French and English

Hi there friends! How are you doing?

As you know, I'm really interested in french. Actually, I take a french class every Monday and Thursday. When I was a freshman, the teacher was Japanese. I liked her, but I can't understand french grammer because it's different from Japanese one! Now, my French teacher is from France and he teaches us French in English. There are so many French words which are roots of English words, and the grammer is similar to English. So, I can understand it more easily now than before!



Have you ever seen these books? Yeah, this is one of the most famous books in French,"The Little Prince". For the fisst time, I read it in Japanese when I was a little girl. And after I took the french class, I bought the French one and English one. It's interesting for me to compare the 3 languages with the same story! If you are interested in some languages, try this! It's gonna be fun and good for your language skill I think!

And, this is the picture of one of my favorite DVDs! This movie,"Howl's moving castle" is one of Hayao Miyazaki's works. I love his works, but especially I love it!:)when I watch it, I change the language from Japanese to English or French. At first, I needed Japanese subtitles. But now, I can watch it without subtitles (Only in English. I need French subtitles when I watch it in French :P)

This is a picture of the news paper in English. I think, we need to know about things all over the world. And I wanted try reading news in English. Sometimes, it's quite difficult for me to read them actually, but I'm glad when I could some articles! There are many articles about China and Myanmer now. If you want to get some news papers in English, you can get them in the stand at the stations! ;)

And I just wanna show you the sweets I got today as a giveaway! Fresh strawberries with chocolate corting! My mom gave them to me! Hmmmm!

Can you see the sticker "Made for You" on the box of the Macdonald's hot apple pie? When I had it with a friend of mine, I found it. It was on the box only mine! hahaha! I just wanted show you again! hehe

So, thanks for reading! See you next time! ;)

My weekend with English

Hi there friends! ;)

Usually, I read and watch something in English. I'll show you what I had with English today:) I've been really interested in world histry since I was high school student. I've wanted to read books about world history in English. However, they seemed to be difficult to read the history books for adults. So, I searched the book for children in English over the internet. Finally, I found the text book for children in the US or some other English country.

↑This is the picture of the book cover↑

It has many pictures and illustrations, and it makes me understand easily. I try to read it without dictionary as I can. But anyway, I sometimes use my dictionary. There are some words I don't know, so I often think I need to improve my vocabulary. Well, when I finish reading this book, I'll try to read more academic history book for adult :)

↑This is the contents of the book↑

And, this is one of my favorite movies, "BRIDGED JONES -The Edge of the reason-". I think, some of you've seen this movie before. I saw this movie for the first time some days ago, and I did really like it. We can hear British English in it. It's quite different from American English. We, Japanese more often hear American English than British English. So, it's interesting for me to know the differences of the expressions between American English and British English. Well, one of my hobbies is watching movies, so I'm going to find more interesting things from movies in English! There are sooooo many movies in English and they have many kind of English. Then, I can learn more about English from them!

This is the DVD of "BRIDGED JONES"

Thank you for coming and see you next time! ;)

Ikkyuji Temple in Kyoto

Hellooooo! Everyone! XD How are you doing? Do you enjoy your Golden Week? Me, went to Ikkyuji Temple last Sunday. Recently, I'm really interested in the historical places like temples. So, I'll show you some pictures of it today :) First of all, I'm gonna introduce about Ikkyuji Temple. This temple is named after one of the famous priest in Japan, Ikkyu. Most of people in Japan know him because of his wit. For example, look up at the picture above. You can see "このはし わたるな" on the sign board. In Japanese, "はし" has several meanings. This case,most of us think, we shouldn't go on this bridge, because one meaning of "はし" is "bridge". but Ikkyu thought another meaning of "はし" which means "side" or "curb". So, he went on the center of this bridge and he could go to the other side safely. This is just one of his witty story. He worked so many times with his wit, and it was appreciated by the load. In this temple, there are lot of stuff concern with Ikkyu.

↑This is the statue of himself.↑

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This is the bath boom which he used actually about 600 years ago.

↑This is hiｓ garden.↑

I can't show you all of the things in this place, so if you have an opportunity to visit Kyoto, why don't you go there? :) It's gonna be great and you'll enjoy it!

Thank you for reading! Bye now!