日本語と感覚が違う。 He patted me on the shoulder. I punched him in his face. The teacher helped me with my homework. The politician accused him of inconsideration. I robbed him of the wallet.

You're all set. I'm surprised. He's upset. She's embarrased. この set, surprised, upset, embarrased は全部adjective. past participleに近いように見えるものでも、あくまでadjective. statusを表現する。 passive（受動態）との違いは、passiveの場…

It was almost a year ago that I noticed my body had some trouble. It had been 10 months since I started living and working in the U.S. at that time. Many minor problems caused by stresses from living in unfamiliar place had accumulated in …

For me, the final goal of leaning English is acquireing circuit of English in my brain. When I once acquire it, I will automatically understand what American says because it will be processed through my inner circuit. However, it's a long …

Three months ago, I received a letter from motor vehicle commission of New Jersey, which informed me that I should pay fine for violation of traffic rule. A photo was printed on the letter as a proof of my violation. In the photo, my car w…

[Samのメールから] "I hope all is well with you." いつも I hope you're doing wellで芸がない。これはちょっとシャレて聞こえる。 "I'm writing to inform everyone that there will be NO English Conversation tomorrow." informの使い方 "The program …

Please take a look of the following basic verbs. walk, run, eat, wait, etc. In Japanese, a word is categorized to a part of speech. "hashiru" is verb. In English, however, run can be either verb or noun. This is a big difference, and many …

・最初のReadは7回聞く、7回繰り返し読み。 ・文法説明の箇所は7回繰り返し読み。 ・新しいvocabularyをノートにまとめる。 ・特に面白いと思った文章（text, workbookから）を抜出してノートにまとめる。 ・学んだ表現で10個の自分用sentenceを作成する。 …