English Recordings

In Japan, we study English as compulsory education from junior high school.
I think the method of Japan's English education should be changed.
Because it's not useful for actually speaking English, only for taking exams.
English is not just the memorization of formulas.
For example,when I was a junior high school student, my English teacher was a Japanese who couldn't speak English.
And I learned about the "must + verbs =　have to + verbs" and "should = had better" at that time.
But they don't have exactly the same meanings, don they?
I learned they had the same meanings.
but I didn't learn about the detailed difference between them.
According to a native English speaker who teaches English at junior high school in Japan,it appears that the textbook contains an unnatural sentence.
I wish I could speak English !

Work and walk.

I naturally speak normal Japanese, but can also speak Kansai dialect because I've been living in Osaka since I was three years old. I was born in Nagasaki, though.
For example, if I talk to someone who from Tokyo or from outside the Kansai-area, I can immediately realize it.
It is said that there are some absolute differences between Osaka's Japanese and Tokyo's Japanese.
So occasionally, there are people who hate the Osaka's accent.
I have a question here.
If you talk to a foreigner who is a native English speaker, can you immediately tell where someone is from,even if you don't know about the person.
For instance, if an American talks to a Canadian, do they immediately realize where the other comes from?

If you are a typical woman living in today’s society, you have probably worn makeup, including eye shadow, eyeliner and blush. When you go outside, you may like to wear perfume, or sunscreen on hot days in summer. After a day of stressful work, you may like to soak yourself in a hot tub with your favorite bath oil, or exfoliate your skin with scrubs followed by a massage with body oil. When do you think we women started doing these things? Actually, women already did all of these activities 6000 years ago, in ancient Egypt.

Around 4000 BC, ancient Egyptians first developed cosmetics. What materials did women use for beauty in this era? In order to protect their skin from Egypt’s hot and dry climate, the Egyptians applied oil to their skin, such as olive oil, caster oil, sweet almond oil and palm oil. These oils are still used as cosmetic ingredients today. These body oils were scented with plants including myrrh, cinnamon, quince and galbanum. Fragrance was so important to them and citizens were commanded to wear perfume at least once a week. They rubbed their bodies with clay to exfoliate skin, and applied yellow ochre for a gold sheen, just like we use body bronzer. For face, they applied red ochre to their cheeks and lined their eyes with kohl. For eye shadows, green, blue and violet colorants were used made by malachite, galena manganese and iron however these materials are toxic and we don’t use them anymore. They also painted their nails with henna.

Ancient Egypt had an advanced civilization, and I have to say it’s amazing that they already developed these similar ideas about grooming and appearance for today’s women. I’m sure that women will still wear eyeliner and perfume in a spaceship even after 6000 years from now.

CCNA is the acronym for the Cisco Certified Network Associate certification from Cisco. In speech and in writing, this certification is properly referred to by the initials CCNA rather than the full name.[citation needed]

CCNA certification is a second-level Cisco Career certification . CCNA certification validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size routed and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN[1].

To achieve CCNA certification, one must earn a passing score on Cisco exam #640-802, or combined passing scores on both the ICND1 640-822 and ICND2 640-816 exams. Passing the ICND1 grants you the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT). Passing scores are set by using statistical analysis and are subject to change. At the completion of the exam, candidates receive a score report along with a score breakout by exam section and the passing score for the given exam. Cisco does not publish exam passing scores because exam questions and passing scores are subject to change without notice.

This is a partial code comment I usually include with my programs. Let's check if I know how to explain things!

We are using our own class instead of the default mysqli class because there's so much stuff we don't need from mysqli class and it is better to make it again with just the shit we are going to use. Period.

The next config is only valid if you have not selected the database in the previous config var. I use these couple of vars to store $link and $query results. The first variable controls the logging mod and this is used whenever the program is started via CLI.

We have to set the format_date var 'cause we have to extract the config from the db... and we're using this self class to do it! And if we want to log and to print a date with format... we need a forma_date before extracting from the db!

My uncle went to a restaurant, and there was this waitress scratching herself. He said, 'Tell me have you got eczema?'
She said, 'Not if it's not on the menu.'

I like the moments when I am speaking English because my personality is a little changed from when I am speaking Japanese.

How about you?

At first, I wondered to myself why I was so assertive in English. My Japanese friends say that I am a good listener, though I seem to be a little too talkative when I speak English.

I feel sorry for my friends who communicate with me in English, because I actually enjoy the different me. I want to tweak my way of speaking. And I think it is better to change the way while I am using another language in order to understand and to be understood by each other.

Each language includes its own culture.

I can be more open and relaxed in English. Somehow I am not afraid of conflict. It is kind of strange that I am positive that I can work it out afterward, even in my imperfect English~

Yes, I need to study and improve my English skills so that I do not irritate my foreign friends. ^v^/

"The Beast Below" is the second episode of the British science fiction series Doctor Who's 2010 series. It was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 10 April 2010.

In the 29th century, the Doctor and Amy encounter Starship UK, a colony spaceship containing all of the United Kingdom except Scotland, who wanted their own ship, that evacuated Earth following devastating solar flares. On board, the Doctor attempts to comfort 12-year-old Mandy, whose silent tears are unacknowledged by the other passengers because, as the Doctor surmises, they already know what is wrong.

Amy follows Mandy and encounters a "hole" guarded by a "keep out" sign. Entering, she finds a tentacle-like creature and retreats to be confronted by four hooded figures, another of whom had previously reported the Doctor's presence to a masked woman. As the Doctor explores the engine room, the same masked woman appears to him. Introducing herself as "Liz 10", she confirms his suspicion that the ship is flying without engines.

Amy regains consciousness in a voting booth. Here, as all adult travellers on the ship experience every five years, she is shown the truth behind Starship UK and then has to choose whether to "protest" or "forget" what she has seen. Amy chooses to forget, but not before recording a message to herself to get the Doctor back to the TARDIS and away from the ship. Amy does not inform the Doctor of this, and, as he is unable to view the message due to not being human, he simply presses the "protest" button. This causes himself and Amy to be sent down a chute to the lower regions of the ship.

The Doctor and Amy land in the mouth of a large beast, which the Doctor causes to vomit and expel them to an overflow chute. Refusing to press a "forget" button and open the door to the main ship, they are attacked by two Smilers, the robotic creatures who keep watch over the ship. They are rescued by Liz 10, who reveals herself to be Queen Elizabeth the Tenth. She explains that she has been investigating the creature's infestation of the ship for her entire reign, working undercover against her own government.

The Doctor, Amy, Liz 10 and Mandy are then taken to the Tower of London, which is situated in the bowels of the ship, to investigate the beast. They find that the ship is powered by the last Star Whale, goaded by a ray penetrating its brain. The Doctor and Liz 10 are outraged at the cruelty being unleashed on the Star Whale, the latter demanding it to be set free. Hawthorne, who had been guarding the creature in the Tower, reveals that Liz 10 ordered the situation in the first place.

In a video message, Liz 10 explains how the British people faced destruction when Earth was devastated by solar flares. The Star Whale appeared as a "miracle", and they captured it and used it to power their space ship. Liz 10 has to decide whether to forget, as she has unknowingly done every ten years for centuries, or abdicate, freeing the Star Whale and destroying the ship.

The Doctor realises that Amy chose to forget about the Star Whale so he would not face the choice between humanity and the alien. He then decides to render the Star Whale brain-dead, ending its suffering but still saving the humans on-board. Amy, however, sees the Star Whale's fondness for children and realises that its torture was unnecessary; it volunteered to help the UK's citizens. She forces Liz 10 to press her "abdicate" button, and, after a brief period of turbulence, the Star Whale begins to transport the ship without torture.

Amy explains to the Doctor that she recognised the Star Whale's kindness as the last of its race as comparable to his own as the last Time Lord. About to tell the Doctor of her impending wedding, she is interrupted by a call to the TARDIS from Winston Churchill, who is face-to-face with a Dalek.

"The Eleventh Hour" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 3 April 2010.

The newly regenerated Doctor struggles to steer the damaged TARDIS back to Earth, landing in the backyard of young Amelia Pond in Leadworth, a small village near Gloucester. Amelia becomes fond of the Doctor's oddness as she feeds him and shows him a scary crack in the wall of her room. The Doctor determines the crack is a crack in time and space itself, the other side housing an Atraxi prison. When the Doctor attempts to open the crack with his sonic screwdriver, the Atraxi send him a telepathic message that “Prisoner Zero has escaped" before they close the crack. The Doctor attempts to find the prisoner believing him to be at the edge of his vision, but is interrupted by the TARDIS’s Cloister Bell; he must take the TARDIS into the future to prevent its engines from overheating. He promises Amelia he will be back in five minutes; while he is gone, she packs a suitcase and waits for the Doctor.

The TARDIS rematerialses some time later at the same location. When he cannot find Amelia, he enters the house to find what he caught earlier; a door covered by a perception filter, but before he can enter it, he knocked out by someone using a cricket bat. He wakes up to find a policewoman having handcuffed him to a radiator. He soon learns she is actually Amelia - now going by the name Amy, the outfit as part of her kissogram job; it has been twelve years since he left, and Amy is quite upset at the Doctor for leaving her waiting that long. The Doctor is able to make Amy see the door through the perception filter, but cannot stop her entering it. Inside, Amy briefly sees the natural form of Prisoner Zero, the only form the Atraxi can detect, before she escapes with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver which has been damaged from Prisoner Zero's examination of it. He releases himself and with Amy escapes the house as the Atraxi begin broadcasting across all forms of communication that they will destroy the "human residence" unless Prisoner Zero is located in twenty minutes. The Doctor realizes this doesn't mean Amy's house, but the Earth itself. With the TARDIS sealed as it repairs itself, the Doctor must resort to conventional means to save the world.

The Atraxi isolate Earth and begin their search. The Doctor meets Amy's friend Rory, a nurse at the local hospital, and discovers from him that Prisoner Zero is able to take the form of any dormant person that it has established a psychic connection with, those of several coma patients in Rory's care. When they see Prisoner Zero nearby, the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to try and attract the Atraxi. The screwdriver is destroyed before the Atraxi arrive, and Prisoner Zero retreats back to the hospital. The Doctor directs Amy and Rory to the hospital to save the people inside while he gains the help of another of Amy's friends, Jeff, and his laptop to intercede in a video conference of several world experts discussing the issue. The Doctor gives both Jeff and the experts additional instructions, then commandeers a fire truck and races to the hospital.

Amy and Rory, after clearing the hospital, run into Prisoner Zero in another human disguise; the Doctor arrives in time to save them. He reveals that he has used a virus carried on a mobile phone to broadcast the message of repeated zeroes across all forms of media with the help of Jeff and the experts. The Atraxi, seeing this message, are able to center on the source of the virus - the phone the Doctor carries, which also carries photos of the patients it has linked to so that the Atraxi can identify it. Prisoner Zero reveals it has yet one more psychic link it has developed over the years; it takes the form of young Amelia holding the Doctor's hand, which causes Amy to fall into a deep sleep. The Doctor realises that Prisoner Zero is using Amy's dreams to create the disguise, and helps Amy's subconscious to dream of the natural form of Prisoner Zero she saw in her house, forcing Prisoner Zero to disguise itself as its own form. Before the Atraxi transport the being away, Prisoner Zero taunts the Doctor about the source of the cracks in time and space, and warns him that "the Pandorica will open, silence will fall". The Atraxi leave Earth, but the Doctor forces them to return. After dressing in a new outfit from the hospital's locker room in order to properly greet them, the Doctor tells the Atraxi that threatening to destroy the Earth could be punished by the Shadow Proclamation, and warns them that he is the protector of Earth and they should never return.

After the Atraxi leave, the Doctor finds the TARDIS key is hot, indicating it has finished repairs, and runs off to take it for a ride before Amy can catch up to him. The Doctor arrives back at Amy's house, now two more years since their last meeting; the Doctor apologizes for it and, after letting her inside the TARDIS, offers her to join him on adventures across space and time. Amy is willing but insists she must be back by "tomorrow morning", revealed to the viewer as being her wedding day.