Talking about 英語(English)

These days I am studying English basic grammar again. There are many things I've forgotten and have mixed up. In parallel, I'm memorizing more 2,000 English words. My goal is to memorize 20,000 English words in total. But I may give up.



To memorize English words is not difficult. I think everyone would be able to memorize at least 100 English words in a day. But to keep the memory is not such easy. And I need willpower, this is the most important factor. But I found an economic way to memorize and thanks to the way, memorizing proceeded.



However, I forget many words which I don't use. Moreover, I often stop to speaking because I can't recall a word which I should use. But it is OK. It seems English speakers seems understand what I say. And I don't know spelling of many complex words. But it is OK, Mac is my helper. I'm sorry to put you to so much trouble. m(_ _)m.



In fact, I can't read Harry Potter. Because I don't know those common words the author uses! There are so many words which I don't know. Cartoons also too. "beard"? I don't know. "chin whiskers"? "whisker"? I haven't seen such words in papers. "beard has jumped?", "cilia looped the loop?" I can't derive the meaning from the context! Like this, increasingly I got be tired of thinking of the meaning and I have given up to read Harry Potter "three times" and have given up to read other novels.:-) But it is OK, I don't want to read them, I just tried. (-"-;)



Thanks to learning a word "polytheism" or "pantheism", I found a non-Japanese world in Japan. One day I found two westerners on a back street in a big city. They were taking a picture of a painting of shrine gate which painted on a damp wall. Their conversation came into my ears. They have thought the shrine gate's mark is a kind of faith of pantheism because Japan is a pantheism country, and it is seems they thought the wall is deity or something. They were looking at the wall fascinatingly. It is sure the wall is a different air from common walls. I thought I should teach about the shrine gate's painting for a moment. But I didn't and went to station. There is a saying that "知らぬが仏(Shiranu-ga-Hotoke)" which means unknowing is Buddha (What you don't know can't hurt you.) in Japan. The painting means there is an area where urinating in the streets is endemic. No one intends to urinate on shrine gate. Therefore someone painted the shrine gate's painting.



One day a southeast Asian woman spoke to me on a street. She said "Nerima! Nerima!". I thought she want me to point her in the direction. But, we were in Nerima ward. Nerima staion is far a way from there. But obviously she was a person in need. She began to write something on her notebook but it was written in non-Japanese language which I never seen. I've never met with Japanese who understand East Asian language, and I thought she always know about it. She maybe facing emergencies. As a last resort, I decided to take her to police box by means of gestures. We rounded a corner and I pointed at a police Box. Then she run a way from there. She was an illegal resident? She didn't have passport then? She found her destination?

Hmm.



Although I'm not sure whether it is true or not, yesterday My friend told me about a story that the number of that orphan children become a soldier of Japan's SDF is increasing. They lost their parents for some reason, and couldn't enter high school for economic reasons. Orphan children includes many kids whose parent was illegal resident. It is really difficult to find good job after finishing junior high school in Japan. And many seems to become a soldier. I think the number is still very small. But I couldn't let the story pass. Even though government don't care about them enough, we let them go to war? Although Japan would not war for a while, I got complicated.



Well, I am taking a nap.



It is a photo of Hinaningyo, I took.