Globish

I read an article about Globish. I hadn't heard about it since.

Globish is an abbreviation of Global English, and it was made for non-native English speaker and the number of vocabulary is just 1500. Its sentence is short, only basic grammar, and it is used with visual expression, such as gestures. So it is easier to it can reduce the time and energy to acquire.

Jean-Paul Nerriere, who is the former deputy president of IBM made it. He is a French. When he worked for IBM and had communication with people who were from many countries, what he was not good at was talking with native speakers, because they used complicated grammar or uncommon idioms. But the number of non-native speaker was greater than native speaker. Therefore, he created Globish. After that, people could have communication fully with Globish in IBM.

And according to this article, a person who works for a foreign company said that she worked in the multinational situation and people who spoke incomprehensible English were British. They spoke too fast, and if they had an accent, English of non-native speakers was easier to understand.

Mr. Narriere also told media that he could have communication with Japanese easier than American.

This article concluded with the following words;
Amid the globalization of human resources, there is situation that native speakers should master English that is understood by non-native speakers.

Anyway, I always think it was good that Japanese didn't become a global common language instead of English. It is hard to learn Japanese. Of course there are many languages that are much more difficult than Japanese though.

The most livable city in the world

According to a survey by an American consulting firm, the ranking of the most livable cities in the world is as follows.

1. Zurich (Switzerland)
2. Geneva (Switzerland)
3. Vancouver (Canada)
4. Vienna (Austria)
5. Auckland (New Zealand)
6. Dusseldorf (Germany)
7. Frankfurt (Germany)
8. Munich (Germany)
9. Berne (Switzerland)
10. Sydney (Australia)

Hmm... many European cities. What's surprising to me is that many German cities were ranked. I see. Tokyo is best for me though. haha.

By the way, writing cities' name is difficult. I didn't know most of spelling of those cities and I had to refer to a dictionary.

Delicious Salmon!!

I love sushi, or more like sashimi.

I went to a sushi restaurant today. (I often go.) Needless to say, TASTY! Especially I love salmon!! I'm really happy to be born a Japanese.

Yummy!!

The failure of NOVA

Japan's biggest English conversation school, NOVA went bankruptcy. It might be a matter of course.

NOVA's lesson fee per a lesson is cheaper than others'. Instead of that, students have to pay 3 year's fee in advance. 3 years! Now, it is impossible that the students get reimbursed the fee. Terrible.

Any native speakers can be NOVA's teacher easily, if they graduated college of university, even if they have no experience of teaching. Almost all of the teachers didn't have experience of teaching English. They are just native speakers. Just it. I never want to pay for studying from such a teacher.

NOVA's teachers lost their job. According to the news, they haven't got paid for 2 months. I think it is hard for them to find a new job. No job in a foreign country... I am very sorry about their anxious situation.

All students have paid

New PC FINALLY!!

My new PC finally arrived!! Wow!! It arrived ahead of schedule.
I thought I had bought smaller one, but it was a bit bigger than I thought.

Anyway I would be freed from going to an internet cafe?

Let me introduce my new PC!

Happy Birthday to Me

New Cell Phone

I changed a cell phone company, because service of my previous cell phone company was too bad on many kind of aspects.

So of course I had to change mobile equipment. Usually I chose equipment for its design, but at this time, I chose for one function. It is camera function.

Yes, all cell phones have camera function. But my new cell phone's is different from others'. Casio's EXILIM is attached the cell! It already is not a cell phone. It is more like a digital camera.This camera function is much better than my old digital camera. Haha. I haven't used that perfectly yet...

As I wrote on this blog the other day, I want my life to be simple. I don't want to have too much things. So in this time, I avoided to have both two peaces of equipment, camera and cell.

Buying new computer

I decided to buy new computer.
I often wrote about my computer on this blog. It doesn't work well, more like it is almost broken. Finally I became unable to connect to networks. My computer can't recognize its network port. So I go to an internet cafe recently. My computer has no decent parts now.

I went to an electronics retail store the day before yesterday to buy a computer. Actually I wanted to avoid buying Dell or HP, because I have an image that those PCs are for companies. Almost all companies in Japan use Dell or HP computers.
But, I ended up choosing Dell, because of its price. Dell's computers are a bit cheaper than others.

Unfortunately, it takes 2 weeks to receive the computer, because it's Dell. I have to continue to go to an internet cafe for a while.

I wonder why atmosphere of internet cafe is unsoundness.

Too insistent the possessive in English

I might have written a article of such a theme before. I always feel that about "Whose" is mentioned TOO much in English.
For example;

[They gave their teacher a big boquet of flowers for her birthday.]

Why do we need to say "their" and "her"? That's obviously her birthday. Who gives someone a birthday present for OTHER'S birthday?

[He took off his glasses.]

The glasses he wears is of course HIS glasses. Why do we need to say "his" specially? We can say it only when he wore OTHER'S glasses and took it off.

[He divorced his wife.]

It is impossible to divorce OTHER'S wife!!!

24 Season 5

Broadcasts of 24 season 5 started on TV this week, it is midnight as ever though.

Unfortunately, Michelle, who is my most favorite character in 24, died in the first an hour. It was pity!

Personally speaking, the season 1 is best. 24 is becoming humdrum. The season 5 is very monotonous and dull. I can see what to expect easily. (I tend to be able to see what to expect even in other dramas and movies though.)
In the season 1, there were much unpredictable quality, surprising and speed.
It ran out of topics?

Giants' championship victory

Giants won the Central League title for the first time in 5 years!!! The first time in 5 years... It's been a long time for us who are fans. Giants is like Yankees in the MLB. I mean they are supposed to win, they must win. Giants is such a traditional team. So players of Giants also said unanimously that it had been a long time.

Giants' front office removed Mr. Hara from Giants' manager and assigned another OB of Giants, then Giants couldn't win while he was the manager. Mr. Hara came back to the manager and finally Giants won the championship. It was really good, it took a roundabout way due to misjudgment of the front office though.

I hope they will win in the Japan Series. Go for it!!

Pilates

I started going to pilates class. Yesterday was the first class.

Unlike yoga, pilates is exercise to develop body trunk. And focusing attention on internal body is important. "Focusing attention" is common to pilates and yoga. It's a bit difficult.

Compared with yoga, it is not problem so much whether body is flexible or not. My body is VERY hard.

Class is for an hour. But I was very tired after class. Very tired. I felt dull. I thought there was much effect and I would feel muscle pain next day. But... I don't felt it today. Hmm... But I feel muscle pain of my neck a little. Neck? Why??

This class takes place alternate week. I think at least once a week is necessary. Of course every day is best though.

The Ultimate Simplify

I like "simple". Simple is best. I always try to be simple around me. My favorite book is "Simplify your life" written by 2 Germans. I always try not to have too many things. I often throw things away. (Sometimes I regret to have thrown away though. haha.) But stuff is increased. To be simple is difficult. If stuff is increased even a little, I am not comfortable.

Now, I decided to address BIG "to be simple". I throw things away and have the bare minimum needed to live, then I will add only things I really need. I already have thrown many many things, such as clothes and furniture. Actually it costs to even throw things away, such as bulk trash.

I wrote on the article before that I changed my mind. I decided to give low priority to job and cherish my personal life. And the ultimate simple. I am reborn.

Reborn Sand！！