What's "Writing?" For me writing is one of the tools that I express my opinions to others, and also I can have the opportunity to know what I'm thinking at that time. So far I've done a lot of activities about writing at school either in Japanese or in English. The most memorable experience that affected me a lot is the one that I had in an English canversation class when I was a high school student. In the class the teacher demanded that we all the students express our own opinions in English, and tell others about them both in speaking and in writing, and this experience made my outlook on writing. Thanks to the class, now I like to express my opinions in writing, however, I don't think that I could exactly express what I want to say, so this year I'm going to take an essay writing class in English at college. In the essay class I'd like to try to achieve the following goals below in order to enhance my writing skills that would make my opinions understood by others more easily. ・learn the effective and suitable way to organize my whole essay. ・increase my vocabulary (get a large vocabulary) to express my feelings or thoughts more deeply (in detail). ・make sentences that are grammatically correct (especially the article like "a" and "the", the singular or plural countable and uncountable nouns, and the preposition that follows the verb or the adjective).

The Reason for Learning English It's been about a year since l last posted my short essay here. Although I haven't used "italki", l've been keeping on studying English. It will just have been two years since I started studying English tomorrow, when I graduated from high school. I used to go to an English conversation class near my house, which my friend's mother ran. I started the class when l entered high school, and kept going until graduated. Through the class, I found how interesting learning English was, so l really appreciate to the teacher. I respect her so much, and she is one of the most important people who has made a great impact on my life. One day I'd like to be an English teacher like her, so now I concentrate my mind on studying English, and try to improve my English skills more.

What I'm recently into I'm going to write about what I'm into recently. Actually, I've been into listening to the soundtrack of the movie "LA LA LAND" since I watched it at the theater with my friends. The movie was great! The images were beautiful, the story was nice…the best thing of all, the songs were awesome! I loved them! I can't get them out of my head… I want to see it at the theater again if I have an opportunity.

self-introduction I've started using "italki" because I want to improve my English skills. If there are any mistakes in my post, please let me know. This is my first time to write a notebook, so I want to introduce myself. I'm an university student in Japan. I've lived in Japan all my life and never been abroad. I'm thinking of going abroad for a trip during the next summer vacation, though. I've been studying English voluntarily for about a year. I'm using the text book "Grammar in Use Intermediate".This version is for learners who want to learn American English. There are many versions in this book, but I chose this one because in Japan we mainly learn American English in school and I'm used to American English. Now I'm looking for another text books in order to improve my listening and speaking skills.I'm going to use them after finishing the Grammar in Use Intermediate.If you know any books that you highly recommend, please tell me.