English Recordings

(Jan.4th 2012)<Just try to enjoy writing, don`t need worry about speed.>
• I wrote the following English entries from Jan 1st to 3rd, in three days.
• I feel I made a lot of mistakes. I don`t know which are incorrect, so I am anxious to know.
• If you would, please let me know.
• This year I`d like to keep on writing my entries without stopping.
• My motto is "Don`t need to hurry, don`t worry about speed, just try to go steady!", and "Don`t force yourself to write, just try to enjoy writing." ( Thank you everybody for reading.

(Jan 1st. 2012)~ ♡♥♡ ~ Everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR! ~♡♥♡~~
Today is the first day of the year 2012.
• (But) However, my family didn't have any special event to celebrate.
• My family has been resting for most of the day, like a bear that is hibernating in winter.
• It`s also not a bad thing.
• Oh, I watched two movies in a row yesterday at midnight.
• One was an American film and one was a Korean film.
• Therefore, I totally overslept this morning.(I woke up very late this morning. )
• Then I began to upload my Korean Audios to my audio blog, late in the afternoon.
• This is just one of my hobbies, listening to English or Chinese Audio, and recording my entry in Korean as well.
• Even if understanding English isn`t easy for me, it`s an interesting hobby for me,it`s a interesting hobby with me.
• Because it`s not studying, it's just a hobby for me.
• Therefore I don`t need be stressed at all.
• And I guess recording Korean also helps my learning and helps friends who are learning Korean at the same time!
• I can help other friends and I can help myself too.
• It's like the quote 'kill two birds with one stone'.
• Last year January, I wrote an entry about "A very useful internet site "on lang-8.
• Today I will introduce it to you again.
• If someone wants to record or listen something, you can try it once.
• I feel it`s a really nice site. Good night~ ! It`s very late!

(Jan 2nd 2012)<My 2012`s determination;/ resolution/>/My resolution of 2012.?>
• Writing 2012 is still strange for me.
•It feels more normal to write 2011.
• I`ll be get used to it sooner.
• I made up my mind for 2012
(1) arrange well : around my house, heart, works: -> make everything simple!
(2) prepare good meals for my family.
• It seems very easy to say, but it`s not easy for me to do.
• However I`ll try to do my best.
• * What is your resolution in 2012? * do you have your resolution of 2010? (?)
*결심하다:determine; be determined; make up one's mind; resolve; be resolved; decide.*결심: determination;/ resolution/

(Jan 03rd 2012 )<It's snowing this time!>~~o((^_______^))o~~
„SooooOOoo~~nice!!! Great!!!
• This time is Jan 03rd 2012 5:25pm.
• When I went out after class, I found snowflakes were flying around.
• They looked like (/seemed like) white flowers dancing in the sky.
• Beautiful day! I took some picture with my smartphone, I just don't know how to upload them up with Smartphone on the lang-8 site.
• I`ll upload them after I get home.
• You'll see them soon!
• Do you know how to upload pictures with smart phone on lang-8?

(Jan 03rd 2012 17:35 )<It's snowing this time!>((^___________________^))
„SooooOOoo~~nice!!! Great!!! This time is Jan 03rd 2012 5:25pm.When I went out after class, I found snowflakes were flying around. They looked like (/seemed like) white flowers dancing in the sky. Beautiful day! I took some picture with my smartphone, I just don't know how to upload them up with smartphone on the lang-8 site. I`ll upload them after I get home. You'll see them soon! Do you know how to upload pictures with smartphone on lang-8?
(♣Please correct my mistakes~!! ^.*/ I`m home now, and now I`m loading pictures and recording Korean.)

(Jan 23th 2011) < A very useful internet site>
• This time/(Now?) I will introduce a very useful internet site for you,　for me, for us!
• The main function of this site is to record for friends who are learning languge.
• For example, I can record Korean entries that you wrote, and you can record English/Chinese entries that I wrote.
• If then through recording by our mother languages, we can train our ears, , we can improve listening naturally.
• Sure, everyone knows “hearing” is learned earlier than ”talking” when learning language?
• The following link is recording languge place. ->http://www.rhinospike.com/language/• And if you are interested in, you can stop by and try once.
• WoOow ~~by the way, it snowed very heavily this afternoon.(Heavy snow started this afternon.). It seems that it will bring a terrible traffic jam this evening.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/

「あけましておめでとう」ＶＳ「よいお年を」

I think that some of my friends mistakenly use "良いお年を"instead of "あけましておめでとう" on New Year's Day.
思うに、私の友人の幾人かは「良いお年を」を「あけましておめでとう」と間違えて使っています。

I guess that it is because they think "良いお年を" means "Happy New Year".
それは、「良いお年を」を” happy new year”と同様に使っているからではないでしょうか。

Japanese use "良いお年を" only towards the end of December.
日本人は「良いお年を」は年末にのみ使います。

Whereas we generally use "あけましておめでとう" at the beginning of January.
一方で、「あけましておめでとう」は概ね1月上旬に使われます。

Besides, "良いお年を" is an abbreviated version of "良いお年をお迎えください", which means "I hope that NEXT YEAR will be good for you".
また、「良いお年を」は「良いお年をお迎えください」の省略形です。

After I had had lunch at a village pub, I looked for my bag. I had left it on a chair beside the door and now it wasn't there! As I was looking for it, the landlord came in.
'Did you have a good meal?" he asked.
'Yes, thank you,' I answered, 'but I can't pay the bill. I haven't got my bag.'
The landlord smiled and immediately went out. In a few minutes he returned with my bag and gave it back to me.
'I'm very sorry,' he said. 'My dog had taken in into the garden. He often does this!'

My aunt Jennifer is an actress. She must be at least thirty-five years old. In spite of this, she often appears on the stage as a young girl. Jennifer will have to take part in a new play soon. This time, she will be a girl of seventeen. In the play, she must appear in a bright red dress and long black stockings. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a bright, orange-coloured dress. If anyone ever asks her how old she is, she always answers, 'Darling, it must be terrible to be grown up!'

If you park your car in the wrong place, a traffic policeman will soon find it. You will be very lucky if he lets you go without a ticket. However, this does not always happen. Traffic police are sometimes very polite. During a holiday in Sweden, I found this note on my car: 'sir, we welcome you to our city. This is a "No Parking" area. You will enjoy your stay here if you pay attention to our street signs. This note is only a reminder.' If you receive a request like this, you cannot fail to obey it!

The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me. I felt very nervous when I went into his office. He did not look up from his desk when I entered. After I had sat down, he said that business was very bad. He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people had already left. I knew that my turn had come.
'Mr.Harmsworth,' I said in a weak voice.
'Don't interrupt,' he said.
Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!

I had an amusing experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of France, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for a lift. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same language. Apart from a few words, I do not know any French at all. Neither of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly, "Do you speak English?' As I soon learnt, he was English himself!'