！

"For the first time in forever" This is the part of lyrics from the movie "Frozen", you know, I love this movie! It is translated to "うまれてはじめて" in Japanese language. How come? Example: "For the first time in 20 years" →20年ぶりに(20年間で初めて) I can understand this means. I know the word "forever" means 永遠 in Japanese, it means for a long long time, no end, right? Then why is it "for the first time in forever" can be translated to "うまれてはじめて"?

differences? A. She is really beautiful. -I sometimes use this expression. B. She really is beautiful. -I found it in my textbook, I didn't know. What is the differences of meaning between sentence A and sentence B? I find only 2 things ; -Both sentences say, "she is beautiful". It's true! -What does the each word "really" emphasize?

Even just a little I'll write sentences in English as much as possible. できるだけ英語の文章を書くようにしよう。 I'll read English letters even just a little. 少しでもいいから英語の文字を読むようにしよう。 Just a little...that's all for today! :-) 少しでもいいから...今日はこれだけ！

That's it! "What students have to do is to start learning" Yeah, that's it. And I know it's the most important to keep English everyday, but I also know it's so difficult.