Category Archives: Study-English
Difficulty in Learning Foreign Languages
When I speak English I always feel strongly frustrated because I don’t have enough vocabulary for daily life conversation such as “to help out in the kitchen.” All native kids know these kind of phrases and perhaps few Japanese do. Such a difficulty cannot be overcome easily. Then, how can we make it? Maybe we [...]
English – Japanese mistranslation
When we learn a foreign language as an adult, we always have an incredibly huge difficulty caused by our native languages. Here is an example that I learned yesterday. eg) moody person In an English-Japanese dictionary, “moody” is defined like: A moody person changes their opinion and mind very often. Starts something suddenly and stops [...]