Why I want to learn English?
This is my first Note book, so I'm kind of excited to write it.
In this topic, I want to tell you about why I want to lean English.
I was in Minnesota from 2010 to 2013 for my job. Around 10 Japanese employees were there. At that time, even I was in US, I was speaking Japanese most of the time because I spent most of the time with my Japanese colleagues, and I didn't feel the importance of English so much. From 2013 to 2018 I was in Japan and I had almost no chance to speak English for 5 years.
In October 2018, I got the chance to work in US again. This time I'm working as a only one Japanese in my work place. Since I have no friends and Family around here, my American colleagues kindly invited me to the Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas party. I was happy to experience traditional American culture, but at the same time, I was kind of sad because I hardly understand their conversation. Since then, I started to feel I want to make more America friends and enjoy conversation in English, and In order to do so, I need to learn English.
This is why I want to learn English, and I started italki. I appreciate it if you read and correct this. Everybody has a good weekend!
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Why I want to learn English?
This is my first Note book, so I'm kind of excited to write it.In this entry, I want to tell you about why I want to lean English.
I was in Minnesota from 2010 to 2013 for my job. Around 10 Japanese employees were there. At that time, even though I was in the US, I was speaking Japanese most of the time because I spent most of my time with my Japanese colleagues, and I didn't feel that it was important to speak English so much. From 2013 to 2018 I was in Japan and I had almost no chance to speak English for 5 years.
In October 2018, I got the chance to work in the US again. This time I am the only Japanese person in my work place. Since I have no friends and family around here, my American colleagues kindly invited me to their Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas party. I was happy to experience traditional American culture, but at the same time, I was kind of sad because I hardly understood their conversation. Since then, I started to feel like I want to make more American friends and enjoy conversation in English. In order to do so, I need to learn English.
This is why I want to learn English, and I started italki. I would appreciate it if you could read and correct this. Everybody have a good weekend!
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Hi Taiji-san!
The other people have already done a great job of correcting your entry. Since you seem very highly motivated to improve, here is a challenge for you. I hope you don't mind, but I have rewritten your entry AS I WOULD WRITE IT. There are a few changes that are not exactly the same as what you said...but if you read it, I
think it will help to increase your vocabulary knowledge and introduce you to the
occasional new "natural English" phrase. I imagine that, like most Japanese people, your reading is already quite good.
Regarding your writing, the main change I would make is:
1) Removal some material that the reader should know. For example, sentences such as "From 2013 to 2018, I was in Japan" are removed because it's extraneous information, which one could deduce from the rest of the article.
PS - Your reasoning for not learning so much English is pretty true for me (and my Japanese) too! A lot of English-speaking foreigners living in Japan end up being terrible at Japanese. Some people living in Japan tend to make friends with and hang out only with other English speakers (mostly other foreigners)! Some of my foreign friends and I started calling it the "gaijin bubble effect." Anyway, good luck!
Why do I want to learn English?
For my first topic, I'd to explain to everyone reading the primary motivation behind my decision to learn English.
I worked in Minnesota from 2010-2013. Unfortunately, I spent most of my time using my native language with my 10 Japanese coworkers. Even though I was living in the USA, I didn't really feel the need to work on my English. Anyway, I returned to Japan, and I had very few opportunities to speak English in the following 5 years.
In October 2018, I got the chance to work in the USA again. This time, I'll be the only Japanese guy in my workplace. Since I have no friends and family around here, my American colleagues kindly invited me to a Thanksgiving dinner and a Christmas party. I was happy to experience traditional American culture, but at the same time, I was kind of sad because I could barely understand the majority of their conversation. After that, I felt that I should try to make more American friends, and attempt to get much more fluent in English. Basically, I need to learn English to a higher level.
I'm hugely motivated to learn English, so I've started using italki. I would really appreciate any feedback on my writing. Have a good weekend, everyone!
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This is my first Note book, so I'm kind of excited to write it.
In this topic, I want to tell you about why I want to lean English.
I was in Minnesota from 2010 to 2013 for my job. Around 10 Japanese employees were there. At that time, even I was in US, I was speaking Japanese most of the time because I spent most of the time with my Japanese colleagues, and I didn't feel the importance of English so much. From 2013 to 2018 I was in Japan and I had almost no chance to speak English for 5 years.
In October 2018, I got the chance to work in US again. This time I'm working as a only one Japanese in my work place. Since I have no friends and Family around here, my American colleagues kindly invited me to the Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas party. I was happy to experience traditional American culture, but at the same time, I was kind of sad because I hardly understand their conversation. Since then, I started to feel I want to make more American friends and enjoy conversation in English, and In order to do so, I need to learn English.
This is why I want to learn English, and I started to use italki. I appreciate it if you read and correct this. Everybody has a good weekend!
In this topic, I want to tell you about why I want to lean English.
I was in Minnesota from 2010 to 2013 for my job. Around 10 Japanese employees were there. At that time, even I was in US, I was speaking Japanese most of the time because I spent most of the time with my Japanese colleagues, and I didn't feel the importance of English so much. From 2013 to 2018 I was in Japan and I had almost no chance to speak English for 5 years.
In October 2018, I got the chance to work in US again. This time I'm working as a only one Japanese in my work place. Since I have no friends and Family around here, my American colleagues kindly invited me to the Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas party. I was happy to experience traditional American culture, but at the same time, I was kind of sad because I hardly understand their conversation. Since then, I started to feel I want to make more American friends and enjoy conversation in English, and In order to do so, I need to learn English.
This is why I want to learn English, and I started to use italki. I appreciate it if you read and correct this. Everybody has a good weekend!
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I love this story, and I hope you learn English and make many friends in America. Good luck!
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Thank you Angie!
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