Daily life of an English learner

From the moment that Tokyo was decided to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, I made up my mind to be involved in the Olympics in some way, proba...

The TV news programs aired a very cut scene of a toddler and a tiger cub. It's so cute! So I tried looking for the video on Youtube and...

The other day, I saw the article about the "Tsuitachi Mairi" which can translate to "The first of the month visit" in En...

Today is birthday of my sponsored child, Rubel . When I became his sponsor, he was still 4 years old And he became 8 years old today! I ca...

I finally went to a restaurant to have lunch that I've wanted to go. It's "Anniversaire." I had a chicken dish. Some...

I watched the documentary on TV that featured Naoyuki Kawahara, who has been carrying on his wide-ranging medical activities in Sudan. ...

As I mentioned in one of my previous article , I went to see the movie "Monsters University." Although I thought "Monst...

Tokyo won 2020 Olympics over Istanbul, Madrid!! Finally it was decided and finally the Olympics will be held in my city for the first tim...

The title of a script I used today for my English study was "Uncanny Valley." I heard it for the first time. I always feel cree...

I often use the BBC Learning English site for my English study. The news that I used today made me get misty-eyed. The following is an ex...

This summer is incredibly hot. Especially the last couple of days, horribly hot! The high temperature today in Tokyo was over 38 degrees Ce...

Because "Monsters University" has come out here in Japan recently, " Monsters, Inc " was aired on TV, and I watched it ...

I happened to find the following video. A boy is giving his mother a card on Mother's day. He is trying to surprise her and seems to be...

This year, the rainy season end very early, more than two weeks earlier than usual. As soon as the rainy season finished, it's extreme h...

Deaf 2-year-old boy, Cooper put a cochlear Implant and hear sound for the first time. At first, he looked a bit confused at hearing sound ...

The US president Obama, his famous word "Yes we can" is being ridiculed by rephrasing "Yes we scan" because of the matte...

I've recently been watching the US TV crime drama "Person of Interest." The details of the story is here; http://en.wikipedi...

1. Iceland 2. Denmark 3. New Zealand 4. Austria 5. Switzerland 6. Japan 7. Finland 8. Canada 9. Sweden 10. Belgium About...

An English soccer player, David Beckham has retired. He was a really really great player. Unfortunately, he has been getting too much att...

After the the retirement ceremony of Hideki Matsui and the National Honorary Award ceremony for Matsui and Shigeo Nagashima, and before a g...

 Aung San Suu Kyi went back to her country today after staying in Japan for about a week. When I saw her interview on TV, every her commen...

As I've been writing here, I really love toddlers. I often visit several toddlers' blog sites which are written by their parents. ...

A restaurant I frequent provides Tandoori Chicken, though it's not an Indian restaurant. It's one of my favorite dishes in the resta...

11th March The second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake with big Tsunami Although it's been already 2 years since then, ...

I put "7 Rules of Life" in the previous article, because I thought it said good things and I would try to follow those. However,...

Whenever I use "as soon as possible/you can", I somehow feel as if I force a counterpart to do something urgently. For example, ...

A major renovation work on my apartment started at thee beginning of this month. It is repairing the exterior wall. It takes more than 4 mon...

Yesterday evening, a touch panel of my smartphone suddenly started responding strange. I had to tap something repeatedly, and long-tap no lo...

February 15th, 2013, a big meteor fell in Russia. Since them, TV news have been reporting about this event every day. http://en.wikipedia....

I don't use SNS so much. I don't use either Twitter or Facebook. I just write this blog and joined LinkedIn which is a business spe...

I checked the difference between "in advance" and "beforehand" on the Internet. I saw some sites where people discuss th...