Does German help understand British English? When I was still student of faculty of law in Japan, my professor whose speciality is intellectual property right said that he was able to understand British English thanks to his German knowledge. His remark intrigues me since then. Now, I'd like to ask you all especially who are native English speakers speaking German or native German speakers speaking English: In your opinion, does German language help you to understand better British English?

Red been (anko) cake Today is the anniversary of having made pound cake for the first time in my life. I've put some red been paste (anko in Japanese) in it.

A presentation about my origin This afternoon I met one of my partners of language exchange in the campus to make a presentation. The topic was about Korean residents in Japan who are called "Zainichi" in Japanese. Since I'm one of Zainichis and I want to get used to speak in public, I decided to make some slides on Google Presentations. Although I had a few grammatical mistakes in my presentation, my partner was seemingly interested in mine and she asked me about my identity and my family. Then, we talked about situations in general in regard to Korean residents in Japan. It was such a nice talking that we spent almost three hours together.

Language Exchange I'm a student of the University of Montreal (Université de Montréal). I'm currently paired with two other students so that we can improve our languages: Japanese for them and French for me. Actually, I was wondering what to do with them because I can always ask my spouse questions about French. All of a sudden, I got an idea. I can do a short presentation about Japanese stuff in French with my two partners! I just took a workshop of public speaking in French last weekend. Now, I need to find an interesting topic.

2019-01-30 What I've done today: - Paying the bill for my cell phone - Doing laundry - Dishwashing - Prep for finner - Taking part in the Java class at the University - Giving my son a bath - Proceeding my Java assignment

My English Twitter account To immerse myself more in English in daily life, I created my Twitter account for tweeting only in English. However, it took almost 2 hours to finish a series of following process: it needed to creat another gmail address to have the new Twitter account. It sucks! *How can I say "It sucks!" in polite way? Follow me if you intersted with my daily life: @yasu_mtl_en

I'm back It’s been a long time since I wrote something here in August. Now I stopped learning Spanish and focus on my English. I’m currently in my second semester in the University and I take three classes: Database, Security of computer systems and Java programming. Java class seems not hard, but the other two are a little bit tough because they're the theory ones and it requires more comprehension in French.

Mi motivación de aprender español ¡Hola todos! Hace más que una semana que no escribí en español aquí. Es porque he perdido mi motivación de aprender español desde el fin del mes pasado. Acabo de empezar mis estudios en informática en la Universidad de Montreal. Por esta sección, decidí tomar dos cursos de informática y dos otros de inglés.

For Koreans who want to practice English or French I'm looking for someone who speaks Korean as mother tongue and wants to speak English. My Canadian spouse needs to practice in Korean, so I'd like to organise a Skype session. Please leave a comment below or send me a message if you are interested with language exchange (Korean-English•French) on Skype today or tomorrow !