With the end of January almost upon us, happy lunar new year greetings from Kyoto. I hope 2012 is off to a good start for the entire Smith’s community! 2011, while a period of learning for me at Smith’s Nagaokakyo (スミス 英会話 長岡京), finished up strong. This has carried into the new year and I [...]
This week I again choose a purple flower to decorate the reception room in the Smith`s school of Englishスミス英会話 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka東大阪布施. If you have been reading my articles regularly you will know that it is my son`s favorite color. It`s name is Wavyleaf Sea-lavender or Limonium sinuatum in English英語 and スターチス in Japanese. [...]
This week, I have chosen these beautiful purple Campanula カンパニュラ to decorate the reception room of the Smith`s school of English スミス英会話 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka東大阪布施 (click here to get to the main page of the English Conversation school 英会話学校のメインサイトはこちらへ。) Commonly known as Bellflower in English, the name Campanula stems from the Latin original name. [...]
This week, the shop assistant at the flower shop in the shopping arcade in Ajiro, Fuse布施足代 recommended these cute flowers to me. Are they not beautiful! They are called Alstroemeria both in English and in Japanese. So the Japanese name in katakanaアリストロメリア resembles the English name very well. The flower itself was named by the German [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら As I am hoping for a nice long spring this year, I have chosen these beautiful yellow wild daffodilsラッパスイセン to decorate the reception room in the Smith`s school of English in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大坂布施. As the daffodil or narcissus, it`s official name, blooms at the end of winter and early spring, it [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら Maybe the End of January/ beginning of February is a little bit early for this beauty of a flower, but on seeing them in the flower shop in Fuse, Higashi-Osaka 東大阪布施, these tulips チューリップ just caught my eye. The tulip is a really famous flower and I sure that everybody knows them, but new [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら Last week, I chose these beautiful gerbera ガーベラ to decorate the conversation school 英会話教室 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大阪布施. As they belong to the family of Daisies, just as the sunflower, there form is very close. They come in a variety of vivid colours, so they make a very beautiful decoration. Gerbera ガーベラ are quite well [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら While in the past few week I often chose flowers which where imported to Japan and thus had a Katakana name originating from an European language, this week I am decorating the English Conversation school 英会話教室 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大阪布施 with an original Japanese flower, a swertia japonica, センブリ in Japanese. Even thought the flower [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら Great Job! Well done! One of our great students here at Smith`s School of Englishスミス英会話 in Fuse Higashiosaka 東大阪布施 showed the best of her abilities at the 31st High School English speech contest スピーチコンテストin Yao 八尾! (The official name is 第３１回高校生弁論大会.) Due to her continued effort and iron will to perform better and better still, [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら September 21st- 26th 2010 This week at my English School in Higashi Osaka Fuse (英会話 布施) I decided to decorate school here in Ajiro(足代) with these beautiful red carnations (カーネーシォン). Many flowers use Katakana in their Japanese names. Some of the Katakana matches English very well. Theses flowers have an English name that has been [...]
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