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| ハンドル名 | Karen & Joe さん |
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| ブログタイトル | Karen's blog supplemental |
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| サイト紹介文 | natural & easy to read （自然で読みやすい）を心掛けながら書いている英語日記です。 |
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| 更新頻度(2年) | 情報提供167回 / 538日（平均2.2回/週） - 参加 2007/05/21 11:46 |
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Karen & Joe さんのブログ記事
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- 2008/09/18 14:08This blog thing has brought me a lot of happiness.
- As I said before on the article: I have another name, another blog, I
keep maintaining two blogs in the blogoshere. I don't know how many p
eople are reading my blogs. But just having my own blogs has brought m
e a lot of happiness.First, when I write something both in English and
in Japanese on my blogs, I can meet new people. In my real life, I ca
n't meet & talk to so many people. I only have a ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/08/14 12:43I can't wait.
- Long time no see! I am kind of suffering from the summer heat. I've l
ost my appetite. I feel I've lost the power to write something in Engl
ish. So I've been absent for a long time. Do you remember me & my blog
? If so, I'm really happy.Every summer vacation, I think I'd better s
top studying English. I am a full-time housewife with two children. Es
pecially in the summer vacation, it's so hard to f ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/07/03 14:41Captain's Log, supplemental
- When I started this blog about a year ago, I wanted to suggest that I
was maintaining another blog in the blogosphere. Then an idea of the
title just occurred to me. That is 'Karen's blog supplemental.'I didn'
t know if the title 'Karen's blog supplemental' is natural or not. But
I decided to use the phrase because I knew that sci-fi (science fict
ion) series Star Trek uses the phrase 'Captain's L ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/17 15:26I have another name, another blog.
- Hi, dear readers. This is Karen. Today, I have a confession to make.I
n the blogosphere, I have another name and another blog. Another name
of mine is 'Rach' and another blog of mine is シットコムで笑え
！ 海外ドラマ「フレンズ」英語攻略ガイド .When I che
cked a while ago, シットコムで笑え！ ranked 7th in the rankin
g site にほんブログ村 英語ブログ . (FYI: 'Karen's blog su
pplemental' ranked 14th.) ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/13 15:18Are you interested in my profile?
- About 6 months ago, I wrote an article: The Karen identityOn the artic
le, I said;"I might tell you about my and our history in detail i
n the future. It could be 2 weeks later, six months later, 20 years fr
om now, or NEVER."Do you realize this? 'Six months later' is now
.I've been thinking about this whole 'revealing' thing a lot for a lon
g, long time. And now, I finally decided to talk ab [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/11 11:44Time flies like an arrow.
- Continued from the previous article; He is worried about his own futu
re.My son, who is 8 years old, said that he was worried about his own
'career & marriage.' I said, "You don't have to worry about it ri
ght now because you are so young." But he wouldn't withdraw.He sa
id, "When I got to be in the third grade in April, you said, &quo
t;You are already in the thrid grade! It seems lik... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/06/05 12:45He is worried about his own future.
- When my son & I took a bath together, my son said anxiously, "I
am worried about a few things.""Tell me what makes you worry
, honey," I said.He started to talk about his own worries. "
First, about my carrer. I wonder if I will be able to work at the offi
ce, because I don't know how to get there. I haven't got on a train al
one, I don't know what to say to my collegues.&quo... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/05/16 06:57She wants to put on makeup.
- My daughter, who is 4 years old, is really interested in makeup. When
I put on my makeup in front of the mirror, she leans over to me and s
tares at "her Mom in the mirror."Yesterday morning, as usual
, she watched me putting on makeup. She held up a powder puff and aske
d, "Can I use this one?" "Sure, go ahead," said I
, and then she started to powder her face with the ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/04/25 05:43I'd like to make myself understood only in English.
- It's been a while, like more than three weeks, since I posted the las
t piece. Meanwhile, many people left a lot of encouraging comments on
my blog. Thank you sooo much. And so sorry for taking me so long to an
swer your comments. I sometimes think, "What do I want to do by p
osting English articles?" Maybe I'm just trying to make myself u
nderstood ONLY in English. There's no Japanese sent... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/04/02 10:04I was about to quit, but...
- I've been busy recently. About 2 weeks ago, I thoght to myself, "
;It's time to quit this blog. If you can't write anything for this blo
g, you don't have to keep it any more, Karen.""No one reads
my blog," I thought. So I didn't care about this blog for the pas
t 2 weeks. Then, 5 days ago, I found that someone left comments on my
articles. When I read her comments, I understood t... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/03/20 09:25Drawn to grammar
- I'm aware that a lot of Japanese English-learners don't like grammar.
They seem to hate dealing with confusing technical terms such as rela
tive pronoun （関係代名詞） or the present perfect progressive
form （現在完了進行形）...However, I really love studying gra
mmar. I don't know why and I can't explain the reason well. I JUST lov
e it.I don't care how much time I spend on grammar. Or rather, I ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/03/14 06:35I'd like to say 'thank you' to my parents.
- Continued from the previous article.I was talking about the song 'hom
e' by Yusaku Kiyama last week. I said I love both the melody and the l
yrics. I think it is so hard to translate Japanese lyrics into English
. I feel it's so difficult to convey the intended nuance in another la
nguage... but I'd like to try it.I like this part;You've given overflo
wing happiness & straightforward love to me ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/03/06 14:31The song 'home' makes me cry.
- Do you guys know the song 'home' by Yusaku Kiyama? I really love thi
s song. Every time I hear his clear voice, I feel something in my hear
t. That 'something' makes me cry.There is a TV program named Uta-Sta
（歌スタ!!）. The program carries out some auditions in order to d
iscover good singers. My husband & I like this program and watch it ev
ery week. Several months ago, Kiyama-san got to the a ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/02/28 13:34 My father came to my house.
- When I was about to start writing a piece for my blog this morning, t
he door bell rang. That was my father. He brougnt some food to me. He
said, "How have you been?" "Same as usual." I rep
lied.Since my voice was a little husky, he asked, "Do you have a
cold? Are you okay?" I said with a smile, "I have a touch
of cold, indeed. But that's not serious. You don't ha... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/02/21 12:06 You know what? We're all alone.
- It was a parents' visiting day this Sunday. My husband, daughter & I
went to the elementary school and watched my son sing songs & play the
Pianica (keyboard harmonica). Their performances are really excelle
nt. I was very prond of my son.My son was given a compensatory day off
(Dai-kyu) the next day. He seemed so happy ever since morning. &quo
t;You don't have to go to school today. Is that why yo... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/02/14 11:20 Every morning! Part 2
- Continued from the previous article.My son was eating some Tamago-yak
i at the table. I urged him, like, "You'd better leave now. Your
friends must be waiting for you."There is a little park near my h
ouse. Some students gather there and the leader (Hancho-san) is supp
osed to take other students to the school every morning.I don't know w
hy, but I have to go to the park to see off my son e... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/02/07 12:09 Every morning, we have to do this.
- My daugether wakes in a good mood. Yes, she is a good riser. So am I.
Maybe she inherited the nature from her mother, me.On the other hand,
my husband & son are really poor a riser. They always wake in a bad t
emper. They are dull-eyed and move so slowly in the morning. Probably
my son inherited the nature from..., you know.This morning, my daughte
r tried to put her clothes on by herself as usua ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/31 12:08 Now I understand why I don't try to do it.
- Dear Joe;I kind of feel like saying, "Can we drop this?" I
know it's not like Karen to say this. But I'm a little confused...May
be 'enjoying it' is not essential when you study English. All I want t
o say is "Enjoy it, and you'll get more interested in it, and you
'll be able to keep on doing it!" That's my policy, that's my bel
ief.I could end this article with the sentence, &qu... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/29 12:12 MY VEGETARIAN YEARS – I GAINED 30 POUNDS
- I hate to hear someone say to me something like, "How do you kno
w? You haven't even tried it!" So, one day
we were talking about vegetarian, and I said something negative about
it. One vegetarian guy just shot me with the exact words a
bove. So I said, "Ok, I am a vegetarian from now on, a
nd I'll tell you a year from today what's so great ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/28 20:43 READING ONE BOOK ONLY!
- If you read the same book over and over until you memorize every sing
le word in it, wouldn't that be more effective & productive than readi
ng 1000 books only once?I've said it many times for many years, but I
haven't achieved anything even barely close to it. I read
same books repeatedly. Some of them have been re-read over
dozen times. But I still wonder if I ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/27 20:20 THOSE MISTAKES WE OFTEN MAKE, . . . SO?
- The other day at BOOK-OFF I read a few chapters of a book about the c
ommon mistakes we, Japanese ESL learners, make in English.
Probably, you guys coming here are all familiar with those books, whic
h are usually written by native English-speaking ESL teachers who live
d or have lived in Japanese for many years.In general those books are
a great help for Japanese ESL learners to know ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/27 07:07 JUST GIVE WHATEVER YOU HAVE! THAT'S IT!
- Even f I had 10,000 visitors a day, even if I had hundreds of comment
s from them everyday for each blog post, if my blog post were the only
thing or main thing they read in English, I would NOT be happy.
Or I'd feel guilty. If you read one or two English ar
ticles a day, you should read something written by native English-spea
king professional writers, most definit ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/26 21:08 SHE IS DEAD SERIOUS!
- A friend of mine, a Canadian ESL teacher, brought one of her students
. The student, let's say her name is Ms. Tanaka, is in her
late 60s, ex-high school English teacher whose English is in fact rema
rkably good. She is such a sweet, cheerful, groovy old lady
who loves reading, and whose favorite phrase turned out to be "O
h, that's a good one, let me write that down!"... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/26 16:00 JUST A STUPID IDEA, BUT HOW FORTUNATE I AM!
- I wonder if it is possible to finish a whole book by reading bit by b
it everyday at the bookstore without buying it. If you can
read like 200 words per minute, you read 10 pages in 20 minuets.
So, you go to the bookstore everyday after work, five days a wee
k, it would take a month to finish reading a book that has 400 to 450
pages.But the big question is, of cours ... [続きを読む]
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- 2008/01/26 11:11 DEFINE 'ENGLISH LEARNER'
- I've noticed that we have different criteria for the definition of th
e term 'English learner' or 'ESL learner'. Some of us appar
ently think that 'English learner' or 'ESL learner' means 'anyone who
studies English'.I think the definition above is oversimplified.
My version is this: 'English learner' or 'ESL learner' means 'a
person who is willing to study English with his ... [続きを読む]
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