Profile
I'm living in the south of France and I'm looking for partners to improve my english skills.
I like reading, making sports and international news. So we won't miss topics of discussion.
My goal in the future is being fluent in English.
Learning
English
Japanese
Language Skills
FrenchNative
Interests
Reading
Sports & Fitness
Science
Travel
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HARUKA
Japanese
Dec 5, 2023
ステファンさん
今日はありがとうございました。
Thank you for joining my class
You can say 〜は〜です。〜じゃありません。何歳ですか？わたしは〜歳です。
Activities
- Jim Harrison interview Write a short essay (250 words min. – 350 words max.) to comment on the following sentences by the American writer Jim Harrison in an interview: “We make ruts in our life so deep that the dirt closes over us. Travel is an excellent way for a desperately needed change in perspective. I can’t say that travel is inherently good when it’s simply done for novelty. Novelty when people are trying to skim the essence of a whole other country in a few days. That attitude repels the country we are visiting.” A lot of people travel around the world. But how does it change their perspective of life ? In an interview, the American writer Jim Harrison sent doubts about the virtues of the fast travelling. Is novelty in travel can open our mind ? Actually, we are living in a society witch explain that you can have a better life. It is a right for you. How often can we heard "take pleasure ! " ? There is a lot a meaning to take this pleasure. We can make shopping, playing game, practice sport. A lots of publicity shows cloudy country in winter and tell us that we can buy a travel to reach the sun, the blue sea and the warm sand. Or we can live adventure by riding horses near the wide landscape in Central Asia. But what does it change for us ? It depends what we bring with us. How can we understand or learn new things if we come with our old knowledge and perspectives ? We need empty our mind for travel. If we do it, travel means meeting with new culture, not only use this culture. It means real change with these citizens and not only photo with them. And often without any ask of permission ! Discover a new country isn't the same thing that walking near a leisure park. So we need empty (emptying ?) our mind. And taking (take ?) time. Fast food discovers junk food, fast travel discovers stress travel. For some people travel means running after a bus, a plane, a booking entertainment. I'm pretty sure that the persons who stay sit down in frontside of their house are looking the tourist with a septic eye. They should ask themselves, "where are they running ?" Travelling means empty our mind and taking time. The ancient travelers drown pictures or painted what they saw. Or they wrote their though on a diary. All of us we can't be like Rimbaud in Somalia but at least we can take the time to breathe this new air and smelled those new parfums.March 8, 201600
- Essay about travel Mark Twain said: « Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime ». Travelling mean changing our point of view. It's mean that if you travel without changing your habit you can not understand anything about the people you meet. If you travel without the capacity to accept the difference, your travel will be as a walk in an attraction park. There will always have a glass between you and the habitant of the country. Perhaps you will see new landscape but you will not understand how they build the history of the people and their nature. For exemple in the film "Into the wild", when Alex went in Alaska and decided to live by himself in the wild and survive only with the product of his hunt. A man give him a pair of boots. These boots have no value but in this country they can make the difference between live and die.March 6, 201620
- French have won the title of “Worst Tourists in the World”. "Write an essay in which you discuss this statement: According to a recent study by travel company Expedia, which asked 4,500 hotels worldwide to rank tourists on their behavior, the French have won the title of “Worst Tourists in the World”. Well, that's not really just. I don't think French deserve this title and I'll explain why. There are two behavior that people reproach to French people when they travel. First, there are never satisfied and thinks that in France there is better. It's not a negative critic but a way to improve what they see. The study was made with hotels by Expedia. And what did sell hotels ? Bed and food. Food, I saw food. And people don't understood that French people always critic when we are speaking about food ? In France cooking is a art of life. There is a joke which said "put two or three French together and in ten minutes, they'll speak about cooking". It's a important part of our identities. So when we eat food hotel which is stereotyped and only a simple copy of anglo saxon meal don't be surprise to feel that french people are the worst tourist of the world. Perhaps if the study was made with local people who are authentic people of the country, the result would have been different. Second thing. The tips. French people are grind and never give tips. Don't be surprise. It's not in our culture. French culture is tax, tax and tax again. French government are specialist to create new tax. For everything. So don't be surprise that French people just want to paid less they can. They can't understand why they have to pay the hotel and the food and the salary of the employee. Because they though they have already paid for it.March 6, 201610
- Lost in translation For prepare an exam I wrote an analysis of the film Lost in translation on the theme "Cultural identities through travelling". abstract: Two american, Bob Harris, an actor and Charlotte meet themself in a big hotel in Japan. They are alone and the strangeness of this culture bring them closer. Neitherless their age difference, they feel close. Closer than with their family or other people around them. My own sensation when I saw the film was the difference of culture revealed new aspirations for life of the characters. During some movie scene, when Bob Harris or Charlotte were alone, they question them, the past for Bob, the futur for Charlotte. But the problem is the same: what is they own path ? Bob is married since twenty years and have children but when his wife call him about the decoration of his desk he looks somewhere else. This materiel thing doesn't interrested him. He forgets the events family and say yes to his wife whatever the issue. For Charlotte, she questions herself about her futur with his new graduate in philosophy. She's married since two years but the passion is down. Her husband works a lot, meet people who are no interesting for her. For example he presents herself a girl who is annoying, who is laughing every time about every thing. But for him this person is lovely. And he reproached her this intellectual attitude. The distance between each other increase. The japanese culture is so different for them. Outside the hotel, few people speaks English. All the signs are in Japanese. The TV shows or the leisure seems so strange for them. Without anything to hang on, they are alone to have good time. At first it's the meeting of two mind which understand each other. A last, starts a physical attraction. But they are married and there is thirty years between them.March 1, 201610
- Donc, on doit Nous devons nous demandera, comment est-ce que il est possible que les américains soit arrivés de à choisir ce type de d'homme pour les mener? Il est une questione que beaucoup de politiciens eux-mêmes ont se demandés pose. Beaucoup de politiciens se posent la question J’ai lu un peu de Marine Pen le lever leader du Front National, main au moins en France, la le peuple semble à reconnaître que ce mouvement-là est basé à la l'extreme-droite. Ici, au contraire, la le populisme de Trump a grandi à auprès d'une grande partie de la populace population. De quoi le reste du monde pense-t-il des États-Unis si nous ne semblons pas pouvoir voir qu’élire un tel homme serait terrible pour tous? Que pensera le monde des Etats Unis, si nous ne sommes pas capable de voir qu'élire un tel homme serait terrible pour tout le monde ?0 votedMarch 1, 20160
La politique aux États-Unis
Comme la tout le monde le sait probablement, cet an cette année, les citoyens américains voteront pour un nouveau président ce au mois de novembre, puisque la durée du mandat de Barack Obama arrivera bientôt à une sa fin. Surtout, et peut-être à la honte des États-Unis, le politicien le mieux connu est Donald Trump, un homme connu avant comme un célèbre, et maintenant connu comme célèbre gênant. A la grande honte des américains, le politicien le plus connu est Donald Trump. Il était connu pour ses succès et maintenant pour ses prises de positions gênantes.
Toutefois, le sentiment à propos de Trump a devenu de plus en plus grave. Ce sentiment s'est aggravé avec le temps. Les choses qu’il a dit, qui il défend au nom de lutter contre “politiquement correct,” Au nom de la lutte contre le politiquement correct, ses propos sont racistes, xénophobes, et misogynes. Chaque jour, une dizaine d’articles de nouvelle émergent et dénoncent ses vues, mais sa popularité n’a pas toujours toujours pas diminuée. Et demain et Supermercredi (Je ne sais pas si un tel mot existe vraiment en français haha), et les statsticiens et les nouvelles sorties agréent que si Trump gagne Supermercredi, il est sans doute qu’il gangera la nomination de la parti Républicain. Si Trump gagne demain lors du Super tuesday, les statisticiens pensent qu'il gagnera la nomination du parti Républicain.0 votedMarch 1, 20160- why Italki ? I created a account on Italki to improve my English. Since two years I made a lot of progress in English but only in reading English. Now I can read books whose words aren't too difficult and I understand easily any notice in that language. The best I found to learn was watching US film on Netflix with french subtitle at start and now with English subtitle. I'm enjoy with it. But the problem is to speak, write and understand without any text. I'm not in confidence when I need writing something so I use present and simple sentences. And I'll have an english exam in few month to reach the B2 level of the European rank. The first is a oral comprehension with two video which are play three times and after I'll have a comprehensive test. The second is a writing test where I'll have product a text about a subject. The subject is "cultural identities through travelling". There are three movies I'll have to see: Into the wild, Indian Palace and Lost in translation. And some books that talk about travelling. So I hope I'll find a good teacher who can help me to reach my objectives and raise my English level.February 26, 201620
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