My motivation to learn mostly comes from a mixture of curiosity, aspiration for growth and anxiety for future. 僕の学ぼうとする動機は主に好奇心と向上心、あと将来への不安の入り混じったものから来ている。 I always want to learn and grow as a …

My winter vacation this year started last Sunday. 今年の冬休みがこの間の日曜日に始まった。 It goes until January 4th, so I’m having about ten days off. 1月4日まで続くので、約10日間の休みがある。 I feel lucky because this is longer than oth…

Today I knew my result of the TOEIC test on Nov. 28th. 今日11月28日に受けたTOEIC結果が分かった。 My score plummeted to 890, 80 points down from the previous one. 今回はスコアが890点に急落、前回から80点下がった。 I’m not sure when I have an…

There is a business custom in trading companies that when sales people have some deals involving equipment installation work or construction work at client sites, they should be present on site while work is underway. 商社で、営業担当者が…

Today, I had a TOEIC test. 今日はTOEICを受験した。 This time, I’m sure I messed up. 今回はやってしまった感がすごい。 In the listening section, the knack to accelerate solving the problems is to read the given questions and choices to choos…

Buddha stopped off at a village and met a desperate woman who had lost a son to a disease some time before. 仏陀はある村に立ち寄り、一人の途方に暮れた女性と出会った。彼女はしばらく前に病で息子を失っていた。 She loved and couldn't forget th…

A young, good looking lady walks into a department store crowded with shoppers one day at the end of the year. 年の暮れのある日、若く容姿端麗な婦人がひとり、買い物客で混み合ったデパートに歩いて来る。 She looks to be in her mid-20s. 20代半…

These days, I sometimes practice overlapping (imitating voices of people speaking English) using movie trailer videos on YouTube. この頃、YouTubeにある映画の予告版のビデオを使ってオーバーラッピング(英語を話している人の声を真似すること)を時…

I’ve been on medication to lower my uric acid level for years. 尿酸値を下げるために長年薬を飲んでいる。 Because of this, I regularly have to go see a same doctor to get my prescription. そのせいで、処方箋をもらうために定期的に同じお医者さ…

Since the beginning of October, several health issues have been popping up in my household. 10月の初めから、家族の中でいくつか健康の問題が起こっている。 I’m probably distracted by them and can’t feel very motivated to practice English. た…

I applied for the TOEIC test that’s due on November 28th. 11月28日実施予定のTOEICテストに申し込んだ。 It’s not decided yet whether I can in fact take the test because they do something they call “random selection” to select and decrease th…

I started teaching my eldest son English some time ago. しばらく前に、長男に英語を教え始めた。 What we mostly do are practicing English pronunciation and reading out loud by using a textbook specially designed for practicing reading Englis…

This Thursday, I got my second jab of covid vaccines. 今週木曜日、コロナワクチン2回目の接種があった。 Next day, when I woke up, I had a slight fever, had an arm pain on my left arm where I was injected, and felt lethargic. 次の日、起きたと…

During this summer, my family and I kept trying to do something special for my oldest son’s birthday which was today. この夏の間、家族と自分は、今日の長男の誕生日に向けて何か特別なことをしようとずっとしてきた。 We finished it with a very t…

The Japanese ministry of education basically avoided the responsibility to make decisions about whether students should go back to school or not after the summer break, and left it up to each local government and schools. 日本の文部省は、…

The Tokyo Olympics finally ended. 東京オリンピックがついに終わった。 I didn’t watch its broadcast at all except for news on sns, so I don’t know how it was. 自分は、SNSのニュース以外には全く放送を見なかった。 I still believe it was very in…

The Tokyo metropolitan government achieved the agreement with several manufacturers in order to rent 500 oxygen concentrators for the need of the covid patients who are waiting to be hospitalized at home. 東京都は、自宅で入院待ちとなってい…

Tokyo and some other cities in Japan have been experiencing the biggest uptick in COVID cases due to the Delta variant. 日本では、デルタ種のせいで、東京と他のいくつかの都市でこれまでで最大規模のコロナウイルス陽性者数の増加に直面している。 …

この時期の天候は晴れる日が多く、且つ温暖であるため、アスリートが最高の状態でパフォーマンスを発揮できる理想的な気候である。 “The weather of this time of the year tends to be sunny and warm. It is the ideal weather in which athletes can perf…

Did you know where the Tokyo Olympic triathlon swimming venue is going to be? 東京オリンピックのトライアスロンの水泳会場は知ってましたか。 I didn’t know. 自分は知らなかった。 It's Tokyo bay. 東京湾だ。 It’s well known that its water is ver…

I decided to pretend that the Tokyo Olympics isn’t happening and so I won’t watch any games on TV. 自分は東京オリンピックはないことに決めたので、テレビで競技を見るつもりはない。 But I’m curious how everything turns out under the sloppily p…

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c8fd22a01f57f8727a5ac369cc913d8ac6dd8e15 It’s extremely disgusting that such a person walks on the loose in broad light and wants to represent the country as one of those Olympic crusaders. こんな人間が公…

I’m not very motivated to write anything these days, so I’m not often around on Hellotalk either. この頃、何も書く気が起こらないので、ハロートークもあまり使っていない。 If I think of what I really want to write about, maybe something like …

Last weekend, I finished reading the fantasy adventure novel Dragons of Summer Flame from the Dragonlance series, in English. 先週末、ドラゴンランスシリーズのDragons of Summer Flame というファンタジーアドベンチャー小説を英語で読み終わった…

The Olympic Games seems to happen despite overwhelming cries of objections. 圧倒的な反対の声にも関わらず、オリンピックは開催されそうだ。 It’s outrageous that the government is pressing so hard on the sport event amid the unprecedented pand…

Out of what I’ve heard about IOC recently, I began to think that the Olympic is nothing different from the fighting of gladiators at the colosseum in the age of Ancient Rome. 最近IOCについて聞いたことから、オリンピックって古代ローマ時代に…

I realized that it’s been about a year since I created my blog page. 自分のブログページを作ってから1年が経ったことに気がついた。 The reason why I started it is because at first, I wanted to seek some way to monetize my English skills and t…

I kind of believe that there is some life cycle of humans involving after death like reincarnation. 僕は、生まれ変わりのような、死後を含めた人間の何らかの生のサイクルがあると何となく信じている。 At the same time, I simply accept the genera…

Last night, after everyone went to bed at home, my youngest son came to me and said he couldn’t sleep. 昨日の夜、家で皆寝床についた後、次男が僕のところに来て、眠れないと言った。 It was around 11PM. 夜の11時頃だった。 I tried to soothe him …

Today is the final day of my Golden Week, but since I took a day off on Friday; I’m going to have a three-day weekend, I don’t feel too disappointed. 今日は僕にとってゴールデンウィーク最終日だ。でも金曜日に休みをとったからー週末は3連休にな…