Doubt about the inportance of English?

It is said and believed that Learning Englsh is important. this is a sentence which almost everyone agree to.


But, let me dare to say, WHY?

Because of grobalization? It's not enough reason for Japanese. We don't see English speaker often.


Because you need English during job hunting? But, think of this,Can you imagine that you will use English in you possible office? Not likely.



So, ultimately, we don't need it all!


Actually, it is a few people who has good enough reason to study English.



For me, I want to be international being as business, and interact with many people.


If you speak English, you will get chance to talk with more and more people.



And I can say, with English, when I talk to people from the other country where their native language is not English we might not have to learn their language. they might study English.



So English played important role as a tool to bridge between one and another although their native language is totally different.



So, It has significant value. it is worth thorough study. That's what I'm doing.

Whale munchers.

That's us.


Do you know the news that, in New Zealand, One student whose origin is Japanese was bullied and attacked by there or more peers in the school and seriously injured.

The injure was critical. He was hospitalized and now recovered with his head stitched up.


According to the article, they bullied him saying to him "whale muncher".


Whale munchers are us.

We have a traditional custom to hunt and eat whale, which causes controvercial problem to the other countries.

In my opinion, it's a good idea to cease that whaling. I have three reasons.


Firstly, obviously, we can live without eating whale. it's not necessary. there are just few people in Japan who live on whale. Also we can find alternatives to whale for them, such as beef, pork, chiken, and so on.


Secondly, I don't like a confrontation between the nations which is seemingly trivial but has much meaning to the others. It's dipromatically problem. It is predictable that sometime in the near future Japan will fail in diplomat because of stubbornness and persistence in it.


Thirdly, I can't find any value to save that custom. I don't also feel happy to see them hunted up. I don't eat whale. We don't need, I think, any survey about them, Let it be!



These are the reasons. It can't help being personal opinion. Different people from differnent place have different opinions. I have to advocate Japan but I don't.



I wish there were no slaughter in the earth. It's my utopia, which wouldn't come true unless we disappeared.

I can't keep up with the others.

Now, I'm in the environment where International students stay to study and improve English.

Most of them are Korean. They know importance of English in Job hunting although,once they entered company, there are no chance to speak English.

It seems that they are not great at absorbing English. Same as Japanese. It's totally different thing.

On the other side, there're also students from Germany or other European countries. They're different. Most of them can use English better than Asian students, which makes me envious of them.

their conversations is spoken with Good pronouciation and intonation. It's so smooth that it look like they're native speakers to me.


So, what I need to stand in the same level as German students is so much more effort than they make.

I'm reading the apparently difficult books, which I hope will help me when I go to Business college. Also I'm writing blogs here as you are watching.


But it's not enough, I think. I suppose what make it enough to be GOOD FLUENT speaker and reader is to change the language used in my mind into English.


That's challenging...now my world in my mind is utterly ruled by Japanese. I will take pains to get rid of it. But, this time, I give it a shot, because I believe in my theory and the result will be satisfactory.


By the way... let's imagine that I'm on the way to be GOOD English speaker, and it's a long and winding road. It's tough to reach the goals that you aim at.

But, now, where am I on that road??? halfway? or almost beginning? or lost about where to go?


There is no judging how well I can use English except for your feeling or score of Toeic or Something.

That's my wonder. I suppose it can never be enough even with English skills that has good reputation from the others.



see you.

Life is.....

Life is full of lots of up and down.

This sentence was said so often.

Basically, I agree with it.

I know the person who is running the farm, and used to be prosperous, but now is facing a financial crisis. He said He's fed up with a lot of incidents, but, still he said He is happy, It's better than flat life.


So, what about my case?

Now I feel going down.

It is lucky that I have girl friend, who is absolutely ideal person. I'm satisfied with it without any doubt.


However, except for that, the life is making me sad.

Recently, I have a time to think about myself. It is often that the thought goes deep into my mind and it brings tears to my eyes.

It made me wonder whether, If life is full of ups and downs, the one have them equally.


For me, the answer to the wonder is No. Some people have a lot of happy incident. the other suffer from a lot of terrible accident.


So this blog is not logical, I know. but I want to say that when I realize that my behavior and decision and so on in the past was wrong, It's too late to undo and do everything again.

we can make an effort to improve our life. forget the past, do something about the other things.




that's what I thought.

Outlet

Today I had a travel to Premium Outlet in Seattle with my gf.

Outlet is, as you know, a place and mall to enjoy shopping. There everyone should feel happy to spend money because of the seemingly cheap price.

I was supposed to be the one of them, but I wasn't.

I went around every shop, but, I wasn't tempted by any cloth.

I felt kind of dissapointed, because I evpecterd too much.

Many friends said the outlet in the seattle offer so cheap price that I can enjoy shopping. It was true. Almost all of the shops conducted kind of promotion and I could have got things at cheaper price if I had wanted.

But I place a great value on quality. If things have a good balance between quality and price, It will be most attractive for me.

So, the outlet doesn't have it. that's one of the reasons why I felt disapointted.

As another reason, it was rainy, the morning was terribly busy, there was kind of difficulty with getting on the quick shuttle.


More essentially, the list of shops is not my taste, preference. Usually I don't go to these shops.




Anyway! the Bad result is equal to the good experience. I learned and am determined not to go there (But I will be grad to go downtown in Seattle if I have a chance. there must be something. I believe in little but tempting hope)


BTW, that was the first time to step into U.S. Nothing special. that was a good experience to go through custom. Successfully, I didn't have any problem while some people got into trouble, one of them seemed serious because it seemed that he couldn't sleep English.


Anyway! (Obviously, there's a tendency for me to use "Anyway" when It's near to the end. that's because It's useful. I can finish writing regardless of context.)


Given everything which happened in this travel, It was good. with gf, All the travels will be happy.



I'm wondering where is the next destination:)