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eChat 793 　　Farewell

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(1:10-)

Do you have the time?
Have you got the time?
の違い

What time is it?
Have you got the time? オーストラリア英語なのでCanadianは使わない。

We use
"Do you have the time?" or
"Do you know what time it is?"

Like everybody says
"Have you got the time?"
時間ありますか？忙しいですか？空いてますか？
Have you got the time to ～?

～中略～4:45

決定する、決める　determined　と　decided の違い
It was determined.は堅い言い方。

～ was determined.の使いかたをする。
I determined.とは言わない。

自分から何かを決めたときは
I decided to do something.
I determined to do something.は使わない。

I was determined. (determined が形容詞になる)
I was determined to go to Japan.

～～中略～7:19

自分の部屋の掃除は自分でやります、の言い方
Don't go to any trouble.
Please don't go to any trouble.

Oh, please don't go to any trouble.
You know I can clean the room myself.
I don't mind.
I don't mind cleaning the room myself.

I feel bad you're quite busy.
I don't mind cleaning it myself.
Please don't go to...～中略～8:19

Please don't go to any trouble.
I can clean my room myself.
I don't mind at all.
It's OK.

You have a lot of other things to do
I'll make sure that I'll keep my room clean .
But I don't mind doing it myself.

Don't worry about it, let me do it.

Don't worry about it just let me do it.

No, no, no what he said that.
Oh, he said don't worry let me do it?
That's my job.
He says.

I really appreciate you cleaning .
But you know I would like some privacy as well.～中略～11:00

子供をほめるときの言い方。
Oh looks like Ai.
Looks like daddy.

だっこしたいわ。あいたいわ。
Oh, I wanna squeeze him.

Oh, I just wanna squeeze him.

Oh, I just wanna pinch those little cheeks.

I can't wait to meet him.
I can't wait to see him.
I can't wait to hold him.
He has really clear features.

His features are so sharp.
His features are so clear.
His features are very strong features.～中略～17:41

To end our 3 year long eChat Vancouver
I just wanted to ask each person to say one thing
they really love about Vancouver.

You can think about it.
Just one thing that you really love about Vancouver.
I just wanted to end the show on that bright note.

We all are living day to day in Vancouver right now.
And we have to look positively .
Ah, every day, in a manner,
what job you're doing what, you know life style of living.
So tell us one thing that you really love about Vancouver.
～中略～
Thank you!

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eChat 792 Farewell - DAY 4/5

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(9:00-) b d g p t v z の発音のこつ

My name is Bob. Bob だったらわかるか

Whatever Peter please spell.
Oh, your last name is really hard to spell.

And it's a "P", something, something.
And we always say P for Peter. / Right.
とか B for Bobby.

だいだい名前を使うんですよね。私は名前を使う／国の名前かな。
You can see, or you can see.../

I often use city names like B for Boston, T for Tokyo.
Tokyo, you can say that too./ Yea.
Oh, very common words that everybody is familiar with...
～中略～10:07

The problem here is once again the "かな"./Yeah.
Because "T" in かな is ”チー"./ People don't say that.
タ,テ,ツ,テ,ト.

So therefore "タ" is not problem.
But "T" is a problem for some people.
Because they're thinking かな.
So they go "チー".

The same as "The" .
For some people it's gonna be "ジー"

Because it's based on the かな.
So I think people have to forget かな./ And think about sound.
Yeah.
But ～中略～11:24

I don't know.
This is again phonics.
What we learn when we were in elementary school phonics .
～中略～

I think it's the かな.
They're too used to the パ、ア.../Too used to かな.
ア,イ,ウ,エ,オ, vowel sounds./Yeah.
Ending it, yeah.
So think of it sound again phonics.
～中略～

So that's only thing I can think of, right? 略

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eChat 791 Farewell - DAY 3/5

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(4:15-11:56)

63 years old./ You still can learn more languages.
Oh, my brain is better now, better now than when I was young.
Yeah. Ages no problem.
Ages no problem./ Ages no problem.
No problem./ Wow.

And ah, so, I was learning Russian.
And but tomorrow I have to go to Italy.
That's right. You were saying...
I'm flying to Italy.
I did a little Italian.
～中略～

Is that original form of Italy?
Of course.
It's an Italian story.
It's a great story. / Oh, OK.

And this ah, I have an audio book it's tremendous.
It's so well-done.

So I'm listening Italian for 2 days .
Then I go back to Russian, my Russian is better. / Hm.

So I write on my blog I say I think that if you're studying language A
maybe in Japan people have been studying English
and they try and don't think getting any better
and it's just the same thing over and over again.
Nothing is happening.

They've hit a plateau, they've hit the ceiling.
So those people should study another language. / Hmm.
Study Spanish.

Spanish pronunciation is actually not so difficult for Japanese people.
It's easier than French, right?

Study Spanish./ What you study I don't know, but it's quite hard.

Yeah, so, now the brain has something new to do. / Hmm.
So you create some new activity in the brain.

But it still has to do with language learning.

And if you then study Spanish for a month a week, whatever,
you go back to English your brain will be better.

Your brain will be more fit more flexible.
You'll hear things that you didn't hear before.

You'll notice things that you didn't notice before.
And when I put that on my blog.../

You didn't find some kind of similarity between different 2 languages for...
No.
Nothing .

You're thinking too logically. / OK.

Tag, forget the logic.
The brain is its own thing.

It's it's.../ You mean developing some other system.
You're developing, a capability,
amongst neurons in your brain that you have created some
fresh pathways. / Hmm.

Things have happen there that you don't know .
And all of a sudden you go back to English let's say,
in my case Russian, I hear it better.

I noticed the endings of the nouns, the endings of the verbs
I noticed things that I didn't notice before.

I hear it more clearly. / OK.
I see it more clearly.
Because the brain has been refreshed ./ Hmm.
So./ Reshuffled.
That's right.

So what I say is I mean people are not gonna do this
I don't want to scare people who are having enough trouble with English
that I'm gonna say go learn Spanish.

People who are willing to do this.
I think we'll find it works and on my blog.
I had 15 people comment.

And normally I get 3 comments.
15 people said,
Yes, Steve I found the same.
Wow! That's exactly what happened to me. blah-blah-blah
in another words, it's a common thing.

So I just think it's interesting.
Because we think when you're learning English ,
you're learning something
You're gonna learn.
You're not learning.

What you doing is you're helping your brain
notice, you're helping your brain observe, get used to .
Then the brain will help you speak.

And not any logic or explanations are any kind of academic thing.
～refrain～10:42

But you know it's very interesting.
Because I read a book.
Very interesting book it's called "The Mind and The Brain".

And some people have what they called "obsessive compossive disorder".
Have you ever heard of obsessive compossive disorder.

Some people think they have to wash their hands every 5 minutes.
Have to wash my hands every 5 minutes.

They obsessive.
And sometimes they treat this with drugs.

But in this book this professor treats it by explaining.
The blain is separate from your will.

So with your will and your determination.
You can influence what's happening in your brain.

Because the brain is telling you to wash your hands every 5 minutes.
You don't need to wash your hans every 5 minutes.
So once you recognize that you have power over your brain
you'll start to be able to resist what a brain is telling you to do.

And so you gradually ,gradually, train the brain to stop telling you
to wash your hands.

So it's the same with language learn.

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eChat 790 Farewell - DAY 2/5

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[Part 1] (13:27-)

So what's the most difficult part of learning English for Japanese people?
And to Japanese people.
What do you think?

Well, that's a very interesting question.
What is the most difficult part?
I think the most difficult part is in the attitude of the learner.／Hmm.

Because Japan has been historically sort of an isolated culture.
It's an island./ Huh, uh.

OK? Now, they have had the cultural influence from China
from Korea then all over the last 50 years from Europe
and United states and so far.
But still fundamentally it's very much an island.　/　Huh,uh.

So I think a lot of Japanese people are convinced
that they can not learn.

I think they have an attitude that they will not be able to speak fluently.
If you live in Singapore, if you live in Sweden or Holland.
It's just normal.

They use, speak to three languages.
Just normal.
It's just not a big deal.

If you live in Japan, and you speak a second language.
Just like wow! Wow!

Yes. True. It's true.

So I think there is an attitude difference between Japan at one end.
Singapore or Sweden where little place
to two languages happening is normal.

So I think that's perhaps a big obstacle.

I think the other obstacle the Japanese people have is "かな".
Because if you were conditioned to think
that all sounds are written in syllables./ Right.
OK?
15:04
ザ、ボトル, OK?
So everything has to be a syllable.
I mean a Japanese person from childhood girls
up hearing Japanese OK?

Then they go to school.
And they learn かな.
And so their brain everything is working in the
structural Japanese based on かな./Right.

So now, you come to a languages just which is not with a writing system
is not based on syllables the writing system is based on letters.
So that is the better be problem.

And so I think that the Japanese learner has to forget かな.
The worst thing is to use かな to describe the phonetics of English.
That's terrible.
Terrible.
We have to get away from that.

15:45
Hmm, I'm a kind of learning this again.
We, we focused Steve a year or two ago and I'm refreshing my brain here.

But if someone just went to link
and just chose a language they wanted to speak.
Whether Japanese person might learn English or Chinese
whatever was./Huh,uh.

And they just started fresh from link.
That's exactly what should be with you know,
without the attitude of not knowing had a learning
second language without the かな in your, in your head there.

You just want a link for example.
And you just said I wanna learn let's see from 10 languages
which language do I wanna learn now.

And you press that you just kinda start fresh .
You maybe that sort of the way one can go about learning a language.

Instead of sort of having that history of you know,
especially when your Japanese you have that sort of a small moment in
your life .

When you're in junior high and high school.
You were taught English from that
Japanese professor or Japanese teacher.

So it makes difficult to kinda transform yourself
to become of this white blank canvas.
16:55 略

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eChat 789 Farewell - DAY 1/5

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[Part 1] (5:01-)

<entrepreneurの発音の仕方>

He is an entrepreneur.
He owns ～.
en・tre・pre・neur
Four syllables.

<大丈夫の言い方＞

もう一つどう?
もう一杯どう？
席を譲ってもらったが、自分は座りたくないとき。

That's OK.

I'm OK.
は自分の事を中心に言っているので、自分が座りたいかなと勘違いされる。

That's OK.
I don't need to sit down.

I'm OK.
解釈の違いが出て来てしまうので使うsituationに注意。

パブでもう一本ビールをすすめられた。
I'm OK.(↑言い方のトーンが上がった場合。)
まだまだいけるよ。
Bring it on!
Bring it on!

No, I'm OK. I'm OK. (↓言い方のトーンを下げて言った場合。)
もう充分。これ以上飲めない。

I'm fine. の方が適切。

You can still say, "That's OK."
Oh, that's OK, that's OK.
I've had enough.

ホームステイの家族におかわりをすすめられて、断る時。
Oh, I'm OK.
I'm OK.
Thank you.

That's OK.
だと相手に対して直接伝えてる言葉だから。
I'm OK.
の方が自分のfeeling を伝えている感じ。

声の感じ、トーン、ジェスチャーも大切です。

＜自己紹介の仕方＞

I come from～　実際ここに来ている時。
インターネットでのレッスンなので
I'm from ～　　の方が適切。

hobbiesは堅い表現
My hobbies are ～　　はめったに使わない
like を使う方が自然。

It doesn't matter. スポーツでも、drawing, it doesn't matter.

I like skiing.
What do you like doing? / I like to dancing.
You like dancing? / Yeah.
I like, you like dancing?
Like regular dancing?

Any special dancing? / Regular dancing.
Regular dancing.

You like to go to clubs to dance./ Yeah.
Oh, good, good.

What do you like to do? / I like playing a trumpet.
Oh, you playing a trumpet? / Yes.
Really?
Oh, good.
Musical./Yes.

And Taka what do you like to do?
When you're not working? / I like playing golf.

Ah, you like to golf?
Are you good? / And skiing.

Skiing? / And playing tennis.
And playing tennis./Yep.

Oh, so, you're very ah, outdoors.
You like to play sports./I like,I like ,very much. I like sports. Yeah.
Oh, good perfect.

What do you like doing?
What do you like doing when you are not working?
When you are not at school?
When you are not at home with your baby?
What do you like to do?

hobbies　は慣れてくるとあまりつかわない。
It sounds too formal.

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