LETTER FROM HAPPY ENGLISH SCHOOL May 15, 2017

Hello, how is everything going? What did you do during “Golden Week” holidays? Did you go on an outing? I went to the Takatsuki Jazz Street and enjoyed listening to nice music, and I also went to the pot sticker (gyoza) festival in Osaka Castle Park and enjoyed eating different kinds of pot sticker and drinking beer. Pot stickers really go well with beer. I think pot sticker is one of the greatest inventions by the Chinese in China’s 4000 years of history. 

Wherever you are, you can learn English. You can describe what you see there, and then express what you think about your experiences in English. It is important to always look up words in the dictionary when you realize you do not know the words necessary to describe the situations and express your views. You need to carry your electric dictionary all the time so as not to miss a good chance to remember English words on the spot.

We do not have to sit at the desk to study English. You may hear English songs at a shop. You may hear English announcements and see English signs on the train and at the station. Listening and reading whatever English sentences should help improve your English.

I suggest you always have your electric dictionary and English reading and listening materials with you. Expose yourself to English and try your English out by recording your speech on the smartphone or practicing writing using email and SNS these days. Keep it up! Continuity is the father of success.

英語はどこででも学べます。貪欲に辞書をいつも携えて、英語を聞き読み、そして話し、英語で表現することを習慣にしましょう。これはどういう意味？これは英語で何というの？といつも電子辞書に尋ねるのです。その積み重ねで英語は自分の中にたまっていきます。普段の生活から、何事も英語に結び付けて過ごしてみると、英語が自分の中にもっと浸透していきます。