Vol.61: My plan to improve listening skill

Good morning!

I arrived in Rhodes island in Greece.

Now I’m trying to improve listening skill.

I can understand non-native speaker’s English.

But I can’t understand native speaker’s English sometimes.

So I want to improve my listening skill.

So let me make plan to improve listening skill.

【Final purpose of listening】

・I want to be able to understand any kinds of English.

・Talk with native speaker with light atmosphere.

・I want to be able to understand English news, Youtube, movie, radio.

・And I want to be able to make use of these contents daily.

【Analysis of the present circumstances】

・Be able to understand non-native speaker’s English.

・Sometimes difficult to understand native speaker’s English.

・I sometimes have a tension talking with native speakers.

・Tend to struggle to listen at the beginning of sentence.

・Difficult to catch the rhythm of native speaker’s English.

【Weak point from analysis】

・Listening skill of the beginning of sentence

・The skill of catching the rhythm

・Mentality to talk to native speakers.

【Necessary training point】

・Reinforce listening skill of beginning of sentence.

・Reinforce the skill of caching rhythm.

・Build up mentality to talk to native speakers.

【Specific way of training】

・Focus on the beginning of the sentence in daily conversation.

・Pile up to having a dialogue with native speaker to catch their peculiar rhythm and intonation as much as I can.

・Get used to talk with native speakers.

・Be proactive to talk to  native speakers.

・Concentrate listening more than before.

・Not only conversation but also trying to watch the video which is by native speaker with subscription. 

That is my plan.

I sometimes escape by the way.

But if I continue it, it doesn’t go well.

Because the way doesn’t approach my weak point.

So first of all, it's necessary to analysis in myself.

I tend to analysis in myself.

So, let me follow the scheme below.

①Set a purpose what I want to be

②Analysis in myself logically

③Think my improvement from self analysis

④Think practical way

⑤Make a plan

⑥Make a systematic plan to continue

⑦Practice

Let me try! 

Vol.60:Asics!

Good morning.

I arrived at Sousa port in Crete island.

It’s sunny, dry, comfortable day.

I sometimes can’t remember their face. Even though I talked with them last day.

So I was searching how can I memorize passengers?

I notice the good way. This is shoes.

One day I notice I memorize some of passengers by their own shoes.

That is naturally way to me.

So after that i try to memorize passengers by shoes.

Through these observation, I notice many passengers wear Asics shoes more than I guessed

Especially German, Australian guests likes wearing Asics.

Why do they wear Asics? Let I will ask them.

When I’m in foreign countries.

I’m glad to see Japanese products.

I feel Japanese products is admitted by them.

Next 10 to 20 years, which kind of shoes will they wear?

See you. 

Vol.59:Enjoy local food!

Hi! I arrived at Nafplion port today.

I’ll go to beach to do sunbathe.

Today, let me talk about local food.

Yesterday, I enjoyed food in local market.

In local market, there are many kinds of fruit, vegetable, nuts, olives, cheese, meat etc.

We can taste it almost everything.

I could enjoy although just checking.

I bought dry fruit, dry tomato.

I ate big chicken kebab, vegetable kebab.

I love these kind of local food in each place.

So going there is one of the biggest pleasure.

I feel the importance of local food.

Because we can eat real local food only this place.

We tend to eat fast food recently.

Of course Izmir has Starbucks and MacDonald.

But these shop declines the opportunity to eat local foods.

It’s so sorry. I feel.

In my opinion. my ideal is to eat local food mainly, and sometimes eat fast food.

I think this is best balance of our for life.

It’s so enjoyable to eat local food in each place to me!

I want to continue these kind of experience by going around the world.

To enjoy it, I need to earn money.

See you. 

Vol.58:Be familier with other language!

Good morning! I arrived at Izmir port in Turkey.

Today I’ll try Kebab.

I have an enjoyable thing in my job.

That is to greet passengers with their own languages.

For example, if I meet French passengers, I try to say "Buon Sowa!"

If they are Chinese passengers, "Zao Shang Hao!"

When I do these greeting, they look happy.

So I use it like this.

Learning other languages is so fun.

Because I feel I can be more close to them.

Let me tell you how to identify their nationalities?

We need little bit tips.

I have two ways.

First one is face.

Depends on the nationalities, of course they have their face.

Gradually I can identify by this way.

Second one is their clothes and fascion.

They have tendency what they wear and what is their hair style.

For example, German old man likes to wear socks under sandals.

To know their tendency, I can  identify their natinonalities.

My main objective is to brush up English.

But I feel having leeway to study other languages is so important.

So I don’t need to stick to English!

Take it easy!

Learning English with enjoyable thing!! 

Vol.57: Is sunbathe good for skin?

Good morning, I arrived at Santorini island in Greece.

Needless to say, The weather is sunny.

When will it be rainy?

Today, let me talk about sunbathe.

When I went to hospital, doctor said "Sunbathe is bad for my skin. So don’t expose my skin from the sun.”.

 

But I searched on the internet, almost web site said “Sunbathe is good for skin.”.

The reason from the internet is sun has ultraviolet. Ultraviolet is good for the skin rush.

As well, sun shine provides good effect for my body.

Also in Japan, we commonly believe exposure of skin from sunshine isn’t good for our skin.

But according to Europe investigation, The people they lives less sunny day tend to be skin disease more than more sunny day country.

So the professor said sunshine has good effect to our skin.

So I decide to do sunbathe as much as possible.

I have avoided eating meat, egg, gluten food, oily food, dairy products for 1 months.

But it doesn’t have good effect to me. Rather getting worse.

And I think I need to train my skin.

Let me try to do sunbathe at least twice a week.

I expect the effect of sunbathe.

If it provides good effect to me, I post the result.

See you. 

Vol.56:Missing Japanese food

Good morning! I arrived at Lavrion port in Greece.

4weeks have passed since I started working.

Time passes so early. I sometimes feel.

I already miss Japanese food.

For example, I want to eat white rice, miso soup, natto, Japanese sake, my mother’s home cooking, Mr.Wada’s dishes, Mr. Omori’s dishes etc.

Since I came to Greece, I really feel excellence of Japanese food.

These ideas are so great. I just be surprised.

I want to shout, “I’m so happy to be Japanese!!!”

I’m proud of being Japanese. 

Vol.55:Make the guess and approach it

Good morning!

We arrived at Cosme port in Turkey.

We will left Cesme at 13:00, and then we will arrive at Mykonos island in Greece in this night.

Today let me write about my guess.

My itchy isn’t getting better yet.

What can I do?

I try to guess basically cause and approach it.

Though I went to dermatologist, why I try to cure by myself?

Because my doctor in Japan said “there isn’t the way to cure used by medicine and ointment”.

That’s why I have kept approaching my inner self.

The best way is to go to specialist of Atopy.

But unfortunately ship’s doctor doesn’t know it.

What do I want to do now?

To be honest, I don’t know clearly.

I’m about to lose my mind.haha

Or one of the possibility is that actually I want to come back to Japan.

I’m tired. Why am I Nefeli?

See you.