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I want to say thank you very much for reading my journal entries and correcting them for a year all my friends. There is only one day left until the New Year's day.
How will you spend your New Year's eve and New Year's day?
Have you satisfied with this year?
In my case I'm very satisfied with this year, and I expect next year very much!
In Japan most of people return back to their hometown to meet their parents and relatives in New Year break. However, we don't plan on returning back to our parents house.
We think that it is the most priority thing to get used to new place. Therefore, we will go around here and there in Fukui in our New Year's break. It must be fun!
Today I downloaded a soft wear to record my speaking voice. I guess that it is the last small issue for me in this year. I'm really scared to listen to my recorded voice. Because I already well know that my English sounds very Japanese accented English. Even though my Skype friends comfort me that my English sounds neutral or not sounds Japanese accent so much, I would feel losing a confidence.
However, I also know that it would be able to improve my speaking abilities because I can analysis me.
Therefore, I will record my speaking voice tomorrow.
How will you spend your New Year's eve and New Year's day?
Have you satisfied with this year?
In my case I'm very satisfied with this year, and I expect next year very much!
In Japan most of people return back to their hometown to meet their parents and relatives in New Year break. However, we don't plan on returning back to our parents house.
We think that it is the most priority thing to get used to new place. Therefore, we will go around here and there in Fukui in our New Year's break. It must be fun!
Today I downloaded a soft wear to record my speaking voice. I guess that it is the last small issue for me in this year. I'm really scared to listen to my recorded voice. Because I already well know that my English sounds very Japanese accented English. Even though my Skype friends comfort me that my English sounds neutral or not sounds Japanese accent so much, I would feel losing a confidence.
However, I also know that it would be able to improve my speaking abilities because I can analysis me.
Therefore, I will record my speaking voice tomorrow.
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I want to say thank you to all my friends who read and corrected my journals this year.
There is only one day left until New Year's day.
How will you spend your New Year's eve and New Year's day?
Are you satisfied with this year?
In my case I'm very satisfied with this year, and I expect next year to be also!
In Japan, most of people return back to their hometown to meet their parents and relatives at New Year's.
We don't plan on returning back to our parents house.
Our biggest priority is to get settled in our new place.
Therefore, we will spend time in Fukui on our New Year's break.
It will be fun!
Today I downloaded software to record my voice.
My speaking voice is a small issue for me this past year.
I'm really scared to listen to my recorded voice.
Because I already well know that my English has a Japanese accent to it.
Even though my Skype friends comfort me and tell me that my English sounds verynatural, I feel like loosing my confidence.
I also know recording my voice would be able to improve my speaking abilities because I could analysis myself.
I will record my speaking voice tomorrow!
Are you satisfied with this year?
In my case I'm very satisfied with this year, and I expectthe same withnext year too!
In Japan,most people return back to their hometown to meet their parents and relatives in the New Year break.
However, we aren't planning on returning back to our parents house. ('We don't plan on returning' means as a habit every year. 'We aren't planning on returning' means just now, in this case.)
We think finding a new place to experience is the most important thing (or... has the highest priority).
So, we're going to travel around Fukui...
It's gonna be so much fun!
Today, I downloadedsoftwareto record my speaking voice. 'Software' is uncountable. To count software, use, 'a piece of' (but, 'I downloaded software...' is correct).
The word 'because' is actually to join two different ideas together. To begin a sentence with, 'because', there must be two concepts within that sentence: Because my English sounds very Japanese, I'm really scared to listen to it.
Even though my Skype friends comfort me that my English sounds neutral or doesn'tsoundssoJapanese, I stillfeel I'mlosing a confidence.'Confidence' is uncountable too.
However, I also know that it would enable me to improve my speaking abilities because I can analysemyself.
In my second year in Japan, I had to make a speech in Japanese. It was a disaster, I'm sure! But, I listened to my self speaking in Japanese. It was VERY difficult and embarrassing.
Even though it was hard, I could hear every mistake I made, and because I could hear myself speak, I could fix my pronunciation very quickly. I have not studied so well, but I did practice my pronunciation and speaking speed, and now most people tell me my Japanese is great! (They don't know I can't read Kanji so well...)
So, please 頑張れ and good luck!
It is going to be so much fun!
今年もいろいろとお世話になり、ありがとうございました。
今年は福井でお正月をすごされるんですね。
自分の声を録音するのなら、Skypeの内容を録音できるTapurというソフトもありますよ。
http://www.tapur.com/jp/
来年もいい一年になりますように。
よいお年を～
From now on I will record my voice.
After I listened to my recorded voice, I felt frastlated a lot. However, I'm sure that it is one of the best ways to improve my English abilities. Therefore, 頑張ります!
自分の英語の声を聞くのはすごくいやですが、とてもいい勉強になりました。これからときどき録音して悪いところを直していきたいなと思います。
However, I also know that it could improve my speaking abilities because I can analyse myself.
フィンランド語っぽい英語をアップしたらどうでしょうか。私の高校で一番下手な発音の人を真似してみたいと思います。（笑）そして、その後自分の発音も聞かせようと思います。＾＾