English

Improving English (Or Another Second Language) Skills

Here is a list of some of the habits I found really helped me with my English (as a second language) skills.

With the internet, any and all of these forms of practice are easily accessible free of charge and can be tailored to your specific areas of interest. All you have to do is search for them and dedicate some time to it.

• Listening to music in English, while reading the lyrics and singing along;

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Friend

It occurred to me one of these days when a friend of old times contacted me about going to see a play that the best thing about true friendship is that it is not something that you can find somewhere but rather something that comes to you at the right time. In fact my best and dearest friends are nowhere near me but my connection to them has no strings attached to either place or time.

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Yukata

浴衣は湯上がりや夏季に着る木綿の着物で、裏地はありません。振袖など礼装の着物に対し、浴衣は気どりのないふだん着です。素肌の上に着ることもでき、ふつうは足袋もはかず、素足で下駄をはきます。ことに暑い夏の夕方、ひと風呂浴びた後に着る浴衣の着心地は格別で、見た目にもさわやかで涼しげに感じられます。 夏祭りや花火大会、盆踊りなどでは浴衣姿の人も多く見られ、夏の風物詩の1つになっています。また、多くの旅館やホテルには浴衣が用意されており、ねまき代わりに着ることもできます。

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Paraphrase Exercises

         There are four groups of sentences. I tried to make sentence B express the same meaning as sentence A's but in a different way. Please correct them for me. Thanks a lot.( ^_^ )

1)A. Little donkeys thread among the throngs of people.

   B. Through the bunch of people move slowly some small donkeys.

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dialect

日本は各地方が山岳地帯にさえぎられているため、各共同体が簡単に往来することができず、それぞれ独自の方言が発達しました。例えばラテン系の言語の中でフランス語とスペイン語は非常によく似ていて、それぞれラテン語の方言ということも可能ですが、日本語の方言もそれに近い違いを持っている場合があります。かつては東北地方と九州地方では互いにことばを通じさせるのが非常に困難だった時代もありました。そのため近代になってから、主に東京のことばを基準に徐々に共通語が形成されました。しかし、方言はその地域の文化を担っているので、むしろ最近はそれを大切にする運動が起こっています。

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Test

Hello.

I´m testing it. i wrote another text after this and I can found it and i use it like a write practise.

Thanks for reading.

 

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