我对中国感兴趣 （中国に興味があります） 这是我第一次在电脑上输入中文，因此需要很多时间 我在使用Google翻译查看拼音时正在输入 我不知道在电脑上输入中文需要拼音 我从今天每天写一点中文笔记，我很高兴您更正我的错误 谢谢 パソコンで中国語を入力するのはこれが初めてなので、非常に時間がかかります。 Google翻訳を使ってピンインを見ながら入力しています。 パソコンで中国語を入力するのにピンインが必要だとは知りませんでした。 私は今日から毎日少し中国語のノートを書いていこうと思いますので、 間違いを修正していただけると嬉しいです。 よろしくお願いします。 This is the first time to enter Chinese on PC. I'm writing while checking Pingyin with Google translation, so it takes time. I've never thought that Chinese cannot be entered without Pingyin on PC. I'll write notebook everyday as much as possible starting today, so I would be glad if you could correct my mistake or unnatural way of expression. If you correct my English too, that would be great!

Wonderful experience camping in Kozu-shima https://www.google.com/search?q=%E7%A5%9E%E6%B4%A5%E5%B3%B6&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7_dOZhsTnAhWB-2EKHWk4CWoQ_AUoAnoECBQQBA&biw=1920&bih=937 Kozu-shima is an island way far from main land of Japan although it's a part of Capital, Tokyo. High-speed vessels are not operated in off season, so my husband and I had no choice but to take 10 hours- large passenger ship from Tokyo- takeshiba terminal (in main land) to the island. We like boat/ferry trip, so taking long time was not big deal for us... this is what I was thinking before boarding. We enjoyed cruising looking at the twilight of Tokyo-bay about for the first 30 minutes and gradually came to know the day was not good for me. I get motion sickness easily but I was thinking this big ship would not roll so heavily and I could stay without sea sickness. At last, I was sleeping whole the time on the ship because sea wave was very heavy that day and the ship rolled violently. I have to go now and will continue this article later.

This follows My eating habits I said "basically without using those foods I don't like". She used more than I use, bought a lot of snacks because she loved them, and also didn't bake bread. I used to buy and eat snacks until the middle of 20's, but lost my interest after I noticed they are not good for our health. I cook to have healthier foods but actually I don't want to cook if someone cooks for me. I like to cook but I wish I could cook only when I feel like to cook. I have to cook because I don't want to eat out even when I don't feel like cooking. Sometimes I go bars or restaurants when I think it's worth of it or when my friends or families ask me to, but never go to fast food restaurants such as McDonald.

My eating habits I cook 3 meals almost everyday and don't use frozen foods, retort foods, precooked foods and canned foods with some exceptions. Instead of buying frozen foods, I freeze them after chopping some vegetables, meats, fish and divided them into small packages in a freezer so that I can use any of them anytime. I don't buy dressings sold in grocery stores but make it mixing up vinegar, salt, sugar, olive oil and so on depending on a dish putting it on every time I need it. I usually don't buy breads but make it using a bakery. (I used to make breads by hand but my sister gave me the bakery when she bought a new one. After that, I don't hands to make breads except when making bread rolls.) Sometimes I buy some breads only in bakery shops but not in super markets or convenience stores because I think they basically have shorter expiration dates (mostly only a few days) which could mean that they have less additives. I don't buy snacks but cook some cookies, cakes, pudding, scone, and Japanese sweets called "Zena" with adzuki beans and rice cakes, and other sweets. I know it's impossible to avoid all of additives because almost all foods sold in shops should have more or less additives to keep them fresh, but I'm just trying to take as less additives as I can. I think my eating habits like the above is partly affected by my mother. I grew up eating my mother's home cooking. She cooked every meals basically without using those foods I don't use now and sometimes made box lunch when I was with my parents. My family was large and had ten people living together at the largest time. My parents had to take care of my grandfather and grandmother at home or in a hospital and also raise their four kids including myself, so she had no choice but become full-time home wife even if she wanted to work and help my father earn money for living. My father worked very hard outside and either did my mother at home for all of us. I really appreciate it, will never forget thanking them forever. We were not rich enough to eat out so often but I could learn how wonderful it was to eat dinner at home with other family members talking together and knowing each other.

About my job I've been working for almost 5 years as an operator supporting customers mainly by email, secondly phone, and occasionally messenger like Skype. I work in the 3 kinds of shift, starting morning, afternoon and evening since we support our customers not only from Japan but also all over the world and are supposed to operate for 365days and 24 hours. Originally I hated working in the shift and never thought about I would get a job like this because I like living in a regular time and know it's better for my health. Then, why did I choose my current job? It was because I an use English at work! I thought using English though working could be great help for me to improve all English skills. Before the job, I had hardly had a chance to use English in a daily life and only a few chances when traveling abroad. Now I know my idea was not so bad but also not so perfect. I feel my English writing is getting better but still not better than I expected, and speaking is the same as before. I have more chances to write English than speak in my work. I translate from English into Japanese to escalate inquiries from our foreign customers to our upper division and do the opposite to answer them, but seldom make phone calls or receive calls in English (maybe once or a few times a month). Better than nothing! I won't give up! I realized that work is work but it doesn't mean there's no other way to improve my English. I have only to find a different way. So I started to take online lessons and to write my notebooks in this site. I have a plan to learn Chinese as well and will start adding notebooks here soon, my Chinese is completely introductory though. Thank you for reading.

Conversation Topics I had in on-line lessons. I just started taking online lessons last week to improve my speaking skill and am going to start to write what we talked to improve my writing skill from today. I could sense that he's a very serious man. He's working hard as a teacher here and also thinking about his future very seriously. We talked that we have the number of lawyer these days in our countries and the situation they can't make more money than they used to is the same in both Japan and Philippine. Doctors or nurses could be replaced with robots in the future. The IT technology industry will be more important and that's better idea to work in the industry to earn money. I sometimes had a difficulty listening to his English because his voice was muffled (This is not a bad meaning, I think it's his way to speak). I had another lesson. We talked about singular and plural of English words, like police, stuff, and also talked about Japanese English we Japanese usually use in Japanese with misunderstanding that it came from English. For example, Gasolin stand. We use "Gasolin stand" in Japan instead of "Gas station" of English and no one notice "Gasolin Stand" is Japanese English created in our culture but not English unless they are learning English. So when we travel to other countries and ask someone "Where is a Gasolin stand?", no one can understand there. She said that they also have a lot of local words which people recognize as English but actually not. She asked me if I know some English word originally came from Japanese but these days are considered as English in global. I know there are some but only Tofu and Futon came up in my mind when asked. I also talked about favorite our fruits in Thailand I visited and in Philippine she lives. She likes row cacao fruits, Rongan, and roasted bananas with sugar. I didn't use a camera because I didn't want her to see my sleepy face. She was nice and funny, so I really enjoyed talking to her.

One of my co-workers just came back. Hi. One of my co-workers just came back to work after 3 weeks day off. He went back his parent's house in Nepal and brought us a batch of local snacks as suveniours. To be honest, some of them are very good but some are not because we Japanese are not used to the taste with those kinds of spices. He's been in Japan for more than 5 years, maybe more, so he's already known it and seemed to be enjoying watching us eating and reacting. In the day when he left Japan, unfortunately the Katmandu international airport was shut down since some airline failed to land to the airport. He was announced the news when waiting for the transit in Hong Kong but never knew at that time he would have to stay there for 3 more days until the Katmandu airport is back to normal. According to him, all booked passengers were able to eat and drink free at any food shops for 24 hours everyday while stuck in HK airport by showing a ticket to Katmandu. Even hotels and transportations were provided free to some people who can stay in Hong Kong without Visa if they required. In his case, he chose to wait at HK airport since he needed VISA and also never expected such a long wait. I felt sorry to hear that he slept on a couch with a provided blanket for 3 nights there but good to hear that he was with his friend and made another friend too, so he was not so bored.

Please correct my memo and answer my question. Hi. I haven't visited italki for nearly one month because I took a TOEIC exam yesterday and had to study harder. The result will be posted around one month later. I don't really expect that high score because the test was over before I finished all questions. Anyway, I'm free now and came back here again. I also started taking a online lesson with Filipino teachers to improve speaking English and will see if it's going to be effective. I've already took some lessons and thinking it might depend on a teacher if it's effective because some of them are good at speaking and teaching English but some are not. Anyway, I hope I will learn to speak more fluently and listen to English more carefully soon. Now I have a question here. I will ask a teacher today or tomorrow but if there is someone who can answer, please answer me. Could you tell me what the difference from 1 to 3? 1. I'm not so interested in traveling abroad. 2. I'm not really interested in traveling abroad. 3. I'm not interested in traveling abroad that much. Thank you in advance.

In Kinsakubaru primeval forest In Kinsakubaru primeval forest We joined a 3hours guide tour to a primeval forest called "Kinsakubaru". Unfortunately we got a strong shower for a while on the way to the forest but our tour guide said strongly that we were very lucky. We didn't understand what he meant since we were thinking a good weather should be the best condition to walk around the forest and almost feeling down countering such a bad weather. He seemed very experienced and explained us the details of the histories, plants or animals of the forest during the tour. According to him, too much rain or too much sun are not so good but a thin mist after some rain is very good because it makes us feel the forest more vital, fantastic and beautiful. We realized he was right when we see many beautiful plants, we've never seen before, with water drops and hear some birds amazing voice we've never heard before in the forest. One more interesting thing of what he said was that there are a lot of poisonous snakes called "Hub" living there and we should be careful not to be bitten by them, or we might be paralyzed and not recover forever. "Hub" lives in only southern parts of Japan, such as Amami Oshima or Okinawa where are subtropical zones. Japan is basically humid temperate climate with some exception so people in that climate like us usually don't imagine we could be attacked by such a dangerous snakes in a forest. On the other hand, it was common for local people. The tour guide said that local people hold a stick to keep hubs away from them when walking around forest or even roads. What a different culture even in Japan.