01/01/13 - あけましておめでとう！
Happy New Year to all the world!!
My New Year's Resolution is to study English very hard as well as its teaching methods.
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20/10/12 - World poverty can be eliminated? 2
Agree or disagree?
Write a short essay (about 200 words) with three points: education, population growth and technology.
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20/10/12 - World poverty can be eliminated?
Agree or disagree?
Write a short essay (about 200 words) with three points: education, population growth and technology.
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02/09/12 - Have I Got the Aussie Accent?
I wonder if I've got the Australian accent.
Yesterday, two missionaries spoke to me, and one of them said that I spoke the Australia...
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26/08/12 - I passed the final test for big bikes!!
This morning I passed the final test for big bikes, which refer to over 400cc ones.
This was one of my dreams in my life and it finally...
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03/04/11 - A Typhoon?
Today it is really stormy in Kyoto!!
It is worse than when typhoons come.
According to the weather forecast, the maximum instantaneous...
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02/04/11 - A New Fiscal Year in Japan
In Japan, our fiscal year starts on 1st April and ends on 31st March.
I began work as a public officer at a public high school.
The e...
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29/03/12 - The World's Wildness Areas
Q: Do the world’s wildness areas need to be better protected?
The Key Words I chose: biodiversity, population growth, Ecotourism
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11/03/12 - It's been a year since the disaster happened.
This time I try to translate a piece of articles in the newspaper into English without my dictionary.
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Got a minute?
I have a quick question.
This is one of my student's composition and my friend, a native speaker of English, corrected a bit of that...
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31/01/12 - The Number 'Seven' in Japanese Society?
At the beginning of this month, I talked about a Japanese custom 'Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health'.
http://lang-8.com/166823/...
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30/01/12 - Do You Know of TOEIC?
Yesterday, I took a TOEIC at a uni in Kyoto city.
TOEIC stands for Test of English for International Communication.
It consists of two ...
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07/01/12 - Do You Know "Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health"?
Do you know a Japanese cultural event "Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health"?
In Japan, there is a custom of eating rice porridg...
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05/01/12 - Any Reverse Culture Shock 2?
Part 1 if you haven't read
→ http://lang-8.com/166823/journals/1246947/16-12-11-Any-Reverse-Culture-Shock%253F
Let me tell you som...
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04/01/12 - Drink, Drive, Bloody Idiot
The first three days of the New Year (sanga nichi or shogatsu) have finished,
and today was the first working day for many people in J...
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03/01/12 - How Japanese People Celebrate New Year's 2
Japanese people have some particular customs at the New Year's.
(Part 1 if you haven't read → http://lang-8.com/166823/journals/...
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02/01/12 - How Japanese People Celebrate New Years holidays
How did you celebrate New Year's Day and what do you do during New Year's holidays?
Japanese people do something different from ...
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01/01/12 - Is the Japanese Language Corrupting?
Happy New Year for 2012, everyone!!
How did you spend today?
Today, I read newspaper about the Japanese language.
It says that gal...
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17/12/11 - My Last Entry for My Blog
This would be my last entry for my blog - A "Half Time" of My Life in Aus.
There are so many things to write about such as h...
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16/12/11 - Any Reverse Culture Shock?
This morning it hailed...It was very cold.
I went downtown in Kyoto city, but I didn't feel any reverse culture shock.
I couldn'...
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