I've heard " a hint of spring" from native English speakers recently. I like the sentence coz I feel like it sounds more Japanese than English. In Japanese mind, we await spring followed by long-term severe winter and " a hint of spring" describe how much we are waiting for spring coming. To be surprised to me, the word came from native speakers so im glad that we somehow and somewhat feel the same thing in the bottom of our mind.
By the way, why are you learning English? Now ask yourself, now!
I think you want to improve your english as you read this status, so again, why?
if you cannot answer the question, you'll losw your motivation to keep study English when you find difficulty in keep studying and when you are burned out.
For me, English is the essential tool to communicate with people around the world with, cos English is the international common language. Once you step out of Japan, you'll find out there is nowhere you could communicate in Japanese unless they are Japanese-holiday destinations like Hawaii and so on.
It was just a coinsidence when i realised i should learn daily english not grammertical English; it was about 2 years ago when i went to New Zealand. I fould myself desappointed cos if i understand what they were saying in English, I could understand more and I could get more knowledge from them, As I was on the couch, a foeigner spoke to me in English and she told me the history there but I only could get what she said 50%. I wish I couldve 100% though.
It was the time when I decided to improve my english to know more and to broad my knowledge.
Now I can say i live with communication, that means english is my "rice"---Rice is the japanese staple food.
when you study english, I recommend you start with what you like and do that in English. If you like Japanese Manga, you can read that in english, if you like movies, you can watch these with english subtitles, if you like traveing, you can read travel info in English. everywhere you can find what you can do.
