Hello, everyone~!
As you might realize by browsing through the blog, I've been able to keep posting almost everyday! I always think about how I can make my English level stay the same as it is now, and hopefully keep improving. Of course, learning and using English is what I like to do. So, I'll definitely keep studying and never be satisfied with what I can do in terms of express myself in English.
At the same time, however, I often wonder if I lost the ability to use English. I'm not saying that I forget how to use it completely, what I'm trying to say is that I might lose the sense to handle it such as the way I think, the way I choose words to mention what I experience, and the fact that how I express things would differ when I am trying to write in English.
So, I guess I'm trying to believe that I've made efforts to keep improving by updating my blog. Moreover, I started to try spending more time on reading books. After starting this blog, I came to realize that the more I experience directly(hear, eat, and especially read) the more I enjoy writing, and it slowly became obvious to me that making more inputs directly leads to a better output. It's just a fact, but looking at the people around me, they just don't seem to realize it because there's a lot of things to do everyday. Of course, I'm not saying that I can do it perfectly. But the fact that they don't realize it sometimes makes me sad because I'm sure each of them is capable making more inputs for themselves and cultivating ideas. Hmmmm..... should I tell them or not? I don't know.
Anyway, I'm going to keep trying to read more books by turning the TV off as much as I can. (There's several TV shows that are my favorite. Oops!) And hopefully, I'll talk about them on this blog. I already have finished some books that are written both in English and Japanese, so I'm now thinking about how I'm going to introduce them to all of you. (Relax, I'm not going to make my blog a book review! I still would like to talk about what I experience while I go shopping, etc.)
Hmmm.... finally I'm not sure how I would wrap up this post! : (
Please keep visiting my blog! Hahaha.....
VerveEarth
Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Small Talk about English and Blog
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Dear Hiromi,
You are exactly right, in my opinion: "making more inputs directly leads to a better output." I tell all of my students that reading extensively in English is the BEST way to improve their own English. Like the people you know, either they don't believe it or they are too busy doing other things.
As for spoken English, my favorite site at the moment is ted.com. The talks are extremely interesting, and none are longer than 20-25 minutes.
You get a lot of practice writing on your blog. How do you get speaking practice? I'd be happy to voice chat on Skype or Yahoo Messenger, especially now that I am not teaching (until August!).
My own experience with languages I have learned indicates that if you don't use it--you lose it. All that hard work and studying down the tubes! I know my Russian, French, Spanish and German are locked up in my brain somewhere and if I spent extended time in those countries I could perhaps unlock them--but for now, they are pretty much lost to me. :-( So keep using your English, and keep it alive!
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