Some people believe that it is important to keep your home and workplace tidy. What is your opinion? There are both pros and cons on the tidiness of our home and our office. However, to some extent, it would be significant to maintain the cleanness of our places since there are benefits such as the increase of productivities, involvement of people, educational aspects, and the improvement of our motivation. First of all, keeping tidy might improve our productivity. In fact, it enables us to find tools we need in a short time and cut the wasting time. Consequently, we can utilize the extra time to work on our main tasks. Another benefit of maintaining tidiness around us is to be able to share our places with colleagues or family. As everyone knows where to find things, anyone can replace with others. For example, if a person needs to go to a business trip, there will be a vacancy for the position. However, other colleagues can work on it on behalf of the person goes to the trip because he already know where to find the documents he needs. That is, everyone can involved in any position by keeping tidy our place and sharing the places. In addition, teaching how to clean up our places will be an effective education for our future generations because putting away things requires thinking. For instance, my child always struggles with putting all pieces of blocks in one box, which demands his brain to do try and errors. Once we give a tiny hint to him, he could find a way to deal with it. In other words, making children organize things might be effective for their brain development. The last beneficial aspect of organizing things might be the improvement of our motivation. Although it might depend on individuals, people tend to feel better when the surroundings are kept tidy. I personally feel motivated when my things are all cleared, whereas I feel agitated when my things are messed around. In conclusion, keeping tidiness holds great benefits in terms of productivity, cooperation, education and motivation. Although cleaning up could waste our time, working on it little by little could save much time and turn into great advantage for us. ------------------ Thank you for your reading. My writing sounds unnatural because of my limited vocabulary... If you could correct my writing, I appreciated it.

Should children under 6 play video games?

How can we improve our self-esteem?

Someone you know who has started a business I would like to introduce my acquaintance who started her business as a butcher. She used to be a assistant hairdresser as her family runs a beauty salon. However, her husband, who had been working at a wholesale company of meats, started his own business to retail meats at home this year. Consequently, my acquaintance quit her job and started helping her husband. The new business enable them to decide whatever they want to do and to work at their own pace although there might be a lot of difficulties to overcome. Especially, those who have children need to consider how to keep good work-life balance, and running their own business might be a good solution to control their time. Also, pursuing their own dreams is admirable and I would like to keep my fingers crossed for their success. If I would have any chance to have my own restaurant, I would like to tackle it because working my own business provides me a chance to improve myself and widen my mindsets as a chef.

IELTS preparation: Describe an interenting discussion you had as part of your work or studies. The main subject that we had discuss at work was the differences between Japanese school cultures and other countries'. Because there were several colleagues from overseas, we had quite frequent time to talk about it. Those who came from Brazil, Peru, the Philippines and Vietnam mentioned that Japanese people tend to utilize black-inked pens to fill out formal documents rather than using blue pens. Another interesting topic was about the different curriculums at schools. Japanese children learn a variety of skills at school such as how to play musical instruments, how to swim, and even how to clean up their school, whereas these are not always compulsory in other countries. Because I have been lived in Japan ever since I was born, these topics attracted me and made me feel like learning educational system in other countries. I believe that learning other cultures can widen my mindsets and assist me to grow up. --------------------- Thank you so much for your reading. If you have any ideas to improve this essay especially in terms of the use of less common words, idiomatic phrases, and more complex grammar, please let me know.

IELTS preparation : Describe a time when you started using a new technological device The first technological device that I started to use was a mobile phone when I was a high school student. It was an old-fashion one, so called "Gara-ke" in Japanese. It was not like a smartphone nowadays, and there were few applications in it. However, I still thought that it was a great innovation for us. The reason why I started to use it was because almost all my friends started to use one at that time and I was keen to connect to my friends through the device. It did not take much time for me to get accustomed to manipulate it. It was very useful since we no longer needed to make appointments with friends in advance. In addition, it became rare to keep our friends waiting thanks to the innovative tool, which enabled us to text whenever and wherever we were. I appreciate the great technological innovation. ------------------------- Thank you so much for reading my notebook. I appreciate if you could give me some advice to make this writing more sophisticated with using more less common words, idiomatic phrases, and complex sentences. Thank you so much for your help.

Writing practice 1: Has urbanization had a positive effect on Japanese society?? Nowadays, Japanese society has many problems such as the increase of isolated aging population and the decline in young population leading to the lack of human resources and the inadequate maintenance of infrastructure. Urbanization has been effective for Japan as it could solve these issues by gathering people to specific places and developing equipment for live. First, urbanization provides more convenient lives for elderly people. Elderly people in rural places tend to stay home as they cannot go shopping or meet families and friends without cars. On the other hand, urban cities have well-developed transportations such as trains and buses, and enable people to easily go outside. Consequently, living in urban place might solve problems which elderly people have. Another benefit of urbanization might be to supply the lack of workers in specific places. Urbanization provides more job opportunities for young generations and might be able to gather employees to a few urbanized places. If people spread into many places, each might suffer from the lack of workers. Therefore, living in particular urbanized places and assembling people might be beneficial. The inadequate maintenance of infrastructure involved by the lack of labors can also be solved with urbanization. As maintaining a nation wide infrastructure requires a large number of labors, it might be essential to narrow down the extent of infrastructure to maintain. That is, urbanizing particular places and assembling people there might be a solution for this. Although stimulating the economy of rural places is also beneficial, urbanization might generate more benefits for Japanese people in order to improve elderly people’ lives and solve the problems accompanied by the drop in the birth rate. __________ Thank you so much for reading such a long essay. I'd appreciate if you could correct my mistakes! Also, I'd love to receive some advice to improve my writing. I'm trying to nominalize some sentences so that I can keep my essay shorter, but it is difficult for me...I always make up phrasal words in a wrong way...Thank you for reading anyway!

Give me ideas for play Last week, my 4-year-old son got the flu and we had to stay home for about a week. Now he's fine, but yesterday another son got the flu. Now we have to stay home for another week. Despit of their high fever, they have full of energy. We've spent time drawing, crafting, cooking, reading some stories so far. I can't think of other ideas how to spend time inside of our house anymore... Could you give me some ideas?

Self-introduction Hi! My name is Yuki. I'm a mother of 2 boys. I started using italki as I'd like to discuss something and write something in English. I'd appriciate if you could help me correcting my English. I look for language partners to improve my English skills, to know other cultures, and to help you learning Japanese as well. Let's enjoy learning languages together‼︎