英語日記 英語の発音練習
At the turning of the year, I set a bunch of the goals that I want to achieve this year like new year resolutions. However, I already struggle to conjure up the motivation to work on them. I have a slight headache, some pain behind my eyes. This is probably due to my looking at the smartphone all the time and is probably causing my lack of motivation.
Today, I was supposed to go to work according to my company’s calendar although it’s the coming of age holiday, but I took a day off. This morning, I’ve been watching a sitcom called The Office which was aired several years ago (or decades ago?). I feel like I can keep watching it all the way. However, I want to do other things too. I don’t want to spend my holiday just to watch Netflix, which seems unproductive to me even if I watch it all in English.
Another thing that I want to engage in this year is English pronunciation practice. To begin with, I started reading out loud more than last year. In the past, I used to read any English writing out loud whether it’s a book, web news articles or sample sentences, believing this habit would help me familiarize myself with English sounds. For the las couple of years, I rather used to do something called overlapping which is repeat what you listen to from some audio materials such as podcasts or tv shows. However, I feel like I don’t pay much attention to my own voice when I do overlapping. Maybe, if I want to modify and improve my pronunciation, I should focus on my own pronunciations and for that purpose, reading out loud would be more suitable and effective, I guess.
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At the turning of the year, I set a bunch of the goals that I want to achieve this year like new year resolutions.
Corrections:
At the turn of the year, I set goals that I'd like to achieve, like a new years resolution.
However, I already struggle to conjure up the motivation to work on them.
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However, I'm already struggling to conjure up the motivation to work on them.
I have a slight headache, some pain behind my eyes.
corrections:
I have a slight headache and some pain behind my eyes.
This is probably due to my looking at the smartphone all the time and is probably causing my lack of motivation.
corrections:
This is probably due to constantly staring at my smartphone and could be contributing to my lack of motivation.
Today, I was supposed to go to work according to my company’s calendar although it’s the coming of age holiday, but I took a day off.
corrections:
According to my company's work schedule I was supposed to go in today, however, because it’s the coming of age holiday I took a day off.
This morning, I’ve been watching a sitcom called The Office which was aired several years ago (or decades ago?
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This morning, I’ve been watching a sitcom called The Office which aired within the last decade or so.?( Or ) which was on the air within the last decade.
I feel like I can keep watching it all the way.
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I feel like I could continue watching it all the way through.
/I feel like I could bing the whole series. (How I would say this)
However, I want to do other things too.
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However, I would like to be productive and get some other things accomplished as well.
I don’t want to spend my holiday just to watch Netflix, which seems unproductive to me even if I watch it all in English.
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I don’t want to spend my holiday just binging Netflix, that feels unproductive to me even if I'm watching it all in English.
Another thing that I want to engage in this year is English pronunciation practice.
corrections:
Another thing that I want to engage in this year is English pronunciation practice.
To begin with, I started reading out loud more than last year.
corrections:
I've already started reading out loud more than I did last year.
In the past, I used to read any English writing out loud whether it’s a book, web news articles or sample sentences, believing this habit would help me familiarize myself with English sounds.
corrections:
In the past, I used to read English out loud whether in a book, web news, articles or sample sentences. Believing that this habit would help me in becoming more familiar with English sounds.
For the las couple of years, I rather used to do something called overlapping which is repeat what you listen to from some audio materials such as podcasts or tv shows.
corrections:
For the last couple of years, I'd do something called overlapping, which is repeating what you're listening to such as podcasts and tv shows.
However, I feel like I don’t pay much attention to my own voice when I do overlapping.
corrections:
However, I feel like I don’t pay too much attention to my own voice when I do overlapping.
Maybe, if I want to modify and improve my pronunciation, I should focus on my own pronunciations and for that purpose, reading out loud would be more suitable and effective, I guess.
corrections:
Maybe, if I want to modify and improve apoun my pronunciation, I should focus more on it, therefore, reading out loud would be more suitable and effective.
日本語>英語 翻訳練習 0059 非常事態宣言 wiki
非常事態宣言
Declaration of emergency
非常事態宣言（ひじょうじたいせんげん）とは、自然災害、感染症（伝染病・疫病）のパンデミック、原子力事故などの災害や、戦争、テロ、内乱、騒乱など、健康・生命・財産・環境などに危険が差し迫っている有事（緊急事態）に際し、国家・地域の政府（地方公共団体を含む）などが、法令などに基づいて特殊な権限を発動するために、或いは、広く一般・公衆に注意を促すために、そのような事態を布告・宣言することである。
A declaration of a state of emergency is a declaration made by a national or regional government (including local public agencies) in order to take special legal action based on laws and regulations or to broadly call public attention when there happen emergency situations posing a grave danger to public welfare, life, properties, environment etc.; a natural disaster; the pandemic of an infectious disease (contagious disease or epidemic); a nuclear disaster; a warfare, a terrorist attack, a civil war or a riot.
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英語日記 冬休み最終日
Today is the last day of my winter break. Tomorrow I’m going back to work. I don’t have specific plans what I’m going to do today. Most likely, I’ll go out to walk for a bit at some point during the day. I’ll try to read in English or watch Netflix. The other day, I found an old sitcom The Office on Netflix. I started watching it and finished four episodes. I actually had finished watching it up to the 8th season of the show in the past, maybe about seven years ago, but back then I didn’t understand as well as now due to my lack of English proficiency. This time around, because Netflix has English subtitles in addition to my improved English skills, I think I could understand better.
As for reading, I’ll try reading op-ed articles on news websites, but I haven’t figured out yet where I can read articles for free. Nowadays many news websites require subscription, which is totally an understandable move. If I can find good websites where I can read quality articles for free, I would be lucky.
英語日記 GoToキャンペーン
I know some people claim that GoTo travel campaign is a very effective economic stimulus program and many people have been traveling around while making use of the discount given for the campaign. Some people seriously seem to think that they are helping the tourist industry with this campaign. But what’s happened is that once the pause of the campaign was announced, there was a staggering number of cancellations for tours, transportations and hotels. Why didn’t they stick to their willingness to help the industry? Honestly it seems too stingy to me that they didn’t want to pay for the proper price. I think there is something wrong in this scheme of things. If they could afford to travel even with the benefit of the campaign, I wonder why they didn’t give away some money to those involved in the tourism. In that way, pretending they would have traveled, they could help the industry.
The government has often been telling that they are determined to do anything to prevent the spread of the virus, but all they did seems to be this GoTo campaign emphasizing the importance of economy.
英語日記 久々に家族とラーメン屋へ
Tonight my family and I went to a ramen shop for the first time in a long time. I think it’s risky to go out to eat during the pandemic, so I usually don’t do so but suddenly I felt nostalgic for going out together with my family. Also, I remembered that the ramen shop that I was thinking about was quite spacious and somewhat compartmentalized between tables. This was why I thought it wouldn’t be necessary to worry too much.
When we got there, it was as spacious as I had thought, but there were more customers than I had expected. We were all wearing masks all along except actually eating ramen we got. I felt like I was the most uptight one at the restaurant while warning my family not to touch the outside of their masks and to sanitize their hands or the table before eating. My sons seemed to genuinely enjoy eating. Maybe I was spoiling their joy of having ramen by nagging about, but I couldn’t help it.
Maybe, I won’t go out to eat for some time again. Hopefully, the pandemic situation will get better soon.
英語日記 父、退職
Today I heard from my wife that my father had suddenly resigned from his taxi driving job several days ago. My mother told my wife so when she dropped at my house. The news took me by surprise although I had been encouraging him to do so because of his age, 78. I had started saying he might as well already retire a couple of years ago, but he didn’t take it seriously.
According to my wife, the reason why he decided was a minor accident he had on duty. When he went to pick up a customer at a kindergarten and tried to park the car, the car hit a hedge. It was just a fender bender, so luckily there was no one injured. However, it would seem to be a sign for him. He seemed disappointed with himself after the accident. He said to my mother something like “making such an accident would be too unprofessional”. Next day, he turned in his resignation.
I think it was the right decision. I’m relieved that he hadn’t had any severe accidents in driving. As for their income, I don’t worry too much since they seem to have some savings and receive national pensions. What makes me worry is that he might get too bored without a job after having worked long hours regularly over almost 40 years: he had started working as a taxi driver when he was 40 and the only thing he seemed motivated by was his job. I think he was desperate to support his family. He still looks young for his age. He has rather become a cheerful person as he aged. I wonder if not having a job might have some influence on his morale, making him too slack or something. I hope he can find his another passion in life.
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My mother told my wife so when she dropped at my house.
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My mother told my wife when she dropped in at my house.
The news took me by surprise although I had been encouraging him to do so because of his age, 78.
corrections:
The news took me by surprise although I had been encouraging him to retire because of his age, he's 78.
I had started saying he might as well already retire a couple of years ago, but he didn’t take it seriously.
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I had started saying that he might as well already retire a couple of years ago, but he didn’t take it seriously.
According to my wife, the reason why he decided was a minor accident he had on duty.
corrections:
According to my wife, the reason why he decided to retire was because of a minor accident he had while on duty.
When he went to pick up a customer at a kindergarten and tried to park the car, the car hit a hedge.
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When he went to pick up a customer at a kindergarten and when he tried to park the car, he hit a hedge.
It was just a fender bender, so luckily there was no one injured.
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It was just hitting a hedge, so luckily no one was injured. (I think you actually have to hit another car for it to be a fender bender).
However, it would seem to be a sign for him.
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However, it seemed to be a sign for him.
He said to my mother something like “making such an accident would be too unprofessional”.
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He said to my mother something like “having such an accident makes me unprofessional”.
Next day, he turned in his resignation.
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The next day, he turned in his resignation.
I’m relieved that he hadn’t had any severe accidents in driving.
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I’m relieved that he hadn’t had any severe accidents while driving.
As for their income, I don’t worry too much since they seem to have some savings and receive national pensions.
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As for their income, I don’t have to worry too much since they seem to have some savings and receive the national pension already.
What makes me worry is that he might get too bored without a job after having worked long hours regularly over almost 40 years: he had started working as a taxi driver when he was 40 and the only thing he seemed motivated by was his job.
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What makes me worry is that he might get too bored without a job after having worked long hours regularly for over almost 40 years: he had started working as a taxi driver when he was 40 and the only thing he seemed motivated about was his job.
I wonder if not having a job might have some influence on his morale, making him too slack or something.
corrections:
I wonder if not having a job might have some sort of influence on his morale, making him too relaxed or something.
日本語>英語 翻訳練習 0058 部活 wiki
日本の学校教育の部活動
Club activities in school education in Japan
定義
Definition
日本の学校教育の「部活動」には定義があり、
Club activities (Bukatsudo) in school education in Japan have a certain definition.
学習指導要領では、「部活動は、学校教育活動の一環として、スポーツや文化、学問等に興味と関心をもつ同好の生徒が、教職員の指導の下に、主に放課後などにおいて自発的・自主的に活動するもの」と定義されており、
In the curriculum guideline, they are defined as “voluntary and autonomous activities practiced mainly after school hours by the groups of the students who share the same interest in particular sports, cultures, studies and so on, under the instruction of teachers”.
その内容については、「スポーツや文化及び科学等に親しませ、学習意欲の向上や責任感、連帯感の涵養等に資するものであり、学校教育の一環として、教育課程との関連が図られるよう留意すること」と指示されている。
Concerning its content, it is indicated that “(the club activities are) to contribute to fostering motivation for studies, responsibilities and solidarity of students while intending to make them familiar with sports, cultures and science, and a special note should be taken of making the activities relevant to the education curriculum as a part of school education”.
部活動は小学校・中学校・高等学校・大学・短期大学・高等専門学校・専修学校で一般的に使われる呼称であり、部活（ぶかつ）と略される。
Club activities (Bukatsudo) is the name commonly used in elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, college, technical school and specialized training college, and it is abbreviated as Bukatsu.
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