I’m thinking out loud 英会話で独り言CHIHARU スミス英会話大津校 Thinking Out Loud Since I started learning English at junior high school in Japan, I have been working on improving my English non-stop. Now that I am in my 40s, I have been devoted to this field for almost 30 years! At first I was doing this to get
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts, Uncategorized, 英会話上達のコツ by Chiharu | July 19, 2024 | 3 comments
Do you like music? If yes, let’s listen to and/ or sing English songs. At Smith’s Otsu, students and I listen to English song, read the lyrics out-loud then sing together!
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts, Uncategorized, 英会話上達のコツ by Chiharu | May 14, 2024 | 4 comments
If we want to have more Active Vocabulary, what shall we do?
Read books? Listen to Podcasts? Keep a diary in English? Watch dramas and movies?
Everybody enjoys English differently so any methods you like are great. HOWEVER, it is important to keep this in mind: We can improve our Active Vocabulary when we use the language for COMMUNICATION! Yes, we need to USE it to tell and listen to stories, ask and answer questions and make ourselves understood. So let’s learn useful verbs and use them!
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts, 英会話上達のコツ by Chiharu | March 12, 2024 | 3 comments
If you want to become a good English speaker, let’s build your active vocabulary. How? We focus on a handful of useful verbs we use every day! Today’s verb is “take.”
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts, 英会話上達のコツ by Chiharu | January 20, 2024 | 5 comments
エドワード先生の言語の旅 スミス英会話大津校ブログ English Blog Here ヨーロッパからカナダへ 私の曾祖父母は20世紀初頭に東ヨーロッパで生まれました。父方の曾祖父母はウクライナ出身でウクライナ語を話しました。母方の曾祖父母はベッサラビア、ポーランド、ルーマニアの出身で東ヨーロッパ複数の言語を話しました。ヨーロッパを離れカナダへ移り住んだ世代で、父の家族はカナダの中心部にあるウクライナ人の住む地域へ、母の家族はモントリオールへ移住しました。
in Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts by smithweb | November 21, 2023 | 1 comments
Burkina Fasoから先生来日！Homestay in Otsu Chiharu スミス英会話大津校 Homestay in Otsu? Have you ever experienced this exhilarating moment of meeting amazing people? Edward and I just had such an opportunity at our home in Otsu, Shiga. In September, three teachers from Burkina Faso came to Japan for education-and-culture exchanges through my friend’s project called B-JAPE (Burkinafaso Japon
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts by Chiharu | October 26, 2023 | 11 comments
Never a tourist in your hometown スミス英会話大津校ブログ English Blog Here 私は2007年に日本に移住しました。その後1年で日本中の様々な場所を訪れました：長崎、神戸、奈良、四国、長野、横浜、東京。日本中を旅して色々な場所を見て、素晴らしい料理を食べて、楽しくて刺激的な時間でした。それからは仕事と時間があれば遊びのルーティーンで、主には住んでいる滋賀県大津市付近にいます。たまに日本に観光に来た友人と京都へ、1年に1,2回スミス英会話のミーティングで大阪へ行きます。
in Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts by smithweb | September 29, 2023 | 8 comments
なぜか照れちゃう英単語５選 Five Words I Felt too Shy to Say Chiharu スミス英会話大津校 Don’t you have some English words that you feel too shy to say? In fact I had so many! I cannot count how many words I had had a hard time using. Why did I feel shy of saying them? Maybe because I thought; 1.
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts by Chiharu | August 26, 2023 | 0 comments
カルチャーショック スミス英会話大津校ブログ English Blog Here 来日初日 最近、地元滋賀県大津のイベントで講演の依頼を受けました。このイベントは大津市国際親善協会(OIGA)の主催、そして大津市の協賛で運営されました。イベントの目的は地元の組織と大津市に住む外国人が話す機会を持つことです。まず、紹介が20分あり質疑応答、その後1時間話し合う時間が作られました。最終的な目的は地元のイベントに外国人にも参加してもらう、大津市での生活に馴染んでもらう良い方法を見つけることでした。
in Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts by smithweb | July 18, 2023 | 1 comments
The Little Mermaid and I -英語という足が欲しい-Chiharu スミス英会話大津校 My son and I went to a movie theatre and watched The Little Mermaid (2023) on Father’s Day. Needless to say, I have seen the 1989 animated film produced by Walt Disney Pictures many times when I was a child. At that time, I was watching the dubbed
in Chiharu, Ohtsu, Teacher's Thoughts, 先生のひとこと by Chiharu | June 21, 2023 | 4 comments
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