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幼稚園の放課後の英会話教室をきっかけに英語の学習開始。両親とフィリピン人の妻と息子と5人暮らし。日本語、英語、ビサヤ語(セブアノ語)、韓国語のクワドロリンガル。統合失調症で服薬中。2025年度から公立高校で念願の英語教員デビューの予定。

多様性の今、「みんな違ってみんないい」がデフォルト。人として尊重することが大切。Everyone is different. Catering to individual needs can be prejudice only when somebody is emotionally hurt.

差別が非難されるのは、特定の違いに焦点を当てて人々を区別するからではなく、敬意を欠いているからである。一部の人々は、個々の違いに基づいて区別されることを嫌わず、むしろ、権利として主張します。これは素晴らしいことです!もしあなたが個々の違い…

Flashcards might be an effective tool before reproduction activities.

Flashcards might be an effective tool before reproduction activities. I’m planning to incorporate reproduction—an activity that allows students to repeat sentences the teacher says—and transcription—an activity where students write down wh…

Looking back at my high school days.

I had a chat with a coworker who has worked for my alma mater. It reminded me of a lot of things back in my high school days, which left me in a mood. My high school days were never flourishing. Setting too ambitious a goal can leave you u…

Studying is an effective way to fend off boredom. It’s not obligatory.

Mr. Boring says, studying is an effective way to fend off boredom. You won’t be killed just because you don’t study. We study to keep ourselves entertained. Studying is never ever an obligation. It’s a shame for a man to feel pressured to …

Japan welcomes English teachers from India.

Apparently, NHK reported that Japan welcomes Indians as English teachers. In light of the English competency of Japanese students, it is evident that English teachers don’t have to be native in English, but Indian English is peculiar in it…

Puhong klase sa pagbasa sa Inigles sa Japan 🇯🇵

Ang pag-andam sa mga klase sa Inigles kay maghunahuna og mga pangutana nga matubag sumala sa textbook ug dili matubag sa textbook. Ang tawag sa pangutana nga matubag kay fact-finding questions. Ang pangutana nga papangita og tubag nga basi…

Puhong klase sa pagbasa sa Inigles sa Japan 🇯🇵

Ang pag-andam sa mga klase sa Inigles kay maghunahuna og mga pangutana nga matubag sumala sa textbook ug dili matubag sa textbook. Ang tawag sa pangutana nga matubag kay fact-finding questions. Ang pangutana nga papangita og tubag nga basi…

Puhong klase sa pagbasa sa Inigles sa Japan 🇯🇵

Ang pag-andam sa mga klase sa Inigles kay maghunahuna og mga pangutana nga matubag sumala sa textbook ug dili matubag sa textbook. Ang tawag sa pangutana nga matubag kay fact-finding questions. Ang pangutana nga ipapangita ang tubag nga ba…

Puhong klase sa pagbasa sa Inigles sa Japan 🇯🇵

Ang pag-andam sa mga klase sa Inigles kay maghunahuna og mga pangutana nga matubag sumala sa textbook ug dili matubag sa textbook. Ang tawag sa pangutana nga matubag kay fact-finding questions. Ang pangutana nga ipapangita ang tubag nga ba…

Put the right form of ‘be’ in all the parentheses.

I’m going to be in charge of an English class to review learning at junior high school English. I’ll get students to answer as many quizzes on the inflections of verbs and adjectives as possible. I will familiarize students with all the in…

A Visit to Jonan High School as a trainee

Students will have hard time what to speak or write about unless they are given examples easy to write about. Students won’t learn unless they are given expressions to practice. Students won’t learn how to take memos unless they’re told to…

Won’t Academic Freedom be a Threat to National Security?

Academic freedom is a fundamental right reserved by the Japanese Constitution, but this right should be restricted to Japanese citizens as pertains to the Japanese crucial interests or national security. Chinese A-bombs were developed by t…

Ayaw himoa ang mga pulong sa imong kaugalingon kay dili na hinundan.

Bisan paghimo og mga pulong nga dili masabtan, dili na makatabang sa atong kinabuhi. Imbis paghimo og mga bag-ong pulong ug pagpasabot ana sa mga tawo, importante ug hinundan pa pagpasabot og imong pasabot gamit sa mga pulong na nahibal-an…

Accepting Mass Immigrants? Look at Jewish Immigrants in Middle East!

We must be cautious of accepting a lot of immigrants and granting them citizenship easily! Look to Middle East! Jewish immigrants mostly from Europe expelled native Palestinians with guns and have expanded their lands while implementing Ap…

勤勉な教員がOECDの中でも怠惰な方になった日本人に告ぐ。

あたきは、父が中学校の教員で、社会人は夜遅うまで働かないかんもんと刷り込まれて育った。やけん、あたきは中学生から高校生にかけて、毎晩、夜遅うまで勉強した。9時5時半の仕事は刺激が少なすぎた。早う帰って家で遊ぶ父親は教育上害悪。#教師のバトン今…

Nganong kinahanglan magtuon og mga Chinese character aron magtuon og Hinapon?

Ang kinalisdang part sa pagtuon sa Japanese kay kanji! Kabalo ang kasagarang taga langyaw og sulti sa Japanese kung dugay sila diri, pero ang daghang taga langyaw nga dugay diri dili kabalo magbasa kay dili sila magtuon og kanji. Isag-ulo …

Grading whole my weekend

I graded test paper all the weekend. So as to keep working as a high school English teacher until I reach retirement age without hating the career, I should take every weekend off at home!As the overtime payment is not being paid, I was ab…

My experience as an elementary school student ham

When I was an elementary or junior high school student, I was just interested in increasing power of my amateur radio station. With the spread of the Internet, now I know that the best way to garner listener or reader is to provide useful …

教育センターで初任者研修。

I will start getting students to write summary and questions and collect them to be aware of students' existing knowledge, help them absorb new knowledge at the end of each lesson from the constructivist perspective. I'll put the lesson to…

人を先行詞とする限定用法の関係代名詞はwho、人以外を先行詞とするのはthat。限定用法で関係代名詞のwhichは稀。

受験英語では、関係代名詞のthatは先行詞が人の時でも人以外の時でも使えて、先行詞が人の時はwhoも、先行詞が人以外の時はwhichも使えると塾や学校では習った。しかし、ngram viewerで見れば一目でわかる通り、現実社会では、先行詞が人の時は、thatよりもw…

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Look up unfamiliar words in a dictionary!

I learned English by making friends with all the kinds of English dictionaries in my electronic dictionary. I’m eager to make it my lifework to study how to get students used to looking up words in language dictionaries. A journey of a tho…

English can be learned not only by reading but also by trying to write

English can be learned not only by translating English articles into Japanese but also by vice versa. High school students can express themselves in Japanese. Through the process of replacing Japanese words with English ones, putting them …

Emanuel Todd, Free Trade Destroys Democracy, 2010

Emanuel Todd, a proponent of democracy, reveals the blatant lie that free trade promotes democracy that politicians had been saying when China opened up to global trade. Anywhere in the world, population wanted equal society through protec…

Schizophrenic diagnosis is a wake up call from a drowsy state into reality!

When I was an elementary school student, I was a boy who dreamed of putting parts together to make a radio from scratch, the problem of which was I never doubted its feasibility, which keeps going and going until high school days leading t…

Every single nation needs nuclear weapons to defend itself from threats as sovereign states!

All the Russians are bad in that they are economically supporting the aggressions of many places of the world, including the one in Ukraine. I've been wishing every day all the Russians would go to hell right away, but I know it's inhumane…

電子辞書は、日本語や韓国語など英語以外の言語のジャンプ機能や例文検索機能ば改善してくれ。

なしてCASIOの電子辞書って英語しか例文検索や成句検索ばされんで、日本語、韓国語、中国語など、他の言語では例文検索や成句検索ばされんっちゃろうか。見出し語から見らるる例文だけじゃ少なすぎる。語尾の変化がある日本語や韓国語はジャンプしようとして…

Reading Shakespeare with Electronic Dictionary I Recently Bought Out of my Quest for the Shakespearean Modern English

e-books come with my electronic dictionary I recently purchased! I read Shakespeare to study the vocabulary and the style of writing (in other words, grammar). If I were interested in the contents, I would read the Japanese translation! My…

日本語の「疑う」にはdoubtだけでなく、suspectも含むので、英語や韓国語に訳すとき要注意。

あたきが高校時代、英語ば教えちゃんなった浅田正人先生は事実でないことば「思う、勘違いする」場合、thinkと区別してassumeば使えばよかっちゅうことも教えちゃんなったばってん、「疑う」も「〜ではないのではないかと疑う」はdoubtでよかばってん、「〜…

高校時代とB’zのultra soul

私はB’zのultra soulという歌の歌詞を私の高校時代と重ね合わせずにはいられません。私は、中学校の頃から、学区で一番入るのが難しい福岡県立福岡高等学校に入学したくて、英進館という塾で集団で授業を受け、適塾という塾では個別の授業を受けてようやく合…

「イカゲーム」という邦題より「ダルマさんが殺した」の方が的確

イカゲームって、韓国語で“무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다 (ムクゲの花が咲きました)"より、「ダルマさんが殺した」の方が内容ばそのままズバリ表しとうっちゃないかいな。「イカゲーム」という邦題より「ダルマさんが殺した」の方が内容が的確に伝わると思う。 둥…