February 20, 2010 – 8:12 am
My Father’s a really nice guy. Last christmas, I went to Canada and I met him at the airport. Then, from there we went to his house and I stayed at his house for the whole holiday. It was really nice. That is the script I use to reinforce the silent ‘h’ phenomenon I pointed [...]
February 8, 2010 – 6:26 am
The other day I was thinking about the role of listening in the 英会話 (eikaiwa) industry here in Japan. A lot of students in my school (スミス英会話生駒) have trouble repsonding because they have trouble with listening.
When I started to learn Japanese I wanted to listen to anything and everything. This was good, but it was just too difficult. I became frustrated. Then, I wanted to learn by listening to small selections of Japanese again and again and again. This was also good, but natural conversation is not like that. I [...]