Hi, I am going to write about English and me.


First of all, I have never been to foreign country. So, I was very surprised at many students in Sophia having been to foreign country! ( some students have stayed for years!) Contrary to this, I studied English only in school and I didn’t have the class such as we talk with a native speaker of English. I think it was very unlucky. Because of this, I didn’t have a chance to try to speak my English. I wanted to improve my English skill by using it….

I have loved English since I was a child. I couldn’t speak English, but when I heard the way American people speak their language in TV, I was fascinated with its colorful sounds. I think almost all of Japanese usually speak our language in flat sounds. I was surprised that difference. I like the way native speaker of English take some example in conversation like this ;“For example, yellow ,red, pink, red, black,green,any color is OK ! ” When they say that, I think everyone makes their voice up and down. It’s very cheerful. So, I liked to listen to English very much.

I felt very nervous about my English classes in this university at first because I didn’t have confidence in my English ability. And having known that other students have been to (or stayed) foreign country, I became more nervous especially in my speaking class! But now I can think I need not become so nervous at all. I have very nice chances to use my English with friends who are good at speaking English. These days, I feel my pronunciation improving a bit thanks to listen to my classmates’ good English! And students in my department seem to have enthusiasm about improving their English skill. I am very happy to study with such friends. I think it is very wonderful environment for English study. Actually, the homework given by teachers is very heavy, but I have fun in studying English in university.


When I become 3rd grade, I want to study abroad though I haven’t decided where to go yet. It is one of my dreams since I was a child. I am very looking forward to it. But I thought everyone in Sophia can be allowed to study abroad (as an exchange student from Sophia). It turns to be not true! So now, I need to study hard to be admitted by school.

English is my favorite thing. And I am interested in American culture. My image about America is very colorful. Because I haven’t been there and talked with American about their culture, I don’t think how really it is. So I want to talk about it with them when I go abroad. And then, in order to explain about our culture as Japanese too, I am going to study about Japanese culture. In the first place, I think I need to know about Japanese history.


By the way, I found the acquaintance’s blog here the other day! He was a teacher of my juku school when I was in junior high. I haven’t met him recently. So I was very surprised and glad to find it! So I write a comment about his blog in English (though we both Japanese (^0^)!!)


Recently, I have started “mixi”(it is blog system like this!) In mixi, I wrote lot about what I thought and happened to me. And after I wrote, my friends of my high school read it and give me nice comments. Though we can’t meet now, through that blog we can talk as if in high school. And the other day, I taught this blog (totortotorototoro) to friends of high school, and I told them to read it and see my effort and please give me some comment in English!

So my friends read this blog and give me comments “You are having lots of effort! And it was very nice!! ” on mixi blog in Japanese …not on this blog in English. I want them to write comments on this blog!!(^u^) But I wonder it is little strange to ask Japanese. (?u?) So I think I will try to make friends who are not Japanese and ask them comment it.

I vaguely felt a bit easier to write 700words than last week!