Skype with a Friend

I talked with an Australian friend on Skype for the first time in almost two years. He was a high school student when we talked with the last time and now he is a second year college student. He has grown up with wearing beard. His major is computer science. 

He studies Japanes by himself now because he likes Japanes manga and animation. He is struggling with learning kanjis. He really wants to read Japanese novels, but kanjis prevent reading them smoothly. 

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TOEIC Skype Moshi

I took part in a TOEIC Skype Moshi, or trial exam, today. Thanks to Jun, it was the first moshi for me. Four people including me solved the Moshi at the same time. I don't think I could do that all alone. 

After taking the test we reviewed the moshi  together. I got a lot of advice on that. I think I would get a good score next time.

A Friend in Canada

I had a free time around noon today. I was bored so I tweeted if anyone want to talk with me on Skype. An Indian Twitter friend kindly offered to me to talk with.

He was born in India and graduated from university in Singapore. After that he moved to Canada where his parents and brother live in. He works there as a computer programmer.

He speaks Japanese really well. He said the only thing he did for learning Japanese was watching animation with English subtitles. Three years of watching anime made him a fluent Japanese speaker.

He spoke to me in Japanese and I spoke in English on Skype. It was strange feeling but was really fun.

Thinking about this year

Time flies. Can you believe it's November already? One year ago, I studied English all alone except taking on-line lessons. I was using Twitter at that time but I didn't follow Japanese people so I didn't have English learneing friends at all. I had no idea what to do for learning English.
The situation has chenged since this March after taking English pronunciation lesson from Mr. Kaz Uekawa who teaches it with Eigonodo methed. He said speak English from your throat. He also recomended me to make friends on language exchange site and talk with the friends on Skype for improve my English skills. And I did it. Talking with friends on Skype helps me to speak English. I've got used to do it now, not really good at though.
After that, I followed many English learners, some of them are master class, on Twitter and made friends on Facebook. I learned a lot from them like shadowing, reading TIME magazine, rapid reading, flash speaking and more and others are inspireing me to study English hard. Thanks all. I'll continue to do my best.

Why do you study language?

Almost every Sunday morning, I talk with an American friend on Skype. We met a language exchange site, Lang-8, this march. He's learning Japanese all by himself for several years.

He lives in Florida and he is nice, funny and a little bit shy. Every Japanese learner has their own reason for studying Japanese like Japanese culture, manga, J-Pop and so on. He said he likes the sound of Japanese. I understand his reason that brought him to learn Japanese because I also like the sound of English.